Horror · 1990s
The 1990s account for 16 of the 131 horror shows here, and 33 opening sequences.
Fox and The WB carry three each.
Three of them rebuilt their titles mid-run, Charmed most of all with eight sequences.
16 shows33 sequences
7 sequences
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
An organ sting, a shot of the moon, and then Nerf Herder's surf-punk theme over black-and-white monster-movie footage that bursts into colour. The design never changed in seven years; the fifty seconds behind it were re-cut every one of them.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 4 more
5 sequences
Angel
The spinoff takes the parent show's structure and drops the jokes: Darling Violetta's 'Sanctuary' instead of surf-punk, city at night instead of monster movies. Like Buffy, the design holds for five years while the names in front of it keep moving.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 2 more
1 sequence
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
A campfire, a handful of powder thrown into it, and a children's anthology that frightened a generation on a Saturday teatime.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe League of Gentlemen
Royston Vasey, a local shop, and a radio series that arrived on television already knowing exactly what it looked like.
- Season 1
8 sequences
Charmed
Love Spit Love's cover of 'How Soon Is Now?' over the Book of Shadows and three sisters, re-cut every season. It goes further than that, though: the credits were rebuilt whenever the cast of an episode changed, so a season carries several versions rather than one — eight of them in the second year alone.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 5 more
1 sequenceMillennium
Chris Carter's other series, opened with the same Mark Snow unease as The X-Files and none of its wit — thirty-four seconds that promise a much worse world.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoosebumps
A briefcase blowing open in a wind that follows a dog down a street — thirty seconds of genuine dread aimed at nine-year-olds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmerican Gothic (1995)
A South Carolina sheriff who is something worse than corrupt, created by Shaun Cassidy and produced by Sam Raimi.
- Season 1
1 sequenceForever Knight
A vampire working homicide nights in Toronto, introduced with narration explaining the arrangement every week.
- Season 1
1 sequencePoltergeist: The Legacy
A secret society investigating the supernatural from a San Francisco island house.
- Season 1
1 sequenceG vs E
Two agents of the Corps recruiting the dead to fight people who have sold their souls, shot to look like a 1970s exploitation print.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBrimstone
A damned detective sent back from hell to recapture a hundred and thirteen escaped souls, cancelled after thirteen episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEerie, Indiana
A boy who works out that his new town is the centre of every strange thing in America.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIt (1990)
Two nights on ABC, and the reason a generation of viewers will not stand near a storm drain.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKindred: The Embraced
Vampire clans running San Francisco as organised crime, cancelled after eight episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Shining (1997)
King's own remake for television, made largely because he disliked what Kubrick had done with the book.
- Season 1