Best British horror series
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch horror shows from United Kingdom, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Black Mirror 2011
Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.
Netflix84Garth Marenghi's Darkplace 2004
When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?
Channel 482A Christmas Carol 2019
Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
FX69Wolf King 2025
A young commoner comes of age and learns he's the last of a long line of Werewolves — and heir to the throne.
Netflix70Wreck 2022
Aboard the mega cruise ship Sacramentum, 20-year-old new recruit, Jamie, infiltrates the 3000-strong crew in a desperate race to find his missing sister. She was working aboard the same vessel on a previous tour and vanished mid-charter.
BBC Three61Hammer House of Horror 1980
Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
ITV64Crooked House 2008
A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the present day.
BBC Four64Count Abdulla 2023
Sitcom following a British Pakistani Muslim junior doctor based in London who is bitten by a halal-hunting vampire
ITVX56Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense 1984
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes had American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It was first aired in the UK by ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various ITV regions.
ITV56Chiller 1995
Chiller is a five-part British horror fantasy anthology television series, produced by Yorkshire Television, that first broadcast on ITV on 9 March 1995. Described by The Guardian as ITV's "answer to The X Files", the series was inspired by, but unconnected to, the 1991 Channel 4 thriller Gray Cray Dolls, which broadcast under the Chiller banner, the series featured writing contributions from renowned playwrights Stephen Gallagher, Glenn Chandler and Anthony Horowitz.
YTV45Ghost Detectives 0
Presented by Tom Baker, paranormal investigators set up camp in various locations around The U.K. to try to discover just what is hiding in the shadows.
BBC50The Mad Death 1983
A French visitor to Scotland smuggles her cat into the country, sparking a terrifying outbreak of rabies which threatens to engulf an entire community.
BBC One32Martin's Close 2019
John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge', George Jeffreys. But this is not a cut-and-dried murder case, because the innocent young girl Martin is accused of killing has been seen after her death
BBC Four36The Green Man 1990
An alcoholic pub landlord has visions of a 17th-century doctor of the occult, beginning a monumental clash between good and evil. Adapted from the novel by Kingsley Amis.
BBC One27Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio Adventures) 1999
The continuing adventures of BBC's Doctor Who, in full-cast audio dramas from Big Finish Productions.
BBC10Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas 2000
Christopher Lee reads the disturbing Victorian ghost stories of writer MR James.
BBC Two10Travel for Ghosts 2024
Travel for Ghosts is a paranormal investigation series where paranormal investigator Vega and guests explore some of the most haunted spots in the world, seeking for the truth.
10Fright Shorts 2017
Short comedy-horror films written by brand new Northern Irish writers and developed by BBC Writers Room. Starring a mix of new and established comedy performers including Jason Byrne, Peter Campion, Bronagh Waugh, Dan Gordon, Stella McCusker, Karen Hassan, Michael Stranney and Shane Todd.
BBC10Tales from the Pub 2019
A horror-comedy anthology presented by a cynical Scottish barmaid who's heard it all.
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