{"id":36096,"date":"2015-04-29T09:47:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T09:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=36096"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:47:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T10:47:41","slug":"top-15-best-horror-tv-series-11th-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=36096","title":{"rendered":"Top 15 Best Horror TV Series 11th-8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>11th: Hemlock Grove (2013 \u2013 present, Netflix)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Hemlock Grove is an original horror television series created by Eli Roth. <strong>Set in the fictional village<\/strong> from Pennsylvania that gives the name to the series, the story is centered on Peter Rumancek (Landon Liboiron), a teen <strong>Roma boy<\/strong>, who <strong>becomes<\/strong> <strong>the main suspect<\/strong> in the gruesome murder of two teens.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HEMLOCK GROVE | First Trailer [HD] | Netflix\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rlZUsPcChgI?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While this accusation is false, one presumption is true \u2013 <strong>Peter is a werewolf<\/strong> and in order to clean his name and get rid of all the unwanted attention, he sets out to <strong>find out the real killer<\/strong> with the help of Roman Godfrey (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0803889\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>). But Peter is not the only one with a dark secret. Roman\u2019s rich family is rumored to be behind something truly sinister.<\/p>\n<h3>Delightful weird gore<\/h3>\n<p>With the village\u2019s main employment source conducting unorthodox <strong>disturbing experiments<\/strong> which imply the existence of humanoids and with werewolves and their unstable psychotic cousins the vargulves all over the village, things seem as if they couldn\u2019t get worse. But they do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36116 size-medium\" title=\"Peter transforms into werewolf\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/hemlock-300x168.png\" alt=\"hemlock groove, werewolf\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/hemlock-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/hemlock-250x140.png 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/hemlock-510x286.png 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/hemlock.png 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Other <strong>creatures lurking in the dark<\/strong> or in their fancy mansions are upirs, immortal Ukrainian vampire-like beings, part human, part witch and part demon. With all of them in Hemlock Grove,<strong> you can expect blood baths<\/strong> as explicit traumatizing murders.<\/p>\n<h3>Third time non-lucky?<\/h3>\n<p>With Netflix making their full series available, it is hard to say whether they are going to be renewed or not. In what concerns Hemlock Grove, the executive producer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0744834\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Roth<\/a><strong> announced the renewal<\/strong> for the third season, but he also broke the sad news that there is not going to be a fourth one. At least Eli Roth declared that \u201c<em>We are looking forward to taking the last and final season into some dark and unexpected places, and to giving viewers the killer finale you\u2019d come to expect from\u00a0Hemlock\u00a0Grove.<\/em>\u201d So the<strong> finale<\/strong> is going to <strong>break some hearts<\/strong>, but at least is going to be amazing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>10th: Bates Motel (2013 \u2013 present, A&amp;E)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Bates Motel produced by Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin and Anthony Cipriano is a contemporary prequel of \u2013 as its title points out \u2013 Robert Bloch\u2019s novel and Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s 1960 movie \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NG3-GlvKPcg\" target=\"_blank\">Psycho<\/a>\u201d. Starring Vera Farmiga as Norma Louise Bates and Freddy Highmore as her son <a href=\"http:\/\/batesmotel.wikia.com\/wiki\/Norman_Bates\" target=\"_blank\">Norman<\/a>, the <strong>series follows their lives<\/strong> after the death of Mr. Bates. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bates Motel - Series | TRAILER | NEW\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7lCWKKNGiKs?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Looking for a new beginning, <strong>Norma purchases a motel<\/strong> on the coast of Oregon. But things do not go as tranquil as expected. On one of the first nights after the opening, the<strong> former owner breaks in<\/strong> and sexually abuses Norma. The consequence? The<strong> two Bates kill the rapist<\/strong> and hide the body. Now all that is left is to avoid the police dig too far.