Horror · 2010s
The 2010s account for 48 of the 131 horror shows here, and 59 opening sequences.
No decade here has more horror openings than this one.
Netflix carries the most, with eight.
48 shows59 sequences
1 sequence
The Walking Dead
Rust, decay and abandoned objects, cut to a string figure that never resolves — a sequence about entropy rather than the dead.
- Season 1
11 sequences
American Horror Story
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
1 sequence
The Terror
The Franklin expedition frozen into the ice, with something on it that is not the cold.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCastle Rock
A Maine town assembled out of forty years of Stephen King, with a main title that keeps rebuilding the same house.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Strain
Guillermo del Toro's vampire plague, opened by a sequence of things going wrong at cellular scale.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrimm
A Portland detective who can see the creatures the fairy tales were written about, opened in eleven seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFear the Walking Dead
Seventeen seconds and a card — the spinoff declining the parent show's decaying montage entirely.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceThe Originals
The Vampire Diaries spinoff, moving the family to New Orleans and giving them a title sequence the parent show never had.
- Season 2
1 sequenceChilling Adventures of Sabrina
The Archie witch as horror rather than sitcom, from the Riverdale producers.
- Season 1
1 sequencePenny Dreadful
Victorian specimen jars, insects and anatomical plates, filmed with the patience of a museum catalogue and none of its detachment.
- Season 1
1 sequenceServant
A doll's house filmed as an actual house — a brownstone rendered in miniature, with something wrong in one of the rooms.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBates Motel
Norman Bates before Psycho, in eleven seconds of a neon sign that everyone already knows the ending of.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLegacies
The third series in the Vampire Diaries line, set at a boarding school for the supernatural.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTokyo Ghoul
A student turned half-ghoul, opened by "Unravel" — one of the few anime openings better known than the series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKingdom
Joseon-era ink painting turning plague-ridden — court robes and mountains overrun by figures that do not move like the living.
- Season 2
1 sequenceNOS4A2
Christmas ornaments and a vintage car rendered as threat — a sequence that makes tinsel frightening.
- Season 1
1 sequenceScream Queens
Ryan Murphy's sorority slasher, with a title sequence longer than most of the deaths.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAsh vs Evil Dead
A ten-second title card, which for a series this loud is the only restrained decision in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGirl from Nowhere
A girl who transfers into a different school every episode and exposes what it is hiding.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Shadowhunters
Runes burning into skin, and a New York rendered as a warded city.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequenceEvil
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
1 sequenceSleepy Hollow
Ichabod Crane woken in the present day, with the Horseman following him.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCreepshow
The Romero and King film continued as an anthology, with the comic-book panels doing the same work in the titles.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHemlock Grove
A Pennsylvania steel town with a werewolf and a biotech company in it, and one of Netflix's first three originals.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVan Helsing
A descendant of the vampire hunter waking into an America the vampires already hold.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlack Summer
The Z Nation prequel, played without any of the parent series' jokes and shot in long unbroken takes.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceConstantine
The Hellblazer comic adapted, cancelled after thirteen episodes and continued in animation.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWynonna Earp
Twenty-one seconds of western iconography and a revolver, for a show about Wyatt Earp's great-great-granddaughter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMarianne
A horror novelist who discovers the witch she invented has been real the whole time, and eleven seconds to say it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Purge
The film franchise given two seasons of television, opened in sixteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlood Drive
A grindhouse pastiche about cars that run on human blood, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSalem
The witch trials with actual witches, and the series that turned a superstation into a scripted network.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSwamp Thing
Cancelled after one episode aired and finished anyway, which is why all ten exist.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIn the Flesh
Cured zombies sent home to the villages that killed them, opened in twelve seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Exorcist
A sequel to the film rather than a remake, which it does not admit until the end of the first season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Returned
The dead walking back into an Alpine town as though nothing happened, opened by Mogwai over a collapsing dam.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWitches of East End
A mother who has kept from her two daughters that all three of them are witches.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHelix
A CDC team at an Arctic research base, opened in ten seconds because the show never slows down either.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWolfblood
Teenagers who are not werewolves but something older, in a children's series that took the mythology seriously.
- Season 1
1 sequenceV Wars
A thawing glacier releasing a pathogen that turns some of the infected into vampires, from the Jonathan Maberry comics.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBitten
The only female werewolf in existence, from the Kelley Armstrong novels, made in Canada.
- Season 2
1 sequenceRequiem
A cellist in a Welsh village that remembers a disappearance she does not.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Fades
The unburied dead accumulating in the air above a British town, and a teenager who can see them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCrazyhead
Two women who can see demons, from the writer of Misfits, and cancelled after six episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFrom Dusk till Dawn: The Series
Rodriguez remaking his own film at series length, on the channel he founded to show it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHannibal
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
1 sequence
The Haunting of Hill House
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
1 sequenceTeen Wolf
Transformation rendered as anatomy — claws, teeth and eyes, in a sequence rebuilt several times across six seasons.
- Season 6