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Recommend the Hammer House of Horror series, which may be available in the states by now.
These modern gothic tales were made for British TV after the studio stopped making films, and are highly effective chillers with many notable actors (Peter Cushing, Pierce Brosnan, Denholm Elliot etc.) and scary - if unremarkable - stories.
Right from the devastating theme music, the shows have an almost depressing effect as their cold aura seems strangely removed from anything else... and are refreshingly devoid of humour, leaving only the horror of evil doppelgangers, murderous children, ghastly fetishes and baby-eating to mull over long into the night.
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