It’s built from our twisted dreams and our collective fears.
It thrives in dark places, but can also live out in the open.
Based on the podcast of the same name,Archive 81unfolds with suspense and well-earned scares.
Jamie Campbell Bower on ‘Stranger Things’; Hamish Linklater on ‘Midnight Mass’; Skull Mask on ‘Hellbound’.Credit:Netflix; Eike Schroter/Netflix; Jung Jaegu/Netflix
Each self-contained episode features some form of innovative technology gone too far, moral implications be damned.
The series has been renewed for a seventh season,which will drop on April 10.
And if a weird door in the floor opens, why not go down it?
Mamoudou Athie on ‘Archive 81’.Quantrell D. Colbert/Netflix
And what goes bump in the night isn’t just a nightmare, butyouractual nightmare.
Would you travel to damnation and back just to see your mom again?
One of the sisters inFeriais more than willing.
Annie Murphy in ‘Black Mirror’ season 6.Nick Wall/Netflix
AsHellboundunfolds, rival groups take action in the face of these frightening incidents.
It’s happened to me withHill Housein a pretty big way.
It happened with [Bly Manor].
Rosa Salazar on ‘Brand New Cherry Flavor’.Everett Collection
This one, though, was the story I always wanted to tell."
The creatures infect and kill humans, then transform their heads into grotesque shapes (see above).
Slasherisn’t here to elevate, explore, or artfully stylize horror.
Barbara Liberek on ‘Cracow Monsters’.Netflix
And sometimes, in horror, that’s really all that needs to happen.
Season 5, titledRipper, debuted on Shudder in April 2023.
“I love watching kids grow up on camera,“Stranger Thingsco-creatorMatt Duffertold EWin 2016.
Claes Bang in ‘Dracula’.Robert Viglasky/Netflix
And it allows us to explore the mythology of our nether.”
The fifth and final season will come out in 2025.
The series expertly explores how human fears manifest, with characters worth rooting for.
Carla Gugino in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’.Eike Schroter/Netflix
“The freeze is tangible.”
Who made it through the initial fights?
Angela Cremonte on ‘Feria: The Darkest Light’.Everett Collection
Rupert Grint on ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’.Ken Woroner/Netflix
(From left to right) Mckenna Grace, Lulu Wilson, Paxton Singleton, Violet McGraw, Julian Hillard, and Henry Thomas on ‘The Haunting of Hill House’.Steve Dietl/Netflix
Skull Mask on ‘Hellbound’.Netflix
Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson on ‘Interview With the Vampire’.Michele K. Short/AMC
Victoire du Bois on ‘Marianne’.Emmanuel Guimier/Netflix
Hamish Linklater on ‘Midnight Mass’.Eike Schroter/Netflix
Jeon So-nee on ‘Parasyte: The Grey’.Netflix
Drew Barrymore on ‘Santa Clarita Diet’.Saeed Adyani/Netflix
Nataliya Rodina on ‘Slasher’.Cole Burston/Shudder
Millie Bobby Brown on ‘Stranger Things’.Netflix
Ko Min-si on ‘Sweet Home’.Kim Jeong Won/Netflix
Ciarán Hinds on ‘The Terror’.Aidan Monaghan/AMC
Sleeping walkers on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
Courtney Eaton and Sophie Nélisse on ‘Yellowjackets’.Kailey Schwerman/Showtime
