TV Shows - Top Rated Horror, a list by Quick

9.0

/107127/

86

/2467/

84

/978/

92

/68/

95

age 10+

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

83

IMDb 1

8.6

/1638989/

84

/69718/

85

/20198/

90

/658/

83

74

/174/

age 14+

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

85

8.5

/322889/

83

/14086/

81

/2578/

4.3

/401064/

93

/103/

91

79

/18/

age 16+

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

85

8.5

/303503/

84

/16406/

82

/2763/

93

/163/

94

77

/61/

age 16+

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.

86

8.5

/124435/

82

/6916/

79

/918/

96

/222/

92

83

/79/

age 14+

A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.

85

8.5

/21456/

82

/875/

80

/172/

4.4

/16654/

87

/23/

94

age 15+

When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?

85

8.4

/84274/

79

/4390/

77

/1699/

99

/84/

95

76

/32/

age 16+

Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.

86

85

8.4

/13090/

81

/412/

77

/116/

93

/22/

97

The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England based on Bacup, Lancashire. It follows the lives of dozens of bizarre townspeople, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995. The series originally aired for three series from 1999 until 2002 followed by a film in 2005. A three-part revival mini-series was broadcast in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.

79

IMDb 51

8.4

/529979/

83

/27210/

83

/8166/

93

/163/

73

60

/48/

age 14+

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.

87

8.3

/62251/

81

/3872/

82

/1160/

98

/32/

92

In this zombie thriller set in Korea's medieval Joseon dynasty which has been defeated by corruption and famine, a mysterious rumor of the king’s death spreads, as does a strange plague that renders the infected immune to death and hungry for flesh. The crown prince, fallen victim to a conspiracy, sets out on a journey to unveil the evil scheme and save his people.

76

8.2

/158689/

82

/8249/

86

/3518/

84

/51/

72

52

/16/

age 14+

The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged them.

80

79

8.2

/17397/

78

/437/

81

/601/

age 7+

This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

82

8.2

/138334/

80

/9106/

78

/1453/

91

/101/

90

74

/60/

age 18+

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.

82

8.1

/124472/

80

/8435/

81

/1700/

93

/125/

91

69

/61/

age 16+

A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.

79

IMDb 37

8.1

/1177649/

78

/70635/

80

/17421/

79

/477/

78

79

/115/

age 16+

Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

77

IMDb 15

8.0

/82240/

79

/3286/

82

/1168/

81

/94/

82

61

/30/

age 15+

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.

80

79

8.0

/6309/

81

/428/

80

/177/

3.6

/2421/

Joo Joong-won is the arrogant, greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a supermall and a hotel. "Ghost whisperer” Tae Gong-shil, is a misunderstood outcast who can't keep a boyfriend or a job since a near death experience left her seeing needy ghosts. She feels compelled to help them resolve their earthly issues so they can move on to the afterlife... and he feels compelled to think she's crazy. Soon their lives merge into a complicated web of hijinx, misunderstandings, and... yes, love.

73

8.0

/13196/

75

/506/

76

/265/

62

/5/

A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.

74

8.0

/12733/

78

/1003/

72

/194/

65

/49/

91

61

/37/

age 14+

A young fresh-faced Hill staffer gets her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovers two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers.

84

8.0

/23889/

77

/743/

79

/427/

100

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.

80

8.0

/21236/

80

/1455/

82

/594/

4.4

/83582/

8.1

/343477/

Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

84

8.0

/22141/

78

/1767/

74

/281/

97

/59/

90

89

/39/

In the shadow of an enormous hydraulic dam, the lives of the residents of a small French town are changed to their core when hundreds of previously dead relatives all return home on the same day.

82

8.0

/16315/

77

/964/

79

/320/

4.3

/38458/

100

/12/

83

7.6

/176940/

Musashino, Tokyo. An elementary schooler repeatedly attacks people in the streets. Known only to the public as "Lil Slugger", none of the victims can recall the young boy's face and only three distinct details are left in their memories: golden inline skates, a baseball cap, and the weapon: a bent golden baseball bat. Detectives Ikari and Maniwa set out to track down the perpetrator and put an end to his crimes.

