If Midnight Mass Gave You Chills, Watch These 15 Shows Next

If Midnight Mass Gave You Chills, Watch These 15 Shows Next

Midnight Mass hit differently.

Mike Flanagan’s slow-burning miniseries mixed religious faith, community secrets, and creeping vampire horror into something that felt deeply human and genuinely terrifying.

If you finished it and found yourself staring at the ceiling wondering what to watch next, you’re in the right place.

These 15 shows share that same eerie blend of the supernatural, moral weight, and emotional gut-punches that made Midnight Mass so unforgettable.

1. The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

Mike Flanagan made this one too, so you already know it carries the same emotional DNA as Midnight Mass.

The Haunting of Hill House follows the Crain family across two timelines as childhood trauma and supernatural terror collide in devastating ways.

Its long, meditative monologues about grief, loss, and what we believe about death hit just as hard as anything Father Paul ever said.

The pacing is slow and deliberate, building dread like a storm rolling in.

If you loved Midnight Mass for making you cry as much as it scared you, this is your next stop.

2. The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

Another Flanagan masterpiece, and possibly his most ambitious.

The Fall of the House of Usher weaves Edgar Allan Poe’s darkest stories into one sprawling gothic saga about a powerful family paying an ancient, supernatural debt.

The monologues here are absolutely stunning — long, poetic speeches about guilt, mortality, and the price of ambition.

Sound familiar?

Flanagan clearly loves exploring what people believe when death is staring them down.

The tragedy feels inevitable from the very first episode, and that slow march toward doom is deeply satisfying in the most unsettling way possible.

3. The Terror (2018)

Stranded in the Arctic with dwindling supplies, a monster hunting them in the dark, and faith slowly crumbling — The Terror’s first season is relentless.

Based loosely on the doomed Franklin Expedition, it transforms historical tragedy into existential horror.

The isolation here is suffocating in the best way.

Watching characters argue about God, leadership, and survival while something ancient circles their ship captures that same desperate spiritual energy from Midnight Mass.

It rewards patient viewers with genuinely haunting payoffs.

Season one stands completely alone and is absolutely worth every slow, frozen minute of its runtime.

4. Being Human (2008–2013)

What happens when a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost try to live like normal people?

Being Human answers that question with surprising warmth and genuine heartbreak.

The British original series is funny, frightening, and emotionally rich in equal measure.

Each character wrestles with their darker nature the way Midnight Mass characters wrestle with faith and temptation.

Guilt, redemption, and the desperate desire to be good despite what you are — it’s all here.

The show never lets its supernatural elements overshadow its deeply human core, which is exactly what made Midnight Mass so powerful and memorable.

5. Dracula (2020)

The BBC and Netflix teamed up to give Bram Stoker’s most famous creation a psychological makeover, and the result is genuinely fascinating.

This three-episode miniseries reimagines Dracula as a charming, deeply intelligent predator who loves debating faith and mortality with his victims.

The first episode — set almost entirely in a crumbling Transylvanian convent — is a standout piece of gothic horror television.

Claustrophobic, witty, and theologically loaded, it feels like a natural companion to Midnight Mass.

The series gets stranger as it progresses, but its core obsession with immortality and religious corruption keeps it firmly in Flanagan’s neighborhood.

6. Preacher (2016–2019)

Buckle up, because Preacher is nothing like Midnight Mass in tone — but shares a whole lot of its DNA when it comes to faith, power, and what happens when religion goes terribly wrong.

Jesse Custer is a small-town preacher who gets possessed by a supernatural entity and suddenly has the power to make anyone obey his word.

The show is chaotic, violent, and darkly hilarious.

But underneath all the mayhem is a genuine exploration of belief, free will, and moral corruption.

If Midnight Mass made you think hard about God and community, Preacher will make you laugh while doing the same thing.

7. Salem’s Lot (1979)

Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot was already doing what Midnight Mass does — just decades earlier.

This made-for-TV miniseries follows a writer returning to his Maine hometown only to find it quietly being consumed by vampirism, one neighbor at a time.

The pacing is slow and atmospheric, the horror rooted in community trust and religious imagery, and the creeping sense that something sacred has been corrupted feels deeply familiar.

That iconic floating child scene outside the bedroom window still gives people nightmares.

If you want to understand where Midnight Mass drew its vampire-in-a-small-town inspiration, start right here.

8. Constantine (2014–2015)

John Constantine is one of fiction’s most complicated believers — a man who knows demons and angels are absolutely real, and still can’t decide if that makes God worth trusting.

