10 Amazing Horror TV Shows You Probably Missed
5. Ghoul
This short but sweet Netflix miniseries juggles both spine-tingling scares and eternally relevant political themes making for an experience you won't soon forget.
In a dystopian future where India has gone full fascist, protagonist and new military recruit Nida is tasked with assisting in the interrogation (torture) of a notorious terrorist at a secret detention center. Little does she know that this mission holds secrets to her past, one that is far darker than she ever wanted to believed.
The titular ghoul is terrifying with powers that allow it to disguise itself as other people much like the alien from The Thing. However, the real horror of Ghoul doesn't come from its monster. Instead, it comes from how the series tackles the concept of an authoritarian regime.
What's scarier than a demonic killing machine? How about blind obedience to a vicious and corrupt government. Compliance is the greatest killer of them all, causing the true monsters not to be the ones we make, but to rather be the ones made of us. This idea is at the very core of the series and it never, not for a second, let's you forget it.
Ghoul is one of those stories that will forever remain topical to some degree, which may actually be the true horror itself.