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Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen has been a hit series for Netflix Since it premiered last month, Netflix ’s deeply unsettling original series Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen has been a hit with both critics and viewers. While early reviews for the eight-part horror show were mostly positive , the show itself has been hugely popular with Netflix users, consistently hovering around the top of the platform’s most-watched list ever since it premiered. The series centres around a young couple gearing up for their wedding day, who are confronted with a series of increasingly horrific bumps in the road that leave them questioning everything about their relationship. Horror fans have a seemingly-endless plethora of films to pick from when they’re looking for something new to watch, but when it comes to TV , there are considerably fewer offerings from the genre. With that in mind, if you’ve already made your way through Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen and you’re looking for a new chilling binge-watch, we’ve rounded up 11 horror-centric TV shows available to stream now… American Horror Story Alright, we’re starting with the biggie – you can’t have a conversation about horror on TV without discussing American Horror Story . With 12 iterations to pick from (varying in quality, it has to be said), the anthology series takes place in a completely different time and setting each time around, with many of the same actors playing all new characters from season to season. High points include the camp-tastic witchiness of Coven, the sheer vampiric glamour of Hotel, the grit of NYC, the politically-charged Cult, the terrifying pinnacle of Asylum or the one that started it all, terrifying domestic drama Murder House. Later this year, American Horror Story will return for its landmark 13th run, with franchise staples Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett and Kathy Bates all returning alongside new addition Ariana Grande . Stream it on: Disney+ Scream Queens A love letter to the slasher genre, Scream Queens was another of Ryan Murphy’s attempts at creating a TV horror, serving as a tongue-in-cheek meeting point of Scream, Halloween, Mean Girls and Heathers. The dark comedy starred Murphy-verse regular Emma Roberts as clique leader Chanel Oberlin, with appearances from Glee alum Lea Michele, Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin and aforementioned American Horror Story newbie Ariana Grande. While the show didn’t quite live up to the scale of previous Murphy projects like Glee or American Horror Story, it developed a cult following over the course of its two seasons in the mid-2010s. Stream it on: Disney+ Grotesquerie Murphy tried his hand at horror once again during a fallow year for American Horror Story in 2024, that was every bit as star-studded as you’d come to expect from the TV super-producer. While the principal actors included Niecy Nash-Betts , Lesley Manville and Nicholas Alexander Chavez (who, at the time, was fresh from his work as Lyle Menendez in the true crime anthology Monster ), it also made use of some bold stunt casting, most notably marking the acting debut of one Travis M. Kelce . The sinister series centres around a detective who teams up with a nun to get to the bottom of a series of crimes affecting their community, only for things to take an increasingly creepy turn. Stream it on: Disney+ Monster: The Ed Gein Story Alright, one more Ryan Murphy show and then we promise we’re done. Previous iterations of the Monster anthology series were more grisly true crime explorations than outright horror, but the graphic violence and gore of The Ed Gein Story definitely took the show in an even more frightful direction . Gein’s crimes are believed to have been the inspiration for horror films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence Of The Lambs – not to mention Psycho, with director Alfred Hitchcock and actor Anthony Perkins appearing in Monster’s third season as minor characters , in a B-story about the creation of the iconic film. Stream it on: Netflix It: Welcome To Derry A TV off-shoot of the Andy Muschietti adaptations of Stephen King’s tome It has no right being as good as it is. The critically-acclaimed prequel explores the seemingly cursed town’s origins, and how Pennywise began terrorising its residents by exploiting their deepest fears and anxieties for its own gain long before the events of It. Gripping though it might be, Welcome To Derry is also really scary, so just prepare yourself for that. Stream it on: Now, Sky and HBO Max The Fall Of The House Of Usher One for fans of gothic horror, The Fall Of The House Of Usher is a loose retelling of the Edgar Allen Poe short story set in the modern day, which incorporates other popular stories from the classic author’s oeuvre along the way including The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart. While the source material is one of the most famous haunted house tales ever, this new version is more in line with Succession or Industry, focussing on a wealthy family in charge of a corrupt pharmaceutical company Fortunato Pharmaceuticals, which befalls a series of mysterious tragedies in quick succession. Stream it on: Netflix The Haunting The Fall Of The House Of Usher creator Mike Flanagan is no stranger to horror, though, previously overseeing the anthology series The Haunting for Netflix. Back in 2018, The Haunting Of Hill House proved to be absolute nightmare fuel, as siblings return to their haunted childhood home to confront their past demons (including the deeply upsetting Bent-Neck Lady) once and for all. Like with American Horror Story, follow-up The Haunting Of Bly Manor featured several of the same actors in a whole new – but just as terrifying – haunted house setting. Stream it on: Netflix Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities Best known as the auteur behind the expansive and surreal films Pan’s Labyrinth, The Devil’s Backbone, The Shape Of Water and, more recently, Frankenstein , Guillermo Del Toro has made a shift to TV work in the 2010s. As well as his Tales Of Arcadia series with Netflix, in 2022, he put out the anthology miniseries Cabinets Of Curiosity. Each episode of the eight-part miniseries told its own stand-alone story (in the style of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror) hosted by the Oscar-winning filmmaker himself, with instalments putting a new spin on horror tropes like paintings coming to life, demonic conjurings and unrelenting ghosts from the past. Look out for appearances from Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint, The White Lotus’ F Murray Abraham and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens, among others. Stream it on: Netflix Stranger Things Millie Bobby Brown in the final season of Stranger Things While perhaps not a horror in the traditional sense, Stranger Things incorporates elements from the genre (particularly from films that popped off in the 1980s, when the show is set) alongside sci-fi, mystery, action and traditional coming-of-age teen dramas. There are also countless several deliberate homages to Stephen King over the course of its five seasons, with the horror author previously giving the show his personal seal of approval . Stream it on: Netflix Black Mirror Lenora Crichlow in the Black Mirror episode White Bear Dystopian anthology series Black Mirror is probably most well-known as the show that warns about the perils of technology and social media – but make no mistake that when it decides to go full horror, it can really get in your head. Among its most frightening offerings include early offerings White Bear, Men Against Fire, Playtest and Metalhead, plus the deliberate horror homages of Demon 79 and Loch Henry. Meanwhile, even the more allegorical stories like Be Right Back, The Entire History Of You and the “Christmas special” White Christmas will leave you with a chill that lingers longer than you might think. Stream it on: Netflix Goosebumps Goosebumps Then again, maybe you prefer your frights a little less on the disturbing side. Streaming service Disney+ currently has two stand-alone series based on those R.L. Stine books that had you hiding under the covers back in the 90s, telling two distinct stories that make for more family-friendly viewing than every other suggestion we’ve laid out here. Stream it on: Disney+ MORE TV NEWS: Where You've Seen All The Stars Of Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen Before Intrigued About What's In Store For Season 4 Of Monster? Here's Everything We Know So Far Nicola Coughlan Opens Up About Her Stranger Things Audition
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