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Scariest TV episodes of all Time

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Scariest TV episodes of all Time

Do you agree?

I'd put the first part of It at the top of the list. If there's anything scarier that's been made for TV, I'm blocked the traumatic memory out of my consciousness. :rommie:

Was the "Home" episode of The X-Files really scary or just hilariously disgusting and depraved? I have a feeling that there were scarier episodes of that show.

My vote for scariest Twilight Zone episode isn't one of the two they chose - it's "The Dummy." Those creepy little things beat talking dolls hands down.

I'd also give a vote to "The Cemetery," from the premiere episode of Night Gallery.
 
Reading the thread title, I automatically thought of "Home." That was the creepiest and most depraved thing I've ever seen made for broadcast television.
 
I thought Home was disgusting, not scary, or even creepy in the scary sense. I wouldn't have included it on a list, yet, when I first saw this thread, I immediately considered Countrycide from Torchwood. Kind of along the same lines. Humans being utterly disgusting.

I think Hush is most certainly one of the scariest episodes of SFF TV ever produced, and really belongs as #1 on any list.
 
"It" was one of the few things that actually scared me on tv. Home was more gross than anything. Hush was creepy but I didn't find it scary. Living doll is something that scared me as a kid but when I watched later didn't quite have the same effect.
 
I like the list, but it is a crime imo to leave out anything from Twin Peaks, which at times was a surreal nightmare.

Certainly the finale as a whole qualifies as one of the more disturbing things on television, and the Murder of Maddy in ep. 14 was very brutal.

Can't think of many things on television that were actually frightening to me overall.
 
X-files is up there, some of the episodes went from kinda creepy funny, mysterious to just down right weird and scary
 
Salems Lot (the original David Soul/James Mason mini series)

The first part of IT (it's way scarier when they're kids than when they're adults though)

There used to be a British kids tv show called Dramarama and one epsiode featured a masked wresteler and a kid who went to extreme lengths to get a look at what he looked like under the mask...with scary results. Freaked me out at the time.

Also various episodes of the Hammer House of Horror that aired when I was young (and maybe I shouldn't have watched!)

And not forgetting Sapphire and Steel (in particular the man without a face in the photo episode)
 
Temis the Friendly Ghost said:
Just in time for Halloween! :D

Scariest TV episodes of all Time

Do you agree?

I'd put the first part of It at the top of the list. If there's anything scarier that's been made for TV, I'm blocked the traumatic memory out of my consciousness. :rommie:

Was the "Home" episode of The X-Files really scary or just hilariously disgusting and depraved? I have a feeling that there were scarier episodes of that show.

My vote for scariest Twilight Zone episode isn't one of the two they chose - it's "The Dummy." Those creepy little things beat talking dolls hands down.

I'd also give a vote to "The Cemetery," from the premiere episode of Night Gallery.
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To me, the scariest episode of the Twilight Zone is the one where Billy Mumy gets a toy phone from his grandma for his birthday, then talks to her on it after she dies. That one always freaks me out.
 
There were a few episodes of "American Gothic" that were pretty darn creepy, including the final episode.
 
I find "Hush" and some of episodes from The X-Files more creepy than actually scary, but they'll do. I know a couple of people who are absolutely terrified of The Gentlemen from that Buffy episode.
 
Temis the Friendly Ghost said:
Just in time for Halloween! :D

Scariest TV episodes of all Time

Do you agree?

I'd put the first part of It at the top of the list. If there's anything scarier that's been made for TV, I'm blocked the traumatic memory out of my consciousness. :rommie:

Was the "Home" episode of The X-Files really scary or just hilariously disgusting and depraved? I have a feeling that there were scarier episodes of that show.
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"Home" was creepy and disgusting. Not sure it was the scariest, but it's a candidate.

Offhand, I think "Die Hand Die Verletzt" (Season 2) is a very underrated and scary episode. This is the one about PTA members who are involved in Satanic rituals.
 
"Home" is amazing--and definitely scary. The scene where the Sheriff's wife is hiding under the bed, while the blood flows closer to her, still gives me chills.

And my little sister has still never forgiven me for showing it to her!

Meanwhile, I would've added the original tv-movie version of THE NIGHT STALKER.
 
In the revived Dr. Who there was a two-parter in season One about the London Blitz. The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances. Creepy, bordering on scary. Some of the Xfiles freaked me out a bit, too. Can't think of anything that really terrified me.
 
Some of the original Doctor Who serials were intended to be very frightening, and just aren't today because of advances in SFX and video technology. I would put in a vote for Pyramids of Mars or Horror of Fang Rock as two Tom Baker serials that should definitely on the list. Empy Child and The Doctor Dances certainly belong there too.
 
There is an episode of the X Files that creeped the hell out of me. I don't know what it's called, but it's the one where Scully meets other women who are suffering from cancer and claim to have been abducted. Really chilled me. Other than that, Millennium freaked me out endlessly.
 
THRILLER - "The Weird Taylor"
THE TWILIGHT ZONE - "Night Call"
THE NEW OUTER LIMITS - "Tempests"
NIGHT GALLERY - "The Dead Man"
THE INVADERS - Pilot

Boris Karloff's Thriller has some of the creepiest episodes ever seen on network TV. They probably wouldn't be half so much had the show been done in color.
 
It's (inevitably) a very American list: if you add in British stuff, then The Stone Tape and Ghostwatch both have a claim on the top five.
 
WillsCorpse said:
There is an episode of the X Files that creeped the hell out of me. I don't know what it's called, but it's the one where Scully meets other women who are suffering from cancer and claim to have been abducted. Really chilled me. Other than that, Millennium freaked me out endlessly.
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Could you be thinking of the two-parter from Season Three "Nisei" and "731"? I'm pretty sure that's when Scully meets the other women and Mulder's trapped aboard the train car with an alien and a bomb...scary good.

I thought one of The X-Files from Season Two was pretty darn scary--"Irresistible"--the one with the serial killer Donnie Phaster...he's chilling. And goes after Scully. And it was set in Minneapolis. That made for many, many sleepless nights for me!
 
I'd also give a vote to "The Cemetery," from the premiere episode of Night Gallery.
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Is that the one where the painting keeps changing? Because I watched that on a Sunday afternoon probably thirty years ago, and I'm still freaked out about it.

Twilight Zone's The Hitchhiker is not so much scary as creepy, but it would make my list.
 
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