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Best Horror TV Shows

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49. The Third Day

Sep 14, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
Sam (Jude Law) ends up on an island and finds inhabitants who want to protect their rituals at all costs while Helen (Naomie Harris) comes to the island looking for answers in this limited series created by Dennis Kelly and Felix Barrett.
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50. Chucky

Oct 12, 2021  •  Rated TV-MA
A series of murders begins soon after a "Good Guy" doll is found at a suburban yard sale in this spin-off of the Child's Play/Chucky film franchise.
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51. Werewolf by Night

Oct 7, 2022  •  Rated TV-14
After the death of their leader, a group of monster hunters, including werewolf Jack Russell (Gael García Bernal), are sent on a deadly competition to find a relic weapon in this special directed by Michael Giacchino.
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52. The Fades

Sep 21, 2011
Paul (Iain De Caestecker)has apocalyptic dreams and starts seeing spirits, known as the fades, which seek their way into the living world through him.
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53. Hazbin Hotel

Oct 28, 2019  •  Rated TV-MA
Charlie (voiced by Erika Henningsen), the princess of Hell opens a hotel where demons can rehabilitate and find a way into Heaven in the adult animated musical comedy created by Vivienne Medrano.
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54. Bates Motel

Mar 18, 2013  •  Rated TV-MA
The relationship between 17-year-old Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his mother Norma (Vera Farmiga) is explored in this contemporary prequel to the movie "Psycho."
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55. The Baby

Nov 30, 2021  •  Rated TV-MA
38-year-old Natasha (Michelle De Swarte) didn't want a child but finds herself saddled with a baby in this horror comedy limited series co-created by Siân Robins-Grace and Lucy Gaymer.
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56. The Outsider (2020)

Jan 12, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The adaptation of Stephen King's novel about the investigation into the murder of an 11-year-old boy in the Georgia woods by local police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) and Holly Gibney (Cynthia Erivo), a P.I. he brings in when he becomes unsure about the guilt of his prime suspect.
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57. 1899

Nov 17, 2022  •  Rated TV-MA
Dr. Maura Franklin (Emily Beecham) is one of the passengers on a ship bound for New York City in 1899 that comes across a ship reported missing months ago in this mystery series from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar.
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58. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

Sep 10, 2023  •  Rated TV-MA
Daryl Dixon (Normal Reedus) finds himself in France and trying figure out how he got there as well as finding his way back home.
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59. The Returned (2015)

Mar 9, 2015  •  Rated TV-14
Carlton Cuse's American adaption of the French drama Les Revenants (shown on Sundance as The Returned) is also set in a small town where the dead reappear. The returned include Simon (Mat Vairo), a musician who died ten years ago and twin sisters (Sophie Lowe and India Ennenga) who died in a bus accident four years ago. Sheriff Tommy Moran (Kevin Alejandro) and psychologist Peter (Jeremy Sisto) try to help the families including Simon's girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and the twins estranged parents (Mark Pelligrino and Tandi Wright).
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60. Castle Rock (2018)

Jul 25, 2018  •  Rated TV-MA
Death row attorney Henry (Andre Holland) returns to his hometown of Castle Rock, Maine after receiving a call from Shawshank in this psychological horror series from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King.
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61. Santa Clarita Diet

Feb 3, 2017  •  Rated TV-MA
The comedy series from Victor Fresco features Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore), unhappy married realtors in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita, until Sheila makes a major change that alters their lives.
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62. Helix

Jan 10, 2014  •  Rated TV-PG
Centers for Disease Control scientist Dr. Alan Farragut (Billy Campbell) leads a group of scientists to Arctic Biosystems, an arctic research facility to investigate a possible virus breakout in this sci-fi series executive produced by Battlestar Galatica showrunner Ron Moore.
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63. The Sandman

Aug 5, 2022  •  Rated TV-MA
Morpheus/Dream (Tom Sturridge) escapes from a 100+ years sleep and seeks to revive his kingdom in this series adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comic book series of the same name.
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64. Hex

Jun 8, 2006  •  Rated TV-14
Cassie yearns to be popular and liked at her school. She wishes she was in the "in-crowd"; however, she goes about unnoticed in school everyday. The only girl who truly notices her is her best friend Thelma. For some strange reason though, Cassie feels like she is being followed by a man. This, however, is only the beginning of her problem.
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65. Dead Boy Detectives

Apr 25, 2024  •  Rated TV-MA
Ghosts and best friends Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) solve supernatural cases with the help of clairvoyant Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura) in this series based on characters created for DC by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner.
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66. The River

Feb 7, 2012  •  Rated TV-14
"Paranormal" writer-director Oren Peli and "Paranormal 2" screenwriter Michael R. Perry are coming together to create a series that involves a search for someone who went missing on the Amazon river uses the footage format used by "Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity."
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67. The Horror of Dolores Roach

Jul 7, 2023  •  Rated 18+
After 16 years in prison, Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) work as a masseuse in the basement of her friend's (Alejandro Hernandez) shop, but when her new life is threatened, she will do anything to protect it in this series based on the Gimlet Media podcast of the same name.
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68. American Horror Story

Oct 5, 2011  •  Rated TV-MA
After a miscarriage and nearly breaking up, Ben and Vivien Harmon (Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton) move from Boston to Los Angeles with their daughter to start a new life in a house with an eerie past.
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69. Salem's Lot (2004)

Jun 20, 2004  •  Rated TV-14
A 2004 American two-part television miniseries which first ran on TNT. It is the second television version of Stephen King's 1975 vampire novel of the same name.
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70. Room 104

Jul 28, 2017  •  Rated TV-MA
The Duplass brothers' anthology series about the various people who pass through one room in an average motel.
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71. Blood Drive

Jun 14, 2017  •  Rated TV-MA
Set in a near-apocalyptic future, Los Angeles cop Arthur Bailey (Alan Ritchson) must join a cross-country death race with a car that runs on human blood with Grace (Christina Ochoa), a woman with her own agenda in this grindhouse-inspired series created by James Roland.
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72. The Midnight Club

Oct 7, 2022  •  Rated TV-MA
A group terminally ill teenagers (Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard and Sauriyan Sapkota) at a hospice meet at midnight to tell each other scary tales in this series adaptation of on Christopher Pike's novel of the same name from Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong.
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