“Love, Death, and Robots” is a gem of a show produced by “Se7en” director David Fincher and “Deadpool” director Tim Miller. Composed of 18 episodes, each one is a short animated film made by a different company. Each has its own unique style of animation and a wide range of storylines and mood. Many are lighthearted, but more than half of them are incredibly dark and gory. The show has been around for about a year and will soon include a second season, but it is often overlooked by horror fans.

This list is going to rank these episodes with a horror fan in mind: by the most scary and/or bloodiest. And if you want to check out the show, you can find it on Netflix.

Love, Death, and Robots Ranked by Scariness

1. Beyond The Aquila Rift: A space crew has to go into hyper sleep, and when they wake up they discover they’ve arrived on a planet way off course. This one is deeply unsettling and definitely was the scariest to me, but not until the end. I’m not going to spoil it, but it has a dark and unexpected twist. 

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2. Sonny’s Edge: This episode is pretty dark and violent throughout.  Sonny is a monster fighter with a troubled past in a dystopian world where “beasties” are controlled by humans to fight for spectators like an R-rated Pokemon. If you’re a fan of seeing giant monsters slice each other up, this would be up your alley.

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3. The Secret War: Russian elite soldiers track and kill mysterious supernatural beasts in the forest. It’s got a survivalist vibe to it, like “The Grey” but spookier. The realistic looking animation also has some intense gore as well. 

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4. Helping Hand: Think “Gravity” but about 20x shorter and hard core. An astronaut must find out how to save herself as she is flung into space by her faulty equipment while fixing something on the outside of her shuttle. Intense and disturbing, if you’re scared of space this will probably be one of your worst nightmares. 

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5. The Witness: This cyberpunk gritty short is filled with anxiety as a fetish dancer witnesses a murder in the building across from hers. The killer then chases her across town when he notices she mysteriously has the same face as the woman he murdered. 

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6. Shape-Shifters: A hyperreal animation short about American soldiers stationed in the Middle East, some of whom just happen to also be werewolves. This “Love, Death, and Robots” short packs some seriously intense and gory action sequences.

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7. Sucker of Souls: An ancient vampire is released on an archaeological dig. While very bloody, this is definitely more light-hearted and action based than horror, but beastly vampires are always fun to see. 

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8. Good Hunting: In an alternate version of pre-industrial China, a young boy and his father hunt for women that can change into fox creatures that supposedly lure men. After befriending one on these young girls, the boy and fox girl struggle as they transition into a new, industrial China. While not very scary, this is one of the better shorts in the series and serves a lot of blood and revenge. 

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9. Fish Night: Two salesmen get stranded in the middle of a desert when their car breaks down. Overnight, the two men experience a fantastic spectacle when the ghosts of all the fish who had lived in the desert float around in a waterless ocean. It’s a little scary in a deep sea horror kind of way. 

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10. Three Robots: This short is more amusing than scary, but it does have dark themes to it. Three robots act as tourists roaming through a post-apocalyptic Earth on a trip. The robots talk about the humans that lived there like alien beings while being surrounded by their decaying corpses. 

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11. The Dump: An old hillbilly man lives alone in a dump when a man comes to tell him he must sell his property for the real estate being bought nearby. But, he doesn’t know the full extent of what’s inside the dump. A pretty goofy story but with some supernatural elements.

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12. Suits: This episode is a light-hearted mecha battle between provincial farmers in robot suits and invading giant bugs. It does, however, have some cool action sequences and an emotional character-based narrative.

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13. Blindspot: A gang of robot thieves pull off a heist on top of a moving convoy. This has cool action but it is not horrifying in any way. It’s violent, but robot violence, so not really gory. Still a decent intense short.

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14. When the Yogurt Took Over: A bizarre short about yogurt gaining sentience and taking over the world. Certainly weird, but not very scary. The only horror found within it is the collapse of a society as we know it. 

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15. Lucky 13: This short is also about war, but this time in space and starring the iconic Samira Wiley (“Orange is the New Black”) as the brave pilot of a war cruiser that is notoriously unlucky. This is a very inspirational short but there is nothing particularly scary or disturbing about it, other than war itself. 

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16. Alternate Histories: A program that shows how changing some events in history will affect the future demonstrates its abilities by showing Hitler dying in different scenarios. That’s pretty much it. This short is more humorous and also doesn’t stray much into horror, other than Hitler exploding in various ways.

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17. Zima Blue: Hands down, this is one of the best and most beautiful shorts in the series. A reporter finally gets a chance to interview one of the most interesting and private artists of the time, who creates paintings as tall as the atmosphere. Another scareless short, but good. 

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19. Ice Age: The only live action short in the bunch, starring Topher Grace and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The two move into a new apartment and discover a tiny civilization living inside their old refrigerator. This short has a pretty cool concept, a lackadaisical tone and is not horror. 

So that’s the ranking for scariest “Love, Death, and Robots” shorts. We can’t wait for the next season on Netflix to come out! What do you think of this ranking? Is this a good show for horror fans?

If you’re a fan of dark animation, check out another list we’ve made of animated horror films.