Your Most Terrifying Hour of Television

[TheGodBen]

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 only saw IT when I was 6 or 7, and it scared me so much that I ran out of the room and couldn't watch any more. I can't remember what was so scary about it, but that clown haunted my dreams for a few months.

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!

That scene is what convinced me to stop watching Twin Peaks with the light off, it was just too scary.

Seriously, you should watch the show if you get the chance, at least up until the point where the Laura Palmer murder is solved. The famous murder scene is absolutely chilling, but I can't post it here without completely spoiling the story.

 

[marillion]

Plenty of X-Files episodes fit the bill for me..

But I have to say the first night of "It" really creeped me out.. Tim Curry's Pennywise was about the scariest thing I'd ever seen..

That said, the second night ruined it for me...

 

[startrekwatcher]

TNG's "The Best of Both Worlds"
Friday the 13th The Series "Better off Dead"

No other episode or even films have generated the pure dread and visceral physiological reactions in me as a viewer as these two episodes. Absolutely disconcerting and disturbing.

 

[Random_Spock]

Also from Twin Peaks, The episode where the killer is revealed and kills again. The last 10 minutes or so of that episode is one of the high points of television. I can't believe that murder was able to air back then, or the finale.

This. That was the most terrifying 10 minutes of TV.

But the creepiest hour of TV ever was The X-Files "Home".

The final episode of Twin Peaks was damn good TV.

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

That was just fucked-up, from beginning to end. IIRC, it begins with a POV shot of a baby being buried alive, and ends with a son climbing into the trunk of a car with his limbless mother, to... give them some privacy.

Definitely agree there about Home... it scared the crap out of me back in the day.