Scare Tactics

*Scare Tactics*
Scare Tactics
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Starring	Tracy Morgan, Shannen Doherty, and Stephen Baldwin
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Original release
Network	Syfy
Release	April 2003 –; present

Scare Tactics is a reality show airing on Syfy, produced by Hallock Healey Entertainment. Its first two seasons aired from April 2003 to January 1, 2006. 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 second half of the third season began airing on October 6, 2009.

In Canada, it is broadcast on MTV2. 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 India on AXN, in Russia on MTV Russia (only first two seasons).

Format

Scare Tactics is a hidden camera show that puts unsuspecting 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.

The unsuspecting victims on the show were usually lured to some location, either invited there by people they know (who were in on the act), or reporting for what they thought was a new job. Soon they would experience some kind of terrifying scene — like a strange monster, a terrible accident, or a violent crime being committed – all of which was staged while the victim was secretly being video recorded.

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 Season 3, one of the contestants was lured into a fake show called "Dog Catchers", which was a parody of Cheaters.

The pranks would end when the victim was completely terrified and someone would ask them, "Are you scared?" to which they usually replied "Yes!" They would get the reply, "You shouldn't be! You're on Scare Tactics!" In some instances, the pranks have ended when the victims get violent with the actors pulling the prank, or the victim running out of the controlled environment the prank is played out in.

There have been controversies as to whether the victims in the show are actually paid actors or not as sometimes they act very strangely and raises the question if that is what a person would do in those circumstances. For example, most "victims" stay in the set instead of running away or trying to call the police. They just stick around and repeat "I'm scared."

List of Scare Tactics episodes

Season one

101 - UFO Abduction, Firing Range, Buried Alive, Camp Kill
102 - Bigfoot Attacks, Where's Shannen?, Flatline, Psycho Hitchhiker
103 - Limo in Area 51, Monster in the Closet, Organ Harvest, Disappearing Stripper
104 - Clone Attack, Repo Man, Orgy from Hell, Monkey Trouble
105 - Meteor Man, Barbershop of Blood, Date with the Devil, 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,

Season two

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

Season three

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
309 - Home Video Horror
310 - When the Larvae Breaks
311 - Big Scoop of Scary
312 - Blood Bath
313 - Satan's Baby Returns
314 - Maniac Cop
315 - Basket Case
316 - Ghoul Bus
317 - Channeling the Dead
318 - Ranger Danger
319 - The Collector
320 - Toxic Shock
321 - Tow Truck Killers
322 - Ghoul Bus 2
323 - Dying to Kill!

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