Best TV shows — horreur on Apple TV+ : our Top 20

2005 · Eric Kripke · 15 seasons

As children, Sam and Dean Winchester watched a mysterious demonic force take their mother, and their father forged them into fighters, teaching them about the hidden evils that lurk in shadowy places and along America's lonely byways—and how to destroy them. Now adults, the brothers crisscross the country in their iconic 1967 Chevy Impala, hunting down and confronting every supernatural threat they encounter.

With Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins, Mark Sheppard, Jim Beaver, Ruth Connell and Samantha Smith

2013 · Bryan Fuller · 3 seasons

Cursed and blessed in equal measure, Graham possesses a rare ability to inhabit the minds of those he pursues, experiencing their sights and sensations as if they were his own. When a grotesque, cannibalistic murderer emerges, Special Agent Jack Crawford pairs him with the distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter—an expert on criminal behavior whose refined demeanor conceals a disturbing fascination with the minds he studies.

With Mads Mikkelsen, Laurence Fishburne, Hugh Dancy, Caroline Dhavernas, Aaron Abrams, Scott Thompson and Gillian Anderson

2022 · John Griffin · 4 seasons

Stranded in a remote town in the American heartland, newcomers find themselves unable to leave and forced to carve out a fragile everyday life while desperately hunting for an escape. As communities fracture and alliances form, the encircling forest proves as dangerous as the town itself—harboring malevolent, nocturnal predators and hidden threats that make nightfall a fight for survival.

With Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey, Pegah Ghafoori, Simon Webster, Ricky He and Hannah Cheramy

2013 · Carlton Cuse, Anthony Cipriano, Kerry Ehrin · 5 seasons

A contemporary prequel to the 1960 film Psycho, the series traces the lives of Norma Bates and her son Norman before the events of the classic, repositioning their story in a different fictional community set in the present day. After her husband dies, Norma purchases a run-down motel on a coastal Oregon town’s main road, hoping to give her and Norman a fresh start. As they work to rebuild their lives, the isolation of motel ownership, the town’s secrets, and an increasingly enmeshed mother-son relationship begin to fray Norman’s grip on reality and steer both of them toward darker, unsettling changes.

With Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell, Kenny Johnson and Ryan Hurst

2019 · Dennis Heaton, Shelley Eriksen · 2 seasons

A college student bent on avenging his mother's murder infiltrates a covert order, only to be plunged into a brutal clash between feral werewolves and practitioners of forbidden sorcery; as secrets unravel and alliances shift, his quest for revenge forces him to confront what he’s willing to sacrifice to stop the rising darkness.

With Jake Manley, Sarah Grey, Devery Jacobs, Thomas Elms, Katharine Isabelle, Louriza Tronco and Adam DiMarco

2014 · John Logan · 3 seasons

In the gaslit, fogbound streets of Victorian London, notorious figures from Gothic fiction—a driven scientist obsessed with creating life, a man whose portrait conceals his corruption, and the shadowy beings tied to Dracula—creep from the margins into the city’s darkest corners. Penny Dreadful reimagines these origin myths as a chilling psychological thriller, interweaving their haunted pasts into a mature, character-driven drama that unleashes new horrors.

With Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Harry Treadaway, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear and Billie Piper

2020 · Takashi Shimizu · 1 season

A paranormal researcher becomes obsessed with tracking down a reputedly cursed house tied to a decades-old tragedy that befell a mother and her child.

With Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Yuina Kuroshima, Kohki Osamura, Seiko Iwaido, Kai Inowaki, Ryushin Tei and Yuya Matsuura

2017 · Victor Fresco · 3 seasons

A seemingly ordinary husband-and-wife real estate team live a quiet life until the wife undergoes a startling transformation that drags them into a thrilling spiral of violence and ruin—one they embrace with unexpected relish.

With Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson, Skyler Gisondo, Richard T. Jones, Alan Tudyk and Natalie Morales

2019 · Michelle King, Robert King · 4 seasons

Forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard, a resolute skeptic, teams up with seminarian David Acosta and tech specialist Ben Shakir to examine reported miracles, demonic possessions, and other baffling incidents. Using clinical analysis, theological insight, and cutting-edge tools, they travel to each scene to distinguish hoaxes and natural explanations from phenomena that may genuinely defy scientific understanding.

With Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, Aasif Mandvi, Michael Emerson, Brooklyn Shuck, Skylar Gray and Maddy Crocco

2021 · Nick Antosca, David Kirschner, Don Mancini · 3 seasons

A vintage Chucky doll unearthed at a suburban yard sale plunges a seemingly perfect American town into turmoil, as a rash of brutal murders strips away the community’s polished veneer to reveal buried lies and moral rot. When foes — and unexpected allies — from the doll’s history reappear, they threaten to unravel who is behind the killings and to lay bare the sinister, long-hidden origins of the malevolent toy.

With Brad Dourif, Zackary Arthur, Björgvin Arnarson, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Jennifer Tilly, Carina Battrick and Teo Briones

2018 · Mike Flanagan · 1 season

Alternating between past and present, a family torn apart must face the lingering shadows of their former home and the terrifying incident that drove them away.

With Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Victoria Pedretti, Timothy Hutton and Carla Gugino

2021 · Fede Álvarez · 1 season

Linked phone calls weave together the unsettling saga of several strangers whose lives begin to fracture and collide as an apocalyptic event draws near.

With Aubrey Plaza, Clancy Brown, Matt Lauria, Salli Saffioti, Nika Futterman, Nicholas Braun and Karen Gillan

2014 · Ronald D. Moore, Cameron Porsandeh · 2 seasons

A specialized team of Centers for Disease Control investigators is dispatched to an isolated, high-tech research outpost deep in the Arctic to examine reports of a mysterious infectious threat. What seems like a routine containment operation quickly spirals into a nightmare as they uncover secret experiments, institutional cover-ups and a pathogen that behaves in ways no one expected. Stranded by polar storms and locked down by corporate security, the team must confront infected colleagues, creeping paranoia and impossible ethical choices while racing to decode the organism’s purpose—discoveries that could either deliver a revolutionary cure or unleash a chain reaction with catastrophic consequences for humanity.

With Billy Campbell, Meegwun Fairbrother, Jordan Hayes, Mark Ghanimé, Neil Napier, Kyra Zagorsky and Hiroyuki Sanada

2014 · Daegan Fryklind · 3 seasons

Elena Michaels thought she’d left Stonehaven — and the supernatural life — behind for good. Living quietly as a photographer in Toronto, she believed the pack was a closed chapter until a midnight call from her alpha forces her to return. Reluctantly she trades her ordinary life for the brutal demands of werewolf society: pack loyalty, unbreakable rules, and the magnetic pull of a man she’s spent years trying to forget. Worse, Elena is the only living female werewolf, a truth that makes her both invaluable and dangerously exposed as old rivalries and new threats close in.

With Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt, Greg Bryk, Steve Lund, Genelle Williams, Michael Xavier and Paul Greene

2019 · Karl Schaefer, John Hyams · 2 seasons

In the chaotic opening days of a zombie outbreak, a group of unlikely strangers must forge fragile alliances and summon the courage to survive long enough to find their way back to the people they love.

With Jaime King, Christine Lee, Zoe Marlett, Justin Chu Cary, Kelsey Flower, Sal Velez Jr. and Erika Hau

2018 · Simon Duric, Hania Elkington · 1 season

A teenage couple who run away to be together discover that their rare gift has awakened relentless forces bent on tearing them apart for good.

With Percelle Ascott, Sorcha Groundsell, Guy Pearce, Laura Birn, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson and Sam Hazeldine

2019 · Leah Rachel · 1 season

After a heart transplant, a teenager starts experiencing chilling flashbacks and unsettling urges that feel like memories not her own, and compelled by these invasive echoes she launches a risky investigation to uncover the truth behind her donor’s unexplained death.

With Sivan Alyra Rose, Uma Thurman, Tony Goldwyn, Marcus LaVoi, Nicholas Galitzine, Kyanna Simone Simpson and Griffin Powell-Arcand

2019 · Tony Basgallop · 4 seasons

Reeling from an unspeakable loss, a Philadelphia couple see their marriage fracture under the weight of grief, and an inexplicable presence begins to seep into their home, feeding on the widening distance between them.

With Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Rupert Grint, Nell Tiger Free, Phillip James Brannon, Boris McGiver and Tony Revolori

2021 · Ha Soo-jin · 1 season

A broker who clears haunted properties of vengeful spirits forms an uneasy alliance with a smooth-talking con artist to unravel a two-decade-old mystery that still haunts her.

With Jang Na-ra, Jung Yong-hwa, Kang Mal-geum, Kang Hong-suk, Ahn Kil-kang, Heo Dong-won and Baek Ji-won

2021 · Stephen King · 1 season

A string of unsettling incidents forces widow Lisey Landon to confront the memories of her marriage to celebrated author Scott Landon and the dark forces that once consumed him.

With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dane DeHaan, Joan Allen, Sung Kang and Sebastian Eugene Hansen