Five best horror shows streaming on Netflix

The Hunting of Hill House

The hunting of hill house is an atmospheric movie, with a nearly consistent undertone of dread, peppered with just the right amount of jump scares to spice things and is much more than a ghost story.

The movie is one of the cinematic masterpiece of the small screen and one of the best Netflix original shows.

The series introduces us to the members of the Crain family, who move into the aging Massachusetts estate in the early 1990s with the intention of fixing it up and flipping it. But immediately, spirits start appearing and wreaking havoc on the five children, as well as their parents.

More than two decades later, the kids are still reckoning with the effects of residing in that massive, creepy manor.

The Haunting of Hill House is pretty darn good at that, throwing horrifying specters right into the lens, but just as often shoving them to the edges of the frame, forcing us to squint to determine whether we’re seeing some thing or merely hallucinating.

The Haunting of Bly Manor

It's less scary than Hill House, with imagery that doesn't quite match the memorable Bent Neck Lady. It may not be as scary as its predecessor, but with plenty of spooky tricks inside its haunted halls and a strong sense of heart.

In moments, the show proves genuinely unnerving, using its expansive emotional intelligence to ground its horror.

In Bly Manor, the ghosts have unformed faces missing eyes and definition, as if they are the clay-like beginnings of an artist’s rendering. This induces the chill of the uncanny into the visual dimensions of the story, but its explanation also proves fascinating: as time goes on, the memories of ghosts, and by extension their identities, are eroded, which is reflected in their warped visages. The most fascinating ghost is the one Dani carries with her. Bly Manor prefers unease over jump scares (although there are a few of those), and this ghost strikes the right balance

Who killed Sara?

Netflix’s Who Killed Sara? Brings a layered past and present, regrets and questionable choices that bestow each member of a wealthy family. Have been deliberately blurred out, leaving room for viewers to question the true date of her death.

The centerpiece of season 1 is the character Álex, a man who has served jail time for the murder of his sister Sara. However, he has maintained his innocence. The early premises show a boat party with hormonal teenagers; Sara innocently uses the parachute at the back of the boat — little did she know that the rope was tampered with, bringing an almighty fall to her death.

The main selling point of the Netflix series is Álex’s determination; his singular approach to his mission, his linear goal to expose and find out the true murderer, makes it a tantalizing “whodunit” for the audience.

However, the show is with a good mix of action, spy-elements, complex family hierarchy, corruption, and revenge

American Horror Story

It is an anthology series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with murderous past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show circus, a haunted hotel, a possessed farmhouse, a cult, the apocalypse, and a slasher summer camp.

It is one of the best horror and thrilling series including physical and psychological horrors affect.

Each season of series centers on a different storyline, in a different location and time period.

Each season is unique, they all use extreme examples to create social commentary on stereotypes, religion, race, and many more sensitive, but important topics.

The Conjuring

With haunted houses, creepy cellars, possessed dolls, cold and lonely nights, paranormal occurrences and exorcism, concept-wise, The Conjuring is not earth-shatteringly 'different'.

The Conjuring, really, is the haunted-house subgenre at its best. Some believed that the movie is based on a true story.

Much to our satisfaction, filmmaker James Wan's (Saw, Insidious) direction defies the done-to-death horror movie clichés that have so far caused most people to disregard the genre.

There are no cheap thrills, no over-the-top sound effects, no annoying camera angles, overindulgence in gore or visual grossness and no aping horror's cult classic The Exorcist