10 Greatest Horror TV Shows Since 2000
Wipe the blood off the remote...
'Tis the season to be bloody. With Killer Clowns haunting the neighbourhood, it is time to draw the curtains and lock up the house tight. While you wait for the craze of murderous circus folk to end, we have the perfect shows to pass the time.
In a modern era of Skype and Scream, we have come along way since wobbly sets and cheap scares courtesy of HBO's Tales from the Crypt anthology. These days it is all GaGa and go in a world of Netflix and Kill
While we may never be able go back to the dizzying heights of The Twilight Zone's 'Nightmare at 20,000 ft.', we are definitely in the era of the horror TV show. We can barely move for zombie apocalypses, teenage wolves, or American Horror Stories. With Netflix's recent acquisition of the Black Mirror series, even VOD can't get enough of gory stories.
Whether you prefer flesh-eaters, campy comedy, or good old fashioned gothic horror, here are the 10 best TV shows to come crawling out of our telly boxes since the noughties began.
It's going to be a scream...
10. Hemlock Grove
Run: 3 seasons, 2013-2015
Starring: Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgård , Landon Liboiron, Dougray Scott
Network: Netflix
With horror aficionado Eli Roth serving as executive producer, Netflix's Hemlock Grove was always going to be heavy on the gothic horror. Based on Brian McGreevy's book, the show is set in a fictional Pennsylvanian town which is shaken by a string of recent murders.
The events may or may not be connected to Landon Liboiron's newcomer, but that is only the beginning. The heart of the show is the Addams Family incarnate, and the shadowy Godfrey family is headed up superbly by Famke Janssen. We can also thank Hemlock Grove for opening the door to Bill Skarsgård taking up the role of Pennywise the Clown in the remake of Stephen King's IT.
Hemlock may never have got the praise it deserved, and was always a bit too far out there, even for a horror show. However, it helped Netflix earn the first ever Primetime Emmy Award for original online shows. What could easily have ended up as your typical werewolf show, Hemlock cleverly balanced the theme of other horror staples like vampires and mad scientists.