Original title
Scare Tactics
Released
4/4/2003
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Reality
Production companies
Hallock Healey Entertainment, Monkeypaw Productions, Natural 9 Entertainment
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
6
Number of episodes
121
Unsuspecting people witness science fiction inspired pranks with alien abductions, hauntings, and other paranormal events.
Buried 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.
Bigfoot 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.
Organ 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.
CLONE 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.
METEOR 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.
Lab 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.
Tanning 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.
Ghost 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.
UFO 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.
Harsh 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.
Chupacabra 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.
Hazmat 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!
Laboratory 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.
Maniac 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.
Killer 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.
Ferocious: 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.
Web 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.
Security 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.
Bad 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.
Massacre 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.
Lethal 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.
Home 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.
A 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.
Rage from the Cage: A group of friends driving along a deserted road get into a hairy situation when a beast becomes loose in the road. Killer Bees: A man takes on a job to assist in a lab full of bees, but soon learns his life is in danger when the bees decide to come out of their hive. Bring Out the Gimp: A woman agrees to take on a job as a baby-sitter, little does she knows that the baby is a freak chained to a chest and wears an oxygen mask. Grave Robbers: A man agrees to help a construction crew dig up ancient graves, but when they find money instead, some of the workers become a little greedy.
Street Justice: After a group of friends get pulled over by the police, one of them gets shot and the rest learn that they might be next. That's Not Santa: While working on a chimney, a young man discovers a corpse and fears for his life when he learns he may be joining the corpse. Freaks Come Out at Night: On his first night as a security guard, a man has to decide what to do when he learns the company is using humans for experiments. Possessed Office: A secretary receives a message from the beyond warning her that she is in the presence of a killer.
Gorilla with a Fist: A young man fears for his life when a gorilla becomes loose around his work place. Regression Aggression: A man agrees to assist a doctor with hypnotherapy but soon learns his aggressive skills are deadly for him. Fear Antics-Mandroid's Revenge: A man agrees to play a robot that goes out of control on the person who is supposedly controlling him. However, he soon realizes that he played a prank on a very aggressive person. Flowers for My Lady: A woman, who starts working at a magazine, gets in a dangerous position when a psychotic ex-client returns for revenge.
What's in the Box: A man fears for his life when the Mob catches him working on their territory. Stakeout: A man agrees to help investigate a scientist who is suspected of human experiments, but realizes he is going to experience the result. Shocker: A baby-sitter becomes trapped in the house with the little girl and a serial killer who was convicted by the little girl's father. Radio Daze: A man who starts working for a Radio Station learns that his new job is not a safe environment, especially when Federal agents come by to neutralize the situation.
Brother's Keeper: Two people find a sibling rivalry turns deadly. Cult Compound Crackdown: Government agents confront a deadly armed cult putting an innocent man in danger. Revenge of the Switchhiker: A supernatural hitchhiker causes trouble on a road trip. Drug Ring Sting: A temporary worker is interrogated in an operation on a major drug deal.
Toilet Full Of Scary: A plumber finds himself in a dangerous position when a lunatic preys on him. Desert Cult Trailer Attack: An unexplained cult attacks a construction crew invading their land. Wrath of the Mummy: A vengeful mummy is awoken when workers touch some artifacts. Juvenile Justice: A girl puts everyone in danger when she unleashes her wrath.
Slaughterhouse of Horror: A one-armed man seeks revenge on the people responsible for the mangling. Porn Dorm Massacre: An unstable killer disrupts an Internet broadcast. Desert Burial: A "connected" man needs help disposing his "trash". Walk-In Portal: A portal in a house's closet opens to another universe.
Wired for Revenge: A dissatisfied worker has malicious plans. Shave and a Headcut: A barber who slashes his victims is working at his shop. Summon the Demon: A couple of night watchmen find a precarious ritual. Fear Antics-Hotel Hell: An actor inspects a murder which he becomes a suspect for when police arrive.
Stephen Baldwin takes over as host and participates in a prank that terrifies a nursemaid. Also: vampire bikers menace party guests; a lab worker is unnerved by a bizarre creature.
Landscapers suspect a pond is filled with piranha fish; exterminators meet their match in the form of a creepy creature.
A serial killer preys on carpenters; a scientist melts his human subjects.
An electrician unwittingly unleashes a killer at a mental hospital; a mother convinces her daughter that a car has been stolen; a ravenous beast preys on campers; a kidnapping prank.
