Scariest Shows on TV Ever Broadcasted [Archive]

Rockvillejoe

10-31-2006, 05:08 AM

Halloween, 2006. Seems like everything on TV today is "scary". Even AMC is showing Halloween 2 this morning. Got me to thinking: what TV show, movie etc., ever freaked me out. The only one to come to mind was "Trilogy Of Terror", with Susan Black. About a little dark savage, 6 inches tall, wreaking fatal havoc all over the place. mesmerizing, paralyzing, and scary. How's about you?

This message was edited by Rockvillejoe on 10-31-06 @ 9:10 AM

Sheeplovr

10-31-2006, 05:29 AM

Buffy the Vampire Episdoe 10 season 4 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(Buffy_episode)" target="_blank">"HUSH"</a><img width="341" height="267" border="0" src="http://www.entil2001.com/series/buffy/season4/buf4-10p1.jpg" /><img width="450" height="338" border="0" src="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i288/pandacharmed/Buffy/fdc52824.jpg" /><img width="200" height="164" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Buffy410.jpg" />  

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FUNKMAN

10-31-2006, 05:31 AM

Maude

Rockvillejoe

10-31-2006, 05:41 AM

FUNKMAN wrote: Maude juding by that avatar of the snowy white house, i'd assume it was ths shining, hotshot.

A.J.

10-31-2006, 05:54 AM

<img height="383" src="http://images.art.com/images/products/large/10105000/10105650.jpg" width="480" border="0" />

This message was edited by A.J. on 10-31-06 @ 9:59 AM

FUNKMAN

10-31-2006, 05:57 AM

Rockvillejoe wrote: Halloween, 2006. Seems like everything on TV today is "scary". Even AMC is showing Halloween 2 this morning. Got me to thinking: what TV show, movie etc., ever freaked me out. The only one to come to mind was "Trilogy Of Terror", with Susan Black. About a little dark savage, 6 inches tall, wreaking fatal havoc all over the place. mesmerizing, paralyzing, and scary. How's about you? This message was edited by Rockvillejoe on 10-31-06 @ 9:10 AM loved the trilogy back in the day...<img src="http://www.monstersinmotion.com/catalog/images/contemp/terrordoll.jpg" border="0" />the little pitter patter of his footsteps as he ran behind the couch.... scary and funny at the same time

BLZBUBBA

10-31-2006, 06:21 AM

TV?  Horror?  Can't even consider the topic without first mentioning Rod Serling and THE TWILIGHT ZONE.  And come to think of it...NIGHT GALLERY had a few creepy as hell episodes.  THE OUTER LIMITS was great.  Moving on through the years...I really liked THE NIGHT STALKER with the Kolchak character.  Great blend of horror and humor.  The original pilot episodes were scary as hell.  A modern day vampire in one and a modern day ripper in the other. But the  NIGHT STALKER stuff doesn't really hold up too well.  Either that or outgrew it.  None of the new stuff scares me.  Most of it just seems silly.  The last movie that "scared" me was THE SHINING.

jafter

10-31-2006, 06:23 AM

More of a shocking moment on TV was Born Innocent.  I was watching the Linda Blair Biography last week and the shower scene where she meets "johnny" caused the family hour.  After that movie shows with explicit scenes had to be shown after 9pm.

Alice S. Fuzzybutt

10-31-2006, 06:27 AM

Rod Serling and THE TWILIGHT ZONE.The scariest episode was <a href="http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/twilightzone5-19.html" target="_self">Night Call</a>. <img width="252" height="241" border="0" src="http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tvgraphics/nightcall.jpg" />

JustJon

10-31-2006, 09:36 AM

The tv miniseries Stephen King's IT!"They float down here, they all float down here!"

Fallon

10-31-2006, 09:40 AM

The Tales from the Crypt guy scared me as a child.Also, check out Conan tonight. It's a special show.

mendyweiss

10-31-2006, 09:49 AM

THe X-files with the "Peacock family"Sheriff Andy and Barney were in that one too !!

Death Metal Moe

10-31-2006, 09:54 AM

Sheeplovr wrote: Buffy the Vampire Episdoe 10 season 4 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(Buffy_episode)" target="_blank">"HUSH"</a><img height="267" src="http://www.entil2001.com/series/buffy/season4/buf4-10p1.jpg" width="341" border="0" /><img height="338" src="http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i288/pandacharmed/Buffy/fdc52824.jpg" width="450" border="0" /><img height="164" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Buffy410.jpg" width="200" border="0" />  This message was edited by Sheeplovr on 10-31-06 @ 9:33 AM You should have your computer taken away from you.  The only scary thing on that show was the acting.

crb1

10-31-2006, 10:07 AM

mendyweiss wrote: THe X-files with the "Peacock family"Sheriff Andy and Barney were in that one too !!Is that the one with the inbred family that keeps their mom under the bed?  If so, then good call.  That was a creepy episode.

