Fans of 'The Twilight Zone’ Need To See This Similarly Haunting, Forgotten British Monster Horror
Nigel Kneale's short-lived and vastly overlooked horror anthology show Beasts delves into the animalistic sides of human nature.
For fans of The Twilight Zone, the horror anthology format is sacred. It's where the uncanny meets the existential, where fear is often less about the monster in the shadows and more about what it reveals in us. If that resonates as true for you, then Nigel Kneale’s Beasts — a tragically overlooked British series from 1976 — might just be the next series for you to devour. Conceived by the writer behind Quatermass, Beasts is a six-standalone-episode deep dive into psychological horror, cloaked in the trappings of a creature feature but far more unsettling in its deeper meaning. It’s not content to loudly scare its audience with special effects or twist endings; instead, it whispers, hoping you're listening close enough to pick up on the true horrors its episodes are providing. In doing so, Beasts delivers something far more disturbing than jump scares: a confrontation with the primal, animal instincts buried beneath modern life and inside of humanity waiting to claw to the surface.
