Horror · 2010s

50 shows60 sequences

The Walking Dead

2010–2022AMCHorror

Rust, decay and abandoned objects, cut to a string figure that never resolves — a sequence about entropy rather than the dead.

Season 1

American Horror Story

2011–FXHorror

An anthology, so there is no returning sequence to protect: Kyle Cooper builds a new one from scratch every season and the only thing carried across is the lettering. The sixth season is absent below because it went further still and threw the titles out altogether.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
and 8 more

The Terror

2018–2019AMCHorror

The Franklin expedition frozen into the ice, with something on it that is not the cold.

Season 1

Castle Rock

2018–2019HuluHorror

A Maine town assembled out of forty years of Stephen King, with a main title that keeps rebuilding the same house.

Season 1

The Strain

2014–2017FXHorror

Guillermo del Toro's vampire plague, opened by a sequence of things going wrong at cellular scale.

Season 1

Grimm

2011–2017NBCHorror

A Portland detective who can see the creatures the fairy tales were written about, opened in eleven seconds.

Season 1

Fear the Walking Dead

2015–2023AMCHorror

Seventeen seconds and a card — the spinoff declining the parent show's decaying montage entirely.

Seasons 1–3

The Originals

2013–2018The CWHorror

The Vampire Diaries spinoff, moving the family to New Orleans and giving them a title sequence the parent show never had.

Season 2

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

2018–2020NetflixHorror

The Archie witch as horror rather than sitcom, from the Riverdale producers.

Season 1

Penny Dreadful

2014–2016ShowtimeHorror

Victorian specimen jars, insects and anatomical plates, filmed with the patience of a museum catalogue and none of its detachment.

Season 1

Servant

2019–2023Apple TV+Horror

A doll's house filmed as an actual house — a brownstone rendered in miniature, with something wrong in one of the rooms.

Season 1

Bates Motel

2013–2017A&EHorror

Norman Bates before Psycho, in eleven seconds of a neon sign that everyone already knows the ending of.

Season 1

Legacies

2018–2022The CWHorror

The third series in the Vampire Diaries line, set at a boarding school for the supernatural.

Season 1

Tokyo Ghoul

2014–2018Tokyo MXHorror

A student turned half-ghoul, opened by "Unravel" — one of the few anime openings better known than the series.

Season 1

Kingdom

2019–2021NetflixHorror

Joseon-era ink painting turning plague-ridden — court robes and mountains overrun by figures that do not move like the living.

Season 2

NOS4A2

2019–2020AMCHorror

Christmas ornaments and a vintage car rendered as threat — a sequence that makes tinsel frightening.

Season 1

Scream Queens

2015–2016FoxHorror

Ryan Murphy's sorority slasher, with a title sequence longer than most of the deaths.

Season 1

Ash vs Evil Dead

2015–2018StarzHorror

A ten-second title card, which for a series this loud is the only restrained decision in it.

Season 1

Girl from Nowhere

2018–2021GMM 25 / NetflixHorror

A girl who transfers into a different school every episode and exposes what it is hiding.

Season 1

Shadowhunters

2016–2019FreeformHorror

Runes burning into skin, and a New York rendered as a warded city.

Season 1

Evil

2019–2024CBS / Paramount+Horror

Religious iconography and clinical diagrams intercut, so that possession and psychiatry are presented with equal weight — which is the show's entire method.

Season 1

Sleepy Hollow

2013–2017FoxHorror

Ichabod Crane woken in the present day, with the Horseman following him.

Season 1

Creepshow

2019–ShudderHorror

The Romero and King film continued as an anthology, with the comic-book panels doing the same work in the titles.

Season 1

Hemlock Grove

2013–2015NetflixHorror

A Pennsylvania steel town with a werewolf and a biotech company in it, and one of Netflix's first three originals.

Season 1

Van Helsing

2016–2021SyfyHorror

A descendant of the vampire hunter waking into an America the vampires already hold.

Season 1

Black Summer

2019–2021NetflixHorror

The Z Nation prequel, played without any of the parent series' jokes and shot in long unbroken takes.

Seasons 1–2

Constantine

2014–2015NBCHorror

The Hellblazer comic adapted, cancelled after thirteen episodes and continued in animation.

Season 1

Wynonna Earp

2016–2021SyfyHorror

Twenty-one seconds of western iconography and a revolver, for a show about Wyatt Earp's great-great-granddaughter.

Season 1

Marianne

2019NetflixHorror

A horror novelist who discovers the witch she invented has been real the whole time, and eleven seconds to say it.

Season 1

The Purge

2018–2019USA NetworkHorror

The film franchise given two seasons of television, opened in sixteen seconds.

Season 1

Blood Drive

2017SyfyHorror

A grindhouse pastiche about cars that run on human blood, cancelled after one season.

Season 1

Salem

2014–2017WGN AmericaHorror

The witch trials with actual witches, and the series that turned a superstation into a scripted network.

Season 1

The Order

2019–2020NetflixHorror

A university secret society of magicians and the werewolves who police them, which is two shows at once and knows it.

Season 1

Swamp Thing

2019DC UniverseHorror

Cancelled after one episode aired and finished anyway, which is why all ten exist.

Season 1

In the Flesh

2013–2014BBC ThreeHorror

Cured zombies sent home to the villages that killed them, opened in twelve seconds.

Season 1

The Exorcist

2016–2018FoxHorror

A sequel to the film rather than a remake, which it does not admit until the end of the first season.

Season 1

The Returned

2012–2015Canal+Horror

The dead walking back into an Alpine town as though nothing happened, opened by Mogwai over a collapsing dam.

Season 1

Witches of East End

2013–2014LifetimeHorror

A mother who has kept from her two daughters that all three of them are witches.

Season 1

Helix

2014–2015SyfyHorror

A CDC team at an Arctic research base, opened in ten seconds because the show never slows down either.

Season 1

Wolfblood

2012–2017CBBCHorror

Teenagers who are not werewolves but something older, in a children's series that took the mythology seriously.

Season 1

V Wars

2019NetflixHorror

A thawing glacier releasing a pathogen that turns some of the infected into vampires, from the Jonathan Maberry comics.

Season 1

Bitten

2014–2016SpaceHorror

The only female werewolf in existence, from the Kelley Armstrong novels, made in Canada.

Season 2

Requiem

2018BBC OneHorror

A cellist in a Welsh village that remembers a disappearance she does not.

Season 1

The Fades

2011BBC ThreeHorror

The unburied dead accumulating in the air above a British town, and a teenager who can see them.

Season 1

Crazyhead

2016Channel 4Horror

Two women who can see demons, from the writer of Misfits, and cancelled after six episodes.

Season 1

From Dusk till Dawn: The Series

2014–2016El ReyHorror

Rodriguez remaking his own film at series length, on the channel he founded to show it.

Season 1

Hannibal

2013–2015NBCHorror

A figure forming out of blood in water, on network television at ten o'clock. Twenty-one seconds, and among the most beautiful things any broadcast network has aired.

Season 1

The Haunting of Hill House

2018–2020NetflixHorror

The house drawn as an architectural plate, rooms opening into rooms, with figures standing in doorways you are not meant to notice on a first pass.

Season 1

Scream

2015–2016MTVHorror

The film franchise remade as a weekly series, with a new mask of its own.

Season 1

Teen Wolf

2011–2017MTVHorror

Transformation rendered as anatomy — claws, teeth and eyes, in a sequence rebuilt several times across six seasons.

Season 6