{"id":36311,"date":"2015-04-30T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=36311"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T10:47:23","slug":"top-15-best-horror-tv-series-3rd-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=36311","title":{"rendered":"Top 15 Best Horror TV Series 3rd-1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>3rd: American Horror Story (2011 \u2013 present, FX)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Created by Ryan Murphy, American Horror Story is a <strong>horror anthology<\/strong> of 4 seasons so far, with one more and two spin-offs (American Crime Story, Scream Queens) to come this autumn. With each season having its own plot and setting \u2013 the show goes from the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century to the 50s and 60s in different areas of the United States, the<strong> only thing in common<\/strong> they have is the<strong> cast<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001448\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Lange<\/a>, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Frances Conroy, Lily Rabe have portrayed various characters since 2011 \u2013 deranged killers, wicked nuns, angels of death, freaks, ghosts and many others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y2VUUqEM6AE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y2VUUqEM6AE<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The Horror Stories<\/h3>\n<p>With such a name, it is obvious that the show is <strong>full of pure horror<\/strong> and some is really good. The first season\u2019s <strong>best horror scenes<\/strong> would probably go to the reveal of Infantata, the resemble body of Thaddeus Montgomery who was butchered as a child, along with Tate\u2019s (Evan Peters) school shooting and Violet (<a href=\"http:\/\/americanhorrorstory.wikia.com\/wiki\/Taissa_Farmiga\" target=\"_blank\">Taissa Farmiga<\/a>) discovering her own rooting corpse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36326 size-medium\" title=\"Tate and Infantata\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tate_and_Infantata-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"American Horror story scary scene\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tate_and_Infantata-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tate_and_Infantata-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tate_and_Infantata-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tate_and_Infantata-510x286.jpg 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tate_and_Infantata.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The second season reached a new level when the asylum patient Shelley (Chloe Sevigny) got in the hands of the Nazi doctor Arden; she ended up mutilated, amputated and the <strong>victim of<\/strong> gruesome<strong> experiments<\/strong>. When her new self was finally revealed to the audience and some kids playing on a playground, well&#8230; let\u2019s say it is a <strong>memorable scene<\/strong> in the horror genre.<\/p>\n<p>Another moment is the<strong> zombie assault<\/strong> from the third season. Sick and tired of the other witches protecting Madame Marie Delphine Lalaurie (<a href=\"http:\/\/americanhorrorstory.wikia.com\/wiki\/Kathy_Bates\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Bates<\/a>), the voodoo queen Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) does her thing and sends an entire army of zombie after the girls from Miss Robichaux\u2019 Academy, including the deceased daughters of Lalaurie. <\/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\/cover-image21.jpg);\"><a href=http:\/\/6toplists.com\/best-psychological-torture-movies\/ 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 Psychological Torture Movies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <strong>entire scene is memorable<\/strong> and better than any zombie movie. In what concerns the most recent season, we have chosen Dandy Mott\u2019s (Finn Wittrock) own version of the conjoined twins Bette and Dot (Sarah Paulson) made out of his mother\u2019s corpse to which he added another woman\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<h3>Worth it<\/h3>\n<p>In only 4 years, American Horror Story has <strong>won 39<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1844624\/awards\" target=\"_blank\">awards<\/a> and has had over 100 nominations and it sure deserves them all and much more. With this show, one can never predict where the story is going. Fascinating and occasionally funny, American Horror Story is <strong>scary and disturbing<\/strong> all the time. Although not the scariest series ever, at least AHS discusses current terrifying social issues such as racism, homophobia and sexism.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>2nd: Penny Dreadful (2014 \u2013 present, Showtime)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Penny Dreadful is a British-American production created by John Logan. With the title referring to cheap sensational British publications from the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, the series itself is set in those times and has <strong>characters<\/strong> borrowed from traditional fiction, such as Dorian Gray (<a href=\"http:\/\/penny-dreadful.wikia.com\/wiki\/Reeve_Carney\" target=\"_blank\">Reeve Carney<\/a>), Mina Murray-Harker (Olivia Llewellyn), Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) and his monster (Rory Kinnear). Their lives are intertwined through the enigmatic Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) who <strong>looks for allies<\/strong> for her and Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton) to find his abducted daughter Mina.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Penny Dreadful Season 1 | Official Trailer | Eva Green &amp; Josh Hartnett SHOWTIME Series\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YFXHfEqMcis?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>Shameless Gore Orgy<\/h3>\n<p>This is what you find in this show. With the advantage of being<strong> set in <\/strong>the dark and gloomy<strong> Victorian Gothic age<\/strong>, Penny Dreadful brings the scary back. Right from its opening credits sequence, the show\u2019s montage <strong>shows artistic images of blood<\/strong>, snakes, spiders, bats while a creepy cello is playing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36346 size-medium\" title=\"Penny Dreadful cast\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Penny-Dreadful-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"cast of tv series, Penny Dreadful\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Penny-Dreadful-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Penny-Dreadful-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Penny-Dreadful-250x150.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Penny-Dreadful-510x306.