History Main / SuperheroHorror

* ''Series/Legion2017'' centers around a mutant who had a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who has struggled with mental illness since his late childhood. The series uses MindScrew to tell a story of psychological horror.

* ''Series/{{Helstrom}}'' follows siblings Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana (Sydney Lemmon) Helstrom, the children of an infamous serial killer who moonlight as hunters of demons.

* ''[[Series/KamenRiderAmazons Kamen Rider Amazons]]'' is a [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] and [[BloodierAndGorier bloodier]] reboot of [[Series/KamenRiderAmazon the 1974 series]]. [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke 4000 lab-grown predators]] known as "Amazons" were unleashed into the world after a mysterious lab accident 2 years prior to the series, [[IAmAHumanitarian where they feast upon unsuspecting humans: their natural prey]]. The main characters range from [[AntiHero Anti-heroes]] to outright [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]], and most are just as violent and cannibalistic as the monsters they fight.

* ''Series/{{Helstrom}}'' follows siblings Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana (Sydney Lemmon) Helstrom, the children of an infamous serial killer who moonlight as hunters of demons. This series does not have the Marvel branding despite being a Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse TV series due to its DarkerAndEdgier horror content. It is also the first MCU horror series.

* ''WebVideo/TruthInJournalism'' is a mockumentary about Eddie Brock and his unsavory reporting methods; throughout the story, we get disturbing glimpses of his infamous alter ego (including Brock babbling to himself and him attacking two junkies and stringing them up while the film crew is distracted). When he fully transforms into Venom at the end, we get a horrifying first-person taste of what it would feel like to be locked in a room with the symbiote.

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* ''Series/{{Helstrom}}'' follows siblings Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana (Sydney Lemmon) Helstrom, the children of an infamous serial killer who moonlight as hunters of human evil. This series does not have the Marvel branding despite being a Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse TV series due to its DarkerAndEdgier horror content. It is also the first MCU horror series.

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* ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'' might be the first superhero horror film yet(or at least superhero HorrorComedy). Melvin runs afoul of a local gang of hoodlums, he ends up falling out of a second-story window at the gym - straight into a vat of toxic waste. The resulting mutation transforms Melvin into the Toxic Avenger, a deformed creature. he proceeds to beat up baddies (and boy, are they bad!) in the most gory ways possible.

* ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'' might be the first superhero horror film yet. Melvin runs afoul of a local gang of hoodlums, he ends up falling out of a second-story window at the gym - straight into a vat of toxic waste. The resulting mutation transforms Melvin into the Toxic Avenger, a deformed creature. he proceeds to beat up baddies (and boy, are they bad!) in the most gory ways possible.

* ''Series/WandaVision'' is described as being a send-up of classic TV sitcoms such as ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', and ''Series/FullHouse'', with implications of a PsychologicalHorror twist, while adapting plot elements taken from the comic series ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' and ''ComicBook/TheVision2015''

** ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'' incorporates the ramifications of ComicBook/DoomsdayClock, showing that [[ComicBook/Watchmen Dr. Manhattan's]] essence has bonded to the fabric of the DC Multiverse, and thus is exploited by the Dark Knights.

* ''Film/BladeTrilogy'', with its {{Dhampyr}} protagonist and its secret societies of vampires, is a notable example of this trope, being a hybrid of the superhero genre, the horror genre, and the action movie genre.

* ''Film/TheBladeTrilogy'' is a hybrid of the superhero genre and the horror genre, and the action movie genre.

* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' depicts a world where superheroes embrace their darker sides from their fame, wealth and power, engaging in hedonism and depravity that harms the lives of normal people, all while being backed by a major corporation. It shows how horrific superpowers inflicted on normal people such as A-Train accidentally killing Hughie's girlfriend, Robin by ramming her on super-speed. It deconstructs the underlying relationship between superheroes and the comic industry by potraying the relationship between Vought corporation and its superheroes.

* ''Film/TheNewMutants'' is a superhero action film, but ripe with {{Jump Scare}}s, demons and a tad bit of PsychologicalHorror.

