6 on demand horror TV shows that’ll scare you silly

For those who don’t just save horror shows for Halloween, here’s a selection of the most essential horror-based TV shows that are well worth your time…

The Enfield Haunting

This three-parter sees Timothy Spall lead an investigation into the alleged true events of a family from North London who experience paranormal going-ons in their home. Overall, the mini-series’ runtime is as long a lengthy film, with a great performance form the ever reliable Spall who builds a relationship with the clearly terrified Hodgsons he’s trying to help.

Available on Sky Box Sets.

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Beyond the Walls

This French horror series is as creepy as it is inventive. Set around a young therapist who unwittingly inherits a house from a deceased neighbour she’s never even met, alarm bells should’ve rang straight away for Lisa. It’s only when she ventures inside this mysterious property that she realises the extent of its weirdness when the walls open up into an alternate dimension. So yeah, it’s pretty freaky but very, very good.

Available on Shudder

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The Walking Dead

There’s already a massive following the AMC’s hugely popular series that started way back in 2010 and is still fronted by Andrew Lincoln and has brought a number of engaging characters to the small screen over its six completed seasons. Now in its seventh, spoiler culture is rife with each new episode but if you’ve managed to avoid it all this time - and in which case you deserve a freaking medal - then you can watch every single one of the 100 episodes (including the most recent series on catch up), so what are you waiting for?

Available on Sky Box Sets.

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From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

The first movie starring Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, and George Clooney is something of a cult classic. The sequels not so much. So when Netflix launched a series it didn’t set the world alight because a bulk of season one feels too reliant on the film narrative. However, once it gets past this stumbling block it morphs into something of its own in the second and third series. Well worth checking out if only to quench your thirst for vampires.

Available on Netflix.

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Dead Set

Charlie Brooker’s satirical comedy-horror-drama that’s set inside a fictional version of the Big Brother house during a zombie apocalypse outbreak is quite old now - it’s eight years to the date when episode one aired, in fact - but still ace. It’s got that witty, biting edge to it that takes a nice pop at the reality television generation of wannabes and comments on the idiocy and self obsessive nature of, well, people. Jamie Winstone and Riz Ahmed, and Adam Deacon feature… as does Davina McCall in a pretty great cameo.

Available on Sky Box Sets

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American Horror Story

Not only are all of the completed series available on Netflix (including Hotel), the beauty about AHS is not just its disturbing and massively weird stories, but the fact you can jump into any season without having seen others because they’re all self-contained and standalone. There’s also a core collective of actors who stick with the show from series to series (like Jessica Lange and Cathy Bates) and other season-long names such as Lady Gaga that offer something very different each year. Regulars play different characters within different stories and locations while all being part of one big, freaky world so take a gamble and jump in somewhere between seasons one to five.

Available on Netflix

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Have you seen these on demand horror shows? Which others would you add to your Halloween list? Share your thoughts in the comments…

Mike P Williams is a freelance TV, film, music and entertainment writer, with an unhealthy obsession for Game of Thrones. Over the years he’s written for MTV, Total Film, BuzzFeed, GoThinkBig, HexJam, Loaded, and regularly scribbles for Yahoo Movies and BBC Radio 1.