Horror · 2020s
The 2020s account for 37 of the 131 horror shows here, and 38 opening sequences.
Netflix carries the most, with 15.
One rebuilt its titles mid-run: Wednesday, with two sequences.
37 shows38 sequences
2 sequences
Wednesday
Gothic paper-cut animation and a harpsichord, doing in seventy-nine seconds what the Addams Family finger-snap did in eight.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequence
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'Que Sera, Sera' over a town nobody can leave — a cheerful standard used as a threat, which is the oldest trick in horror and still works.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice adapted as a long interview, with an opening that lasts twenty-two seconds and does not waste one of them.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
The franchise moved to France, with a title sequence built out of religious iconography rather than decay.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMayfair Witches
Anne Rice's New Orleans witches, in the same continuity AMC built for the vampires.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Walking Dead: Dead City
Maggie and Negan in a cut-off Manhattan, in the first of the spin-offs to give its pairing the whole hour.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAll of Us Are Dead
School notebooks, corridors and lab equipment, cut fast enough that the outbreak reads as timetabled.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Haunting of Bly Manor
The Turn of the Screw as the second Haunting, with the same company of actors in different parts.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Rick and Michonne given the ending the parent series never got round to.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmerican Horror Stories
The American Horror Story spin-off, one self-contained hour at a time instead of one story a season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Watcher
A house filmed from outside, at the distance a neighbour would stand — which is the entire threat.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCabinet of Curiosities
A physical cabinet opened drawer by drawer, each one holding the object that episode is about — an anthology that indexes itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLovecraft Country
Twelve seconds — a card, a horn stab, and straight into an episode that will not be the same genre as the last one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrotesquerie
Ryan Murphy's detective series about a series of killings that read as tableaux.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAgatha All Along
The WandaVision villain given a witches' road to walk down, and a theme that was a joke song first.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLocke & Key
Keys turning in locks that open onto rooms which should not exist, drawn from the comic's own conceit.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDracula
Moffat and Gatiss after Sherlock, with three feature-length episodes and a different idea in each.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSweet Home
The apartment block as a cross-section, with something wrong in every unit — the show's premise drawn as a floor plan.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRatched
Mid-century clinical design turned lurid — surgical steel, pastel tile and hypodermics arranged with the care of a fashion shoot.
- Season 1
1 sequenceZom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
A man freed from an exploitative job by the zombie apocalypse, which he treats as good news.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDead Boy Detectives
Two dead schoolboys who refuse to move on and open a detective agency instead, out of the Sandman comics.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGyeongseong Creature
Occupied Seoul in 1945, and what the occupiers are keeping in the hospital basement.
- Season 1
1 sequenceArchive 81
Degraded videotape and splice marks — the found footage the show is built from, doing its own titles.
- Season 1
1 sequencePretty Little Liars: Original Sin
The Pretty Little Liars premise remade as a slasher, with a title sequence that finally commits to the genre.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHellbound
Twenty-five seconds of smoke and scripture, over before the dread has anywhere to settle.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChapelwaite
Jerusalem's Lot filmed as a nineteenth-century gothic, from the King short story the vampire novel grew out of.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHelstrom
The last of Marvel's television output before the Disney+ era swallowed it, and the only one that is a horror series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Third Day
An island off the Essex coast with its own rules, told in two halves and a live broadcast between them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceParasyte: The Grey
The Iwaaki manga relocated to Korea, running alongside the Japanese continuity rather than remaking it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBefore
Billy Crystal as a child psychiatrist and a boy who knows things he should not.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOctober Faction
Two monster hunters whose teenage children do not know what the family business is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDead Ringers
The Cronenberg film remade with Rachel Weisz as both twins.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Cursed
A girl who can kill by curse and the reporter who decides to use her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Fall of the House of Usher
Corporate portraiture rotting in place — a pharmaceutical dynasty photographed like old money and left to decay in frame.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIt: Welcome to Derry
The King adaptation's prequel series, set in the 1960s cycle.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Outsider
Twenty seconds of smeared, doubled imagery — a face that will not resolve into one face, which is the entire mystery stated up front.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Yellowjackets
Home-video and yearbook imagery cut with things that should not be in a yearbook, and a new needle-drop each season.
- Season 2