In Season 4 of Stranger Things characters dealing with mental illness and trauma are targeted and tortured by Vecna, leaving viewers to pick up the importance of getting help.

The saga of murderers, Joe and Love, turned married progresses as a newborn baby throws a wrench into their new chapter in an upper-class suburban neighborhood.

The horror in Midnight Mass isn’t its vampire, though that is horrifying as well, but in its people—that an entire town of good, well-meaning families could be so easily convinced to turn on each other and their humanity. It’s a difficult but necessary pill to swallow in a post-COVID, post-QAnon world.

Netflix’s Fear Street movies, adapted from the novels by R.L. Stine, feature fun cast performances, an interplay of nostalgia and tropes, and demonstrates director Leigh Janiak’s talent for telling a good story.

Things Heard & Seen seemed to promise something new for Gothic horror, but where we expected ghosts, we got failed marriages.

The Woman in the Window, one of Netflix’s latest psychological thrillers directed by Joe Wright, begins as a decent homage to Hitchcock, but weakens in its conclusion.

In the latest Netflix true crime documentary, Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, viewers follow the hunt for Richard Ramirez through the stories of crime investigators and the chilling accounts of survivors and victims’ family members.

In succeeding Mike Flanagan’s Haunting of Hill House Netflix original series, The Haunting of Bly Manor draws horror back to its roots in Gothic Romance, leaving us haunted in its loose retelling of The Turn of the Screw.

Netflix brings the French-language Marianne to the Halloween table.