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[calder]

It's down to 2 possible scenes for me:

1) Millennium - "Pilot"
Frank Black tracks down a prophecy-quoting serial killer and has reason to believe his victims are dumped in a wooded area near a river. After a visually cool and spooky search through the night they find a coffin buried in a shallow grave.. with a victim inside with his lips and eyes sewn shut left there to die a slow starvation death. The visual of the bloody scratches on the inside of the coffin and the guys mutilated face still haunted me - if the DVD drive on my comp hadn't broken I'd scan some images for you.

2) Cosby Show - 'some episode'
The Cos is sitting around with the big guy who married his oldest daughter when somehow the issue of the wedding night comes up. Just in case it wasn't awkward enough that Bill Cosby is talking about his daughter's sex life with his son-in-law Cosby delicately asks if his daughter was... intact. Upon finding out from his smug son-in-law that his girl was a virgin until she got married, Cosby gets up and does a little victory dance while the audience laughs. Just shocking, skin-crawlingly disturbing.

 

[demon]

For some reason, I found it really eerie when I first saw it...

 

[Drinky Crow]

X-Files Season 4: "Home".

HILLBILLIES.

 

[calder]

Holy shit "Home" was scary. One of the best teasers in the series too, the brothers driving up with the tunes blaring. But the stuff in the farm house was just icky.

 

[Error Macro]

X-Files Season 4: "Home".

HILLBILLIES.

EWWWWWWWW.

 

[Dice]

That episode of the X-Files is what immediately jumped to my mind when I saw the topic. X-Files was one of my favorite shows ever, and there was a lot of messed up stuff on there, but holy crap man... that episode...

 

[demon]

I watched X-Files occasionally but not enough to recall more than one or two particular episodes. Is this ep on DVD?

 

[Error Macro]

I watched X-Files occasionally but not enough to recall more than one or two particular episodes. Is this ep on DVD?

They allllllll on DVD, man.

 

[border]

2) Cosby Show - 'some episode'
The Cos is sitting around with the big guy who married his oldest daughter when somehow the issue of the wedding night comes up. Just in case it wasn't awkward enough that Bill Cosby is talking about his daughter's sex life with his son-in-law Cosby delicately asks if his daughter was... intact. Upon finding out from his smug son-in-law that his girl was a virgin until she got married, Cosby gets up and does a little victory dance while the audience laughs. Just shocking, skin-crawlingly disturbing.

I will refuse to believe that this happened until I see it for myself. It just sounds too fucked-up to be true.

 

[FortNinety]

The last 2 minutes of Millennium, last episode of season two, or the last 2 minutes of the final episode of Twin Peaks.

 

[impirius]

There's a pudding pop joke somewhere in there, but I'm not gonna try to find it

 

[explodet]

I was just about to say that scene in the pilot for Millennium when I saw the thread title.
I've got so many episodes of the DVDs to watch, but it's such a heavy show and I can't watch more than a couple before I need a break.

Is it me or is there not much in TV horror these days?

 

[calder]

I will refuse to believe that this happened until I see it for myself. It just sounds too fucked-up to be true.

I wish I was joking. :\

I don't know what eps it was, but google found a blog that backs me up:

Yesterday I was watching The Cosby Show during the day on the syndicated TV show channel. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I had it on in the background as I puttered around the house. Anyways, it was an episode from late in the series, after Denise had gone off to Africa, gotten married there to a Marine, and was now living back at the Casa de Huxtable with said hubby and his daughter, Olivia. So in this episode, Cliff and Denise's hubby, Martin, are sitting around the kitchen table drinking their apple juice (I have never seen less alcohol in a household EVER), and they start talking about how the couple got married in Africa, and Cliff regrets never having had the chance to give Denise away at her wedding. Long story short, the subject gets around to "Doctor" Huxtable wondering how knowledgeable, in the Biblical sense, his daughter was before her wedding night. Martin assures the good "doctor" that he was the only one of the pair to have any of this type of experience.

[snip]

And then, when stupid Cliff gets the answer he wants to hear, he gets this stupid look on his face, the same one he gets when Claire (oh my GOD, she is too good for him) comes on to him. The whole thing just made me feel icky and squicked out, and now makes me think of Bill Cosby as some kind of old gross daughter-lusting pervert.

She didn't mention the victory dance! It's the best part of the whole sequence.

 

[Mike Works]

 

[Error Macro]

 

[Flynn]

Twin Peaks, the scene when Bob crawls over the couch.

 

[CajoleJuice]

I just remember from when I was about 5 or 6, and my parents were watching the X-Files. I walk in to see what they're watching, and a man starts convulsing and shit, and a huge pole-like thing starts growing out of the guys neck.


