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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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TALES FROM THE CRYPT The Series

Do you dare to listen to the Crypt Keeper's ghoulish stories? TALES FROM THE CRYPT brings you gleefully twisted tales of horror and terror, terrible villainy and poetic justice, all served up with a sardonic sense of black humor... all the better to scare you with!

Based on the notorious EC horror comics of the 1950s and featuring many big-name stars, the Emmy®-nominated TALES FROM THE CRYPT is perhaps the greatest horror anthology show in the history of television.

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MONSTERS The Series

When Tales from the Darkside went dark, one of its producers inked a deal for a similar anthology show called Monsters, making it an unofficial follow-up of sorts. Although both shows are twisted anthologies with twist endings, Monsters is heavier on the creature comforts, with many storylines centered around a beastie or two. Monsters is unavailable on DVD in the US.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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