Best tv shows like Channel Zero
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Plot Summary:
Inspired by Brian Russell’s Creepypasta tale, Channel Zero: No-End House tells the story of a young woman named Margot Sleator, who visits the No End House, a bizarre house of horrors that consists of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms. When she returns home, Margot realizes everything has changed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, enigmatic, spooky, tense, disturbing, brutal, mysterious, surreal, mumblecore
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Unsoul (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1988, the disappearance of a young girl shocks the population of little Brígida, in the interior of southern Brazil, resulting in the banning of pagan festivities of Ivana Kupala. Thirty years later, the city is preparing to bring the party back, but terrifying events, along with the dangerous ritual of transmigration of souls, unsettle the community and bring to light the secrets of a crime that ties three families’ destinies through time.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, disturbing, mystical
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Midnight Mass (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unsettlling omen washes ashore in the wake of the storm. Later, when the locals gather for a potluck, tragedy strikes - and a miracle occurs.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 450 min
Plot tags: mystical, scary, suspense, mysterious, spiritual, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting
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Curon (2020)
Plot Summary:
When their mother mysteriously vanishes shortly after they all arrive in her hometown, teen twins discover secrets behind the village’s tranquil facade.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: light, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, exciting, dark, disturbing, supernatural thriller, twisted
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Missing: The Other Side (2020)
Plot Summary:
A village holds spirits of missing, deceased people. A search to find the missing bodies and discover the truth behind their disappearance occurs.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 342 min
Plot tags: sexual, suspense, psychological thriller, surreal, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, offbeat
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Miracles (2003)
Plot Summary:
Miracles is an American drama television program starring Skeet Ulrich and Angus Macfadyen. Created by Richard Hatem and Michael Petroni, the series has sometimes been dubbed a "spiritual version of The X-Files" by its creators. Following the pilot, David Greenwalt, co-creator of Angel served as the show's executive producer and head writer for the remaining twelve episodes. Miracles follows Paul Callan, an investigator of modern miracles for the Catholic Church who questions his faith after repeatedly finding mundane explanations for various supposed phenomena. After he witnesses a true, supernatural miracle that saves his life, only for his findings to be dismissed on a lack of evidence, Paul leaves behind the Church and is approached by Alva Keel to join his organization Sodalitas Quaerito, investigating and cataloguing "unexplainable" phenomena. Along with former police officer Evelyn Santos, Paul and Alva attempt to battle the impending "darkness" before it's too late. The series premiered as part of ABC's new "Super Monday" line-up on January 27, 2003. Six episodes were broadcast on ABC before the series was canceled because of low ratings, with its final broadcast episode drawing just 5.7 million viewers on March 31, 2003. The series was preempted a number of times during its run, once for a rebroadcast of the documentary special Living with Michael Jackson and various other times to air newsmagazine specials about the then-developing Iraq War. Miracles fans, angered by the cancellation and what they saw as ABC's mismanagement of the show's Monday 10:00pm timeslot, began a fan campaign to revive the show. Fans wrote messages on napkins and mailed them to various networks hoping the show would be revived by another network, however efforts were unsuccessful and the show did not continue past its initial order of thirteen episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, enigmatic, tense, captivating, disturbing, controversial, dark fantasy
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
Plot Summary:
The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large in the small town of Mill Valley for generations. It's in a mansion that young Sarah Bellows turns her tortured life and horrible secrets into a series of scary stories. These terrifying tales soon have a way of becoming all too real for a group of unsuspecting teens who stumble upon Sarah's spooky home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, spooky, disturbing, suspense, dark, slasher, tense, psychological, psychological thriller
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Sea of Souls (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sea of Souls follows para-psychologist Monaghan and his two sidekicks from a fictitious Scottish University that investigates paranormal activity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, mystical
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Clarice (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, crime thriller, psychological thriller, mystical
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Happy Town (2010)
Plot Summary:
The residents of Haplin, Minnesota - also known as "Happy Town" - have enjoyed an uneasy peace while haunted by a number of unsolved kidnappings. Now facing a disturbing new crime that brings unresolved fears to the surface, Haplin's most prominent citizens come under scrutiny as their own secrets are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, detective, sweet, offbeat
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Katla (2021)
Plot Summary:
A year after a subglacial volcano erupts, mysterious elements from prehistoric times emerge from the melting ice, bringing unforeseen consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration:
Plot tags: mysterious, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, psychological thriller, psychological horror
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Monsterland (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this fantasy anthology series, encounters with mermaids, fallen angels and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in an attempt to repair their lives, ultimately showing there is a thin line between man and beast.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anthology, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Night Gallery (1969)
Plot Summary:
Night Gallery is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on The Twilight Zone.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, supernatural thriller, scary, retro, mysterious, dread, mythical, creepy, dark fairy tale
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Archive 81 (2022)
Plot Summary:
An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: mystical, mysterious, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, lovecraft, scary, psychological
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PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996)
Plot Summary:
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000. The presence of Dan Aykroyd opening and closing every episode and emphasizing the legitimacy of the organization it was inspired by led some viewers to take the show somewhat more seriously than intended, though it was in fact a scripted drama. Partly for this reason, in 1997 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, then called the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, awarded Aykroyd a "Snuffed Candle" award, for "contributing to the public's lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry.".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense, spiritual, anthology, detective, canadian science fiction
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Creepshow (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young boy's horror comic book comes to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: anthology, mystical, bleak, scary, captivating, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, psychological
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Ghost Wars (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces, the series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: mystical, suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, captivating, dark, psychological thriller
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Chapelwaite (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 516 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, exciting, gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, historical drama, spooky
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The 12 from Oldenheim (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follow the lives of the inhabitants of Oldenheim, an ancient Dutch village where families have lived for generations. The terror is great when the inhabitants of the village are confronted with a series of mysterious disappearances.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, crime drama, thrilling
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Cruel Summer (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, intellectual, thrilling, anthology, queer cinema
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American Horror Story (2011)
Plot Summary:
American Horror Story is an anthology horror drama series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 338000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, atmospheric, scary, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure, bad ending, offbeat, slasher
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The Outsider (2020)
Plot Summary:
When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: mysterious, scary, detective, psychological, suspense, exciting, tense, bleak, sad, suspenseful
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The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 279000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 572 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, disturbing, surreal, non-linear, tense, emotional, supernatural thriller, slasher, spooky
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Castle Rock (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic, anthology, rough, supernatural thriller, suspense, spooky, psychological, psychological thriller
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It (1990)
Plot Summary:
A series of murders prompts Mike Hanlon to suspect that the supernatural menace that he and a group of friends battled as children has returned. He begins to call his friends to remind them of the oath they swore: if It returned again, they would come back to Derry to do battle again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark fantasy, creepy, psychological, splatter, cult classic
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From (2022)
Plot Summary:
Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, tense, disturbing, mystic, lovecraft, mindfuck, slasher horror
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Locke & Key (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three siblings who move into their ancestral estate after their father's gruesome murder discover their new home's magical keys, which must be used in their stand against an evil creature who wants the keys and their powers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, atmospheric, spooky, teen horror, supernatural thriller
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Nancy Drew (2019)
Plot Summary:
Young Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college after high school graduation, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, enigmatic, tense, slasher, spooky, bleak, neo noir, suspense, detective, non-linear
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Dimension 404 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the Internet’s “404” error code, Dimension 404 aims to evoke that 3 AM feeling of wandering onto the weird side of the web, stumbling upon stories that cannot be explained in the world that we know.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, anthology, exciting, tense, surreal, suspense, intellectual
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Stranger Things (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, disturbing, thought provoking, epic, psychological thriller, retro, spectacular