Rent / Buy
Rent / Buy
Trailer
Synopsis
Scare Tactics is a hidden camera/comedy television show, produced by Kevin Healey and Scott Hallock. Its first two seasons aired from April 2003 to December 2004. After a hiatus, the show returned for a third season, beginning July 9, 2008. The first season of the show was hosted by Shannen Doherty. Stephen Baldwin took her place in the middle of the second season. Since the beginning of the third season, the show has been hosted by Tracy Morgan. The fourth season began on October 6, 2009. In Europe the first season of the program aired on MTV Central from 2003 to 2004. The show is also broadcast in Australia on FOX8, in Canada on MTV, in India on AXN, in Russia on MTV Russia, in Turkey on Dream TV, in Poland on TV Puls, in Finland on Jim, in South Korea on Q TV, in Sweden initially on TV6 and currently on TV11.
Episode 23 : Scare Tactics Scare Tac-ular!
October. 31,2003
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.
Episode 22 : Home Invasion
October. 10,2003
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.
Episode 21 : Lethal Touch
October. 03,2003
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.
Episode 20 : Massacre Under the House
September. 26,2003
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.
Episode 19 : Bad Medicine
September. 19,2003
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.
Episode 18 : Zombie Grandma
September. 12,2003
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.
Episode 17 : Web of Evil
September. 05,2003
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.
Episode 16 : Ferocious
August. 22,2003
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.
Episode 15 : Killer Clown
August. 15,2003
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.
Episode 14 : Maniac Cop
August. 08,2003
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.
Episode 13 : Haunted Babysitter
August. 01,2003
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.
Episode 12 : Laboratory Meltdown
July. 25,2003
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.
Episode 11 : Hazmat Hell
July. 18,2003
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!
Episode 10 : Tanning Salon Terror
July. 11,2003
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.
Episode 9 : Chupacabra Attack
June. 27,2003
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.
Episode 8 : UFO Trailer Attack
June. 20,2003
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.
Episode 7 : Dr. Werewolf
May. 09,2003
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.
Episode 6 : Organ Harvest
May. 02,2003
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.
Episode 5 : Ghost Train
April. 25,2003
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.
Episode 4 : Meteor Man
April. 18,2003
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.
Episode 3 : Clone Attack
April. 11,2003
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.
Episode 2 : Bigfoot Attacks
April. 04,2003
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.
Episode 1 : UFO Abduction
April. 04,2003
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.
Seasons
Season 5
The horror high jinks continue this season with Brooke Hogan masquerading as a hungry zombie to trick the season's first victims.
Season 4
Hosted by Tracy Morgan, this hidden-camera reality show features staged pranks on unsuspecting victims who are hurled into horrific situations.
Similar titles
My New Best Friend
Could you pass off a complete stranger as your new best friend for one short weekend to win £10k, even if your 'friend' was actually a brilliant actor hell-bent on humiliating you?
Hi-Jinks
Hi-Jinks is a hidden camera show that premiered on Nick at Nite in 2005. The show is hosted by Leila Sbitani. The show gives parents a chance to play practical jokes on their children, in a similar fashion to Candid Camera. Taking a cue from Punk'd, each show features a prank that is conducted with the assistance of a known celebrity.
HULU
Punk'd
What happens when the biggest stars in the world get too high on the Hollywood hog? When their bank accounts start swelling bigger than their heads? Master prankster Ashton Kutcher is there to punk 'em down to earth.
Oblivious
Oblivious is a comedy game show that aired within the United States of America on TNN/Spike TV at various points between 2002 and 2004.
It was also aired on Challenge in the UK, Ireland and The Comedy Channel in Australia and still airs on Real TV in South Korea and on TV2 Zebra in Norway. It no longer airs on Spike TV. Comedian Regan Burns served as host.
A DVD was later released featuring the best clips of both seasons.
The Real Hustle
A team of hustlers - Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement, try out some notorious scams on ‘marks’, filmed with hidden cameras. The aim is to reveal how scams work so that the viewer can avoid being ripped off by the same con.
Naked Camera
Naked Camera is an Irish hidden camera comedy television show which began airing on RTÉ Two in 2005. It is set and filmed in the Republic of Ireland, mostly in Dublin. Its concept is similar to that of the UK show Trigger Happy TV but can be seen as a descendent of the candid camera elements in RTÉ's own "The Live Mike". The sketch characters are played by the comedians PJ Gallagher, Patrick McDonnell, and Maeve Higgins, who also write the scripts. The third and final series aired in February 2007. It is produced by Scratch Productions for RTÉ.
