Series
Scare Tactics
ComedyReality
Unsuspecting people witness science fiction inspired pranks with alien abductions, hauntings, and other paranormal events.
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Seasons & episodes
S1 · 23 epS2 · 22 epS3 · 25 epS4 · 13 epS5 · 13 epS6 · 25 ep
1UFO Abduction4 Apr 2003Buried Alive: A man is buried alive, terrifying his friend.
Firing Range: A weapons tester gets deceived into thinking he has blown someone up on a firing range.
UFO Abduction: Party-goers witness a UFO sighting then experience an attack.
Camp Kill: A deranged killer hunts down camp counselors.
2Bigfoot Attacks4 Apr 2003Bigfoot Attacks: Teens on a camping trip get a visit from a local legend.
Where's Shannen?: Shannen Doherty's new assistant is setup as the prime suspect in a kidnapping plot.
Flatliners: A medical testing subject witnesses a heart experiment gone wrong.
Psycho Hitchhiker: A partygoer learns that it is never a good idea to pick up strangers.- 3Organ Harvest2 May 2003Organ Harvest: A receptionist hoping for a career in the medical community gets more than she bargained for when the doctor she's working for turns out to be an organ dealer in the black market. Monster in the Closet: A babysitter loses the child she's looking after but it's to what she lost it to that shocks her. Disappearing Stripper: A man at a bachelor party gets caught red-handed when a stripper disappears and the only evidence left is what appears to be blood on his hands. Limo in Area 51: Partygoers on their way to a desert party near the infamous Area 51 discover how serious the government is about keeping that area a secret.
- 4Clone Attack11 Apr 2003CLONE ATTACK: A clean-up crew discovers that a genetics lab has left behind one of their experiments-gone-wrong. ORGY FROM HELL: A man invites his friend to an exclusive party hosted by a creepy cult. WHITE TRASH KILLER: A repo man is sent to a house where repo men go in but they never come out and soon enough finds out why. MONKEY TROUBLE: Hired to perform at a zoo party a man finds himself face-to-face with the zoo's resident 300-pound ape.
- 5Meteor Man18 Apr 2003METEOR MAN: After witnessing a meteor crash and its horrible side effects a man realizes that he's seen too much when two FBI agents arrive to make matters worse. DATE WITH THE DEVIL: A young man's blind date is interrupted by a priest who arrives to perform an exorcism on his beautiful (and possessed) date. BARBERSHOP OF BLOOD: A rare time when you won't feel sorry for the "victim" as this time the "victim" turns out to be a prankster bent on scaring the hell out of an elderly barber. The tables are turned and the prankster gets his just dessert. TAXI CAB CARNAGE: Shannen Doherty takes her friends on a trip to Las Vegas that quickly turns into a nightmare when a cab ride back to the hotel ends with a hit-and-run victim looking for revenge.
- 6Lab Spill1 Aug 2003Lab Spill: A toxic spill leads to deadly consequences in a chemistry lab. Serial Killer: A job applicant is fingered as a fugitive serial killer. Haunted Babysitter: A babysitter discovers she is trapped in a haunted house. Hell Ride: An experimental car that runs on "radioactive fuel" is sent hurtling toward a brick wall.
- 7Tanning Salon Terror11 Jul 2003Tanning Salon Terror: An experimental tanning cream leaves a young girl with an unwanted glow. Cable Killers: Agents posing as cable-TV installers ransack a victim's house in search of a secret device. Little Girl Psychic: A young psychic predicts a horrific future for an unsuspecting restaurant patron. Runaway Corpse: The corpse inside an unearthed coffin seemingly awakes from the dead.
- 8Ghost Train25 Apr 2003Ghost Train: A worker is trapped in a truck as a giant freight train hurtles toward him on supposedly abandoned tracks. Body in Trunk: A man is pulled out of a restaurant by police officers who tell him that they have found a dead body in his trunk. Whip It Good: A receptionist assists a therapist with some intense methods for pleasing her clients. Fortunately for one client this receptionist gets a big kick out of these intense methods. It's Out There: A night-shift laborer finds himself the last man standing as a mysterious creature devours his co-workers one by one.
- 9UFO Trailer Attack20 Jun 2003UFO Trailer Attack: A college student realizes she is not alone when aliens abduct her best friend right before her eyes. The Cannibal Family: A nanny learns that her new family has a taste for blood. Séance From Hell: A young actor loses his cool when a hidden-camera séance turns deadly. Driving the Dead: A cemetery worker gets the shock of his life when a corpse reanimates in the back of his hearse.
- 10Harsh Reality9 May 2003Harsh Reality: A young man is hired to work on what he thinks is a new reality series about Shannen Doherty. Soon things get scarier than the Anna Nicole Show when a psycho invades Shannen's new home. Dr. Werewolf: In another instalment of "Fear Antics" a prankster in need of a lesson has the tables turned on him when his prank involving a werewolf sends a woman, who happens to be armed with a gun, off the deep end. Bubble Boy: A young woman is hired to look after a teenager who is forced to live in a plastic room because of a serious illness. But due to faulty equipment the "bubble" room begins to fail on him as his babysitter scrambles to help. Burn Baby Burn: A man invites his friend to what turns out to be a ritualistic sacrifice in the desert but things don't go as planned as a man's clothes catch fire and he burns to death.
