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  1. 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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  2. Supernatural 2005

    Series

    When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

    The sides of Supernatural

    • Two brothers hunting monsters
    • A black Impala
    • Angels, demons and the end of the world

    Good for you if

    • you like a bond between two brothers above everything.
    • you like a monster of the week.
    • you like Sam and Dean fighting demons with salt, shotguns and a '67 Impala.

    Bad for you if

    • fifteen seasons is far more than you want to start.
    • gore and bloody fights ruin a show for you.

    About: family · sacrifice · fate

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  3. Constantine 2005

    Film

    John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

    The sides of Constantine

    • A chain-smoking exorcist
    • Angels and demons in Los Angeles
    • A trip to hell

    Good for you if

    • you like dark religious fantasy.
    • you like an investigation into a twin's death that leads through angels and demons.
    • you like a hell that looks like a burning city.

    Bad for you if

    • demons and possession scenes are too much for you.
    • you can't take suicide on screen. The story starts with one and comes back to it.

    About: redemption · faith · sacrifice

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  4. Twin Peaks 1990

    Series

    The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

    The sides of Twin Peaks

    • A murdered homecoming queen wrapped in plastic
    • An FBI agent who loves coffee and cherry pie
    • A red room with curtains and a dancing man

    Good for you if

    • you like David Lynch's dreams, giants and backward talk.
    • you want to know who killed Laura Palmer.
    • you like a story that leaves its secrets in the woods.

    Bad for you if

    • you need an investigation that follows clues and logic.
    • you find early-90s TV dated.
    • you can't take a teenager's murder, drugs and domestic violence in one small town.

    About: secrets · small towns · good and evil

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  5. Grimm 2011

    Series

    After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.

    The sides of Grimm

    • A Portland homicide detective who sees monsters
    • Fairy-tale creatures hiding among people
    • A reformed big bad wolf on his side

    Good for you if

    • you like Grimm fairy tales turned into creatures living secretly in Portland.
    • you like a murder case that turns out to have a creature behind it.
    • you like Nick and Monroe, the detective and the clockmaker wolf who helps him.

    Bad for you if

    • six seasons is too much for you.
    • you can't stand creature attacks and beheadings.

    About: duty · secrets · friendship

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  6. The Batman 2022

    Film

    In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

    The sides of The Batman

    • A young Batman as a detective
    • A killer leaving riddles
    • Gotham drowning in rain

    Good for you if

    • you like Batman solving a case like a noir detective.
    • you like red light, rain and darkness.
    • you like a moody, patient investigation.

    Bad for you if

    • three hours is too much for one evening.
    • you want a light superhero film.

    About: corruption · revenge · hope

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  7. Scream 1996

    Film

    A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

    The sides of Scream

    • A masked killer who calls first
    • Teenagers who know horror films
    • What's your favourite scary movie

    Good for you if

    • you like a slasher with real scares.
    • you like guessing who's behind the mask.
    • you like a horror film that jokes about horror films.

    Bad for you if

    • stabbings ruin it for you.
    • you can't laugh at murder. The killer quizzes his victims on horror films over the phone.

    About: genre · trauma · trust

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  8. Prisoners 2013

    Film

    When his young daughter and her friend disappear on Thanksgiving, a father takes the law into his own hands while a detective works the case.

    The sides of Prisoners

    • A detective who won't let go
    • How far a father will go
    • A case built like a maze
    • Rain, cold, and grey light

    Good for you if

    • you like being tense for two and a half hours straight.
    • you like collecting clues and trying to get ahead of the detective.
    • you like watching an actor go somewhere raw. Hugh Jackman does.

    Bad for you if

    • a child in danger is too much for you.
    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.

    About: faith · revenge · guilt · fatherhood

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  9. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

    The sides of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    • A journalist and a hacker
    • A girl missing for forty years
    • A cold Swedish island

    Good for you if

    • you like a dark, intricate investigation.
    • you like dread in cold, clean images.
    • you like an unforgettable, fierce heroine.

    Bad for you if

    • rape and torture scenes are too much for you.
    • you'd rather not watch frank sex scenes, or not with company.
    • over two and a half hours is too long for you.

    About: violence against women · truth · revenge

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  10. Hannibal 2013

    Series

    Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

    The sides of Hannibal

    • An FBI profiler who thinks like killers
    • A psychiatrist who cooks his victims
    • Murder scenes staged like works of art

    Good for you if

    • you like crime scenes composed like paintings and dinners shot like still lifes.
    • you can't take your eyes off Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter.
    • you like watching Will Graham get closer to the man sitting across from him.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand corpses turned into displays.
    • you want a crime show that plays like real police work.

    About: manipulation · obsession · friendship · madness

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  11. The Shining 1980

    Film

    Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

    The sides of The Shining

    • An empty hotel in winter
    • A father going mad
    • A boy riding his tricycle down the halls

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that builds slowly in empty corridors.
    • you like long gliding shots behind a boy on his tricycle.
    • you like a performance that becomes truly frightening.

