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Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. The Exorcist 1973

    Film

    When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

    The sides of The Exorcist

    • A girl possessed
    • Two priests
    • A staircase

    Good for you if

    • you want to be scared by a demon speaking through a twelve-year-old girl.
    • you like a mother watching her child change.
    • you like horror that takes its time.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take shocking, graphic scenes. A possessed girl harms herself on screen.
    • you're choosing a Halloween film for the kids. A possessed child is horror strictly for adults.

    About: faith · evil · motherhood

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  4. 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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  5. The Others 2001

    Film

    Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

    The sides of The Others

    • A mother keeping a house in permanent darkness
    • Two children who cannot bear the light
    • Servants who arrive without being called

    Good for you if

    • you like an ending that rearranges everything that came before it.
    • you like closed curtains, locked doors and footsteps upstairs.
    • you like a quiet house and long corridors doing the work.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't want to be frightened in your own living room.
    • you want something to happen and this house stays very still.

    About: grief · faith · motherhood

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  6. 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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  7. Hereditary 2018

    Film

    Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

    The sides of Hereditary

    • A family after a grandmother's funeral
    • A clicking sound
    • A mother's grief turning into something else

    Good for you if

    • you want horror that stays with you for days.
    • you like a mother's grief played at full force.
    • you like dread that builds slowly.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand gore. Some of its images are shown up close and held.
    • a family torn apart by grief and mental illness is too much for you.

    About: grief · family · fate

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  8. The Conjuring 2013

    Film

    Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

    The sides of The Conjuring

    • A family in a haunted farmhouse
    • Two paranormal investigators
    • A game of hide and clap

    Good for you if

    • you want real scares done the old-fashioned way.
    • you like a dark house where you wait for the next sound.
    • you like horror said to be based on a real case.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a film to stay within what science can explain. This one has demons, a possession and an exorcism.
    • you're watching with children. A possessed mother and a witch on the wardrobe are too much for them.

    About: faith · family · evil

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  9. Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

    The sides of The Conjuring 2

    • A haunted house in London
    • A nun painting
    • Two investigators again

    Good for you if

    • you want classic, well-made scares.
    • you like long quiet scenes before a scare.

    Bad for you if

    • over two hours of horror is too long for you.
    • you need a rational explanation. The Warrens treat the Enfield haunting as the work of a real demon.

    About: faith · family · fear

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  10. Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

    The sides of The Haunting of Hill House

    • Five siblings and the house they fled
    • A night their father never explained
    • Ghosts hiding in the background of shots

    Good for you if

    • you want ghosts you only spot in the corner of the frame.
    • you like a horror story that is really about brothers and sisters.
    • you like a reveal that makes you rethink the first episode.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take grief, addiction and suicide on screen.
    • you need horror that moves fast. This one lingers on memories.

    About: grief · family · memory

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  11. Prometheus 2012

    Film

    A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

    The sides of Prometheus

    • Scientists looking for our creators
    • An android with his own plans
    • A surgery you won't forget

    Good for you if

    • you like huge alien ruins and cold, beautiful images.
    • you want grand questions on a grand scale.
    • you like body horror and unsettling ideas.

    Bad for you if

    • characters making bad choices drive you mad.
    • you scare easily. Dark alien tunnels and a desperate surgery scene will stay with you.

    About: creation · faith · hubris

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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Sleepy Hollow 1999

    Film

    Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

    The sides of Sleepy Hollow

    • A rational constable in a superstitious village
    • A headless horseman
    • Misty woods in autumn

    Good for you if

    • you like a grey, gothic world drained of colour.
    • you like a murder mystery with a supernatural killer.
    • you like Tim Burton's dark fairy tales.

    Bad for you if

    • lots of decapitations ruin it for you.
    • a headless rider swinging a sword through dark woods is too scary for you.

    About: reason · superstition · revenge

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  15. 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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  16. In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.

    The sides of IT: Welcome to Derry

    • Children vanishing in 1962 Derry
    • A clown that knows what you fear
    • A town that looks away

    Good for you if

    • you like being scared by a small town where children disappear.
    • you like dread that builds long before anything shows itself.
    • you like a band of misfit kids facing what the adults won't.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take gore and bloody attacks.
    • you need to stay away from stories where children are harmed.

    About: childhood fear · a town's silence · friendship

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  17. Another 2012

    Anime

    When Kouichi arrives at his new school, he immediately senses something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, something that no student wants to talk about and that seems to be related to a mysterious and silent girl.

    The sides of Another

    • A new student in a class nobody talks about
    • A girl with an eyepatch the others ignore
    • A school year of sudden deaths

    Good for you if

    • you like a classroom where something is quietly wrong.
    • you like piecing together a rule the class refuses to explain.
    • you like waiting to see who the school year takes next.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take sudden, gruesome deaths.
    • you don't watch anime.

    About: death · denial · memory

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  18. Annihilation 2018

    Film

    A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

    The sides of Annihilation

    • Five scientists entering the Shimmer
    • Nature mutating into something else
    • A bear that screams

    Good for you if

    • you like science fiction that feels like a nightmare.
    • you like rainbow-coloured, mutated landscapes.
    • you like an ending that refuses to explain itself.

    Bad for you if

    • body horror and one terrifying creature are too much for you.
    • you need momentum. The expedition moves slowly and quietly through the Shimmer.

    About: self-destruction · change · grief

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  19. 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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  20. 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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