10 Horror TV Shows Scarier Than Any Film

10. American Horror Story

“From the creator of Glee” is not a phrase many horror fans expect to be delighted by, but between the campy guilty pleasure silliness of the short-lived Scream Queens and this darker (though no less campy) anthology horror series, Ryan Murphy is quietly becoming one of TV’s foremost gorehounds.

Following a new, often surreal and always scary story each season, American Horror Story is undeniably inconsistent, but the often-overlapping ensemble cast of the series can’t be faulted (shout out to the always great and endlessly versatile Kathy Bates).

Nor can the show’s tireless commitment to surreal and strange scares, with some of the show’s stronger offerings such as Cult, Asylum, and 1984 being genuinely terrifying televisual experiences.