Horror is a tough genre to tackle, and quite honestly, the last decade has done it no justice,
yet there has been a resurgence.
New shows have been slowly emerging that have breathed new life into the genre, once again
inflicting fear into viewers and leaving us all lying in our beds out now, questioning
whether there’s a monster under our bed, and if a reptilians are controlling our loved
ones.
Hey guys welcome back to Top 5 Scary Videos, I’m your host Lucy McPhee and today we’re
listing down the Top 5 Scary Netflix Show You MUST Watch.
Let’s begin.
5 Scream I hate to include this on our list, due to
certain names attached to the project, i.e Bob and Harvey Weinstein.
Yet it can’t be helped.
The show has been a hit for Netflix, and for many young horror lovers its a fan favourite,
and great take on the 90’s slasher.
A cyber-bullying incident serves as a catalyst for a grisly murder, and a group of teens
become a serial killers prime targets.
It plays on the fears that everyone is a suspect and anyone could be a victim, the show thrives
by incorporating more updates fears, such as cyberbullying, yet uses similar techniques
the original displayed so wonderfully.
When a young teen becomes the killers obsession she must set out to uncover her town’s dark
secrets and mysterious while attempting to unmask the true identity of the killer.
4 The Twilight Zone Arguably the show that started it all, The
Twilight zone manages to invoke fear into viewers through the macabre and supernatural
tales it has to offer.
Created by Rod Serling, this anthology show is a mix of horror, science-fiction, drama,
comedy, and superstition.
Each episode is introduced by Serling himself, and most are concluded with a surprise ending.
Though it perhaps didn’t age as well as it should have, it still has some rewatchability.
It’s a show that lingers in the mind, making you question your neighbours, friends, and
even your family.
The most fearsome of monsters in the shows were arguably the humans, through distrust,
ignorance, and malice -- a far creepier combination than any ghoul or ghost.
Most episodes even focusing on the moral and philosophical choices made by the characters
in astounding and unusual situations.
3 Bates Motel In the prequel to Hitchcock’s Psycho, we
follow a young Norman Bates, and his life before Marion Crane comes a-knocking.
Even though we know the outcome of this dysfunctional story, it is still just as shocking when Norman
eventually dons his a wig and gets stabby in the shower.
However, there are so many more creepy elements this show has to offer, for one, the hashed
out relationship between Norman and his mother Norma, which is utterly disturbing.
Her mind-manipulation, the gaslighting and the deception, it plays a huge part in the
monster Norman gradually morphs into.
The show manages to make you sympathize with characters that appear to have no redeemable
qualities, yet you can’t help but be sad when Norma eventually meets her long awaited
demise.
That could just be because Vera Farmiga is a goddam angel, but I’m unsure.
However, watching her plant the seed of insanity in her own child’s brain is painful to watch
-- seeing what he could have been to what he becomes -- it’s a sad road for Norman
Bates.
2 American Horror Story There are just not enough anthology shows
in the world and those that are there are rarely done right, but American Horror Story
manages to make each and every season as original as the last with even more terrifying and
unnerving elements.
Even having certain actors appear in all iterations, including Sarah Paulson, aka, the life of
the show.
The show has gone on to have 8 seasons; Murder House, Asylum, Coven, Freak Show, Hotel, Roanoke,
Cult, and Apocalypse.
There seems to be no end in sight for the show.
So, what makes it so scary?
Well, to sum it up briefly, all seasons portray different notions of what horror is.
Murder House is often described as the scariest of the seasons, relying on the haunted house
trope -- which we’ll be returning to later on in our list -- it follows a family who
move into a haunted house that contains spirits that have met grizzly and violent fates inside
the house.
The themes in the series range from trapped in an asylum against your will -- a coven
of witches -- a haunted hotel -- and a travelling freak show.
The show covers all sub genres in horror, and successfully gives off a fright while
doing so.
1 The Haunting of Hill House When Stephen King suffers goosebumps, you
know a show must truly be terrifying, and that exactly is what The Haunting of Hill
House is.
Terrifying.
A show that successfully revitalizes the haunted house trope -- a family moves in -- things
begin to go bump in the night.
It’s a classic, but Mike Flanagan manges to breathe some new life back into this worn
out horror theme.
The show is a balance between the supernatural and unresolved traumas of childhood.
We follow the members of the Crane family both in the past and the present as they deal
with the lasting trauma Hill House imprinted on them.
Through flashbacks we learn of the cruel and sinister tricks the house played on them and
the spirits residing within it, all the while dealing with the death of the mother during
their younger years and the death of their sister during their older years.
It’s a horror show that is heart wrenching while delivering horrifying frights through
characters like the bent-neck-lady and the bowler hat man.
You can’t help but feel for every character and wish that you could save them yourself,
but as we learn by the end of the show, once Hill House has you, it doesn’t let go.
And quite, honestly, start to finish, this is the greatest TV show I have ever watched.
So, if you have yet to do it, check it out ASAP!
Well there we have it!
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