Candid Camera
Candid Camera is an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947. After a series of theatrical film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone, Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948. The show last aired for 10 episodes in 2014 on the TV Land network. A documentary about Allen Funt is currently in the works by the Candid Camera crew.
The format has appeared on U.S. TV networks and in syndication in each succeeding decade, as either a regular show or a series of specials. Allen Funt himself hosted or co-hosted almost all of the TV versions until a 1993 stroke from which he never recovered. His son Peter Funt, who had co-hosted the specials with his father since 1987, became the producer and host.
You've Got a Friend
You've Got A Friend was a 2004 reality comedy show on MTV, produced by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg. It was launched near the same time as their reality prank show Punk'd, and although successful in ratings, was cancelled at the end of the first season so they could focus on its more popular counterpart.
The show filmed contestants having to tolerate a 'friend' for 48 hours, while filmed on hidden camera in their home and different public settings. The 'friend' would be a trained improvisational comedian, who would progressively torment the contestant, their friends and loved ones. The catch was that the friends and family of the contestant were unaware of the folie à deux. If able to endure the embarrassment caused by the irreverent demands of the friend, the contestant would win a cash prize.
Just for Laughs
Just for Laughs was an Australian light entertainment television program that aired on the Nine Network. The show was hosted by David Whitehill, and showed humorous hidden cameras clips from around the world.
Monster House
Monster House was an Australian reality/comedy television series broadcast on the Nine Network. Debuting on 12 February 2008, the program was hosted by Bernard Curry, brother of Stephen and Andrew Curry.
The show centred around the Webb family, played by actors Rebel Wilson, Celia Ireland, Travis Cotton, Jody Kennedy, Julie Herbert and Glenn Butcher, who act as a fictional family in a house purpose-built with hidden cameras to capture their performances and those of the unsuspecting guests who get brought into the family's "web".
The show debuted with an unimpressive 793,000 viewers tuning in. It was pulled from schedules after its second episode, and axed by the network the following day. Nine had commissioned ten unaired episodes of the show, which were filmed in December 2007 and January 2008.
Nine stated it would air the remaining episodes later in the year, and did so as counter-programming during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Related
David Mitchell's Outsiders
David Mitchell challenges a returning cast of three pairs of comedians to prove they've got the mettle and skills to thrive in the great outdoors.
The Jeremy Kyle Show
The Jeremy Kyle Show is a British daytime television tabloid talk show presented by Jeremy Kyle. It has been broadcast on ITV since 4 July 2005. The show is produced by ITV Studios and is broadcast each weekday. The show first appeared as a replacement for Trisha Goddard's chat show, which was moved to Five.
The show is based on confrontations in which guests attempt to resolve issues with others that are significant in their lives, these issues include: family, relationship, sex, drug, alcohol and other issues. Frequently, guests display strong emotions such as anger and distress on the show, and Kyle is often harsh towards those that he feels have acted in morally dubious or irresponsible ways, whilst strongly emphasising the importance of traditional family values. This has led to both criticism and parody of the show in newspapers and on television, and even led to the show being described as "human bear-baiting" by a Manchester District Judge, during a prosecution after guests had been involved in a violent incident on the show.
The show's 1,000th episode was aired on Thursday 18 March 2010. In 2012, the show returned from their Christmas break with a new set.
Britbox
Mastermind
Mastermind is a British quiz show, well known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness.
Devised by Bill Wright, the basic format of Mastermind has never changed — four and in later contests five contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the contestant's choice, the other a general knowledge round. Wright drew inspiration from his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World War II.
The atmosphere is helped by Mastermind's famously ominous theme music, "Approaching Menace" by the British composer Neil Richardson. The quiz programme originated and was recorded in Manchester at studios such as New Broadcasting House and Granada Studios, before permanently moving to MediaCityUK in 2011.
Nikhoj
Fearless and bold DCP Brinda Basu becomes desperate to track down the person behind her daughter's disappearance. Amidst the truth and lies, will Brinda be able to get back her daughter fighting against the odds?
Top Streaming TV Show
#1
Grey's Anatomy
March. 27,2005
7.6
#2
A Teacher
November. 10,2020
6.9
#3
The Mandalorian
November. 12,2019
8.6
#4
Station 19
March. 22,2018
7
#5
Game of Thrones
April. 17,2011
9.2
#6
The Undoing
October. 25,2020
7.4
#7
Supernatural
September. 13,2005
8.4
#8
The Last Dance
April. 19,2020
9.1
#9
Euphoria
June. 16,2019
8.3
#10
Fear the Walking Dead
August. 23,2015
6.8