10 Best Shows To Watch if You Love ‘From’

A psychological horror series, From takes viewers into a town that’s not on a map, somewhere strange things happen when the sun goes down, and creatures come out of the woods to attack the residents. With no way out, the townsfolk work together to instill a set of rules that, hopefully, will keep them alive. Honestly, the premise, themes, and tone of the series are everything fans of the sci-fi genre are looking for. And for those who have already watched From, these other shows might be of interest.

From YellowJackets to Stranger Things, forces outside of characters’ control and circumstances that they should never have found themselves in the first place, fans of thrillers and sci-fi are not going to want to miss out on these intense and gripping series. With similar elements to From and playing on psychological tropes mixed with horror, these tales are not for the faint of heart. The stories have characters questioning their morals, the world, and what it means and takes to survive in a place unlike anything they’ve encountered before. Horror fans, take a look because you might find your next favorite series.

10 ‘Silo’ (2023)

Created By Graham Yost

Based on Graham Yost’s Silo trilogy of novels, the Apple TV+ series Silo stars Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette Nichols. Set in a dystopian future and living in a Silo diving 144 stories underground with 10,000 other people, Juliette is an engineer who is tasked with maintaining the generators on the bottom levels of the homestead. The thing is, the Silo is shrouded in mystery, as no one knows the history of why they went there or what is on the surface. All they know is that the histories were destroyed, and any talk of going out is strictly prohibited.

The series is interesting as it moves from a conspiracy thriller and police procedural to an end-of-times romance and big-picture social commentary on government control. It is an intense story of lies and deception, or people wanting to learn the truth of their past so they can pave a new way for their future and future generations. For anyone who is interested in plot twists and turns and a mystery that goes far deeper than the 144 floors of the Silo, buckle up!

9 ‘Servant’ (2019)

Created By Tony Basgallop

Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean Turner (Toby Kebbell) are going through the unimaginable. They lost their 13-week-old son, Jericho, and are now dealing with it in their own ways. For Dorothy, it meant getting a reborn doll and pretending it was her son, alive and well, and needing her to look after it. Six weeks later, and fully under the illusion the reborn doll is real, the Turners hire a live-in nanny, Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free). But the seemingly well-meaning nanny isn’t all that she appears to be, as weird occurrences begin to happen inside the household, hinting that Leanne might have some sort of power and malicious thoughts aimed toward the household she was hired to help.

Servant is dark and twisted, bringing viewers into a hard conversation of loss and grief and how people deal with their emotions in different ways. The performances of the lead cast, including Rupert Grint as Julian Pearce, Dorothy’s alcoholic brother who helps out from time to time, are magnetic and create such suspense and tension with their performances that it is hard not to get hooked and dragged into the Turners story. Author Stephen King, the master of horror, has called the show “extremely creepy and totally involving,” making it one of those shows that fans of the genre should probably take the time to watch.

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8 ‘Stranger Things’ (2016)

Created By The Duffer Brothers

Set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, Stranger Things brings viewers on an epic journey full of horror, thrills, and mystery. In the 1980s, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), a young girl with telepathic and psychokinetic abilities, escapes the Hawkins National Laboratory and the brutal experiments conducted by Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine). She soon falls into a group of local kids who teach her what it means to be, well, a kid. Little do they know that horrid monsters are about to come into town, and an alternate reality known as The Upside Down is going to begin leaking into the real world. They soon find themselves in the middle of a battle, and their only hope is to stop the evil forces before it is too late.

A sci-fi thriller series, Stranger Things quickly became one of Netflix’s most popular original series. Taking inspiration from renowned writers and filmmakers such as King, H.P. Lovecraft, David Lynch, and Steven Spielberg, and some of the best horror movies from the ’80s, Stranger Things brings viewers into the decade with a spin of nostalgic monster flare and mysteries that only a group of kids can unravel. With a dark tone, a thrilling plot, and scares around every corner, it is a series horror genre fans won’t want to miss.

7 ‘Lost’ (2004)

Created By Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams, and Damon Lindelof

Passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 have no idea what they are in for when they get on their flight. A thousand miles off course, the plane crashes into a mysterious island in the South Pacific Ocean, and it is up to the survivors to not only figure out a way off but to ensure they don’t go crazy trying to stay alive until they are saved. While that is not an easy feat, things get even harder when the people realize the island isn’t what it seems and that they might very well be stuck there forever.

Each episode of Lost features a flashback to the survivors’ lives before the fated plane crash while flashing back to their present lives on the island. The time jumps bring viewers into their predicaments and how some of them are, in fact, connected. It is a show about mystery, survival, and what happens when human instincts and that notion of fight or flight get the best of people, prompting some to take violent action against others in the name of “doing it for the betterment of the group” or just because they let their anger, anxiety, and struggles get the best of them.

6 ‘Severance’ (2022)

Created By Dan Erickson

What happens when a person’s personality is cut in two? That’s what Severance explores. The show is a psychological thriller revolving around the highly controversial Biotechnology corporation Lumon Industries, a company that uses a process called “severance” to make “Innies” and “Outies.” The latter is a person who only remembers their personal life, while the former is someone who only remembers work; the two personalities never overlap. So, when a person leaves their “Innie” life and becomes an “Outie,” they remember nothing of work or their co-workers. It is a complex narrative that brings to question the demand for corporate workers being used as pseudo-drones for a company.