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On terms of <strong>shocking scenes<\/strong>, there are Vanessa Ives\u2019 struggles with her inner demons (both psychological and underworld demons) and her traumatic past \u2013 not only she is locked in a mental institution, she is also possessed later; but not only Vanessa has a dark side.<\/p>\n<p>The American <a href=\"http:\/\/penny-dreadful.wikia.com\/wiki\/Ethan_Chandler\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Chandler <\/a>(Josh Hartnett) is often on the run from the murders his alter werewolf ego does and Dr. Victor Frankenstein is addicted to knowledge and experiments, who manage to both succeed and fail at the same time. But they are<strong> not the worst in this show<\/strong>. An army of <a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/best-vampire-tv-shows\" target=\"_blank\">vampires<\/a> is roaming through London and is causing havoc. And they are not beautiful vampires, not even average. They are a bunch of grotesque zombie-alien monsters meant to <strong>haunt your nightmares<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"quote_shortcode\" class=\"sixtop-post-quote post-quote-right\" >\n<div class=\"quote-sign-box hidden-on-desktop\"><\/div>\n<p>        &ldquo; Penny Dreadful is intelligent, macabre and marvellous &rdquo;<\/p>\n<div id=\"quote_shortcode_after\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Complexity and chemistry<\/h3>\n<p>Bringing something old as new and different is not easy within the horror genre. But <strong>Penny Dreadful is intelligent<\/strong>, macabre and marvellous. It <strong>uncovers the human darkness<\/strong> and it exploits its characters in a delightful way.<\/p>\n<p>About using a more than<strong> different main female character<\/strong> declared creator John Logan to The Huffington Post that \u201c<em>I purposely wanted a female protagonist \u2013 that was the important thing, that my hero was going to be a woman, and a complicated woman. And she wasn\u2019t going to be my hero by masculinizing her, by giving her a gun. She was going to be a woman and a woman in her era, yet be the hero of this piece. She\u2019s the strong guiding light around which all the moths gather.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>1st: Supernatural (2005 \u2013 present, The WB | The CW)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Originally produce by Eric Kripke, Supernatural is one of the<strong> longest running horror TV series<\/strong>. Centred on the adventures of <strong>two ghost hunters<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalwiki.com\/index.php?title=Jared_Padalecki\" target=\"_blank\">Sam<\/a> (Jared Padalecki) and <a href=\"http:\/\/supernatural.wikia.com\/wiki\/Dean_Winchester\" target=\"_blank\">Dean<\/a> (Jensen Ackles) and their allies Jo (Alona Tal) and Ellen (Samantha Ferris) Harvelle, the angel Castiel (Misha Collins), Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver) and the prophet Kevin Tran (Osric Chau) as <strong>they chase ghosts<\/strong>, exterminate monsters and fight demons. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kmA86_hnbo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kmA86_hnbo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Equipped with daggers, guns, riffles, wooden and silver bullets, salt, holy water and classic rock music, the brothers travel across the United States, and sometimes between worlds, to <strong>save the humans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Where and when do we start?<\/h3>\n<p>With so many seasons (and hopefully many others to come) and episodes, Supernatural <strong>covers more genres<\/strong>, at times being a drama and often a comedy, but it generally remains faithful to its roots. Of course, the first episode to <strong>make us jump<\/strong> like Scooby Doo in Shaggy\u2019s arms was the Pilot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36371 size-medium\" title=\"Dean in action - Supernatural\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/super2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"scene from Supernatural, best horror tv series\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/super2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/super2-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/super2-510x339.jpg 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/super2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In the Pilot we get a <strong>lady in white gets revenge<\/strong> on men because of her own mistakes and the tragic death of Mary Winchester and Sam\u2019s girlfriend Jessica. Later, when<strong> Jo becomes the victim of the ghost<\/strong> of America\u2019s first serial killer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/hh-holmes-307622\" target=\"_blank\">H. H. Holmes,<\/a> the audience got a claustrophobic episode with the poor Jo walking through dark tight spaces within the walls of Holmes\u2019 murder castle.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <strong>Bloody Mary<\/strong> has always been a petrifying character and with a show like this one, you can imagine how<strong> brutally horrifying was portrayed<\/strong>. And let\u2019s not forget about the clowns. You either love them or hate them. Supernatural manages to catch the essence of a really scary clown who used kids to get inside their homes and eat their parents. Scarecrows, poltergeists, bugs, witches and so on. But we are going to stop here and let you watch the show.<\/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\/cover3.jpg);\"><a href=http:\/\/6toplists.com\/top-10-scariest-ghost-movies\/ 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\" >Top 10 Scariest Ghost Movies <\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Covering different legends<\/strong> and myths, Supernatural is unlike any other show, different from the classic ghost stories. It has a grim tone and is spooky and it is <strong>always ready to startle you<\/strong>. The actors Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0172557\/\" target=\"_blank\">Misha Collins<\/a> are funny and their characters are compelling and make you go through all sorts of emotions.<\/p>\n<p>The villains are complex and they make you love them as much as you hate them. You won\u2019t help it feel confused whether to be excited or cry when the Winchesters finally put an end to their wicked lives. It is no doubt that <strong>Supernatural has the magic<\/strong> to make you addicted after only a couple of minutes and that makes it the <strong>best horror TV series<\/strong> of our list.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/top-15-best-horror-tv-series-7th-4th\/\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"prev\" >\n<div id=\"prev_link\" >7th-4th place<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":36406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36311","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\/36311","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=36311"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36401,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36311\/revisions\/36401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}