Archive 81

About Archive 81

An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.

Archive 81 is a mystery, science fiction, and fantasy series made for Netflix. Mamoudou Athie leads the cast as Dan Turner, Dina Shihabi as Melody Pendras, Evan Jonigkeit as Samuel Spare, and Martin Donovan as Virgil Davenport.

It reached one season of 8 episodes from January 2022.

Shelv files it under cult, supernatural horror, paranormal, and based on podcast. It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. It scores 7.2 out of 10 from 764 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.

American Horror Story, If Wishes Could Kill, and Stranger Things make useful companions to Archive 81, all filed under horror and supernatural.