The Top 10 APM Music Placements in Horror-Themed Episodic Series Airing Now
- Sarah Scarlata
- Nov 4, 2024
- 3 min read
Halloween is upon us and to some, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! Horror is the fastest rising film genre with its popularity doubling in the last ten years. With the evolution of television now becoming cinema’s longform binge-worthy companion, this trend has resulted in a larger number of horror-themed series on the current TV slate.
APM Music has a long history of scoring some of the most classic Horror-themed TV shows including True Blood, The Walking Dead, The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, The Outsider, Locke & Key, Lovecraft Country, Castle Rock, and Jordan’s Peele’s Twilight Zone reboot. Here are the top 10 placements in Horror-themed TV shows airing now:
10. Interview with a Vampire – AMC’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s gothic horror tale has all the ingredients for a small screen classic: love, immortality, New Orleans, and vampires. Here are some of our favorite placements in the series:
9. Them – Each of the two seasons of Them takes place in a specific time period (1953 and 1991) in Los Angeles. These archival tracks add authenticity to the time periods in which these gruesome tales take place:
8. Evil – This psychological mystery series tackles the scientific and the religious viewpoints on the supernatural. The fourth and final season of Evil aired on Paramount+ in August, so it’s ready to be binged! Here are a few APM Music goodies licensed in the series:
7. Wednesday – Jenna Ortega is carrying the torch of portraying an Addams family icon in this devilishly hilarious Netflix series. We are anxiously awaiting season 2 which is set to drop sometime in 2025 and are ready to supply any dance soundtracks if called upon! Here are some APM gems placed in season 1:
6. What We Do in the Shadows – We love this vampire mockumentary and can’t get enough of the first three episodes of season 6 that premiered this week! Matt Berry who plays Laszlo writes music when he is not acting. Here are a few of the tracks heard in the series:
5. Grotesquerie – This new Ryan Murphy series has it all including murder, mystery, and even Travis Kelce! Season 1 is wrapping on 10/30 and we’re on the edge of our seats. Here are some tracks placed in the series:
4. Agatha All Along – This Marvel supernatural fantasy miniseries tracks Agatha Harkness’s coven of witches in a quest to regain her unworldly powers. This timeless KPM gem can be heard in episode 1:
3. Yellowjackets – The wilderness is a dangerous place. A plane crash leaves a high school girls soccer team in a mysterious wooded wasteland in Canada in 1996. Yellowjackets depicts survival at any cost and has a ravenous fanbase lovingly called “The Hive.” Here are some APM Music tracks that lurk in the shadows of the show like the “man with no eyes”:
2. American Horror Story (Franchise) – This twisted and captivating Horror series from the mind of Ryan Murphy never disappoints! We’re ready for Season 13 in 2025 and have voraciously devoured the American Horror Stories spin-off episodes that just dropped. Check out these APM Music gems from both series:
1. Stranger Things – This Netflix series is a TV phenomenon that has clocked 1.8 billion hours of streaming. Not only has it broken viewership records, but the soundtrack has given artists like Kate Bush and Metallica a new army of fans. We are sad to see Season 5 bring this story to a close, but celebrate these APM tracks that are in the series:
APM Music loves horror and has a deep history in many historic soundtracks. Look no further for bone chilling music to help tell your scary stories!
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