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Top Horror TV Shows of All Time

The highest-rated horror tv shows ever, ranked by Horrorometer community scores. From timeless classics to modern nightmares, these are the tv shows horror fans keep coming back to.

95 titles ranked by community ratings.

Poster for Midnight Mass

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

Midnight Mass

TV SHOW•2021
10.0(1)
Poster for The Haunting of Hill House

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 Haunting of Hill House

TV SHOW•2018
9.0(1)
Poster for True Detective

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

True Detective

TV SHOW•2014
9.0(1)
Poster for Black Mirror

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Black Mirror

TV SHOW•2011
9.0(1)
Poster for The X-Files

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

The X-Files

TV SHOW•1993
9.0(1)
Poster for IT: Welcome to Derry

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.

IT: Welcome to Derry

TV SHOW•2025
8.0(1)
Poster for The Fall of the House of Usher

Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.

The Fall of the House of Usher

TV SHOW•2023
8.0(1)
Poster for The Last of Us

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

The Last of Us

TV SHOW•2023
8.0(1)
Poster for FROM

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.

FROM

TV SHOW•2022
8.0(1)
Poster for Yellowjackets

This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.

Yellowjackets

TV SHOW•2021
8.0(1)
Poster for Bates Motel

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.

Bates Motel

TV SHOW•2013
8.0(1)
Poster for The Testaments

Growing up in Gilead is all they have ever known. As a new generation of young women grapple with the bleak future that awaits them, they will be forced to search for allies, new and old, to help in their fight for freedom.

The Testaments

TV SHOW•2026
7.0(1)
Poster for Alien: Earth

When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.

Alien: Earth

TV SHOW•2025
7.0(1)
Poster for 3 Body Problem

Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

3 Body Problem

TV SHOW•2024
7.0(1)
Poster for The Creep Tapes

A secluded serial killer lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer's questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.

The Creep Tapes

TV SHOW•2024
7.0(1)
Poster for Archive 81

An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.

Archive 81

TV SHOW•2022
7.0(1)
Poster for Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

TV SHOW•2022
7.0(1)
Poster for The Haunting of Bly Manor

After an au pair's tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate's chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling tale.

The Haunting of Bly Manor

TV SHOW•2020
7.0(1)
Poster for Black Summer

In the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, complete strangers band together to find the strength they need to survive and get back to loved ones.

Black Summer

TV SHOW•2019
7.0(1)
Poster for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

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.

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

TV SHOW•2018
7.0(1)
Poster for Channel Zero

A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.

Channel Zero

TV SHOW•2016
7.0(1)
Poster for The Exorcist

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

The Exorcist

TV SHOW•2016
7.0(1)
Poster for Stranger Things

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

Stranger Things

TV SHOW•2016
7.0(1)
Poster for From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

The horror and crime thriller genres collide in this new original series from Robert Rodriguez, based on his cult grindhouse classic about bank-robbing brothers on the run, a lawman bent on bringing them to justice, the devout family caught in the cross-fire, and an ancient evil eager to feast on them all.

From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

TV SHOW•2014
7.0(1)
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