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Scare Tactics is an American comedy horror hidden camera television show created by Scott Hallock and Kevin Healey and aired on Syfy from April 4, 2003, to October 28, 2013. The first season of the show was hosted by Shannen Doherty and then Stephen Baldwin took her place in the middle of the second season. At the beginning of the third season, the show was hosted by Tracy Morgan.
In July 2024, it was announced that USA Network would bring the show back with Jordan Peele as the show's executive producer. The show returned on October 4.




Format



Scare Tactics is a hidden camera prank show that puts victims into terrifying situations, usually involving movie-style special effects and makeup that recreates horror movie clichés. The victims, generally four per episode, are set up by friends/family in tandem with producers.
Unlike other hidden camera shows, Scare Tactics was shot and edited in a cinematic style intended to give each piece the look and feel of a horror movie.
There are some instances where the victims are lured into the pranks on the promise of being on a fake reality show called "Fear Antics" which plays off like a show similar to MTV's Jackass but end with dire consequences. In "Fear Antics", the victim is led to believe that they are the prankster, when in fact the joke is on them. Sometimes, the victim of "Fear Antics" will attempt keeping calm and rationally try keeping the situation from getting out of control (from their perspective).
The pranks end when the victim is completely terrified and an actor would ask them, "Are you scared?" to which they usually reply in the affirmative. They then get the reply, "You shouldn’t be! You're on Scare Tactics!" or "I'll have to/I'm gonna put you on Scare Tactics!". Alternately, at times when a victim almost ran for their lives, the actors would immediately announce the same thing. Rarely, a victim assulted an actor playing an antagonist in a moment of courage; forcing the crew to end the charade. There were only two occasions where a victim realized they were on Scare Tactics.




Guest stars


Matt Hardy (Season 3, Episode 15)
Judah Friedlander
Brooke Hogan (Season 5, Episode 1)
Lauren Ash
Eric Stonestreet (Season 3, Episode 17)
Marc Evan Jackson
Dot-Marie Jones




Production


Its first two seasons aired from April 2003 to December 2004. After a hiatus, the show returned for a third season, which premiered on July 9, 2008. The fourth season premiered on October 4, 2010. On July 17, 2017, it was announced that Blumhouse Television was going to produce a new season of the show. On July 25, 2024, USA Network announced that it would reboot Scare Tactics with Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions and Universal Television Alternative Studio set to produce.




List of Scare Tactics episodes






= Season 1

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101: UFO Abduction, Firing Range, Buried Alive, Camp Killer
102: Bigfoot Attacks, Where's Shannen?, Flatline, Psycho Hitchhiker
103: Organ Harvest, Monster in the Closet, Disappearing Stripper, Limo in Area 51
104: Clone Attack, Orgy from Hell, Repo Man, Monkey Trouble
105: Meteor Man, Date with the Devil, Barbershop of Blood, Taxi Cab Carnage
106: Lab Spill, Haunted Babysitter, Serial Killer, Hellride
107: Tanning Salon Terror, Cable Killers, Little Girl Psychic, Runaway Corpse
108: Ghost Train, Body in Trunk, Dominatrix for a Day, Desert Monster
109: UFO Trailer Attack, The Cannibal Family, Séance from Hell, Driving the Dead
110: Harsh Reality, Dr. Werewolf, Boy in a Bubble, Virgin Sacrifice
111: Chupacabra Attack, Deadly Secret, Lights Out, Black Magic
112: Hazmat Hell, Surgery Nightmare, Death Lunch, Bad Seed
113: Laboratory Meltdown, Eye Witness, Unborn Clones, Silo Scare
114: Deadly Feast, Fear in the Box, Fear Antics: Psycho, Maniac Cop
115: Killer Clown, Lethal Conversation, Caught on Camera, Demonic Duel
116: Chainsaw Attack, Beastly Breakout, Deadly Hicks, Alien Returns
117: Dangerous Obsession, Web of Evil, Laboratory of Blood, Repo from Hell
118: Security Breach, Taste for Blood, Zombie Grandma, Killer Car
119: Bad Medicine, Killer Queen, Dead Alive, Alien Hunters
120: Massacre Under the House, Unholy Ground, Video Victim, Mask of Death
121: Lethal Touch, Showgirl's Revenge, Terror Next Door, Bigfoot Returns
122: Home Invasion, Demonic Possession, Fatal Beauty, The Hunted
123 Special: The Bloody Mirror, Camp Killer, Deadly Infestation, Harsh Reality, Voodoo Resurrection, Psycho Hitchhiker




