Moonlight(2007)
Red-blooded and romantic cult favorite about vampire-detective Mick St. John (Alex O'Loughlin) and Web-tabloid reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles) solving strange murders in Los Angeles, where a community of the undead thrives just under the radar of the human population. Viewers late to the game take note: the series revamps the rulebook of traditional vampire mythology, with garlic, holy water and wooden stakes having no effect on their targets. Co-created by Ron Koslow, who developed the heart-fluttering Linda Hamilton-Ron Perlman television series Beauty and the Beast. With Jason Dohring and Shannyn Sossamon.
Ghost Hunters Academy(2009)
Spin-off of the hit reality series Ghost Hunters follows poltergeist pros Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango as they tutor a group of newbies about the ins and outs of all things mysterious, spooky and altogether ooky. The TAPS-in-training include experienced medium Heathyr, the skeptical Chris, high-spirited Karl, adventurous Susan and techno-geek Ben.
Nightmare Cafe The Series
Ever wish you could relive a crucial moment from your past...only this time, not screw it up? That's the premise behind this short-lived series from horror maven Wes Craven, the creative force behind the equally imaginative Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream movies. The series reunites Craven with Elm Street's Robert Englund, here playing a spooky cafe owner who grants customers second chances in life. But the real star of the show is the cafe itself, a surreal cross between a haunted house and a Chuck Jones cartoon, where Englund's inter-dimensional do-overs can make dreams or nightmares come true. With Jack Coleman and Lindsay Frost.
Monster
In post-war Germany, Dr. Kenzo Tenma, a Japanese surgeon, disregards hospital protocol and saves the life of a young boy instead of tending to a prominent politician who suffered a stroke. The politician dies, sending Tenma's social standing into a tailspin. But then the little boy whose life Tenma saved disappears… and the physicians at the hospital begin dying in mysterious ways. Think you've got it figured out? Not so fast. This intricately plotted, exquisitely rendered Japanese series is an example of manga at its very best, and wraps its multilayered characters in a mystery that warrants repeated viewings. Based on the graphic novel by Naoki Urasawa. Directed by Masayuki Kojima.
Tokko (2004)
After graduating from a police academy, Ranmaru Shindo seeks to avenge the death of his parents, who died in an apartment complex massacre five years earlier. Before long, he discovers the existence of a secret branch of the police force known as Tokko, whose mission is to destroy inter-dimensional demons terrorizing Japan. Intense horror-anime spikes its gore-splattered plot with corpse-reanimating maggots, creatures from the gates of Hell and, for those romantics among you, a scantily-clad love interest who effortlessly fillets foes with her sword.
Hex (2004)
Labeled by some as a British Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hex tells the tale of boarding school student Cassie Hughes (Christina Cole) and her lesbian roommate, Thelma (Jemima Rooper). One day, Cassie happens upon ancient voodoo artifacts that lead to a surprising discovery: she's a witch. This attracts the attention of a fallen angel named Azazeal (Michael Fassbender), whose goal is to free his people, the Nephilim, by bearing a son. At first, this richly-plotted soaper falls under the shadow of its thematically-similar predecessors, but it finds its own footing after a spell.
Sea of Souls (2004)
Poltergeists, reincarnation, voodoo...it's all in a day's work for Dr. Douglas Monahan (Bill Paterson), who heads the parapsychology unit at Clyde University in Glasgow, Scotland. He's assisted by several colleagues, including the skeptical Andrew Gemmill (Peter McDonald) and Justine McManus (Dawn Steele), who possesses abilities not easily explained by science. Think The X-Files with a splash of Scotch. With Archie Panjabi and Ian Robertson.
Point Pleasant Chiller (2005)
Buffy the Vampire scribe Marti Noxon created this gothic soaper about a young woman (Elisabeth Harnois) who washes up on a New Jersey beach, only to discover she's the Antichrist. The big question is, can her boyfriend Jesse do something before she triggers Armageddon? Part The Omen, part The O.C., this is an old-fashioned, good-versus-evil shocker that's been poured into a bikini and slathered with sunscreen. Great fun if you give it a chance.
MILLENNIUM The Series
We miss Y2K. The horror stories of financial markets collapsing, power grids failing and, doggone it, how would we survive if the clock on our VCR stopped working? "Millennium" plays the doomsday bug like a concert violinist, plucking our paranoia strings with tales of supernatural serial killers and apocalyptic visions, as seen through the eyes of forensic profiler Frank Black. The show was created by Chris Carter, who produced "The X-Files." With Lance Henriksen and Terry O'Quinn.
Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996)
Okay, first of all, this series has nothing to do with the movie Poltergeist or its sequels. So if you're hoping for little Carol Ann to shout "they're here," it ain't happening. The series launched as a two-hour pilot, which told the story of Rachel Corrigan (Helen Shaver), a psychiatrist who's impregnated by a malevolent spirit during a trip to Ireland. Her ordeal puts her in contact with The Legacy, a group of San Francisco-based paranormal investigators trying to save the world from supernatural evil. Rachel ends up joining the group and, well, who you gonna call?
Twilight Zone (1985)
The granddaddy of horror anthologies gets a colorful mid-1980's makeover, attracting talent like Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman in front of the camera, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and J. Michael Straczynski behind. While the show had enormously big shoes to fill (namely, those of writer Rod Serling), it produced some highly-regarded stories of its own, including Nightcrawlers, Profile in Silverand Dead Run.
TWIN PEAKS The Series
A town where everyone knows everyone and nothing is what it seems. A strange police detective investigates the murder of a young woman in the even stranger town of Twin Peaks.
