Cross-media picks for Ryan Murphy fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a set of recurring pressures: communities hiding violence beneath ordinary surfaces, institutions that corrode the people inside them, and grief that reshapes everything it touches. You'll find pandemic horror in Sick and Fear, prison's moral weight in Time, teen secrets turning lethal in Super Dark Times and Scream: The TV Series, and the family fracture-point in Waves. The range runs from slasher to courtroom to cheerleading squad — the common thread is darkness that refuses to stay buried.
Film
The Miracle Season
Grief welds a shattered team together as they chase a state championship in a star player's memory.
Film
Open
A provocative, unflinching look at sexuality and human relationships that refuses easy answers.
Film
Sick
Pandemic quarantine at a lake house turns lethal when an unexpected intruder arrives.
Film
American History X
A reformed white-supremacist reckons with the violent ideology he built — and its human cost.
Film
Fear
Supernatural forces and an airborne virus converge on a group of friends at a woodland cabin.
Film
The Sadness
A pandemic unleashes extreme violence as infected people act on their most cruel and depraved impulses.
Film
Waves
A father's relentless pressure on his children unravels into unexpected and irreversible tragedy.
Film
Super Dark Times
A teenage cover-up fractures a friendship and pulls both boys toward escalating paranoia and violence.
Series
Them
An anthology series exploring terror rooted in American experience.
Series
PULSE
ER residents navigate medical crises, personal drama, and a divisive allegation at their Miami hospital.
Series
Scream: The TV Series
A viral video ignites a murder spree in a small town where everyone carries secrets.
Series
The Terror
An anthology of horror drawn from true historical events, each arc steeped in dread.
Series
Burning Body
A police officer is murdered and set on fire — and suspicion falls on his girlfriend and her lover.
Series
MONSTER
A brilliant lawyer joins a new firm and immediately unsettles it with her unconventional approach.
Series
Time
Prison strips characters to raw guilt and impossible moral choices, devastating and unsparing.
Series
The Madness
A media pundit framed for murder uncovers a far-right conspiracy while fleeing the law.
Game
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2
A surgeon faces the disastrous aftermath of a killer virus and the consequences of past choices.
Game
Blues and Bullets
Eliot Ness is pulled out of retirement into the corruption rotting his city from within.
Game
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
A city that feels like a prison, and a monster — external and internal — that won't let you go.
Game
9 Clues 2: The Ward
A detective responds to a distress call from a psychiatric hospital on a remote, frozen island.
Game
The Quarry
Nine camp counselors in a cinematic horror where every decision shapes who lives and who dies.
Game
Fear The Timeloop
A sheriff bleeds to death in an unfamiliar hospital — then the loop resets, and he has fifteen minutes.
Game
Amid Evil
Seven completely distinct episodes of high-intensity FPS action, each with its own setting and enemies.
Game
3 out of 10: Season Two
A struggling game studio battles rival companies and internal chaos in its quest to score above a three.
Book
Your Basic Nightmare
Jealousy, loyalty, and high-school social warfare play out as a boyfriend takes the wrong side.
Book
A child of a CrackHead
Survivors of extreme violence attempt to rebuild their lives — raw and without comfort.
Book
The Bone Season
A clairvoyant operative is captured by an otherworldly authoritarian force in a surveillance-state future.
Book
Panic
A dancer's disappearance throws rehearsals into crisis and casts dread over the whole troupe.
Book
Murder at the Breakers
A musician must find the killer threatening Princess Elizabeth before the next murder.
Book
The whale
A 600-pound recluse eating himself to death tries to reconnect with the daughter who resents him.
Book
Getting Even
Rival cheerleaders, jealousy, and the pressure of an upcoming competition threaten the squad's unity.
Book
No Rules
Friday Barnes returns to a school in chaos after a mass prank and works to find who's behind it.
Start with Them or The Terror for anthology horror with dark American themes, or PULSE for a hospital drama loaded with personal and institutional conflict. Scream: The TV Series and Burning Body deliver the glossy-crime tension.
The Bone Season delivers dystopian intrigue with a clairvoyant outsider fighting a sinister authoritarian institution, while The Whale offers a raw, devastating character study of a man trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter before it's too late.
The Quarry is the closest match — a cinematic ensemble horror where every choice matters and any character can die. Blues and Bullets brings the noir moral weight, and 9 Clues 2: The Ward transplants institutional dread into a locked-room psychiatric mystery.