Best Horror TV Shows

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Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal

1. Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal

Oct 7, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

The prehistoric animated adventure miniseries from Genndy Tartakovsky follows a caveman as he bonds with a tyrannosaurus rex.

The Returned

2. The Returned

Oct 31, 2013 • Rated TV-MA

People long dead return to a small town including a 15-year old girl (Yara Pilart) killed in a car accident four years ago, a groom (Pierre Perrier) who committed suicide ten years ago, a young murdered boy (Swann Nambotin), and a serial killer (Guillaume Gouix) in this French drama (known as Les Revenants).

Alien: Earth

3. Alien: Earth

Aug 12, 2025 • Rated TV-MA

Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and a group of soldiers discover a dangerous creature after the deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth in the Noah Hawley series set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien. [Airs on FX and Hulu]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Mar 10, 1997 • Rated TV-14

Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Buffy Summers, The Chosen One, the one girl in all the world with the strength and skill to fight the vampires. With the assistance of her close friends, Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Xander (Nicholas Brendon), and her Watcher Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), she balances slaying, family, friendships, and relationships.

Los Espookys

5. Los Espookys

Jun 14, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

The Spanish-language comedy from Fred Armisen is set in Mexico City where Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco) and his friends Ursula (Cassandra Ciangherotti), her sister Tati (Ana Fabrega) and Andres (Julio Torres) create a business from their passion for horror and gore.

Evil

6. Evil

Sep 26, 2019 • Rated TV-14

David Acosta priest-in-training (Mike Colter) recruits Kristen Bouchard, a forensic psychologist (Katja Herbers) and Ben, a carpenter (Aasif Mandvi) to help him evaluate if the phenomena reported to the church has scientific explanations or are actually supernatural in this series from from Robert and Michelle King.

What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

7. What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

Mar 27, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Nandor's familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) have been living together in Staten Island for hundreds of years when they are visited by their leader about why they are there for: to take over the New World in this comedy based on the 2014 film of the same name.

Interview With the Vampire

8. Interview With the Vampire

Oct 2, 2022 • Rated TV-MA

Louis de Pointe (Jacob Anderson) tells a reporter about his life in 1900s New Orleans, becoming a vampire companion to Lestat De Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and the arrival of child vampire Claudia (Bailey Bass) in the series adaptation of Anne Rice's novel of the same name.

The Last of Us

9. The Last of Us

Jan 15, 2023 • Rated TV-MA

Set 20 years after the destruction of civilization, Joel (Pedro Pascal) is hired to smuggle 14-year-old Ellie (Bella Ramsey) out of a quarantine zone in this drama series based on the PlayStation video game of the same name.

Being Human (UK)

10. Being Human (UK)

Jan 25, 2009 • Rated TV-14

Life among the living is tough enough, but meet Mitchell, a 120-year-old vampire, George, a highly intelligent werewolf, and Annie an agoraphobic ghost who died under mysterious circumstances, whom all live together with just the slight bit of hope that they can fit into the community and smile at the thought of being human. But they soon discover that being human is not as easy as they hoped.

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

11. Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

Jul 28, 2022 • Rated TV-MA

The town of Millwood was nearly torn apart and an unknown person wants to punish the daughters of those who caused it 20 years ago in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring's reboot of Freeform's Pretty Little Liars.

Toy Story of Terror

12. Toy Story of Terror

Oct 16, 2013 • Rated TV-G

Buzz, Woody and the other toys are accidentally left at a motel during a trip with their new owner Bonnie.

Lovecraft Country

13. Lovecraft Country

Aug 16, 2020 • Rated TV-MA

The adaptation of Matt Ruff book follows Atticus Black (Jonathan Majors) as he goes on a roadtrip through segregated 1950s America with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) to find his missing father (Michael K. Williams).

The Walking Dead

14. The Walking Dead

Oct 31, 2010 • Rated TV-MA

Based on a comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, a small group of survivors, led by officer Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), must fight a world full of zombies.

Stephen King's It

15. Stephen King's It

Nov 18, 1990 • Rated TV-PG

Stephen King's classic novel made for a terrifying mini-series about seven childhood friends whose lives are threatened by a demonic creature known as IT and how they try to put a stop to the killings he commits in routine. Twenty-seven years later, they must face him once again as they discovered that IT was not killed after all.

Dead Ringers (2023)

16. Dead Ringers (2023)

Apr 21, 2023 • Rated TV-MA

Gynecologists twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played by Rachel Weisz) share everything and are willing to transcend medical ethics for women's healthcare in this television series adaptation of David Cronenberg’s 1988 thriller of the same name.

In The Flesh

17. In The Flesh

Jun 6, 2013 • Rated TV-14

17-year-old Kieran Walker (Luke Newberry) returns to his hometown of Roarton after being treated for Partially Deceased Syndrome (PDS) so he no longer has the urge to eat brains and look more alive.

The Haunting of Hill House

18. The Haunting of Hill House

Oct 12, 2018 • Rated TV-MA

Mike Flanagan's re-imagining of Shirley Jackson's novel focuses on the grown-up siblings who lived in Hill House including writer Steve Crane (Michiel Huisman) and his two sisters (Elizabeth Reaser and Kate Siegel) as they return to face their past.

The Kingdom (Riget)

19. The Kingdom (Riget)

Originally created for Danish television as Riget, Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier's supernatural thriller The Kingdom chronicles the bizarre occurrences at the title hospital, the largest and most respected hospital in the country. While the series deals with such real-life complications as murder investigations and malpractice suits, a more villainous force may be unleashing itself upon the hospital staff. After a patient (Kirsten Rolffes) sees the ghost of a young girl, many of the staff members find themselves involved in frightening and bizarre situations like an ambulance that appears every evening but then instantly vanishes. Eventually, a female doctor (Birgitte Raaberg) becomes pregnant, but the accelerated development of her fetus could be a sign that the evil forces have found a way to enter more permanently into the world.

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

20. Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Set in 1920s Shanghai, 10-year-old Sam Wing (voiced by Izaac Wang) sets out to return Mogwai Gizmo (voiced by A.J. LoCascio) home in this animated series inspired by the Gremlins films. The second season subtitled: The Wild Batch sees Gizmo and friends traveling to San Francisco.

Hannibal

21. Hannibal

Apr 4, 2013 • Rated TV-14

FBI head of Behavioral Sciences Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) brings together FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) to help solve cases.

Widow's Bay

22. Widow's Bay

Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) wants his New England island town to be the newest tourist hotspot even as the locals warn the island is cursed. As tourist pour in, strange things begin occurring in the series created by Katie Dippold.

Castlevania: Nocturne

23. Castlevania: Nocturne

Sep 28, 2023 • Rated TV-MA

Set in 1972 France, the anti-revolutionary aristocracy has aligned itself with a vampire promising to end the revolution. However, Annette, a sorceress from the Caribbean, finds the last descendent of vampire hunters, Richter Belmont to lead the resistance in the latest Castlevania animated series.

Channel Zero

24. Channel Zero

Oct 11, 2016 • Rated TV-14

The anthology series will feature a Creepypasta, a horror story usually based on a image or other media that was created and shared on the internet (Slender Man being one of the notorious ones).

Titles with fewer than 7 critic reviews are excluded.

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