Horror series about self-defense

List of the best horror series about self-defense according to viewers: Hemlock Grove, Preacher, Eye Candy, Yellowjackets, The Bite, In the Dark, The Terror, Scream Queens, American Horror Story, From.

In the top there are new series of 2023, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:50

One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.

Markimdb: 8
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

    A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born from an angel and a devil, Jesse gives up everything to set the world straight with its creator.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Tech genius Lindy, convinced by her roommate to begin online dating, begins to suspect that one of her mysterious suitors may be a deadly cyber stalker. When her friends at the elusive cyber-police uncover a potential serial killer in Manhattan, all signs point to one of Lindy’s dates. Teaming up with this band of hackers Lindy works to solve the murders while unleashing her own style of justice on the streets of New York City.

    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

      This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryUSA

      During an unexpected, deadly second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, two neighbors, Rachel and Lily, navigate life in quarantine. While Rachel juggles her many telemedicine clients as well as a shaky, passionless marriage, Lily is upstairs just trying to convince her Wall Street clientele that her very specific skillset is still just as valuable over video as it was in person.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrehorror, action, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:40

      Murphy is a flawed and irreverent woman who just happens to be blind and is the only “witness” to the murder of her drug-dealing friend, Tyson. When the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at Breaking Blind — the guide-dog school owned by her overprotective parents.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:37

      The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:04

      The super-charged comedy-horror series is a modern take on the classic whodunit with a killer cast. 

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      American Horror Story is an anthology horror drama series.

      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama

      Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
      CountryDenmark, Italy, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands
      Duration04:39

      The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration00:45

      A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrehorror, action, drama
      CountrySouth Korea

      A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.

      Markimdb: 5.3

      In a sun-soaked Hawaiian town with a mysterious past, a group of friends is left with a dark secret after a tragic accident. One year later, a member of the group receives a threatening message, and the friends now know that someone intends to make them pay for last summer.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA

      An episodic anthology that will follow individual characters from the The Walking Dead TV universe, both new and old.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA

      Maggie and Negan travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA

      A teenage boy and girl get their lives changed forever when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature. As the full moon rises, all teens come together to unravel the secret that connects them.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada

      Mildred Hubble is a young witch attending Cackles Academy. She's called the "Worst Witch" because she's always caught getting into trouble.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:38

      They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:35

      A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Falling in love is tricky for teens Juliette and Calliope: One's a vampire, the other's a vampire hunter — and both are ready to make their first kill.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration00:43

      Elena Micheals thought she left the world of supernatural behind when she left Stonehaven behind 'for good this time' she thought. Until the night she got the mysterious call from her pack leader asking her to come back. So now she is heading back, leaving her life as a normal photographer in Toronto for the moment to re-enter the world of werewolves, rules about protect the pack and a man she has spent years trying to get out of her system. Oh and did she mention she was the only living female werewolf in existence?

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      Dominion is an epic supernatural drama set in the near future. Specifically, 25 years after "The Extinction War," when an army of lower angels, assembled by the archangel Gabriel, waged war against mankind. The archangel Michael, turning against his own kind, chose to side with humanity. Rising out of the ashes of this long battle are newly fortified cities which protect human survivors. At the center of the series is the city of Vega, a glistening empire that has formed from the ruins of what was once Las Vegas.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, USA

      A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

        Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration00:43

        It's the late 19th century, and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He's especially interested in the new technology of electricity, which promises to brighten the night - useful for someone who avoids the sun. But he has another reason for his travels: he hopes to take revenge on those who cursed him with immortality centuries earlier. Everything seems to be going according to plan... until he becomes infatuated with a woman who appears to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA

        The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.

        Markimdb: 8.6
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:41

        The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, drama, musical, cartoon, crime
        CountryUSA

        In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA

        Each episode transports the audience to worlds of wonder through the lens of today’s most imaginative filmmakers, directors and writers. A reimagining of the original anthology series by Steven Spielberg.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:14

        What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
        CountryUSA

        A dysfunctional family moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Patricia “Pat” Phelps, who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed – turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        Horror stories told from the perspectives of multiple characters whose lives are affected by the Birch, a bloodthirsty monster deep in the woods. Once you summon her protection, you never escape.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        In this fantasy anthology series, encounters with mermaids, fallen angels and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in an attempt to repair their lives, ultimately showing there is a thin line between man and beast.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrehorror, action, fantasy, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada, Australia

        Daimon and Ana Helstrom are the son and daughter of a mysterious and powerful serial killer. The siblings have a complicated dynamic as they track down the terrorizing worst of humanity — each with their attitude and skills.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        A young boy's horror comic book comes to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        A ghost-hunting duo team up to uncover and film paranormal sightings across the U.K. and share their adventures on an online channel. Their supernatural experiences grow more frequent, terrifying, and even deadly as the pair begin to uncover a conspiracy that could threaten the entire human race.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrehorror, documentary
        CountryCanada, USA

        A five-part documentary series exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productIons. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen, to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary amongst film fans and filmmakers alike. But where does the truth lie?

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada

        Set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces, the series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:59

        CDC researcher Abby Arcane investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but she soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
        CountryUSA

        Pursued by intergalactic bounty hunters, the Critters return to Earth on a secret mission and encounter lovelorn high-schooler Christopher, his crush Dana, his best friend Charlie, and his mom Veronica, whose past will come back to bite them—literally.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        Set in a near-dystopian future, a former cop is forced to take part in a death race where the cars run on human blood. You lose a leg and you lose your head.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrehorror, fantasy, cartoon, short
        CountryUSA

        Armed with an arcane knowledge of the dark arts and a wicked wit, John Constantine fights the good fight. With his soul already damned to hell, he’ll do whatever it takes to protect the innocent. With the balance of good and evil on the line, Constantine uses his skills to face the supernatural terrors that threaten our world and send them back where they belong. After that, who knows…maybe there’s hope for him and his soul after all.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, cartoon
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration00:22

        Ugly Americans is an American animated sitcom created by Devin Clark and developed by David M. Stern. The program focuses on the life of Mark Lilly, a social worker employed by the Department of Integration, in an alternate reality version of New York City inhabited by monsters and other creatures. Daniel Powell serves as executive producer and Aaron Augenblick is supervising producer and animation director. Ugly Americans aired on Comedy Central from March 17, 2010 to April 25, 2012 with a total of 31 episodes over two seasons.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA

        After a fortuitous drug bender saves his life, addict Jake ventures out into the quiet streets… unaware that most of the world already died in their beds. Now, battling sleepless fatigue and encroaching delirium, Jake teams with a scrappy teenager, overnight doctor and red-eye pilot to search for answers… and just maybe find a way to sleep again.

        Markimdb: 8.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:09

        When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, cartoon, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        Mike Tyson is taking the fight from the boxing ring to the streets … by solving mysteries! Aided by the Mike Tyson Mystery Team — the Ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry, Mike’s adopted Korean daughter and a pigeon who was once a man — Mike Tyson will answer any plea sent to him.




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