Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

Name: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin
Genre: Horror

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The Pretty Little Liars premise remade as a slasher, with a title sequence that finally commits to the genre.

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin opens with a main title sequence of 64 seconds.

At 64 seconds, it opens well above the 50-second median for horror sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on HBO Max in 2022, when Young Justice, Search Party and Titans were also on the network.

The opening titles

64s

From the franchise's own channel.

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

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2022–AMCHorror

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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

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