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  1. The Terror 2018

    Series

    A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.

    The sides of The Terror

    • Two Royal Navy ships trapped in Arctic ice
    • Something hunting the crew on the ice
    • A Japanese American internment camp haunted by a spirit

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that builds in the cold and the dark.
    • you like horror set inside real events, from the Franklin expedition to the internment camps.
    • you like sailors fighting cold, hunger and disease far from help.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and the dread here builds slowly.
    • you can't stand gruesome deaths.

    About: isolation · pride · injustice

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  2. Nosferatu 2024

    Film

    A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

    The sides of Nosferatu

    • A young wife haunted by a vampire
    • Count Orlok travelling to a German town
    • A plague of rats

    Good for you if

    • you like cold, shadowy images of an 1830s German town.
    • you want a horror film where Count Orlok is a real terror lurking in the shadows.
    • you like a period film of candles, carriages and a castle in Transylvania.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a horror film that moves faster.
    • you'd rather avoid erotic and disturbing scenes of possession.

    About: obsession · desire · death · plague

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  3. The Outsider 2020

    Series

    When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

    The sides of The Outsider

    • A boy's murder in a Georgia town
    • A suspect seen in two places at once
    • An investigator who sees what others miss

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that builds in quiet rooms and dark caves.
    • you like a case with proof that a man was in two places at once.
    • you like a patient story that takes its time with grief.

    Bad for you if

    • the murder of a child and a grieving family are too much for you.
    • you need a crime explained without anything supernatural.

    About: grief · belief · evil

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  4. Shiki 2010

    Anime

    Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn't even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the bodies of three people are found dead. Although Ozaki Toshio, the village's lone doctor, feels uncertain, he treats the deaths as a normal occurrence. However, in the days following, the villagers start to die one after the other.

    The sides of Shiki

    • An isolated village of about 1300 people
    • Villagers dying one after another
    • A doctor who starts to suspect the truth

    Good for you if

    • you like horror that creeps in house by house.
    • you can take a story where nobody comes out clean.
    • you like a patient build before the horror breaks out.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand gore and massacres.
    • you don't watch anime.

    About: death · fear of the other · what makes a monster

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  5. Hellbound 2021

    Series

    Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.

    The sides of Hellbound

    • Creatures that drag people to hell at an announced time
    • A cult built on divine justice
    • A society turning on itself in fear

    Good for you if

    • you like a countdown to a death announced in advance.
    • you like watching a cult take control of a frightened society.
    • you can take a dark story with little hope.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
    • you can't stand brutal, bloody executions.

    About: faith · fear · justice

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  6. Penny Dreadful 2014

    Series

    Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.

    The sides of Penny Dreadful

    • A medium haunted by a demon
    • Victor Frankenstein and his creature
    • A gaslit London hunting a vampire

    Good for you if

    • you like gothic horror where the demons turn out to be real.
    • you can't look away from Eva Green in a séance.
    • you like candlelight, velvet and gaslit London streets.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take vivisection and torn-open bodies.
    • you'd rather not have sex scenes on screen with company in the room.

    About: faith · monstrosity · loneliness

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  7. Hemlock Grove 2013

    Series

    One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.

    The sides of Hemlock Grove

    • A teenage werewolf and a rich heir
    • A murdered girl in a Pennsylvania town
    • A secret lab in the White Tower

    Good for you if

    • you like a strange town full of werewolves, witches and odd experiments.
    • you want gothic horror that unsettles you.
    • you like Peter and Roman hunting the killer of a local girl.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand gore and gruesome transformations.
    • you'd rather avoid explicit sex scenes.

    About: monsters · family secrets · friendship

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  8. A Haunting 2005

    Documentary

    These are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Based on true events, A Haunting dramatises some of the scariest stories, revealing a world in which tragedy, suicide and murder have left psychic impressions so powerful that innocent people become forced to deal with them decades later. Through mesmerizing first-person accounts, the mystery and origin of each haunting is powerfully revealed and leaves a lingering sense that life—and death—are much stronger then anyone could have possibly imagined.

    The sides of A Haunting

    • Families who say their homes are haunted
    • Reenactments of paranormal events
    • First-person testimonies

    Good for you if

    • you like being scared by stories people swear really happened.
    • you like tracing a haunting back to what happened in the house.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't commit to twelve seasons of the same format.
    • you need proof, not testimonies and reenactments.

    About: fear · the past · belief

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  9. Chernobyl 2019

    Series

    The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

    The sides of Chernobyl

    • The night a reactor exploded
    • Scientists against the lies of a state
    • Men sent onto the roof

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that never lets go.
    • you want to understand a real disaster.
    • you can take a grim, unflinching story.

    Bad for you if

    • radiation sickness shown in detail is too hard for you.
    • you can't watch animals being shot. Soldiers clear the zone of the pets left behind.

    About: truth · sacrifice · lies

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  10. The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.

    The sides of Monster: The Ed Gein Story

    • A Wisconsin farmer and grave robber in the 1950s
    • A son under his mother's hold
    • The horror films built on his crimes

    Good for you if

    • you want to watch Charlie Hunnam vanish into a hard role.
    • you want to know how one man shaped Psycho and Leatherface.
    • you can spend a whole season inside the head of a Wisconsin killer.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand graphic violence and desecrated bodies.
    • you can't watch abuse and madness up close.

