10 Horror TV Shows Everyone Forgot About

10 Horror TV Shows Everyone Forgot About

Horror is as alive on the small screen as it is on the big. However, some horror television shows have been forgotten. Do you remember these ten?

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Horror seems like a genre that’s exclusive to movies, but television has tackled it, too. Many times over. From The Twilight Zone to The X-Files, horror has been a staple on the small screen. That instant, well-crafted fear people craved was made available without ever leaving their home.

Horror became popular on TV, to a degree, thanks to shows like Twin Peaks and Tales from the Crypt. In recent years, American Horror Story has made horror even more mainstream. But, there are always those series that go unnoticed or slip people’s minds.

10 FreakyLinks (2000-2001)

After his twin brother Adam dies of suicide, Derek throws himself even deeper into this website that investigates the paranormal. In his misadventures, Derek and his colleagues come across urban legends and other unexplained phenomena.

FreakyLinks was toted as X-Files for a younger audience, but, unfortunately, it never found an audience. It eventually was cancelled after thirteen episodes. It was developed by Haxan, the company behind The Blair Witch Project.

9 The Chronicle (2001-2002)

Very similar to UPN’s Special Unit 2, Sci-Fi Channel’s (now Syfy) The Chronicle was a blend of comedy, horror, and procedural science fiction. In both shows, a team of experts — in The Chronicle, a tabloid newspaper — battle monsters.

A jobless reporter has no choice but to join the tabloid. What he didn’t expect, was learning that monsters like Bigfoot and aliens are all real.

8 Glory Days (2002)

In 2002, the WB aired another show forged by Dawson’s Creek creator and Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson. Originally, Williamson had intended Glory Days to be told like the aforesaid show. However, the WB asked Williamson to retool the series so it’d be a mystery. Suffice it to say, Glory Days didn’t last more than one short season.

Eddie Cahill (of Friends fame) stars as Mike Dolan, a novelist who movies back to his hometown. While there, he and his loved ones get involved in a whodunit situation.

7 Darkroom (1981-1982)

Horror anthologies endure throughout television history; only a few became household names. Darkroom was not a popular one, and many have forgotten about it since its short-lived airing in late 1981 and early 1982. However, the complete seven-episode show can be streamed on NBC’s official website.

Notable guest stars in the show (which was divided into sixteen stories) include Helen Hunt, Billy Crystal, Robert Carradine, Rue McClanahan, and Brian Dennehy.

6 Death Valley (2011)

Horror meets comedy in this MTV show. The Undead Task Force (UTF), a special division of the Los Angeles Police Department, has been given the duty of protecting the public from supernatural threats. This includes vampires, werewolves, and zombies.

Because the show is largely a comedy, Death Valley is not the most serious or plot-driven of a show. However, there was an overarching story in the works. Sadly, MTV cancelled this funny show after one season.

5 Spooksville (2013-2014)

In the vein of the successful television adaptation of R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, The Hub (eventually, Discovery Family) conceived another young-adult horror show based on an existing book franchise. They looked to Christopher Pike, a notable author of teenage horror in the ’90s. Although, Spooksville is aimed at a younger crowd.

In the TV series, a boy moves to a new town with his widowed father. He makes friends with two local kids, and the three embark on solving the area’s many supernatural mysteries.

4 Wolf Lake (2001-2002)

In the early 2000s, UPN had been trying to become more of a genre television channel after acquiring Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Roswell. One demonstration of this was Wolf Lake, a serialized horror drama that people missed just by blinking. Nine episodes were produced; five aired.

After a Seattle cop’s girlfriend is killed by an unknown assailant, he travels to her hometown of Wolflake to investigate her death. Little does he know, the place is home to werewolves.

3 Bone Chillers (1996)

Betsy Haynes’ children’s horror series of books, Bone Chillers, was considered an inferior version of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps. It was certainly more humorous in tone. What people don’t realize is Bone Chillers also received a television treatment in the 1990s.

Unlike Goosebumps, Bone Chillers removed the anthology style of the books and kept a continuous storyline and cast. Only thirteen episodes were produced, and the show featured Linda Cardellini’s debut role.

2 Lost Tapes (2008-2010)

Found footage was becoming more and more popular in the aughts. It was all thanks to the likes of Paranormal Activity and [REC]. Animal Planet tried to replicate the movie’s success with a low-budget yet resourceful television show called Lost Tapes.

Filmed much like a docudrama, this horror series detailed people’s fatal encounters with various cryptids and monsters throughout the United States. This included Bigfoot, various lake monsters, giant birds, and the Mothman. Each episode’s events were treated as if they were real, and, sometimes, there was a linking element: the sinister security firm called Enigma Corporation.

The show lasted a good three seasons before it disappeared like many of the dangerous creatures in every episode.

1 The River (2012)

Another taste of found-footage horror is in ABC’s The River. This time, Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli and Paranormal Activity 2 co-writer Michael R. Perry came up with an 8-episode series about a man visiting the Amazon basin in search of his missing father. What he and his crew instead found was terror.

The show was cancelled by ABC, and nothing came from talks of reviving it on a streaming network either.

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