<\/p>\n<h3>Life of crime<\/h3>\n<p>When finding out who are the main characters of Bates Motel, no one would imagine that they are not actually the villains. They are wicked, but the worst. In fact, the <strong>series\u2019 complexity<\/strong> comes from its well-written various characters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36136 size-medium\" title=\"Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga - Bates Motel\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bates2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Bates Motel - Freddie Highmore, Vera Farmiga\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bates2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bates2-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bates2-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bates2-510x286.jpg 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bates2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The <strong>show\u2019s character list<\/strong> covers an incestuous rapist \u2013 Caleb Calhoun (Kenny Johnson), drug addicts, a strong-willed and resourceful, yet criminal young man \u2013 Norma\u2019s other son Dylan Massett (Max Thieriot), the nice Sheriff of doubtful morality Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell) and the other women from Norman\u2019s life, his cystic fibrosis suffering best friend <a href=\"http:\/\/batesmotel.wikia.com\/wiki\/Emma_Decody\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Decody<\/a> (Olivia Cooke) and the attractive and popular Bradley Martin (Nicola Peltz) who has her own dark passenger.<\/p>\n<h3>Different, yet faithful<\/h3>\n<p>It is not Hitchcock, but it surely is good compelling idea and even <strong>horror-haters might love it<\/strong> too. <a href=\"http:\/\/batesmotel.wikia.com\/wiki\/Vera_Farmiga\" target=\"_blank\">Vera Farmiga<\/a> gives a performance to die for. Her Norma is a loving, sometimes overbearing mother. She is manipulative, complicated, possessive and doesn\u2019t hesitate guilt tripping her son by showing a needy side, but all in the name of love. The <strong>relationship<\/strong> between her and Norman is constructed to look nothing but <strong>innocent<\/strong>, but at the same time giving the audience the feeling that everything gets worse and more wrong.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>9th: The Strain (2014 \u2013 present, FX)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">The Strain is an American <a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/best-vampire-tv-shows\" target=\"_blank\">vampire horror series<\/a> created by Guillermo del Toro \u2013 who also directed the pilot episode \u2013 and Chuck Hogan. The Strain is based on the best-selling eponymous novel trilogy written by the two creators. The <strong>story is focused on<\/strong> Dr.Emphraim Goodweather(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1015684\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Stoll<\/a>) the head of the Center for Diseas Control Canary Team in New York. Ephraim\u2019s and his team\u2019s job is to<strong> investigate and protect the humans<\/strong> from the ancient and evil strain of vampirism, because once a vampire is turned, he will go after their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE STRAIN - New Series | Extended TRAILER | HD\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RiN8Edb4X2w?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Ready, vampire attack, chaos!<\/h3>\n<p>The story starts with a plane landing. But instead of happy families getting reunited or enjoying their arrival in New York City, the <strong>passengers are<\/strong> apparently <strong>dead<\/strong> because of some parasitic worms and only four people are alive, though suffering from an infection. Only Professor Abraham Setrakian (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0103195\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Bradley<\/a>) <strong>knows what really happened<\/strong> and is aware that a vampire army is about to rise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36146 size-medium\" title=\"Vampire attack\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/straine4-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"The Strain, vampire\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/straine4-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/straine4-250x140.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/straine4-510x287.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/straine4.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>What is really interesting about this TV series is that the <strong>vampires are not elegant<\/strong> and romantic, but cruel, brutal and with the sole purpose of killing; a bunch of infernal killing machines with \u201cstingers\u201d. One can say that it is one of the <strong>most interesting twists<\/strong> on the vampire myth.<\/p>\n<h3>Creepy and convincing<\/h3>\n<p>The Strain was generally praised by its audience. Although the <strong>beginning was a little slow<\/strong> for the fans\u2019 tastes, it did live up their expectations \u2013 just like a good book, it takes a while until you get to its substance. With a thrilling atmosphere and an original storyline that does not allow knowing what is coming next, The Strain is clever and <strong>very good executed<\/strong>. The acting is compelling and solid and characters are anything but dull. In other words, it is unavoidable addicting and a must watch.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>8th: Angel (1999 \u2013 2004, The WB)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Angel is the spin-off of the very adored and popular <a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/best-vampire-tv-shows-8th-7th-place\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buffy The Vampire Slayer<\/a> TV series. The show is centred on its eponymous main character (David Boreanaz), the<strong> enigmatic vampire ex-boyfriend<\/strong> of Buffy, Angel. After he moves out from disaster-prone Sunnydale, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004770\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angel <\/a>finds himself in the fabulous Los Angeles. <strong>Looking for redemption<\/strong>, Angel lurks on the dark alleys in search for people to be saved, but only after he encounters someone from his most recent past and an ally of a similar background as him, his real adventures start.