- 11Chupacabra Attack27 Jun 2003Chupacabra Attack: A mysterious deadly creature comes to life on Shannen Doherty's farm. Deadly Secret: A car deal turns treacherous. Lights Out: A prank goes bad leaving blood on someones hands. Black Magic: A magician's assistant witnesses a dangerous illusion turn bloody.
- 12Hazmat Hell18 Jul 2003Hazmat Hell: A young man finds himself trapped in a warehouse filled with hazardous biochemical waste. Surgery Nightmare: A boyfriend is horrified when a simple surgical procedure turns his girlfriend into a hideous monster. Death Lunch: A tainted appetizer turns a casual lunch into a 911 emergency. Bad Seed: A new babysitter learns that this little girl always gets her way — or else!
- 13Laboratory Meltdown25 Jul 2003Laboratory Meltdown: A new security system fails, trapping workers in a room filled with deadly gas. Eye Witness: An office-worker finds himself implicated in a violent, government-backed conspiracy. Unborn Clones: A woman is shocked to learn that her husband has promised to rent her reproductive system to a shady medical firm. Silo Scare: A business is evacuated when federal agents tell its employees they are sitting on top of an unstable nuclear weapon.
- 14Maniac Cop8 Aug 2003Maniac Cop: A group of partygoers is left at the mercy of an escaped maniac, who has commandeered their vehicle. Fear in the Box: A new species of predator is on the loose and hunting a couple of warehouse employees. Fear Antics-Psycho: A naïve actor playing the part of Norman Bates takes the role too far — but the joke's on him. Deadly Feast: A worker at a soup kitchen is horrified to learn that the chef is a cannibal.
- 15Killer Clown15 Aug 2003Killer Clown: An employee at a magic shop is terrified when a homicidal clown stalks her. Lethal Conversation: A news crew interviews a serial killer who has supernatural powers. Caught on Camera: A worker at a one-hour-photo lab develops a crazed killer's snapshots of a murder. Demonic Duel: A radio-contest winner gets the ride of her life when she is chased by a demonic truck.
- 16Chainsaw Attack22 Aug 2003Ferocious: A couple taking a tour of their friend's new remote property gets attacked by chainsaw killers. Beastly Breakout: A housesitter discovers that there is a killer beast in the living room. Deadly Hicks: A group of counselors becomes terrorized by their next door neighbors. Alien Return: A group of friends are involved in an alien encounter.
- 17Web of Evil5 Sept 2003Web of Evil: Exterminators discover that a house has a ferocious spider. Dangerous Obsession: A caretaker discovers that the woman she is watching has been kidnapped. Laboratory of Blood: An actor plays a prank on a man who was just released from prison. Repo from Hell: A repo man gets involved in a high-speed chase.
- 18Security Breach12 Sept 2003Security Breach: A security guard discovers that a disfigured homicidal maniac is on the loose. Taste for Blood: A woman being interviewed for an assistant position finds out she is in the presence of a vampire. Zombie Grandma: A baby-sitter discovers that a grandmother has returned from the grave. Killer Car: A parking attendant has an encounter with a killer car that has a mind of its own.
- 19Bad Medicine19 Sept 2003Bad Medicine: A valedictorian volunteering for medical tests discovers that the pills he has taken are deadly. Killer Queen: An obsessed psychopath returns to take her ex-boyfriend to the prom. Dead Alive: A janitor discovers that an experiment that brings dead people back to life has gone unpleasant. Alien Hunters: A dancer working at a construction site gets a visit from an escaped shape-shifter.
- 20Massacre Under the House26 Sept 2003Massacre Under the House: A cable guy discovers a body underneath the house of a murderer and soon learns he's about to be next. Unholy Ground: A guy taking part of dig of an ancient Native-American burial site realizes that he has dug up an ancient curse and is surrounded by evil-killing spirits. Video Victim: Three friends witness a murder on videotape and become caught by the film's director. Mask of Death: A baby-sitter deals with a distant little girl and a psychotic ex baby-sitter creeping around the house.
- 21Lethal Touch3 Oct 2003Lethal Touch: A woman being interviewed for an assistant position learns that an ex employee has released a toxic flesh eating disease in the office. Showgirl's Revenge: A woman being interviewed gets a visit from an obsessed person who believes she is better for the job. Terror Next Door: A group of friends discover that the man in the next room is an ex-con and is up to his old ways. Bigfoot Returns: A house sitter has an encounter with a hairy beast.
- 22Home Invasion10 Oct 2003Home Invasion: While on a date, a couple gets a visit from an ex-boyfriend who has a jealous side. Demonic Possession: While pretending to be possessed by the devil, a wanna-be actor realizes he is about to experience a real life exorcism. Fatal Beauty: A kid witnesses an exotic dancer that comes back to life and gets revenge against her driver. The Hunted: A kid who gets a job as a day labor learns that his contractor is the kind of person who not only hunts animals, but humans as well.
- 23Scare Tactics Scare Tac-ular!31 Oct 2003A one-hour Halloween special filmed in front of a live audience at Universal Studios features "scares" from the first season as well as new never-before-seen "scares" and scenes from the horror movies that inspired them.
Details
- Created by
- Scott Hallock, Kevin Healey
- First aired
- 4 Apr 2003
- Last aired
- 30 Dec 2013
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- Syfy
- Episodes
- 121
- Votes
- 12 on TMDB
