Curated Horror Cult Classics

The Crypt Keeper hosts weekly horror pulled from the EC Comics catalog, complete with outstanding practical effects and a very mean sense of humor.

Ray Peterson takes a week off work, stays home, and becomes convinced his new neighbors are doing something terrible in their basement. His equally curious friends are happy to help investigate.

Alfred Hitchcock extends his weekly anthology into hour-long territory, maintaining his sardonic hosting presence and his talent for the twist that reveals the worst in everyone.

Amelia is still managing her grief over her husband's death when her son Samuel becomes obsessed with a picture book called Mister Babadook.

Three film students go into the Maryland woods to document a local legend. Only the footage comes back out.

Dr. Alan Feinstone has built a precise, controlled life and one morning's discovery destabilizes all of it, sending him to see rot and contamination everywhere, including in his patients.

Five friends find an old tape recording in a remote Tennessee cabin and play it. Whatever it wakes up in the woods doesn't stop until it's gone through everyone inside.

Chris MacNeil's twelve-year-old daughter has been changing in ways no doctor can explain and when medicine runs out of answers, two priests are brought in. What they find tests everything they believe about what's possible.

Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.

Two workers accidentally release a gas at a medical warehouse. By nightfall the cemetery next door has a problem.

Brad and Janet take shelter from a storm in a nearby castle where the host has a science project almost ready to unveil and guests are welcome to stay for it. It's deliberately absurd and entirely committed to that.

Sue Morrow injects the Substance and creates a second younger version of herself. The two halves must share existence within the program's strict rules.

Five friends on a road trip through rural Texas stop at a farmhouse that seems abandoned. It isn't.

A radio DJ accidentally broadcasts audio evidence of a murder on live air. The Sawyer family now knows who has it.

Rod Serling hosts a weekly anthology at the intersection of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the deeply uncomfortable. The twist ending as a dramatic device was invented here.

Sergeant Howie flies to a remote Scottish island to investigate a missing girl. The islanders are warm, cooperative, and completely evasive about the one thing he came to find.

A cop flies to a remote island looking for a missing girl at his ex-fiancée's request. The island's pagan community is not especially helpful.

A boy on holiday with his grandmother stumbles into a hotel conference room full of witches and overhears exactly the wrong thing.

Heather Langenkamp, who played Nancy in the original Elm Street, finds herself having experiences that suggest Freddy was never entirely fictional.

Columbus wakes up in a zombie apocalypse and joins a group of survivors who have developed very specific rules for staying alive.