    About: madness · a mother's hold · horror and Hollywood

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  11. Cropsey 2010

    Documentary

    Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.

    The sides of Cropsey

    • A Staten Island urban legend
    • Children who went missing
    • The ruins of an abandoned institution

    Good for you if

    • you like two filmmakers digging into the disappearances of their childhood.
    • you like the chill of a boogeyman story that turns out to be real.
    • you like true crime set in the woods and ruins of Staten Island.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film about missing children.
    • you need every question answered by the end.

    About: urban legends · fear · missing children

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  12. To secure their fortune — and future — two ruthless siblings build a family dynasty that begins to crumble when their heirs mysteriously die, one by one.

    The sides of The Fall of the House of Usher

    • Two siblings running a drug company
    • Six heirs dying one by one
    • A mysterious woman named Verna

    Good for you if

    • you like gothic horror built from Edgar Allan Poe stories.
    • you enjoy rich heirs getting the death they asked for.
    • you like a pharmaceutical dynasty paying for its fortune.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand gruesome deaths shown in detail.
    • you lose track of a big family with a story for each child.

    About: greed · family · guilt

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  13. The Ripper 2020

    Documentary

    For five years, from 1975 to 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders cast a dark shadow over the lives of women in the North of England. 13 women were dead and the police seemed incapable of catching the killer. No one felt safe – and every man was a suspect.

    The sides of The Ripper

    • Thirteen women killed in the North of England
    • A police hunt that lasted five years
    • Women of Yorkshire recalling the fear

    Good for you if

    • you want the victims and their families heard, not just the killer.
    • you like a portrait of Yorkshire in the late 1970s.
    • you want to understand why the police took so long to catch him.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't listen to families talk about murdered mothers and daughters.
    • you need a story that leaves you with some hope.

    About: violence against women · police failure · fear

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  14. Midsommar 2019

    Film

    Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

    The sides of Midsommar

    • A grieving woman at a Swedish festival
    • Sunlight that never sets
    • A relationship falling apart

    Good for you if

    • you like horror in broad daylight and flowers.
    • you like a cult that gets stranger every day.
    • you like slow, creeping dread.

    Bad for you if

    • graphic deaths ruin it for you.
    • grief, a toxic relationship and a cult's rituals are too much for you.
    • two and a half hours of slow dread is too much.

    About: grief · belonging · breakups

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  15. The Babadook 2014

    Film

    A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

    The sides of The Babadook

    • A widowed mother who cannot sleep
    • A pop-up book that will not go away
    • A boy who builds weapons against monsters

    Good for you if

    • you like a monster hiding in the dark corners of a house.
    • you like a horror story that is really about a mother and her son.
    • you like dread that builds night after sleepless night.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a widow sinking into grief and exhaustion.
    • you want to know for sure whether the monster is real.

    About: grief · motherhood · depression

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  16. Salem's Lot 1979

    Series

    Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

    The sides of Salem's Lot

    • A writer back in his hometown
    • A house on the hill everyone fears
    • A vampire turning a town

    Good for you if

    • you like a child floating at the window at night.
    • you like a small town falling apart one neighbour at a time.
    • you like 1970s TV horror from Stephen King's novel.

    Bad for you if

    • three hours over two parts is too much for you.
    • you want bloody vampire horror, and this 1979 TV version keeps the gore off screen.

    About: evil · fear · home

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  17. The Thing 1982

    Film

    A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

    The sides of The Thing

    • A research station in Antarctica
    • Something that copies anyone
    • A blood test

    Good for you if

    • you like paranoia where anyone could be the monster.
    • you like practical creature effects that still shock.
    • you like an ending that leaves you unsure.

    Bad for you if

    • grotesque body horror ruins it for you.
    • films from 1982 feel dated to you.

    About: paranoia · trust · isolation

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  18. Frankenstein 2025

    Film

    Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

    The sides of Frankenstein

    • A scientist who builds a man from the dead
    • A creature who learns to read and to feel
    • A ship trapped in the Arctic ice

    Good for you if

    • you like Guillermo del Toro's gothic sets, every frame composed.
    • you want to be moved by a creature rejected by the man who made him.
    • you like hearing the same story from both the maker and the made.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too much for you in one evening.
    • you can't stand bloody surgery and torn bodies.

    About: fathers and sons · loneliness · pride

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  19. Midnight Mass 2021

    Series

    The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

    The sides of Midnight Mass

    • A young priest who arrives with miracles
    • A dying island parish
    • A man home after a fatal crash he caused

    Good for you if

    • you like dread building on an island where the miracles don't add up.
    • you like long monologues about death and what people hope comes after.
    • you can sit with addiction and grief as the real subject.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum and long sermons will lose you.
    • you can't take the blood the last episodes bring.

    About: faith · addiction · grief

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  20. An anthology series of stand alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.

    The sides of American Horror Stories

    • Standalone horror episodes
    • Urban legends and Halloween myths
    • Return visits to the Murder House

    Good for you if

    • you like a new scare every episode, from haunted houses to urban legends.
    • you like odd premises, like a banned film that turns its audience into killers.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand gore and bloody kills.
    • you want characters you follow from season to season, not a new cast each week.

    About: urban legends · guilt · revenge

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