ChimneyFish

10-31-2006, 10:10 AM

JustJon wrote: The tv miniseries Stephen King's IT!"They float down here, they all float down here!" Very creepy.The beginning, with Pennywise in the sewer "grate", horrified me.

ChimneyFish

10-31-2006, 10:11 AM

crb1 wrote: mendyweiss wrote: THe X-files with the "Peacock family"Sheriff Andy and Barney were in that one too !!Is that the one with the inbred family that keeps their mom under the bed?  If so, then good call.  That was a creepy episode.Yup. The episode's called "Home", and it was very creepy.

Sheeplovr

10-31-2006, 10:38 AM

You should have your computer taken away from you.  The only scary thing on that show was the actingcome over moe im going to make you watch Hush

stinkbud

10-31-2006, 11:02 AM

Salem's LotThey don't make TV movies like that anymore.

HBox

10-31-2006, 11:05 AM

Furtherman

10-31-2006, 11:15 AM

ChimneyFish wrote: <blockquote />Is that the one with the inbred family that keeps their mom under the bed?  If so, then good call.  That was a creepy episode.Yup. The episode's called "Home", and it was very creepy.<img height="300" src="http://www.kybernografoi.gr/issues/no11/pics/403.jpg" width="400" border="0" />I had heard that FOX never repeated it because of too many complaints it received after it aired.However, I have seen it on Sci-Fi. Great episode, and very creepy.  The woman under the bed is FREAKY.

crb1

10-31-2006, 11:21 AM

Furtherman wrote: ChimneyFish wrote: Yup. The episode's called "Home", and it was very creepy.I had heard that FOX never repeated it because of too many complaints it received after it aired.However, I have seen it on Sci-Fi.Great episode, and very creepy.  The woman under the bed is FREAKY.I never watched the show when it was on, but I got my gf the first 7 seasons or so on DVD.  She told me I should watch them in order, except for one episode I HAD to see.  That was the episode.  Not surprised they got complaints considering some of the content (e.g. burying a baby alive, incest, bludgeoning people to death).

Earlshog

10-31-2006, 11:25 AM

Tenbatsuzen

10-31-2006, 11:32 AM

There was a TV-movie from the 80's that played out like a live news broadcast about a terrorist atomic bomb in Charleston, S.C... I think it was called "Special Report" but I could be wrong.  It wasn't very good, but I was very young at the time and it scared the beejezus out of me.

torker

10-31-2006, 11:45 AM

<img height="135" src="http://www.chillertheatre.com/chillerhand1.jpg" width="172" border="0" />The intro to Chiller Theater freaked me out as a kid.I nearly pissed my pants when they showed The Brain That Wouldn't Die.<img height="219" src="http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/brain02.jpg" width="324" border="0" />

Death Metal Moe

10-31-2006, 11:58 AM

Sheeplovr wrote:  You should have your computer taken away from you.  The only scary thing on that show was the acting  come over moe im going to make you watch Hush The saddest part of this whole story is I have already seen that full episode of Buffy and know exactly what it's about.It's awful.

ChimneyFish

10-31-2006, 12:17 PM

Bringing back some memories.Anybody remember the tv shows "Monsters" and "Tales from the Darkside"???? I remember some of the "Tales" episodes being creepy, more for the writing than anything else.

Sheeplovr

10-31-2006, 12:20 PM

The saddest part of this whole story is I have already seen that full episode of Buffy and know exactly what it's about.
It's awful
how could you break my heart