For the next few years after that, any time I heard the X-Files theme music, I would run into my room in terror.

 

[Templar Wizard]

when Carter and Lucy got stabbed in ER.
seeing Carter lying down on the ground, blood pouring out of his back and watching Lucy die in front of him. pretty disturbing i have to say.... much more disturbing than a cheap creature closet moment.

 

[AniHawk]

Mike Works, that's from an X-Files ep, isn't it?

 

[White Man]

Mike Works, that's from an X-Files ep, isn't it?

It's the flukeman. From season 2 or 3. Ahh, the early seasons were so perfect.

 

[Trevelyon]

Oh, shit! the Flukeman episode messed me up big time. I could barely watch the X-Files for the rest of season 2 or sit down on the toilet without being insanely paranoid.

 

[AniHawk]

It's the flukeman. From season 2 or 3. Ahh, the early seasons were so perfect.

Is that the one with the parasites/flatworms? If so, that ep is the only one I've never seen a rerun of because it scared the living shit out of me. The picture made me jump.

By the way, what was the story of that episode? I've pretty much forgotten everything about it except for: The thing on the stretcher, the shower scene, and the two faces appearing from the water at the end.

 

[White Man]

Is that the one with the parasites/flatworms? If so, that ep is the only one I've never seen a rerun of because it scared the living shit out of me. The picture made me jump.

Yup. It's one of the nastier X-Files episodes. I'm surprised they were able to get away with that much stuff early on. A pretty jarring depiction of pukin' up flukeworms, autopsies, bodies cut in half

Mulder's prettya wesome in that episode, too.

 

[Flynn]

That's one of the show's writers under that make-up.

 

[Jeffahn]

That 'to be continued' episode of Cold Case from last year.

...

 

[AstroLad]

To add to the Twin Peaks love, my pick is:

Spoiler

The scene where Bob kills Maddy.

I can't even imagine how something so profoundly disturbing made it on to network TV.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Man this thread reminds me of what a great show Xfiles was.....kinda sad how the last few season tainted the show so much.

 

[SolidSnakex]

The 2nd episode with the blue paint killer in CSI. Everything from the point where

Spoiler

the guy kills himself in the bathroom by suffocating himself to the point where Grissom is sitting unfolding the guys drawing is just super creepy.

 

[Prospero]

Twin Peaks, the scene when Bob crawls over the couch.

I came into the thread to post this answer--beaten to it.

 

[COCKLES]

Pretty much all of Sapphire & Steel.

I'm sure it's never been shown in the US. But it was a one series only sci-fi series featuring two 'agents' from the future (who may well be aliens themselves) whose job it is to contain threats from varying entities threatning human life.

Amongst the treats that kept me awake at night for several weeks after each episode were:-

Entity produced during an experimental photographic process that can inhabit any photograph ever taken...and erase you from existance by killing your photographic self. Which is a pretty scary concept when you think about it...even if you destroyed your own pictures, the creature could still bump you off by killing you in a photo taken by someone else...the face in the crowd.

The end of the episode is mint. They trap the creature in a kelidescope and acknowledge that the place where they plan to leave it (a sinking ship in the antarctic). But inform the girl whose helped them capture it that it's prison will only hold it for around 70 years...so destroy any photos...and never have another taken.

Scared the shit out of me when I was 8. Especially the scene where Steel (David McCallum) spins around the entity in human form and it has....no face.

 

[Meier]

Twin Peaks 'Creamed Corn' came to mind immediately as well.

 

[ElyrionX]

I thought the "silent" Buffy episode was kinda creepy, especially the scene where you could see those creatures roaming the streets at night......

 

[DrForester]

M*A*S*H

Episode : Dreams


Everytone starts having these bizzar nightmares. Hawkeye's invovled haiving his own arms and legs removed, it was creepy.

 

[FnordChan]

I'll second the Twin Peaks love. In particular, Agent Cooper's first visit to the red room is delightfully creepy. The last five minutes of episode two get my vote for the greatest scene in television history.

FnordChan

 

[Blackace]

The made for TV movie: The Day After... F*cked with me big time!

 

[calder]

There's been a few creepy moments in Buffy, but in general the horror and fright are undercut with humour enough that it can't compare with Chris Carter's shows in terms of scariness.

But Angel had a few damn scary scenes.

"Damage" - after getting his ass kicked by an insane Slayer (who thinks Spike abducted and tortured her as a child) Spike wakes up from a drugging and slowly realizes

Spoiler

that she cut off both his hands at the wrist with a hacksaw

. I actually yelled at the TV when it happened.

