The best horror TV series of 2025
The top 3 according to 14 votes from people: The Last of Us (season 2) · Alien: Earth · Talamasca: The Secret Order. (Updated Jun 13, 2026.)
Alien: Earth, It: Welcome to Derry and The Summer Hikaru Died: the scariest TV of 2025 (Bloody Disgusting, Fangoria, Dread Central).
Top 10
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1
The Last of Us (season 2)
Ellie and Joel, five years later, in Jackson and Seattle.
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2
Alien: Earth
Noah Hawley brings the xenomorph to Earth, with real scares and great world-building.
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3
Talamasca: The Secret Order
Anne Rice's supernatural world meets espionage.
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4
The Creep Tapes (season 2)
Mark Duplass' found-footage serial killer returns.
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5
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Daryl and Carol's zombie journey through Europe continues.
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6
It: Welcome to Derry
The prequel to It, genuinely cruel and with a brutal body count.
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7
Haunted Hotel
Netflix's animated horror comedy, the genre's answer to Rick and Morty.
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8
Dan Da Dan (season 2)
Yokai, aliens and teenage chaos.
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9
The Summer Hikaru Died
Cosmic and folk horror with a coming-of-age story.
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10
Wednesday (season 2)
Wednesday Addams back at Nevermore.
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Comments (2)
Welcome to Derry was way darker than I expected, that first episode...
Alien: Earth surprised me, I expected a cash grab and got real sci-fi horror.