77

8.0

/7996/

76

/685/

75

/98/

3.5

/840/

age 16+

Tom Jackman is learning to cope with his alter ego, the dark and mysterious Hyde, who threatens his life and family. They also have to live in the same body while on the run from a mysterious organization that is hunting them.

74

7.9

/359908/

78

/20598/

80

/5913/

77

/367/

66

65

/173/

age 17+

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.

76

7.9

/11875/

77

/505/

73

/111/

3.7

/1070/

A psychological thriller about Mie, a young woman with amnesia who is locked up in a secure psychiatric hospital. Mie is visited by Detective Inspector Wolkers who claims she was the last person seen with the vanished Thomas Spectre. As a witness and prime suspect, she appears to be the sole key to this mysterious disappearance. In order to solve the puzzle and find Thomas, Mie has to reconstruct her lost memories and find her way back through the dark labyrinth of her recent past.

83

7.9

/14465/

79

/1646/

72

/168/

97

/23/

96

79

/19/

age 14+

Thousands of dead people have risen from their graves and nearly destroyed Britain. A cure has been found - but can the treated zombies be rehabilitated back into living society?

78

7.9

/33535/

76

/1933/

72

/724/

89

/64/

91

62

/29/

age 14+

Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.

79

7.9

/7053/

78

/581/

80

/299/

3.5

/4742/

A self-serving mythical creature's bid for invincibility backfires when he finds himself at the mercy of a woman who can see otherworldly beings.

79

IMDb 62

7.8

/163103/

79

/8776/

81

/2293/

96

/53/

80

63

/11/

age 16+

Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

79

7.8

/141512/

79

/9605/

81

/2572/

78

/30/

80

age 16+

With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.

79

7.8

/82339/

75

/5739/

74

/774/

89

/109/

94

66

/36/

age 16+

They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.

77

7.8

/7299/

78

/611/

77

/223/

7.8

/412864/

After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem.

80

7.8

/10037/

81

/664/

81

/131/

4.2

/44866/

Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.

77

7.8

/60484/

75

/3017/

73

/936/

87

/115/

78

76

/37/

age 14+

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

76

7.7

/7045/

77

/440/

80

/62/

77

/13/

91

58

/6/

age 14+

After inheriting a hotel from her late brother, a single mom moves in with his good-natured ghost — and high-maintenance guests who will never check out.

76

7.7

/46679/

74

/2282/

80

/627/

3.8

/19877/

88

/30/

76

61

/13/

age 16+

Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive – or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?

78

7.7

/8307/

75

/670/

70

/186/

4.0

/6430/

95

/21/

86

65

/4/

age 13+

Interconnected phone conversations chronicle the mysterious story of a group of strangers whose lives are thrown into disarray in the lead-up to an apocalyptic event.

75

7.7

/165601/

76

/6219/

75

/1114/

4.1

/196519/

87

/103/

79

75

/23/

RogerEbert

2.5

age 13+

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

74

7.7

/5870/

71

/445/

70

/107/

80

/5/

age 14+

A year ago, vampires, werewolves and zombies mysteriously descended upon the streets of California's San Fernando Valley. The Undead Task Force (UTF) was created to combat the emergence of monsters.

82

7.7

/50928/

77

/3372/

77

/944/

96

/105/

85

83

/40/

age 14+

Skeptical forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins priest-in-training David Acosta and technology expert Ben Shakir as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to assess for a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.

77

7.7

/14734/

79

/506/

76

/229/

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

75

7.7

/377255/

78

/17072/

83

/9426/

86

/126/

73

57

/31/

age 14+

The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.

81

7.7

/45330/

78

/4278/

73

/542/

98

/46/

83

age 15+

The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

77

76

7.6

/4583/

75

/502/

80

/210/

3.8

/4377/

7.7

/273014/

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.

76

74

7.6

/4106/

75

/420/

79

/111/

3.3

/4694/

Hyun-Ji, a 19-year-old ghost meets exorcist Park Bong-Pal. They team up to listen to and solve the problems of various ghosts in order to help them rest peacefully.

77

7.6

/113399/

73

/4451/

73

/1607/

3.6

/37576/

91

/70/

82

68

/29/

age 16+

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.

75

7.6

/206731/

77

/9671/

78

/2477/

81

/161/

77