Archive 81

Series Similar to Archive 81

If you enjoyed Archive 81, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Exorcist

   2016 · Drama, Horror, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror / Supernatural profile, highly rated (8).

   The Exorcist is a propulsive psychological thriller following two very different priests tackling one family's case of horrifying demonic possession. Father Tomas Ortega is the new face of the Catholic Church: progressive, ambitious and compassionate. He runs a small, but loyal, parish in the suburbs of Chicago. He has no idea that his quiet life is about to change forever. Deep in the slums of Mexico City, another priest has found himself locked in a life-and-death struggle with evil. Father Marcus Keane is a modern-day Templar Knight, an orphan raised since childhood by the Vatican to wage war against its enemies. Father Marcus is everything Father Tomas is not: relentless, abrasive and utterly consumed by his mission - and he constantly butts heads with his adversary within the church, Father Bennett.

2. Castle Rock

   2018 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror profile.

   A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King's literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and numerous short stories such as Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption are either set there or contain references to Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller — a first-of-its-kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories.

3. Penny Dreadful

   2014 · Horror, Thriller, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror / Supernatural profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. They are joined by a core of original characters in a complex, frightening new narrative. Penny Dreadful is a psychological thriller filled with dark mystery and suspense, where personal demons from the past can be stronger than vampires, evil spirits and immortal beasts.

4. Channel Zero

   2016 · Drama, Horror, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror / Supernatural profile.

   Get ready for some thrills and chills with Channel Zero, a horror anthology series. Each six hour installment draws inspiration from a different "creepypasta" (user-generated horror stories published online).

5. Let the Right One In

   2022 · Drama, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile.

   Let the Right One In centers on a father and his 12-year-old daughter whose lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the minimal amount of human blood she needs to stay alive.

6. The Fall of the House of Usher

   2023 · Drama, Horror · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror profile, also on Netflix.

   To secure their fortune — and future — two ruthless siblings build a family dynasty that begins to crumble when their heirs mysteriously die, one by one.

7. Hannibal

   2013 · Drama, Crime, Horror · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Criminal profiler Will Graham is tasked by FBI agent Jack Crawford, the head of Behavioral Sciences, to help investigate the disappearances of eight young girls across Minnesota. Graham and Crawford's team investigate several subsequent murders, while also trying to catch the Chesapeake Ripper. With the investigation weighing heavily on Graham, Crawford decides to have him supervised by psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who, unbeknownst to them, is the Chesapeake Ripper himself, actively seeking to derail the investigation.

8. Dracula

   2020 · Drama, Horror · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror profile.

   In Transylvania in 1897, the blood drinking Count is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.

9. The Outsider

   2020 · Drama, Crime, Horror · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror profile.

   The Outsider follows police detective Ralph Anderson, as he sets out to investigate the mutilated body of 11-year-old Frankie Peterson found in the Georgia woods. The mysterious circumstances surrounding this horrifying crime leads Ralph, still grieving the recent death of his own son, to bring in unorthodox private investigator Holly Gibney, whose uncanny abilities he hopes will help explain the unexplainable.

10. IT: Welcome to Derry

    2025 · Drama, Horror · returning

    Recommended for similar Horror profile.

    Taking place in the ‘60s, the show explores the origins of the curse that would haunt the small Maine town for the next 27 years — as well as the origin story of Pennywise the Clown.