* ''Series/KamenRiderAmazons Kamen Rider Amazons'' is a [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] and [[BloodierAndGorier bloodier]] reboot of [[Series/KamenRiderAmazon the 1974 series]]. [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke 4000 lab-grown predators]] known as "Amazons" were unleashed into the world after a mysterious lab accident 2 years prior to the series, [[IAmAHumanitarian where they feast upon unsuspecting humans: their natural prey]]. The main characters range from [[AntiHero Anti-heroes]] to outright [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]], and most are just as violent and cannibalistic as the monsters they fight.

** ''Film/KamenRiderTheFirst'' in 2005 and its sequel [[Film/KamenRiderTheNext Kamen Rider: The Next]] 2 years later are reboots of [[Series/KamenRider the original series]] made to celebrate the franchise's 35th anniversary that lean more into the subtle horror elements of the show on account of no longer being aimed at a younger audience, with some newer J-Horror elements thrown in.
** ''Film/ShinKamenRiderPrologue'' features a hero gene-spliced with Grasshopper DNA, becoming a grasshopper-monster himself.

* ''Series/KamenRiderAmazons Kamen'' is a [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] and [[BloodierAndGorier bloodier]] reboot of [[Series/KamenRiderAmazon the 1974 series]]. [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke 4000 lab-grown predators]] known as "Amazons" were unleashed into the world after a mysterious lab accident 2 years prior to the series, [[IAmAHumanitarian where they feast upon unsuspecting humans: their natural prey]]. The main characters range from [[AntiHero Anti-heroes]] to outright [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]], and most are just as violent and cannibalistic as the monsters they fight.

* ''Series/{{Helstrom}}'' follows siblings Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana (Sydney Lemmon) Helstrom, the children of an infamous serial killer who moonlight as hunters of human evil. This series does not have the Marvel branding despite being a Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse TV series due to its horror content.

* ''Series/{{Legion}}'' centers around a mutant who had a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who has struggled with mental illness since his late childhood. The series uses MindScrew to tell a story of psychological horror.

* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' introduces the Dark Multiverse, where worlds are created from every bad decision or choice that the person makes, and said worlds are filled with a malformed contents of nightmare and despair, until they're doomed to rot apart. To illustrate, Batman has about eight EvilCounterparts of himself coming from the Dark into the Prime Multiverse, with their backstories ranging from being driven to madness form losing his entire family to becoming twisted and psychopathic whilst retaining his technological and intellectual prowess after killing The Joker out of pure rage.

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}'' is essentially a superhero version of a CosmicHorrorStory, which Creator/WarrenEllis describes as what happens when superhumans are no longer human at all. It describes an arms race between nations to create the most powerful superhuman, culminating the extinction of the human race and the planet overrun with an alien fungus.
* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' deconstructs neo-Golden Age comics which depict World War II being fought with [[WeirdHistoricalWar superheroes and Dieselpunk mad science]] as an arena for RuleOfCool adventures. First Nazi Germany, and then other countries, develop superhumans in the final stages of the war. The result is an extremely depressing and sickening intensification of its real-world brutality, with BodyHorror and floods of gore aplenty, and SuperWeight differences being treated with ruthless RealityEnsues as something that can't be overcome by abstract "willpower" or "righteousness" - challenge a super more powerful than you are and you '''will''' end up as a smear of blood and ash... if you're lucky.

Heroes will sometimes have a LovecraftianSuperpower, and the tone is generally DarkerAndEdgier then the usual superhero comic. It often mixes {{Capepunk}} with horror tropes.

* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' deconstructs neo-Golden Age comics which depict World War II being fought with [[WeirdHistoricalWar superheroes and Dieselpunk mad science]] as an arena for RuleOfCool adventures. First Nazi German, and then other countries, develop superhumans in the final stages of the war, and the result is an extremely depressing and sickening intensification of its real-world brutality, with BodyHorror and floods of gore aplenty, and SuperWeight differences being treated with ruthless RealityEnsues as something that can't be overcome by abstract "willpower" or "righteousness" - challenge a super more powerful than you are and you '''will''' end up as a smear of blood and ash... if you're lucky.

See also: FrighteningPowerUsage.