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ANGEL: Season One TRAILER\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rwgxne3tzZw?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>New Team. New Monsters.<\/h3>\n<p>When Angel left Buffy, he did not plan on keeping contact with any of his acquaintances from Sunnydale, but destiny brings him face to face with a struggling <a href=\"http:\/\/buffy.wikia.com\/wiki\/Cordelia_Chase\" target=\"_blank\">Cordelia Chase<\/a> (Charisma Carpenter).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36166 size-medium\" title=\"Main character David Boreanaz (left)\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ANGELtvseriesLornepasses4-1-09-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Angel series\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ANGELtvseriesLornepasses4-1-09-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ANGELtvseriesLornepasses4-1-09-250x155.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ANGELtvseriesLornepasses4-1-09.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Together, the two and Angel\u2019s new pal, an Irish half-human, half-demon named Allen Francis Doyle (Glenn Quinn),<strong> start their own hero-business<\/strong>. But after the death of Doyle and Cordelia\u2019s new psychic powers, a <strong>new old friend<\/strong>, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce\u00a0(Alexis Denisof), <strong>joins the team<\/strong>, who manages to turn from a goofy character to a brave rogue.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, a <strong>demon hunter<\/strong> Charles Gunn\u00a0(J. August Richards) and a young genius Winifred &#8220;Fred&#8221; Burkle\u00a0(Amy Acker)<strong> become part of the group<\/strong> in order to deal with creatures such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/top-10-time-travel-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\">time travelling <\/a>demon Sahjan, The Scourge demons, the Drokken, the old poor annoying vampire Drusilla, the paranoia demon Thesulac, Angel\u2019s alter ego Angelus and evil granddaughter Jasmine and pretty much everyone from the \u201claw\u201d firm Wolfram and Hart.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are also struggles in the group with <strong>love triangles forming<\/strong> between Angel, Cordelia and Darla and later Connor and between Wesley, Fred and Gunn. Love triangles, which were solved only by <strong>one of them dying<\/strong> and breaking our hearts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article_box related-article-right\">\n<div class=\"related-art-title\">Related<\/div>\n<div id=\"thumbnail_box\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cover2.jpg);\"><a href=http:\/\/6toplists.com\/best-vampire-tv-shows\/ class=\"related_a\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"thumbnail_box_top\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"thumbnail_box_bottom\">\n<div id=\"thumbnail_box_bottom_text\"><span style=\"color: white;\">Read article: <\/span><br \/><span class=\"related_span\" >Best Vampire TV Shows<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Cancelation and Legacy<\/h3>\n<p>On May the 19<sup>th<\/sup> 2004 Angel aired its <strong>last episode<\/strong>. With 5 seasons and 110 episodes, the <strong>spin-off ended<\/strong> one year later after Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While the original show had plenty of time to prepare a great finale, <strong>Angel\u2019s was not welcomed<\/strong> as it was not expected. Having great ratings and a huge fan-base, the show was <strong>supposed to be renewed<\/strong> for at least one more season.<\/p>\n<p>Though, the producer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0923736\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Joss Whedon<\/a> was too confident and him pressuring the bosses <strong>The WB lead to the cancellation<\/strong> of Angel. Despite the hasty decision and the fans\u2019 petitions and campaigns, <strong>the show was gone<\/strong> for good. About this issue, the writer David Fury revealed that \u201c<em>The WB said that it was a big mistake to cancel\u00a0Angel. There was a power play that happened that just didn&#8217;t fall out the way they wanted it to.<\/em>\u201d Well\u2026 at least the <strong>series continued<\/strong> with a number of <strong>comic books<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/top-15-best-horror-tv-series-15th-12th\/\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"prev\" >\n<div id=\"prev_link\" >15th-12th place<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/top-15-best-horror-tv-series-7th-4th\/\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"next\" >\n<div id=\"next_link\" >7th-4th place<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11th:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":36181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36096"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36196,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36096\/revisions\/36196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}