MadMatt

10-31-2006, 12:31 PM

crb1 wrote: Furtherman wrote: ChimneyFish wrote: Yup. The episode's called "Home", and it was very creepy.I had heard that FOX never repeated it because of too many complaints it received after it aired.However, I have seen it on Sci-Fi.Great episode, and very creepy.  The woman under the bed is FREAKY.I never watched the show when it was on, but I got my gf the first 7 seasons or so on DVD.  She told me I should watch them in order, except for one episode I HAD to see.  That was the episode.  Not surprised they got complaints considering some of the content (e.g. burying a baby alive, incest, bludgeoning people to death)."Home" absolutely bugged the hell out of me.  It was just plain disturbing.  Some "high" points:<ul><li><div>Burying the baby - especially one "brother" weeping as they bury it</div></li><li><div>All 3 boys stripping down so their mother can "see" her boys</div></li><li><div>The deformed mother screaming as Mulder pulled her "tray" out from under the bed</div></li><li><div>The surviving "brother" climbing out of the car trunk where he was "hanging out" with his mom - then driving away into the night</div></li></ul>I just can't watch it again; I know it's just a show and it isn't real, but once was enough.  I only saw it once - 10 YEARS AGO - and it's still stuck in my head.

Servo

10-31-2006, 12:47 PM

MadMatt wrote: "Home" absolutely bugged the hell out of me.  It was just plain disturbing.  Some "high" points:<ul><li>*>Burying the baby - especially one "brother" weeping as they bury it <div /></li><li>*>All 3 boys stripping down so their mother can "see" her boys <div /></li><li>*>The deformed mother screaming as Mulder pulled her "tray" out from under the bed <div /></li><li>*>The surviving "brother" climbing out of the car trunk where he was "hanging out" with his mom - then driving away into the night <div /></li></ul>I just can't watch it again; I know it's just a show and it isn't real, but once was enough.  I only saw it once - 10 YEARS AGO - and it's still stuck in my head."And I think to myself that it's wonderful, wonderful..."Johnny Mathis, was it? 

This message was edited by Tom Servo on 10-31-06 @ 4:49 PM

FUNKMAN

10-31-2006, 01:16 PM

i believe it was a TV movie and someone had posted it recently in another thread<img height="308" src="http://www.wpfs.org/moviepix/Don'tBeAfraidOfTheDark.jpg" width="223" border="0" />i was 11 and it was very scary. mostly what i remember is these 4 or 5 little creatures dragging the mom down the main hallway to the basement. she grabbed a camera off the hallway table and flashed a few times but they got her down to the basement and down the chute below the old fireplace as the father entered the house, but she was gone...

Brad_Rush

10-31-2006, 01:51 PM

Sheeplovr wrote: The saddest part of this whole story is I have already seen that full episode of Buffy and know exactly what it's about.It's awful  how could you break my heart It's been a while since I saw this episode, but I have to agree with Sheepy.  I remember it scaring the hell out of me when I saw it.  Something about those guys faces and manerisms was just plain creepy.

Marc with a c

10-31-2006, 02:17 PM

when i used to snick i remember this episode being super scary.<img src="http://www.serieslive.com/img/series/casting/fais-moi_peur.jpg" border="0" />then i watched roundhouse, and everything was ok.

Marc with a c

10-31-2006, 02:17 PM

also the murder mystery "saved by the bell" was scary.

TheQuestion

10-31-2006, 03:21 PM

lleeder

10-31-2006, 03:28 PM

When I was younger I loved them but was also secretly scared of any episode of Unsolved Mysteries that dealt with aliens.

Uncle Fezster

10-31-2006, 03:51 PM

ESDDoorknob

10-31-2006, 03:59 PM

Homeboys in Outer Space<img src="http://epguides.com/HomeboysinOuterSpace/cast.jpg" border="0" />

Rockvillejoe

10-31-2006, 04:11 PM

I thought of another one. This one's embarassing. My sons would call me a retarded pussy if I admitted to be totally freaked out by the "NBC's Saturday night at the movies" (lit up in white light bulbs) playing of "The Day The Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rennie. It wasn't the alien, but the reaction of the citizens of earth that created  a lot panic and anxiety. That one  and a movie I believe was  the original version of the "Invasion of the Body snatchers" (not sure of the title), where they used a toilet plunger on the back of earthlings necks to turn them into zombie/aliens, and got sucked into a quicksand substance. The kid in the movie, looking for help, makes it to the police station, only to find the desk sargent had already been infected. I almost shit my pants. 

This message was edited by Rockvillejoe on 10-31-06 @ 8:16 PM

Hottub

10-31-2006, 04:22 PM

When I was a kid they showed "Night of the Living Dead" on (I think) The channel 7 late late movie. Scared the fuck out of me, and put me well on the road to Zombie Preparedness!