    Bad for you if

    • you scare easily. Some images stay for years.
    • you can't watch a family threatened by the father. Jack's drinking and rage turn on his wife and son.

    About: isolation · madness · family

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  12. The Witch 2016

    Film

    In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

    The sides of The Witch

    • A Puritan family alone by the woods
    • A baby that vanishes
    • A black goat

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that builds from small things.
    • you like a slow, atmospheric horror.
    • you like candlelit, grey images of 1630.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't bear harm coming to children. A baby vanishes in the first minutes.
    • you need some hope. The family falls apart and nothing comes to save it.

    About: faith · family · temptation

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  13. True Blood 2008

    Series

    Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides. But in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.

    The sides of True Blood

    • Vampires living openly thanks to synthetic blood
    • A waitress who can read minds
    • A small town in Louisiana

    Good for you if

    • you like Sookie torn between the vampires Bill and Eric.
    • you like a town where shifters, fairies and witches keep showing up.
    • you like Southern gothic with a twisted sense of humor.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather avoid the frequent, graphic sex scenes.
    • you can't take the bloody, gory deaths.

    About: desire · prejudice · belonging

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  14. Se7en 1995

    Film

    Two detectives, one a week from retirement and one just transferred in, track a serial killer who builds each murder around one of the seven deadly sins.

    The sides of Se7en

    • Hunting a killer
    • An old cop and a young one
    • Darkness with no mercy

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that builds in the rain and never lets up.
    • you can take an ending that stays with you for days.
    • you like following detectives through every step of a case.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't look at the aftermath of violence. The film shows what was done, in detail.
    • you watch films to feel better afterwards. This one won't let you.

    About: sin · indifference · the city · partnership

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  15. Magic and mischief collide as half-human, half-witch Sabrina navigates between two worlds: mortal teen life and her family's legacy, the Church of Night.

    The sides of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

    • A half-witch teenager in Greendale
    • Two aunts who run a mortuary
    • A coven that answers to the Dark Lord

    Good for you if

    • you like a town where witches, warlocks and demons live next door to a high school.
    • you like a girl choosing between her mortal friends and her witch side.
    • you like Aunt Hilda and Aunt Zelda bickering over how to raise their niece.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take satanic rituals and horror imagery.
    • you can't stand blood, curses and bodies on screen.

    About: witchcraft · identity · family · freedom

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  16. Fargo 2014

    Series

    A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

    The sides of Fargo

    • A new crime story in every season
    • Small-town cops in the Midwest snow
    • Ordinary people who make one bad choice

    Good for you if

    • you laugh at polite Minnesotans caught up in murder.
    • you like waiting for a stranger like Lorne Malvo to decide what to do next.
    • you like small-town crimes that snowball out of one bad decision.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand sudden, bloody killings in quiet places.
    • you can't stand odd moments, like a UFO in the middle of a crime story.

    About: fate · good and evil · greed

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  17. iZombie 2015

    Series

    A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.

    The sides of iZombie

    • A zombie working at a Seattle morgue
    • Brains that hand over their memories
    • A murder solved every episode

    Good for you if

    • you like a murder of the week solved through the victim's memories.
    • you like Liv picking up a new personality with every brain she eats.
    • you like Liv, Ravi and Clive working cases together.

    Bad for you if

    • your stomach turns at brain eating, even cooked.
    • you want a zombie story that actually scares you.

    About: identity · death · second chances

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  18. An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

    The sides of American Horror Story

    • A new horror story each season
    • A haunted house, an asylum, a coven, a freak show
    • The same actors in new roles

    Good for you if

    • you like ghosts, witches and killers, a new nightmare every season.
    • you like a story that gets stranger with every episode.
    • you like camp horror that laughs at its own excess.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand gore, torture and cruel deaths.
    • you can't commit to thirteen seasons, even when each one stands alone.

    About: madness · sin · outsiders · family secrets

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  19. Altered Carbon 2018

    Series

    After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.

    The sides of Altered Carbon

    • A soldier brought back in a new body after 250 years
    • Minds stored on disks and moved between bodies
    • A rich man who hires him to solve his own murder

    Good for you if

    • you like a detective story where the victim is still alive to hire you.
    • you like a rainy neon city full of flying cars.
    • you like a world where death is a problem money can solve.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take brutal, bloody fights.
    • you'd rather avoid frequent nudity and sex scenes.

    About: identity · immortality · class

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  20. Zodiac 2007

    Film

    In 1970s San Francisco, a cartoonist, a reporter and two police inspectors spend years trying to identify the Zodiac killer, who taunts them with letters and codes.

    The sides of Zodiac

    • An obsession that eats years of a life
    • Real investigation work, step by step
    • 1970s San Francisco
    • A case that won't close

    Good for you if

    • you like a cartoonist, a reporter and a detective trying to crack a killer's coded letters.
    • you like a long investigation more than a quick chase.
    • you can live with questions that never get a full answer.

    Bad for you if

    • you want chases and shootouts. This one is mostly phone calls and archives.
    • two hours and forty minutes is too long for your evening.

    About: obsession · the truth · time · journalism

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