The 11 best horror shows to stream this Halloween season

With Halloween approaching, It’s customary to get into the creepy holiday spirit with some scary movies and shows. With that in mind, what are the best horror shows to get you into the spooky season spirit? We’ve put together a list to help you get started.

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Everything on this list is available to stream from services like Netflix, Prime Video, Showtime, and, of course, the home of horror streaming: Shudder.

The best horror shows to stream

Servant

Produced by M. Night Shyamalan (who directs several episodes), Servant is among the best shows on Apple TV Plus, and it’s a stunning horror series. When a couple who lost their infant son hires a nanny to look after a facsimile designed to ease grief, no one could predict that the young Jericho would suddenly return, as if back from the dead. Is this really Jericho, or a double? Has nanny Leanne been sent by someone? What are her motives? Don’t miss this underrated gem to find out!

The Haunting of Hill House

Mike Flanagan’s first miniseries at Netflix is also among the best horror shows around. Loosely based on Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel of the same, The Haunting of Hill House tells the story of a family still reeling from tragedy and facing their past in a house they can’t quite escape.

Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

Add some non-fiction to your horror show watchlist with this new Shudder docuseries. The genre of horror has a long, complex, and fascinating history of queer representation both in front of and behind the camera. This series features interviews and insights into some of the biggest horror titles of all time and how they were shaped by queer storytellers and featured all kinds of queer representation.

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Yellowjackets

One of the best shows currently airing, season one of Showtime’s Yellowjackets is a perfect binge-watch for the spooky season, ahead of its upcoming second season. The series follows a girls soccer team that crash lands in the wilderness in the 90s. As they struggle to survive, we flash forward to the present days, where some of the girls have survived but are haunted by their past choices. Where are the other surVivors, and what did those we see have to do to make it out?

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Midnight Mass

Mike Flanagan returns with one of his best Netflix projects to date with Midnight Mass. A small island town finds itself re-energized by the arrival of a mysterious new priest. But something unnatural seems to be happening too, and the priest my signal the arrival of dangerous forces.

Chucky

Everyone’s favorite killer doll is back in the Chucky series. Picking up after the events of Cult of Chucky, the series sees Chucky back in action in his hometown of Hackensack, New Jersey. When a teen boy comes across him at a yard sale, Chucky finds his opportunity to regain some power. Bringing together a host of familiar characters from the past, Chucky also offers a fresh new queer coming-of-age story, making it a perfect jumping on point for old fans and new viewers alike.

Brand New Cherry Flavor

An aspiring filmmaker in the 1990s moves to LA searching for her big break in this Netflix original horror miniseries. After an unsuccessful encounter with a crooked producer, she finds herself pulled into a bizarre, hallucinatory world of magic, drugs, and revenge.

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

This reboot/sequel series returns to Milwood 20 years after the town was rocked by tragedy. A new group of teens now has to face the wrath of an unknown assailant. The new batch of “Little Liars” has to think fast to keep their parents’ secrets from coming to light, and to stay alive.

What We Do in the Shadows

This FX series based on the 2014 mockumentary directed by Taika Waititi is among the funniest shows on Hulu, offering up a comedy-infused horror show to add to your Halloween watchlist. The series follows a group of vampires living together on Staten Island who share their hilariously macabre story with a camera crew as they seek power, influence, and the blood of virgins.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Based on the 1997 film and earlier novel of the same name, Prime Video’s I Know What You Did Last Summer was cancelled after its first season. It’s a shame, because the show offered a clever update of the horror classic, and it’s one of the best horror shows to check out this Halloween season. A group of teens accidentally strike and kill a pedestrian one fateful night, covering up the crime and going back to their lives. The following year, they’re visited by a mysterious figure who knows what they did and wants to get even.

Archive 81

This Netflix original miniseries based on the hit podcast of the same name made a big splash when it premiered earlier this year. When an archivist accepts a mysterious job restoring old video, he gets pulled into a years-old mystery of a missing documentary filmmaker and a demonic cult that may know what happened to her.

Those are just a few of our favorite horror shows you can stream this Halloween.

What are your favorites? Let us know in the comments or on social media!