What to Watch: Spooky Season

Set in the world created by 2002's 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle returns with this terrifying horror starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

The arrival of a ghostly child threatens to destroy a married couple’s relationship in this gripping folk horror film.

Juan Carlos Medina directs this Victorian-set murder mystery, captivatingly led by British actor Bill Nighy.

Directorial debuts don’t come much punchier than this pitch-black portrait of the perils of pregnancy.

The millennial generation get their Blair Witch with this timely and well-constructed Zoom-based horror.

Praise be to British writer-director Rose Glass’s whose audacious debut is an assault to the cinematic senses.

British director Rob Savage’s follow-up to cult hit Host is an equally riotous lo-fi horror.

Created, directed, written and executive-produced by an entirely female team, this eight-part series won’t fail to enrapture.

An ensemble of UK actors gather for this unnerving sci-fi thriller for Prime Video.

This satirical folk horror follows an officer tasked with finding a missing child in an unfamiliar world of pagan rituals.

Skyfall writer John Logan explores the origin stories of some of literature’s most horrifying characters, including Dr Jekyll and Dracula.

Immerse yourself in this supernatural fantasy series based on author Deborah Harkness’s dark and gripping trilogy.

Neil Maskell and Michael Smiley give outstanding lead performances in Ben Wheatley’s gripping slow-burn crime-thriller.

The sight gags and slapstick sequences come thick-and-fast in this charming animated sci-fi sequel.

Rebecca Hall is phenomenal in this gripping and disturbing supernatural thriller.

This gloriously funny Horrible Histories spin-off was deservedly nominated for Best Scripted Comedy at the TV BAFTAs.

Classic British institution, Hammer Films, is revived for this fresh take on Susan Hill’s widely-adapted novel.

Andy Coyle directs this animated family film based on the Hilda series, delving into the conflict between trolls and humans.

Jessica Brown Findlay and Sean Harris star in this unnerving horror about the most haunted house in England.

Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson star in this lyrical British horror from Normal People’s Lenny Abrahamson.

An all-star cast - Tina Fey, Michelle Yeoh and Camille Cottin - board Kenneth Branagh’s third Hercule Poirot murder mystery.

Actor Romola Garai’s directorial debut is a heady concoction of body horror and gothic fantasy.

Remi Weekes announces himself as a talent to watch with his atmospheric and assured debut horror.

Attack the Block director Joe Cornish helms this young adult series about paranormal investigators.

Edgar Wright’s dazzling horror is a feverish descent into a seedy, 60s-set London.

Playing as the wily Martians from the Mars Attacks universe, delve into this thrilling theme park management game.

Odessa Young is outstanding as the lead in this tense and chilling 19th century-set horror-drama.

Immerse yourself in this bold new take on Ridley Scott’s famed film franchise, created by Noah Hawley.

Faith, family and friendship are tested to their limit as a strange beast ravages a small, religious community.

Based on Stephen King’s short story, this absurdly comic horror is directed and co-written by Osgood Perkins.

Immerse yourself in Ben Wheatley’s entertaining satire series about a deadly army of elderly zombies.

Join Nick Park’s loveable duo, Wallace and Gromit, in their first full-length and thoroughly entertaining feature film.

This firm cult favourite follows a show within a show format, parodying both 80s horror television and dramatic soap opera.

Based on the novel by British writer Andrew Michael Hurley, this unsettling folk-horror sees a family’s life thrown into turmoil.

Mark Jenkin reunites with Film4 for an experimental, ecological 16mm horror.

Vampiric happenings haunt a sleepy Irish village in this gruesomely good horror-comedy.

Solve puzzles and riddles in this eerie survival horror game that pays nostalgic homage to PS1-style gameplay.

Hayley Squires and Reece Shearsmith star in a kaleidoscopic horror from British auteur Ben Wheatley.

Set at the dawn of the twentieth century, this suspenseful drama-horror is filled with unexpected tonal and narrative shifts.

David Bruckner directs this surreal horror film about an ancient evil stalking a group of old college friends.

Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation) returns with a feverish folk horror to fester in your minnd.

A spellbinding stop-motion trilogy about three different owners occupying the same house.

A succulent horror that should more than satiate your appetite for bracing British cinema.

Filmmaker Corin Hardy delivers an impressive debut about a family fighting evil spirits in an Irish forest.

Games of Thrones actor Kit Harington stars alongside Ashleigh Cummings in this tense and atmospheric horror film.

Survival horror meets farming simulator as players explore, build, hide and try to survive cursed and haunted woodland.

A routine military drill turns into a gory nightmare in the unforgiving landscape of the Scottish wilderness.

British actors and screenwriters Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith create this astonishing television show, where every episode is dramatically different.

Utopia-creator Dennis Kelly co-writes this spine-chilling six-episode series featuring Jude Law playing a lost man trapped on a mysterious island.

Ben Wheatley continues to showcase his unique directorial style as he subverts the period drama genre.

Bloodthirsty goblins terrorise a couple in this contemporary, Ireland-set creature feature.

A caving excursion goes drastically awry as six women climbers become trapped and hunted by an unknown breed of predator.

This dizzying, disturbing and distinctively tactile tale of a film is British horror at its best.

Immerse yourself in this stunningly realised disaster story in which players must face a terrifying and unknowable enemy.