= Season 2

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201: Rage from the Cage, Killer Bees, Bring Out the Gimp, Grave Robbers
202: Street Justice, That's Not Santa, Freaks Come Out at Night, Possessed Office
203: Gorilla with a Fist, Regression Aggression, Fear Antics: Mandroid's Revenge, Flowers for My Lady
204: What's in the Box?, Stakeout, Shocker, Radio Daze
205: Brother's Keeper, Cult Compound Crackdown, Revenge of the Switchhiker, Drug Ring Sting
206: Toilet Full of Scary, Desert Cult Trailer Attack, Wrath of the Mummy, Juvenile Justice
207: Slaughterhouse of Horror, Porn Dorm Massacre, Desert Ritual, Walk-in Portal
208: Wired for Revenge, Shave and a Headcut, Summon the Demon, Fear Antics: Hotel Hell
209: Motor Psychos, Attack of the Rat Monster, I Me Minefield, There Are Men Coming Here to Kill Me
210: Piranhas in the Pond, Chambermaid of Horror, Shotgun Wedding, Critters
211: If I Only Had Your Brain, Open the Pod Bay Door, Wired, Fear Antics: Room with a View
212: Power Outrage, License to Drive, Wolfman Tells Campfire Stories, The Bagman
213: Backwoods Booby Trap, Demon's List, Newest Mental Patient, Mob Morgue
214: For Whom the Bridge Trolls, Party Forever (Parts 1 & 2), Burned Alive
215: Drone Helicopter, Fed-Execution, Girl in a Blood-Soaked Dress, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
216: Unsafe, Eye of the Beholder, Tastes Like Chicken, Meet My Psycho Girlfriend
217: Bedridden but Deadly, The Set Up (Parts 1 & 2), Lost and Found
218: Pond Creature, Carface, Moonshine Mountain, Rubbed the Wrong Way
219: Car Wash, Fear Antics: Running Man, Gimme a Hand, Spa of Death
220: The Blob, Road Rage, Strip Club, Man of the Haunted House
221: Alien House Call, Hackman Attacks, Final Entry, Hannah's Abduction
222: Moms Crazy




= Season 3

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301: Satan's Baby, Wood Chipper, Psychic, Black Project
302: 3:10 to Hell, Patient's Rage, Fire Starter, Affection
303: Genie in a Beer Bottle, Vampire Spa, Escaped Mental Patient, Alien Eggs
304: Psycho in a Box, Cheaters of Death, Welcome to the Neighborhood, Ice Man
305: When White Noise Attacks, Phantom Power, Walled Off, Paralyzed with Fear
306: The Screaming Room, Death Bed and Breakfast, Little Person, Big Kill, Welcome to the Dollhouse
307: Frankenstein's Basement of Terror, Who's Your Dead Daddy?, Wired for Fear, Pool of Blood
308: Taxi Cab Carnage, Alien Consortium, Double Trouble Clone, Junkyard Showdown
309: Home Video Horror, Last Will and Testament, Voodoo Vixen, Assassin's Apprentice
310: When the Larvae Breaks, To Catch a Predator, Curse of the Samurai, Pickled to Death
311: Big Scoop of Scary, Home Invasion, Healer/Killer, Coffin Refill
312: Blood Bath, Meteor Virus, Carmageddon, Welcome to the Dollhouse 2
313: Satan's Baby Returns, Screaming Room 2, Barbershop of Blood 2, Junkyard Showdown 2
314: Basket Case, Human Stew, Web of Lies, Breakdown
315: Ghoul Bus, Criminal's Rage, Killer's Hideout, Psycho Kid
316: Channeling the Dead, Black Project 2, Zombie Testing, A Quick Bite
317: 28 Minutes Later, Nightmare Session, Zig the Clown, Paranormal Radio Show
318: Ranger Danger, Mistaken Identity (Parts 1 & 2), The Doctor's Trip
319: The Collector, Cleansing the House, Finding the Truth, Psycho Dance
320: Toxic Shock, The Pimp, Female Serial Killer, Can I Have a Kiss?
321: Tow Truck Killers, Radioactive Tanning, Mental Patient's Drug Overdose, Cannibal Party
322: Ghoul Bus 2, Wrong Identity, Nightmare Motel, Criminal's Second Rage
323: Dying to Kill!, Big Phantom Power, Re-hatched Alien Eggs, Old Man of Death
324: Desert Cult Trailer Attack
325: Satan's Baby Returns




