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500 series (top 500 shown)

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen

★ 6.8
35K 8 2026–2026
Mounting dread · Unsettling

Them

★ 7.5
33K 18 2021–2024
Disturbing · Bleak · Unsettling

First Kill

★ 6.5
31K 8 2022–2022
Queer stories · Young adult

American Horror Stories

★ 6.3
30K 24 2021–2024
Anthology · Monster horror

The Silent Sea

★ 6.9
29K 8 2021–2021
Space & sci-fi · Survival

Death's Game

★ 8.4
25K 8 2023–2024
K-drama · Redemption · Tearjerker

Brand New Cherry Flavor

★ 7.1
22K 8 2021–2021
Disturbing · Unsettling

Devil in Ohio

★ 5.9
22K 8 2022–2022
Unsettling · Secrets & lies

Cassandra

★ 6.7
21K 6 2025–2025
Psychological horror · Unsettling

Based on a True Story

★ 7.1
21K 16 2023–2024
Dark comedy · Suburban underbelly

The Walking Dead: World Beyond

★ 4.6
21K 20 2020–2021
Post-apocalyptic · Survival

Parasyte: The Grey

★ 7.1
17K 6 2024–2024
Monster horror · Graphic violence

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness

★ 5.8
15K 4 2021–2021
Monster horror · Graphic violence

Chapelwaite

★ 7.1
14K 10 2021–2021
Atmospheric · Supernatural

The Beauty

★ 6.6
13K 11 2026–2026
Unsettling · Dark tone

Teacup

★ 6.3
13K 8 2024–2024
Unsettling · Tense

The Third Day

★ 6.4
13K 6 2020–2020
Unsettling · Atmospheric

30 Coins

★ 7.0
12K 16 2020–2023
Monster horror · Faith & religion

Grotesquerie

★ 6.1
12K 10 2024–2024
Disturbing · Unreliable narrator

The Institute

★ 6.7
11K 16 2025–present
Child's perspective · Unsettling

Mask Girl

★ 7.3
11K 7 2023–2023
Disturbing · Female perspective

I Know What You Did Last Summer

★ 5.4
11K 8 2021–2021
Young adult · Secrets & lies

Wolf Pack

★ 6.5
11K 8 2023–2023
Young adult · Supernatural

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

★ 7.0
10K 18 2022–2024
Young adult · Mystery box
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