"Billy" - First, out of nowhere Gavin Park snaps and beats Lilah to a bloody pulp. Totally unexpected because at this point we didn't know what Billy's evil power was, and it was a big shock to see such a hateful, misognynistic beating from a known character. But later in the episode when an infected Wesley starts to insult and demean his secret crush Fred it's so much worse. When he finally starts stalking her through the hotel with an axe it's not so much what he's doing but the running monologue from the most logical and refined 'good' character about how stupid and weak women are that's scary.

 

[BlackClouds]

Man this thread reminds me of what a great show Xfiles was.....kinda sad how the last few season tainted the show so much.

It really shouldn't have and besides, only season 9 had a major downturn in quality, the rest of the seasons are pretty good to great (including the very underrated Season 8). I think this is one good example of how obsessed fans (fanboys) can utterly destroy a property's buzz. I fear for the upcomming Xfiles movie, nearly all the obsessed fans on the net have no faith in the creators at all, or really never did, as they accuse them of basically stringing them along with no hope of a payoff (which is something I do not believe myself). That just kills the hype. If the show wasn't any good, then half the dramas on today would not have such a large X-Files influence.


BTW, as for a scary episode, in the early Season 8 of the X-files, I can't remember the title, but it involved a manbat like creature. Very well done episode.

 

[Matlock]

 

[Archaix]

Peter Boyle is the scariest man alive because of the episode of the X-Files that he starred in.

That fucker creeps me the hell out, he's a big part of the reason that I can't watch "...Raymond".

Well, him, and the fact that the show is horrible. But he's part!

 

[3rdman]

To add to the Twin Peaks love, my pick is:

Spoiler

The scene where Bob kills Maddy.

I can't even imagine how something so profoundly disturbing made it on to network TV.

I was going to say the same thing. Damn disturbing. I remember a documentary with the cast and crew and they mentioned this scene and that if was in a movie, it would have easily recieved and "R" rating. Luckily for them and us, the censors saw Twin Peaks as "high-art" and pretty much gave them full freedom.

Ahh...the good ole days before the FCC got all high and mighty.

 

[Suerte]

 

[Shig]

I remember seeing an ep of Star Trek: TNG when I was young, there were these guests on the Enterprise that were actually controlled by parasites or something. In one scene, one of the parasites (a big black bug-like thing, IIRC) climbs up the main guy's body and crawls into his mouth.

 

[Zilch]

I remember seeing an ep of Star Trek: TNG when I was young, there were these guests on the Enterprise that were actually controlled by parasites or something. In one scene, one of the parasites (a big black bug-like thing, IIRC) climbs up the main guy's body and crawls into his mouth.

Ha, I definitely remember that one. Very creepy.

And the episode where everyone de-evolves into weird animal-humans.

 

[Great Wasabi Man]

there's a scene in Twin Peaks in a living room where nothing important was happening then bob walks-in the background then does this erie crawl over the furnate toward the camera, the other characters in the scene weren't aware of him...Bob is the creepiest TV character I can remeber. {edit} just noticed it's the same scene Flynn is talking about.

then this scene kinda bugged me out....and made me sad

As for recently....Brother Justin (Carnevale) creeps me out sometimes.

 

[Flynn]

I remember seeing an ep of Star Trek: TNG when I was young, there were these guests on the Enterprise that were actually controlled by parasites or something. In one scene, one of the parasites (a big black bug-like thing, IIRC) climbs up the main guy's body and crawls into his mouth.

I remember there being a really graphic moment where they phaser some guy who has a parasite in him. Ew.

 

[explodet]

"WE SEEK PEACEFUL CO-EXISTANCE!!!!"
*Picard and Riker phaser his ass*

 

[ocelittle]

Since I can't post topics yet, does anyone know what season and episode number the X-Files was where it was filmed like an episode of COPS.

The catch was it was some type of Boogeyman slaughtering people...it was intense...and it never had a real ending...

Ah, I remember being terrified of that.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[charlesv]

The Halloween episode of Hey Dude. Scary rake-in-the-wind action made me scared of tin siding for years.

 

[demon]

Speaking of Twin Peaks, anyone know if a season2 DVD is in the works or going to be released soon? I own and have watched the season1 DVD and so far it's one of my favorite shows ever, but I don't know whether I should wait for the rest of the show to come out on DVD or just rent all 12 billion season2 tapes.

 

[Great Wasabi Man]

I heard it's on perm. hyatius. they started production but Season 1 sadly didn't get enough sales to justify a season 2. pisses me off.

Last nights episode of Carninvel creeped me out

Spoiler

when the snake lady was talking about seeing Sophies mom, then at the end when Shophie did Ben tarrot reading a the first and last vision where just damn wierd. then Sophies mom appeared behind Sophie and said something like "It was always you who read the cards"