A man runs a gauntlet of killers and booby traps; a woman carries an alien's child.
Forest workers are menaced by a mysterious creature; a chilling cocktail party.
A snafu with a secret military weapon imperils an athlete; a spirit preys on ghost hunters; a doctor is turned into a creature.
A phony safecracker dupes a student into abetting his criminal activity; a chef's aide suspects the main course is homicide.
A social worker deals with an unhinged psychic; a young man is hunted by a SWAT team; spirits of children haunt a gang of partiers.
Construction workers are menaced by a lake monster; a mechanic runs afoul of the mob over missing loot; two urbanites are cut off from civilization.
A crazed driver plows through a car wash. Also: a bizarre amputation at a doctor's office.
A science lab polluted by toxic chemicals; an exotic dancer is menaced during a routine; a woman thinks a killer is hiding at a theme park.
An arsonist opens fire with a flame-thrower; an alien is revived during an autopsy; a security guard is menaced by a shadowy creature.
A medical-office receptionist has a hellish night; a farmhand makes a grisly discovery; an experiment involving a psychic goes awry.
An abandoned train car becomes the setting for a terrifying encounter; a man sets up his cousin for a scare in a medical-research facility; a troubled boy heats things up for his would-be caretaker.
A young man dressed as a genie grants deadly wishes; A woman at a health spa discovers their treatment uses a shocking secret ingredient; A security guard is trapped when an escaped inmate hijacks a vehicle; A young woman uncovers an entire race of alien pods..
A coffin provides chills for a delivery driver.
Ghosts put up a fight against the woman hired to cast them out of an abandoned building.
A director confronts his critics at a screening for scary short films.
An organ-harvesting scheme pits a night worker against a creepy funeral director.
A cab driver scares a passenger with an accident involving a pedestrian.
A prank on a babysitter is executed; a father's dying wish puts a young woman between two rival siblings.
A human-sized cocoon is discovered by a man asked to clean a mad scientist's lab.
A crime scene turns dangerous for a man working on a documentary about unsolved murders.
A health-spa prank unfolds when an employee learns the secret ingredient of the signature treatment.
A young woman working in a medical clinic suddenly finds herself the unwitting assistant in the delivery of Satan's baby. A young woman attends a screening of some scary short films where the director silences his critics with death. A young man playing a joke at a barbershop becomes the unwilling target of a hidden camera prank gone wrong.
A receptionist at a doctor's office hears a patient's unusual request; a female serial killer, who keeps men's underwear as trophies, meets a handyman; a giant-spider prank unfolds; partygoers end up on the property of a crazed cult.
ECW wrestler Matt Hardy guest stars as a violent criminal in a prank targeting a doctor's assistant; security guards happen upon a school bus with just one little girl inside; a prison guard monitors an unusual inmate.
A vampire is interviewed; a babysitter is targeted for a prank; night watchmen encounter a scientist who's disposing of the results of his experiments; an undercover team breaches a government facility.
A sleep study goes awry; a little girl's imaginary friend becomes a babysitter's problem; partygoers stray into a quarantined area; a radio show about unexplained phenomena gets an unlikely visitor.
A prank on a young park ranger unfolds; a mad scientist's violent hallucinations spook the lab assistant; a police sketch results in an arrest after a woman spots the suspect.
A demented family covets a woman for a strange collection; the creator of a Web series about unsolved murders makes a shocking find; a wrong turn sends partygoers to an unusual underground rave; a ghost issues a special message to a woman.
A deadly radioactive ooze imperils the employee of a shady businessman; a caterer is hired for a mad scientist's party; a construction worker has a strange encounter; a handyman meets a female serial killer.
A sunscreen experiment goes awry in the presence of a bikini-clad woman; an escaped mental patient seeks refuge in an office; the main course at an exclusive dinner party shocks a lady guest; partygoers encounter a crazed cult.
WWE star Matt Hardy plays a criminal who terrorizes a doctor's assistant; a maid encounters a maniac with a chainsaw; an office employee meets two men who both meet the description of a wanted man. Also: an abandoned school-bus prank.
Alien pods are discovered in an abandoned garage; a retirement-home resident has a deadly gift; a patient wishes to be reattached to his formerly conjoined twin; a power-company employee confronts a scientist who is stealing power to create the ultimate weapon.
An employee of a housing community finds himself the target of an angry mob of cultists demanding that he vacate their sacred land.
