41 articles
Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)
Amazing Stories (1985 TV series): NBC anthology created by Steven Spielberg, also credited to Joshua Brand and John Falsey; ran 1985–1987, 45 episodes, $44 million, John Williams theme, Emmy for John Lithgow, later Apple TV+ revival.
Ares
Ares (2020) is the first fully Dutch Netflix Original series, an eight-episode psychological horror drama from Pupkin about students Rosa and Jacob joining a secret Amsterdam society hiding demonic Golden Age secrets; distinct from the Greek god and the Tron film.
Before
Before (2024) is a 10-episode Apple TV+ psychological thriller limited series created by Sarah Thorp, starring Billy Crystal as child psychiatrist Eli Adler, with Judith Light, Jacobi Jupe, and Rosie Perez; aired October 25 to December 20, 2024, Metacritic 46.
Copenhagen Cowboy
Copenhagen Cowboy is a 2023 six-episode Danish-language Netflix neo-noir series created and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Angela Bundalovic as Miu, a supernatural avenger in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, with Lola Corfixen as Rakel.
Curon
Curon is a 2020 Italian Netflix supernatural thriller series, also known as a Lake Resia doppelganger drama, created by Ezio Abbate and others; seven episodes in which teen twins investigate their mother's disappearance in the South Tyrol village flooded in 1950.
Equinox (2020 TV series)
Equinox (2020 TV series): Danish Netflix supernatural thriller, second Danish Netflix Original, premiered December 30, 2020. Six episodes adapted by Tea Lindeburg from her podcast Equinox 1985; stars Danica Curcic as Astrid investigating her sister's 1999 disappearance.
First Day on Earth
First Day on Earth is a ten-episode British-American drama series co-produced by HBO and the BBC. It stars Michaela Coel as Henri, a novelist who travels to Ghana.
Fortitude (TV series)
Fortitude is a British Arctic-set thriller TV series (Sky Atlantic, 2015-2018, 3 seasons) created by Simon Donald, set in a fictional Norwegian boomtown modeled on Svalbard where a scientist's murder shatters a crime-free community.
Grotesquerie (TV series)
Grotesquerie: 10-episode 2024 FX horror drama by Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, and Joe Baken; Detective Lois Tryon (Niecy Nash-Betts) and nun Sister Megan investigate ritual murders; ended after one season with a cliffhanger, no Season 2.
Heirs of the Night
Heirs of the Night (Nattens arvinger) is a 2019–2020 Dutch-German-Norwegian young-adult vampire fantasy series, 26 episodes, based on Ulrike Schweikert's Die Erben der Nacht, about five vampire clans' heirs and Alisa's choice between eternal vampire life and humanity.
Helgoland 513
Helgoland 513 is a German dystopian Sky Original series by Robert Schwentke, Veronica Priefer, and Florian Wentsch, premiered March 15, 2024: 513 pandemic survivors on Heligoland live under a deadly social ranking system. It was Sky Deutschland's last German fiction production.
Homestead: The Series
Homestead: The Series is an American post-apocalyptic drama set after a nuclear attack on Los Angeles. It follows survivors at a fortified Rocky Mountains compound.
Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams
Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams is a 2024 seven-episode Indonesian sci-fi supernatural anthology on Netflix, Anwar's first Netflix collaboration, premiering 14 June 2024 with 65 actors and interconnected stories set 1985-2024.
La Révolution
La Révolution is a 2020 French Netflix alternate-history horror series by Aurélien Molas and Gaïa Guasti: in 1787, Joseph Guillotin discovers the Blue Blood virus infecting the aristocracy; 8 episodes, canceled after one season.
Lazarus (British TV series)
Harlan Coben's Lazarus is a 2025 six-episode British supernatural thriller on Prime Video, created by Coben and Danny Brocklehurst, starring Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy as psychiatrists investigating cold-case murders; distinct from the 2025 Watanabe anime Lazarus.