The concept is very different, strange, and mysterious as viewers are brought into two separate worlds that are, in reality, based in the same place and following the same characters. It is a psychological thriller that is thought-provoking, with twists and turns at every corner as characters slowly but surely begin to figure out what is going on in their lives and how they have an implant that doesn’t allow them to remember half of their days.

5 ‘The Devil’s Hour’ (2022)

Created By Tom Moran

There is a lot going on in the psychological drama The Devil’s Hour that is bound to reel in horror lovers. Lucy Chambers (Jessica Raine) is a social worker who, every night, wakes up at 3:33 am, also known as “the devil’s hour,” a time between three and four in the morning. During that time, she sees horrible visions. During the daytime, she deals with an emotionless son, Isaac (Benjamin Chivers), and a mother who speaks to people who aren’t there. If that wasn’t bad enough, her name has been roped into murders around her town, and she somehow got caught up in an investigation to catch a serial killer. Somehow, everything is connected. Right?

The show is haunting and mysterious, taking viewers on a wild ride through haunted houses and serial killers to prove the main protagonist isn’t going entirely crazy. While Lucy can’t tell if the visions are just that, visions, or if it is some trauma that she’s buried deep down, viewers try and make connections themselves. Losing control of her own life, Raine gives a stunning performance that is grounded in psychological horror, which makes her a strange person to follow, as viewers are unsure what is real and who to believe.

4 ‘Channel Zero’ (2016)

Created By Nick Antosca

One of the best and yet underrated anthology series that isn’t for the faint of heart, Channel Zero brings viewers into a world that is made of a child’s nightmares. Each season is a standalone story, taking different horror tropes and settings and making a chilling narrative that leaves chills and strained knuckles clutching the sides of a couch. From haunted TV channels obducting children and haunted staircases and killer clowns, the series takes old myths and urban legends and plays them up in the most thrilling way imaginable.

Based on popular creepypasta’s horror-inspired legends that are shared around the internet, the anthology is unsettling and yet unique. It takes the ideas of urban legends and spins them into something that is altogether mysterious and intriguing to watch. While horror is definitely at the forefront of each of Channel Zero’s seasons, they are still grounded in a solid narrative that keeps viewers interested and engaged, making it one of the scariest shows on television, one that, while you might want to, you just can’t look away from the screen.

3 ‘Yellowjackets’ (2021)

Created By Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson

It’s 1996 when a girls’ soccer team from New Jersey crashes in the Ontario wilderness on their way to a tournament in Seattle, Washington. Together, the team must learn what it takes to survive until they are found. But that is easier said than done when tensions begin to rise, and the team is torn, forming “clans” and fighting one another until, sometimes, the death. The series is split between two timelines, the first in 1996 and the second in 2021, when the survivors are grown up and living with what happened all of those years ago when they were trapped in the wild for 19 months.

The 1996 timeline is pure horror, with some of the girls turning to cannibalism in order to not starve, others forming tribes in order to keep people together, and a team that was once so close falling apart at the seams. One of the best shows about teen survival, Yellowjackets is full of chilling suspense, wondering what the girls are going to do next as their primal instincts slowly come to the surface, and they go to extreme measures in order to stay alive.

2 ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ (2018)

Created By Mike Flanagan

A retelling of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel of the same name, The Haunting of Hill House, is one of the best horror shows on Netflix. It follows the story of Hugh (Henry Thomas) and Olivia (Carla Gugino) Crain, who, in 1992, buy a house with the plan to fix it up and flip it. Moving their family to the beautiful Hill House, the Crain family has no idea what they are in for. Then strange occurrences begin to happen, and paranormal instances and a horrible loss have the family fleeing for their lives. Fast-forward 26 years, and the surviving members of the family come back together to explore how their time at Hill House affected them all those years later.

A supernatural horror drama, The Haunting of Hill House is the first installment in Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting anthology. It is full of jump scares, psychological thrills, and a haunted house trope that is utilized in precisely the right way to have viewers’ hair stand on end. While it is a ghost story, the narrative is a slow burn with an effective payoff, the plot interesting and engaging from start to finish and not missing a beat anywhere in between.

1 ‘Midnight Mass’ (2021)

Created By Mike Flanagan

Midnight Mass sees Riley Flynn (Zach Gilford) returning to his hometown of Crockett Island after serving a four-year stint in prison for a drunk driving accident. What he didn’t expect was his arrival would be at the same time as that of a mysterious priest, Father Paul Hill (Hamish Linklater). A charismatic young priest who wants to put faith back into the community, it isn’t long before mysterious occurrences begin happening around town, all of them seemingly centered around the new guy in town.

The miniseries is a slow-burn supernatural thriller, one that brings in unsuspecting vampires and townsfolk who are dealing with love, loss, and a lot of grief. Midnight Mass combines a beautiful narrative of faith with an exploration of the horrifying nature of the supernatural, an unsettling juxtaposition that will leave viewers shaking. Created by the horror master Flanagan, Midnight Mass is a psychological horror set in a small town full of secrets; it is one of those Netflix miniseries people don’t want to miss.

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