FUNKMAN

10-31-2006, 04:56 PM

TheQuestion wrote: <img src="http://ispitonyourmovie.com/images/Bad_Ronald.jpg" border="0" />  remember this one very well, especially since i share the same first name. it didn't scare me a s much as it made me think about being a peeping tom, or ron in this case.  i have always been thrilled about the idea of hidden rooms behind walls like you see in alot of mystery and horror flicks like Young Frankenstein, Abbott And Costello meet Dracula, and a host of other Abbott and Costello movies like Hold That Ghost...

keithy_19

10-31-2006, 05:02 PM

ChimneyFish wrote: JustJon wrote: The tv miniseries Stephen King's IT!"They float down here, they all float down here!" Very creepy.The beginning, with Pennywise in the sewer "grate", horrified me.Well, the first half is good. The second isn't so good.

keithy_19

10-31-2006, 05:09 PM

docgoblin

10-31-2006, 05:19 PM

ChimneyFish wrote: Bringing back some memories.Anybody remember the tv shows "Monsters" and "Tales from the Darkside"???? I remember some of the "Tales" episodes being creepy, more for the writing than anything else. "Tales from the Darkside" was great. I still have some that I taped on VHS. Wasn't Romero or King involved with it?The one time I got really scared was a halloween night when I was about 12 or 13. PBS was showing "Night of the Living Dead" at midnight. Since it was a weekend I was allowed to stay up to watch it on the console TV in the living room. I turned all the lights out in the house, got my popcorn and drink ready and settled down to finally see the movie I'd heard so much about. As soon as the first scene ended with the brother getting attacked in the graveyard I was so scared I turned all the lights back on, including the porch light. I also looked up and down the street to be sure no zombies were in the area. I then watched the rest of the movie with every light on. I was hooked on zombie movies from that day on.

docgoblin

10-31-2006, 05:23 PM

keithy_19 wrote: ChimneyFish wrote: JustJon wrote: The tv miniseries Stephen King's IT!"They float down here, they all float down here!" Very creepy.The beginning, with Pennywise in the sewer "grate", horrified me.Well, the first half is good. The second isn't so good.  Like all King stories. They start out great but he never seems to know how to end them. Some of his books run about 200 pages too long.

Fez4PrezN2008

10-31-2006, 05:26 PM

Tenbatsuzen wrote: There was a TV-movie from the 80's that played out like a live news broadcast about a terrorist atomic bomb in Charleston, S.C... I think it was called "Special Report" but I could be wrong.  It wasn't very good, but I was very young at the time and it scared the beejezus out of me. Dude, I remember that one. It was kind of like a modern day war of the worlds kind of thing and it was made to look it was a real broadcast. We totally freaked out my girl friend (now wife) when she came over about half way through it so she didn't see the beginning to know it was fake. Nice boyfriend, hun?

Arienette

10-31-2006, 05:26 PM

Death Metal Moe wrote: Sheeplovr wrote:  You should have your computer taken away from you.  The only scary thing on that show was the acting  come over moe im going to make you watch Hush The saddest part of this whole story is I have already seen that full episode of Buffy and know exactly what it's about.It's awful."hush" sucked, but death metal is super rad.sounds qualified to me.

AKA

11-01-2006, 05:16 AM

For me, I will never forget watching the original NIGHT STALKER movies and tv series as a little boy and being freaked out - locally, "Count Gore" (him again!) freaked me out with showing "House on Haunted Hill" and other classic movies - SALEMS LOT is maybe the only Vampire movie that ever scared me, as an adult or kid - I also have to agree that episode of X-FILES was the creepiest they did, and I was a huge fan of AMERICAN GOTHIC too. Holy fuck, though - TWIN PEAKS, while not necessarily a scary show, had some moments that were wonderfully freaky and tense - the first time Agent Cooper dreamed, and the last time he woke up - great stuff.

bobrobot

11-01-2006, 05:40 AM

The monsters from the original "Outer Limits" used to freak me out (in a good way)!!!<img height="300" src="http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/images/cd/large/Outer_Limits_GNP_Crescendo_GNPD_8032.jpg" width="300" border="0" />(I loved the creepy music too...)

JustJon

11-01-2006, 09:31 AM

docgoblin wrote: keithy_19 wrote: ChimneyFish wrote: JustJon wrote: The tv miniseries Stephen King's IT!"They float down here, they all float down here!" Very creepy.The beginning, with Pennywise in the sewer "grate", horrified me.Well, the first half is good. The second isn't so good. Like all King stories. They start out great but he never seems to know how to end them. Some of his books run about 200 pages too long.   Hey, it was creepy, I never said killing a giant alien spider with an asthma inhaler was brilliant writing.