Leila (TV series)
Leila is a 2019 Netflix Indian dystopian drama series, six episodes, adapted from Prayaag Akbar's 2017 novel, directed by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman, and Pawan Kumar, starring Huma Qureshi as Shalini searching for her daughter in the fictional regime of Aryavarta.
Paradise (2025 TV series)
Paradise (2025 TV series), Hulu political thriller by Dan Fogelman starring Sterling K. Brown as Secret Service agent Xavier Collins investigating President Cal Bradford's murder in a bunker after a climate apocalypse; three planned seasons, 86% Rotten Tomatoes, Emmy-nominated.
Passenger
Passenger is a 2024 British supernatural crime thriller series created by Andrew Buchan, starring Wunmi Mosaku as DI Riya Ajunwa in the village of Chadder Vale, airing on ITV1, ITVX and BritBox; distinct from the 2026 Paramount horror film and 2023 MGM+ thriller of the same name.
Playing Gracie Darling
Playing Gracie Darling is a 2025 Australian six-part mystery drama miniseries by Miranda Nation for Paramount+ (later Netflix), starring Morgana O'Reilly as Joni Grey, whose friend vanished at a 1997 séance.
Possession (British TV series)
Possession (formerly Inheritance) is a 2026 five-part Sky Original supernatural thriller created by Karla Crome, directed by Storm Saulter, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a lawyer contesting a £50m inheritance on a haunted Jamaican slave plantation.
Pushing Daisies
Pushing Daisies, ABC series (2007–2009) created by Bryan Fuller, follows pie-maker Ned (Lee Pace), who revives the dead with a touch; a second touch kills forever, and one minute is the limit. Canceled after two truncated seasons; a third season was reported in development in 2025.
Residue
Residue is a 2015 British science fiction supernatural horror miniseries created and written by John Harrison, starring Natalia Tena, Iwan Rheon, and Jamie Draven, released on Netflix in 2015.
Rising
Rising, broadcast as The Rising, is a 2022 British supernatural crime drama adapting Hotel Beau Séjour, and the first series produced entirely in-house by Sky Studios. Eight episodes starring Clara Rugaard as murdered ghost Neve Kelly aired on Sky Max and NOW from 22 April 2022; a second series was cancelled in March 2023.
Rosemary's Baby (miniseries)
Rosemary's Baby (2014) is an NBC two-part, four-hour miniseries adapting Ira Levin's 1967 novel, directed by Agnieszka Holland, starring Zoe Saldana, Patrick J. Adams, Jason Isaacs, and Carole Bouquet, relocating the Satanic-pregnancy story from New York to Paris.
Russian Doll (TV series)
Russian Doll is a Netflix comedy-drama (2019-2022, 2 seasons, 15 episodes) created by Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland, in which Nadia Vulvokov repeatedly dies on her 36th birthday in a time loop; season 2 shifts to time travel and intergenerational trauma.
Shut Eye
Shut Eye is a 2016 American dark comedy-drama streaming series created by Les Bohem for Hulu, starring Jeffrey Donovan as a fake psychic who gains real visions.
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is a 2026 Netflix eight-episode psychological horror limited series created by Haley Z. Boston, executive produced by the Duffer Brothers' Upside Down Pictures, starring Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco as a couple before a doomed wedding.
Storm of the Century
Storm of the Century is a 1999 ABC three-part horror miniseries from an original Stephen King screenplay, set on Little Tall Island, Maine, where stranger Andre Linoge besieges snowbound residents; also published by Pocket Books as a paperback screenplay.
Swarm (TV series)
Swarm is a 2023 Prime Video psychological thriller miniseries created by Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, starring Dominique Fishback as Dre, a Houston fan of Beyoncé-inspired pop star Ni'Jah who goes on a cross-country killing spree across seven episodes.
The Barrier
The Barrier (La valla) is a 2020 Spanish dystopian drama series created by Daniel Écija: 13 episodes set in 2045 Madrid, split by a fence into elite Sector 1 and Sector 2, starring Unax Ugalde and Olivia Molina, streamed on Netflix.