Scare Tactics (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Scare Tactics is a reality show on the Sci-Fi Channel which began airing April 2003. It last aired on January 1, 2006. It is produced by Hallock & Healey Entertainment. In Canada, it is broadcast on Razer.

Format

First hosted by Shannen Doherty, and then by Stephen Baldwin, Scare Tactics was a hidden camera show putting unsuspecting victims into terrifying situations usually involving movie-style special effects and makeup recreating horror movie cliches. 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 think is 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, which were all staged while the victim was being secretly video recorded. The skits 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 should be! You're on Scare Tactics!"

Some parts of the show were modified for the benefit of the viewing audience. For instance, a victim seeing the landing of a UFO would just see a bunch of strange lights beaming around them, but the viewer may see the alien ship appear as a special effect added later, something the victim never really sees from their point of view.

Lawsuit

In May 2003, the creators of the show Scott Hallock and Kevin Healey were supposedly sued by a Los Angeles woman named Kara Blanc, (see Kara Blanc vs. Tri Crown Productions which is on record at a law firm), who claimed that she suffered severe psychological distress as the result of a prank performed on her. In her case, Kara and her friend were terrified by an alien. The lawsuit was apparently dismissed February 15, 2005.

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 - n/a
222 - Alien House Call, Hackman Attacks, Final Entry, Hannah's Abduction

Trivia

The "Rat Monster" prank took first place on VH1's 40 Greatest Pranks.

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