The NBC series based on DC’s occult detective ran only one season, but it packed in serious supernatural mythology.

Religious iconography, spiritual warfare, and moral ambiguity are baked into every episode.

Constantine fights evil not because he’s good, but because he owes a debt he can never fully repay.

That tortured, complicated relationship with faith and sin feels very much at home alongside Midnight Mass’s darkest theological threads.

9. American Gothic (1995–1996)

Long before prestige horror television was a thing, American Gothic was quietly doing something extraordinary.

Set in the fictional Trinity, South Carolina, the series revolves around Sheriff Lucas Buck — a man who may or may not be the devil walking among regular people.

Religion, corruption, and community manipulation are the show’s beating heart.

Buck uses charm, fear, and possibly supernatural power to control everyone around him, mirroring how Midnight Mass’s Father Paul holds his congregation.

It’s eerie, morally murky, and surprisingly sophisticated for mid-90s network TV.

Gary Cole’s performance as Buck remains genuinely unsettling decades later.

10. Channel Zero: Candle Cove (2016)

Channel Zero is one of the most underrated horror anthologies ever made.

Its first season, Candle Cove, centers on a child psychiatrist who returns to his hometown after memories of a disturbing childhood TV show resurface alongside a new string of disappearances.

The show weaponizes childhood nostalgia in deeply uncomfortable ways.

Like Midnight Mass, the horror is anchored in a small, tightly connected community where secrets run generational and dark.

Its surreal imagery — particularly the Tooth Child — burrows into your brain and refuses to leave.

Each season of Channel Zero is self-contained, so Candle Cove is the perfect entry point.

11. Ultraviolet (1998)

Forget capes and coffins — Ultraviolet treats vampirism like a classified public health crisis.

This six-episode British series follows a police officer recruited into a secret government unit that investigates and neutralizes vampires operating in modern London.

The tone is cold, clinical, and incredibly tense.

Nobody even says the word “vampire” out loud.

The show’s restrained approach makes it feel more like a conspiracy thriller than traditional horror, but its undercurrent of moral dread and creeping institutional corruption gives it a surprising amount of thematic overlap with Midnight Mass.

Short, sharp, and remarkably effective for something made in the late nineties.

12. Eerie, Indiana (1991–1992)

Not everything on this list has to terrify you into a second childhood fear of the dark.

Eerie, Indiana is a cult classic that takes the “something’s wrong with this town” premise and wraps it in accessible, inventive storytelling aimed at younger viewers — but genuinely weird enough to unsettle adults too.

Marshall Teller moves to Eerie, Indiana, and immediately notices his neighbors are hiding bizarre secrets.

The show never takes itself too seriously, but its small-community paranoia and underlying strangeness absolutely echo Midnight Mass’s atmosphere.

Think of it as a lighter palate cleanser between heavier watches on this list.

13. Kindred: The Embraced (1996)

Based on the tabletop roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade, Kindred: The Embraced is a short-lived but fascinating artifact of 90s supernatural television.

Set in San Francisco, it follows rival vampire clans maintaining an uneasy secret existence alongside the human world.

The gothic intrigue, internal power struggles, and moral negotiations among the clans give it a Shakespearean quality that’s genuinely compelling.

While it only lasted eight episodes before cancellation, its exploration of honor, corruption, and the cost of immortality lines up nicely with Midnight Mass’s themes.

Consider it a hidden gem worth seeking out for dedicated fans of vampire mythology.

14. Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975)

Every modern horror investigation show owes something to Kolchak.

Carl Kolchak is a Chicago reporter who keeps stumbling onto supernatural cases — vampires, werewolves, demons — and nobody in authority ever believes him.

It’s equal parts scary, funny, and genuinely clever.

The show helped invent the template that later shows like The X-Files and Supernatural would refine into massive franchises.

Kolchak himself is a wonderfully stubborn, lovably disheveled character whose dogged pursuit of the truth mirrors Midnight Mass’s own obsession with uncovering what’s really happening beneath a peaceful surface.

A vintage watch that absolutely holds up.

15. American Horror Story: Double Feature – Red Tide (2021)

Red Tide is the first half of American Horror Story’s tenth season, and it’s easily one of the strongest entries the anthology has produced in years.

Set in a near-empty Provincetown during the off-season, it follows a struggling writer who discovers a mysterious black pill that either unlocks genius or turns you into something monstrous.

The coastal isolation is almost suffocating, and the vampiric transformation at the story’s core carries real moral weight.

Watching a community slowly fracture as its members choose ambition over humanity feels spiritually connected to Midnight Mass’s portrait of a congregation seduced by false salvation.