6 Netflix series to give you the creeps

The Fall of the House of Usher is based on the work of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But secrets from the past come to light when the heirs of the Usher dynasty begin dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.

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Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes tells the story of a young woman who is declared dead. Hours later, she suddenly wakes up, with one difference: she has a dark, insatiable thirst for blood. In the meantime, her brother Odd tries to keep the family-run funeral business afloat, but the stagnant mortality rate in the small Norwegian town of Skarnes makes that impossible.

Live must learn to control her new dangerous nature and decide whether she is willing to sacrifice human lives for her own survival, which ironically goes hand in hand with the survival of the family business. You might expect a vampire horror, but that’s not quite it. The series is exciting, but contains the necessary Norwegian humor.

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Sofiane and Victor are two students who at first glance have nothing in common. Yet together they try to track down the murderer of Sofiane’s brother, enlisting the help of the voodoo spirit Obé. However, the spirit’s influence soon seems to drive Sofiane mad.

When they make a pact with the voodoo god, Obé gives Sofiane the power to manipulate other people’s actions, while Victor can read their minds. However, both have to be near each other for their powers to work, but that doesn’t go well. They then enlist the help of Luisa, who practices voodoo with her grandmother, so that they can be freed from Obé’s hold on them, banishing Obé from the world.

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If you like some suspense, then this American Horror Story spin-off is for you. The series is set in 1947 and tells the story of Sister Mildred Ratched. A character we know from the filmed book ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’. Readers and viewers of the film know that Nurse Ratched is insane, but how did she become that way?

Ratched pretends to be the perfect nurse to get a job in a psychiatric hospital. She acts like an exemplary nurse, but appearances are deceiving. When Mildred becomes involved in the dark experiments performed on people at the facility, she loses her innocence. We quickly see how a caring woman turns into a dark figure.

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Cassandra is a dark, psychological thriller about a family that moves into a smart house where the mysterious AI household robot Cassandra is brought back to life after decades. What starts as a modern dream home quickly turns into a digital nightmare: Cassandra sees herself as a full-fledged family member and uses her technological power to gain control over the residents. Her manipulations make the family members feel increasingly trapped, while Cassandra tries to avoid being left alone again.

The series takes place in two timelines: the present with Samira’s family and the 1970s, when the house was built and Cassandra was originally developed. The far-reaching influence that Cassandra’s ‘human’ motives have on the events in the house make it extremely exciting and ideal for a spooky Halloween evening full of surprises and plot twists.

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Film archivist Dan Turner is a master of his trade and knows how to restore the most damaged video tapes. Businessman Virgil Davenport invites him for an intriguing proposal. For a considerable amount of money, he asks if Dan can restore and digitize a partially burned archive of video tapes from 1994. Dan does not trust the company, nothing can be found about Davenport’s company and he initially abandons the job. But when he discovers that they are Melody Pendras’ tapes, his interest is aroused.

The restoration takes place in the old headquarters of the Davenport company, which is located in the middle of the woods, a kind of labyrinth that itself hides many secrets. The damaged video material was shot by Melody Pendras, who tried to make a documentary about the residents of the apartment building ‘The Visser’ in 1994. Unfortunately, it never came to that because the apartment burned to the ground that same year. Then he slowly starts to work through the material and an ominous story emerges in the form of a video diary. The series alternates with flashbacks and typical nineties videos in the trend of The Blair Witch Project and The Ring. So old-fashioned horror.

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