Horror · 2000s

The 2000s account for 14 of the 131 horror shows here, and 14 opening sequences.

HBO and The CW carry two each.

14 shows14 sequences

Supernatural

2005–2020The WB / The CWHorror

Fifteen years without an opening title sequence, and fifteen distinct title cards instead — a few seconds of the show's name, restyled from scratch every season to match what that year was about. The shortest main titles on this site, and the ones that changed the most.

Seasons 1–15

1 sequence

The Vampire Diaries

2009–2017The CWHorror

A short title card: the name in gold serif lettering rising over a fogbound road at night, then alone on black.

Season 1

1 sequence

True Blood

2008–2014HBOHorror

Digital Kitchen again, and their nastiest work: swamp water, roadkill, a revival tent, a child in a Klan hood, all cut to Jace Everett's 'Bad Things'. It promises a show about the South rather than a show about vampires.

Seasons 1–7

1 sequence

Ghost Whisperer

2005–2010CBSHorror

Jennifer Love Hewitt talking to the dead in a small Maryland town.

Season 1

1 sequence

Paranoia Agent

2004WOWOWHorror

Satoshi Kon's only television series, opened by the entire cast laughing in front of disasters.

Season 1

1 sequence

Carnivàle

2003–2005HBOHorror

Tarot cards dissolving into Depression-era photographs and newsreel, so the reading and the history become the same footage. Another Emmy winner, and still one of the strangest things a network put in front of a drama.