All of Us Are Dead

Name: All of Us Are Dead
Genre: Horror

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School notebooks, corridors and lab equipment, cut fast enough that the outbreak reads as timetabled.

All of Us Are Dead opens with a main title sequence of 23 seconds.

At 23 seconds, it opens well under the 50-second median for horror sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on Netflix in 2022, when Top Boy, Big Mouth and Cobra Kai were also on the network.

The opening titles

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The first season's sequence.

2022–NetflixHorror

Gothic paper-cut animation and a harpsichord, doing in seventy-nine seconds what the Addams Family finger-snap did in eight.

2022–MGM+Horror

'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.

2022–AMCHorror

Anne Rice adapted as a long interview, with an opening that lasts twenty-two seconds and does not waste one of them.

2023–AMCHorror

The franchise moved to France, with a title sequence built out of religious iconography rather than decay.

2023–AMCHorror

Anne Rice's New Orleans witches, in the same continuity AMC built for the vampires.

2023–AMCHorror

Maggie and Negan in a cut-off Manhattan, in the first of the spin-offs to give its pairing the whole hour.