Halloween: the 9 best series to watch in streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Canal+ and Disney+

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Every year, Halloween is an opportunity to gently test our tolerance for fear with a good series of horrors. And like every year, The Digitals is here to help you choose the right program.

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Here is a selection of nine series – accompanied by 12 alternative programs – to be found on streaming platforms Netflix, Prime Video, Canal+ And Disney+ to shiver with pleasure in front of your television.

Netflix

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

Netflix

Release date: 2022
Gender: Horror-horror
Duration: 60 mins

These eight horror tales from Guillermo del Toro conjure up eerie nightmares in a collection of short, terrifying stories helmed by great directors of the genre.

This series is a production of Guillermo del Toro, director of Pan's Labyrinth and of The Shape of Waterwhich highlights eight deliciously horrific stories. A gothic anthology that mixes ghosts, monsters and deep fears, in the spirit of the stories we told ourselves when we were little. The icing on the cake, in addition to a prestigious casting, the episodes are directed by big names in the genre: Jennifer Kent (Mister Babadook), Vincenzo Natali (Cube), Panos Cosmatos (Mandy) or Ana Lily Amirpour (The Bad Batch).

Dracula

Netflix

Release date: 2020
Gender: Drama, Horror-horror
Duration: 90 mins

At the end of the 19th century, Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet a new client and finalize the sale of a stately home in London, but finds himself trapped in the terrifying castle of an earl, whose ambition is to conquer the world.

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Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, creators of the acclaimed Sherlockadapt the famous novel by Bram Stoker and deliver a prestigious mini-series revitalizing the iconic figure of the vampire. The sophisticated staging transcends the folklore and bloody visual universe of the Romanian count, despite his seen and reviewed history. Result, a beautiful, modern series carried by the excellent Claes Bang (The Square).

Archive 81

Netflix

Release date: 2022
Gender: Horror-horror, Thriller
Duration: 60 mins

Archivist Dan Turner sets out to restore a collection of damaged video cassettes from the early 1990s. He then discovers the work of a documentary filmmaker who was investigating a dangerous cult. Dan is convinced that he can save the latter from the terrifying end she experienced 25 years earlier…

Inspired by a horror podcast, Archive 81 is one of Netflix's little-known gems. Without reinventing the genre, this series produced by James Wan (Insidious) intrigues as it can terrify. There intersect sects, demons and a few moments gorewithout falling into the easy spectacular. A good choice if you're looking to shiver without feeling nauseous.

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Prime Video

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Amazon Prime Video | Disney+

Release date: 1997 – 2003
Gender: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror-horror
Duration: 42 mins
Episodes: 144

Buffy Summers aspires to a simple and fulfilled life with her family and friends. But the demons that lurk in Sunnydale constantly remind her that she must face her responsibilities as a killer.

Forget Van Helsing, Buffy is a much more badass vampire slayer. And then, this essential series from the 1990s/2000s, created by Joss Whedon, not only marked an entire generation thanks to a thrilling story and iconic episodes, but also and above all with its unforgettable characters.

Fear The Walking Dead

Amazon Prime Video

Release date: 2015 – 2023
Gender: Drama, Horror-horror, Thriller
Duration: 44 mins

Madison Clark is a guidance counselor at a high school in Los Angeles in the United States. Since the death of her husband, she has raised her two children alone. They don't really accept their mother's new companion, Travis Manawa, a teacher at the same high school and divorced father of a young teenager, Chris. Around this blended family which is struggling to put the pieces back together, strange behaviors appear and an epidemic begins.

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This prequel to the famous zombie series, still made up of eight seasons, is an excellent surprise thanks to its writing and its gallery of realistic and endearing characters. Fear The Walking Dead also takes the opportunity to provide a fine critique of society and skillfully plays on its “countdown” aspect to increase the tension and captivate us. For fans, but not only.

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Teen Wolf
Supernatural
The Vampire Diaries

Canal+

Interview with a Vampire

Canal+ / myCANAL

Release date: 2022
Gender: Drama, Fantasy
Duration: 60 mins
Episodes: 8

The young journalist Malloy talks in a room with an elegant man, with an aristocratic appearance and a pale face, Louis, who makes very strange confidences to him. Malloy, captivated by the seduction of his interlocutor, asks him at dawn to take him into his world, that of vampires.

It's quite simple, there isn't much to throw away in this adaptation of Anne Rice's novel. From the casting to the writing, including the direction, cinematography and costumes, everything is carefully calibrated to offer the viewer a deliciously addictive gothic story.

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Canal+ / myCANAL

Release date: 2022
Gender: Horror-horror, Science fiction
Duration: 60 mins

A nightmarish city in the central United States traps everyone who enters. As the residents fight against themselves to maintain a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive threats from the surrounding forest, including terrifying creatures that emerge in the setting sun.

Created by John Griffin (The Crater, The Fourth Dimension) and produced by alumni of Lostthis horror and science fiction series captivates with a fascinating story and characters, while instilling cold sweats with nightmarish creatures.

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Disney+

American Horror Story

Disney+

Release date: 2011
Gender: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Duration: 42 mins

Each season has its own story. American Horror Story takes us into stories that are both poignant and nightmarish, mixing fear, gore and political correctness.

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Created by Ryan Murphy, the showrunner and writer behind the series Dahmer, Glee And Ratched, American Horror Story is THE perfect program for fans of thrills and horror. Each of its seasons has its own theme, from the haunted house to the circus, including the apocalypse and the asylum, and plays brilliantly with its gloomy atmosphere and tension to keep you glued to your seat. A cult series to catch up on or watch again without moderation.

Agatha All Along

Disney+

Release date: 2024
Gender: Action, Fantasy
Duration: 40 mins
Episodes: 9

Now devoid of all power, the infamous Agatha Harkness is nothing more than a shadow of herself. Until the day when a goth teenager helps him free himself from his complicated fate. Agatha's interest is piqued when he begs her to walk alongside him the legendary Witches' Route, a mythical path made up of a series of magical tests…

We almost forget that we are watching a Marvel series as the series manages quickly, and without the slightest difficulty, to impose its own universe. The tone of the show remains faithful to the MCU, not neglecting to inject well-felt doses of humor, without being afraid to flirt with horror. The series Agatha All Along proves to be both entertaining and ingenious, but equally dark and disturbing. A great success.

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