A surveyor takes a wrong turn into a minefield.
Hosted by Tracy Morgan, this hidden-camera reality show features staged pranks on unsuspecting victims who are hurled into horrific situations.
Host Tracy Morgan helps scare a caterer caught in the middle a deadly food rivalry.
A medical experiment takes a sinister turn; pranks involving a séance and a freak show play out. Actor Judah Friedlander ("30 Rock") guest stars.
A prank is played on a model who thinks she's helping with an auction; a demonic baby becomes trouble for a caretaker; an actor meets a madman on a hidden-camera show; a missing girl reappears amid unusual circumstances.
A singing telegram revives a dead man; a wine-maker's secret ingredient is revealed; a vampire gets "murdered"; a laundry worker encounters a psychopath.
An organ-harvesting prank is featured, along with segments involving a witch, aliens and a creature that caused an accident.
A delivery guy, a temp worker and a production assistant play roles in pranks. Also: a witness in the witness protection program has a disturbing visitor.
An actor's joke on a mobster does not end well; an old book that can summon spirits is used in a prank; a news crew's report on death cults goes awry;a demonic doll causes trouble for a babysitter.
A mummy menaces; a horror film actor goes on a rampage; a lab assistant encounters a deadly mist; a documentary film crew finds a winged monster.
A plant grown in space becomes a student's problem; a sister's prank on her brother goes awry; a television crew visits a house where an old butler still serves his dead master; a doorman considers drinking a magic elixir.
A property inspection takes a sinister turn; a new male enhancement drug is tested; a student and a police officer encounter unusual diners at the diner; a crew pursues a mind eraser to a chilling conclusion.
A giant reptile nest is found in an old facility where tests on animals were conducted; a farmer's organic soil has a dark secret ingredient; a temp worker gets spooked by a drug developer; a lab tech becomes entangled in a scientific rivalry.
A new dog collar is tested; a geological work crew is exposed to a dormant virus; a delivery worker becomes trapped in an asylum; a pregnant woman carries a belly full of snakes.
A prank with a female robot that runs on blood; a babysitter summons evils spirits with a Ouija board; a beekeeper's ambition plays out; a plumber and his assistant encounter a bunch of snakes.
The horror high jinks continue this season with Brooke Hogan masquerading as a hungry zombie to trick the season's first victims.
Singer/Actress Brooke Hogan is all smiles in her Scare Tactics debut until a leak at a nearby chemical plant turns her into a ravenous zombie.
An accident at an old chemical plant causes a woman to give birth to a freaky mutant.
A warehouse worker is implicated when radical eco-activists rig the building with explosives.
An investigative journalist unearths the remains of an ancient alien-human hybrid, and incurs the wrath of the hybrid's bizarre ancestors.
The clean-up crew on a boat with a cursed past come face-to-face with a terrifying mutant sea creature.
A sci-fi TV show host has to deal with angry aliens after he accidentally lures their spaceship down to earth.
A mysterious deadly fog contaminates a family farm and threatens to kill everyone in its path.
A party-planner becomes involved with extreme activists who plan to blow up a nuclear reactor. A cult guru and his assistant formulate a doomsday plan to kill his followers. One man's hospital "prank" kills an innocent patient and a ghost protects a rich woman from thieves!
A security guard is attacked by zombies, and a young man's with a gorgeous woman is spoiled by her demonic ex-boyfriend. Scientists get eaten alive by flies and a children's birthday becomes deadly.
An insurance investigation turns into a wild encounter with outer-space visitors. A morgue assistant learns that a corpse has a crush on him. The ghost of a legendary explorer guards his booty from searchers and a coma-ward is terrified when an awakened patient tries to murder her.
A vengeful garden gnome comes to life and attacks a babysitter. A man's "prank" results in a vehicular homicide. A psychiatrist murders his assistant after getting in touch with his inner-baby. A show assistant drives a co-host crazy, and it becomes deadly.
An exterminator's assistant learns that rat traps cannot contain the creatures living under a tunnel. The loser of a comedy awards show tries to kill his way to the top. Target practice turns deadly for a knife-thrower and a young man is forced to marry pair of freakish sisters.
Two journalists learn the consequences of offending a satanic cult. A guard tries to fend off possessed treasure thieves. A reporter gets caught as he dresses like a woman to participate in a feminist club. A therapist's assistant must sing a lullaby to soothe a savage prisoner on the hunt.
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