10 Forgotten Horror TV Shows You MUST Watch

10. Hammer House Of Horror

This British horror anthology series was a joint production between ITC Entertainment and British horror mainstay Hammer Film Productions, and aired 13 episodes towards the end of 1980. True to a Hammer Film Productions creation, it featured the late great Peter Cushing (in his final performance for the company), and each episode covered a different horror subgenre, and told a standalone story.

Its stories covered fantastical elements such as witches and ghosts as well as more grounded but still terrifying plot beats such as cannibalism and serial killers. Episodes such as The Silent Scream, The House that Bled to Death and The Two Faces of Evil are deeply unsettling and feature disturbing thematic material that transcends the limitations of the show's budget and time of airing.

Something of a low-key but just as weird cousin to the Twilight Zone, Hammer House of Horror did not capture the zeitgeist in the same way the Rod Serling production did but that does not take away from its ability to deliver effective fears.