Your Most Terrifying Hour of Television

[the G-man]

If we're talking "regular" TV series, the "ghost from Dundee's planet," episode of the Outer Limits (see the OL thread for more details).

If we're talking made for TV movies and mini-series, that vampire kid scratching at the window in the Tobe Hooper version of "Salem's Lot." Nothing.... NOTHING was/is ever as as scary as that.

 

[Nowhere Man]

Every episode of The O'Riely Factor and Glen Beck and of course The Colbert Report scares me with talk of bears.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Scariest: The Night Gallery episode with Roddy McDowell about the painting that keeps changing...I think it was the premiere episode?

It was also pretty scary but only the first half. The second half went too far over the top with the giant spider etc, and degenerated into comedy.

 

[Warp Coil]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Hush"

 

[sidious618]

It's only 1/120th of an hour, but this:



Bob is so simple, yet so amazingly terrifying.

100% agree. A very scary moment and one I'll never forget. Along with so many others from that show.

 

[T'Baio]

"Home" from The X-Files.

 

[Star Wolf]

The Man Trap kept me away from Trek for years, it was the animated series that brought me back.

 

[gh4chiefs]

I think the OT period of the Bills-Chiefs game that I just watched may qualify. It certainly got my heart racing and had a negative effect on my body.

 

[Starkers]

Scariest: The Night Gallery episode with Roddy McDowell about the painting that keeps changing...I think it was the premiere episode?

It was also pretty scary but only the first half. The second half went too far over the top with the giant spider etc, and degenerated into comedy.

I'd agree, I think the other fact is that the first half sees children menanced, the second half adults which makes it less scary into the bargain. You're right though, a clown is scarier than a giant spider.

 

[PsychoPere]

But I really think that "Home," the episode of the X-Files with the inbred mutants, was better.

In my case, I think I'd label that episode more as "deeply disturbing," rather than "terrifying." That said, I've seen it only once and I have no intention of ever watching it again, even though it is an excellent example of intense story-telling.

 

[flipjack]

The X-Files episode about the nephelim.

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

The X-Files' "Home" and Supernatural's "The Benders" are the two episodes of television that scare me the most.

 

[Starbreaker]

The X-Files "Irresistible"

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The Man Trap kept me away from Trek for years, it was the animated series that brought me back.

If we're confessing to silly stuff we found scary as children, I was too scared of the puppet used by Balok to watch the end credits of TOS, where he always appeared. And I certainly wouldn't watch that episode!

 

[Jack Bauer]

The episode "Lamentation" from Millennium. The part at the end where the cop is inside a darkened house and he looks up the stairs and sees someone standing there. The figure morphs from female to male and then into a horned winged demon. In a scene a few minutes later a cop finds the first one hanging in the basement with his throat cut. Frank Black questions a dying serial killer about what was in the house (the serial killer was married to the woman from the house, Lucy Butler) and he says she's the Devil's liege and the base sum of all evil. Creepy!

 

[Miss Chicken]

As a children I was terrified while watching the Doctor Who story "Fury from the Deep". Of all of the lost Doctor Who stories this is the one I would really like to be able to see again.

 

[Amaris]

It's only 1/120th of an hour, but this:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNb1VsCz-Es[/yt]

Bob is so simple, yet so amazingly terrifying.

Holy Shit!
I have never even watched Twin Peaks but that creeped the hell out of me. I don't think I'll be sleeping tonight!

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Distance_Call

The creepiest episode of the Twilight Zone, and IMO, one of the creepiest things that's ever been on TV. I don't know what it is about this episode, but it freaks me out every time I see it.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

The X-Files "Irresistible"

Yeah, that one is insanely creepy. Love that episode.

 

[RandyS]

^That wasn't terrifying. That was just f***ing depressing.

In what way? It wasn't new BSG after all.

Oh, yeah, THAT series is mine.