= Season 4

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401: It's My Party, The Squatters, Fear Antics: Check Yourself, Crop Circle Showdown
402: No Pain No Brain, Communicating with the Ghosts, The Freak Show, Blood on the Cosmos
403: Killing Rosemary's Baby, Human Auction, Look in the Sky, Show and Hell
404: Vampire Stakeout, Mind Killer, Wine to Die For, Grandpa Has Returned
405: Life's a Witch, Revenge of the Werewolf, Alien Babysitter, Organ Harvesting Facility
406: Alien Road Block, Lend Me a Hand, Black OPTS, Murderer Still at Large
407: Valet Violence, Cursed Book, Possessed Farm, Demon Doll
408: Tracy the Tour Guide, Into the Mist, Horror on the Horror Set, Death from Above
409: Uh Oh! It's Maggots, Ultimate Alien Fighter, Fountain of Youth, He Shoots He Spores
410: If These Walls Could Bleed, Size Splatters, Zombie Town, Truthisodes
411: Chill Out, Reptile Creature Revolt, Gang Green Thumb, Scary Development
412: Hot Under the Collar, Insanity Virus, No Asylum, Voo Doo You Love?
413: Buzz Kill, Electrocutie, Ouija Sitter, Snakes in a Drain




= Season 5

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501: Driver's Dead, 2 Guys 1 Suit, The Brand, Human Doll Party
502: Pregnant with a Mutant, Work Your Skin Off, Elite Bodyguard Firm, Alien in a Box
503: Blown to Green Pieces, Farm Troll, Welcome to the Psych Ward, Monsterious Waste
504: Bicentennialien, Waste of Talent, Human Blood Drive, All Puzzled
505: Barnacle Boy, Reviving Your Fate, Deadly Sibling Rivalry, Lost Your Hand
506: Touched by an E.T., Human Clothing, Vampire Child, Nightmare Therapy
507: The Happening Again, Don't Mess with the Boss, Fried Girl, The Missing Link
508: Party 'Til You Nuke, The Enigma, Fear Antics: Hospital, Polterheist
509: The Corpse Whisperer, Date from Hell, Carnivorous Flies, Send in the Clowns
510: Alien Car Crash, Morgue Woman, El Scareiachi, Coma Killer
511: Gnome Sweet Gnome, Fear Antics: Mailbox Killer, Baby Trauma, Secret of Survival
512: Fright at the End of the Tunnel, Look Who's Laughing, Wonderful Knife, Conjoin Me for Dinner
513: Twilight My Fire, Crystal Myth, Double Cross Dress, Killer Performance




= Season 6

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601: Dearly Bedeviled, Death's Table
602: Hospital Hell!, Prized Possession, Thrill Ride
603: Mutant Theme Park, TBA
604: The Cursed Collection, TBA
605: Root of All Evil, TBA
606: Fear Kitty, Kitty!, TBA
607: Selling Sasquatch, TBA
608: False Prophet, TBA
609: TBA




International broadcast


In the United States, the show aired reruns on GSN as part of the "Friday Night Frights" block in October 2016, formerly on MTV2 and streamed on Netflix from 2019 to 2022. In Europe, the first season of the program aired on MTV Central from 2003 to 2004. The show was also broadcast in Australia on Fox8, in Canada on MTV, in India on AXN, in Russia on MTV Russia (only the first two seasons), 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 then on TV11. The program was distributed internationally by Rive Gauche Television.




See also


Infarto: A similar scare/prank show airing on TV Azteca and Azteca América.
Room 401: A similar scare/prank show airing on MTV.




References






External links


Scare Tactics (2003–2013) at IMDb
Scare Tactics (2024–) at IMDb

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