Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Widow's Bay is an American comedy horror series created by Katie Dippold for Apple TV. Set in a fictional New England island town, it follows a mayor determined to rebrand the place as a tourist destination — while the town itself is afflicted by a centuries-old curse bringing supernatural evils. The comic tension between civic optimism and genuine dread is the show's defining quality, anchored by a cast including Matthew Rhys, Kate O'Flynn, and Stephen Root, with Hiro Murai directing.
Widow's Bay is an American comedy horror television series created by Katie Dippold for Apple TV, and starring Matthew Rhys, Kate O'Flynn, Kevin Carroll, Dale Dickey, Kingston Rumi Southwick, and Stephen Root. The series is set in the fictional New England island town of Widow's Bay, which happens to be afflicted with a centuries-old curse that brings various supernatural evils upon the island. Hiro Murai serves as director and executive producer on the series.
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Film
The Damned
A 19th-century widow faces an impossible moral choice when a ship sinks off her Icelandic village in brutal winter.
Film
The Widow
Based on real events: people have vanished for decades in a densely forested area north of St. Petersburg.
Film
The Parish
A widow relocating to a small town triggers strange, escalating events — the community itself becomes the threat.
Film
Widows
Four widows share only the criminal debts their husbands left behind and must forge a future on their own terms.
Film
Resident Evil: Death Island
A coastal bay becomes ground zero for a viral outbreak merging zombie horror with ensemble action.
Film
Intrude The Widow Village at Midnight
Six friends stranded at midnight in a remote village discover the location itself is lethal.
Game
Tormented Souls 2
Caroline Walker returns in a survival horror sequel, stalking haunted monasteries armed only with makeshift weapons.
Game
Cozy Grove
A life-sim on a haunted, ever-changing island where you help restless ghosts find peace day by day.
Game
Rusty Lake Paradise
A family island is cursed after your mother's mysterious death — perform rituals to lift the ten plagues.
Game
Wayward Strand
Multiple character stories unfold simultaneously aboard an airborne hospital, rewarding patience with warmth.
Game
Lake
A career woman swaps city life to fill in as her hometown's mail carrier, reconnecting with the place she left.
Game
The Sims 3: Island Paradise
Take your Sims to a tropical island to explore, build, and create a five-star resort experience.
Book
Bay Hideaway (Heartsong Presents #729)
A romantic mystery built around a woman drowned in a river — her body never found, her fate unresolved.
Book
Widow's web
A widow concealing a deadly secret makes this a taut suspense novel about who can be trusted.
Book
Katherine Wentworth
A widow refuses to flounder in grief, building a new life with quiet determination after sudden loss.
Book
Beachcombers
Abbie returns to her family's coastal home after two years away, drawn back by an urgent call from her sister.
Book
Chesapeake Bay Trilogy (Inner Harbor / Rising Tides / Sea Swept)
Three novels — Sea Swept, Rising Tides, Inner Harbor — set around the Chesapeake Bay.
Book
Victim Six
A methodical predator targets victims across the Puget Sound region in this relentless thriller.
Series
The Bay
A town cursed by a founding politician's spirit — its affluent residents entangled in sex, lies, and scandal.
Series
The Hunting Wives
A woman falls into a wealthy socialite's orbit in East Texas, where a clique of housewives hide deadly secrets.
Series
The Bay
A family liaison officer grows dangerously close to the family of missing twins she is assigned to help.
Series
Red Widow
A woman takes on gangsters and the FBI after her mob husband is murdered, uncovering a dark underworld.
Series
Chesapeake Shores
A divorced mother returns to her hometown, navigating old romance and complicated family issues.
Series
The Widow
A woman travels to the Congo to uncover the truth about her missing husband, forced to seek dangerous answers.
For more cursed-town horror-comedy, The Bay (2010) is built on a similar premise — an affluent town haunted by a founding politician's spirit. If you want the supernatural played straight with the comedy removed, The Parish follows a widow and her daughter whose new small town turns against them.
Cozy Grove is the closest tonal match — a haunted, ever-changing island where you help restless ghosts find peace. Rusty Lake Paradise goes darker, wrapping a family curse and the ten plagues in puzzle rituals on an isolated island.
The show places an optimistic authority figure — the mayor — against a setting the locals already know is cursed. The horror lands because the threat is real; the comedy comes from watching someone ignore every warning sign and push tourist brochures anyway.