Scare tactics

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Television series
German title Scare tactics
Original title Scare tactics
Country of production United States
Year (s) 2003–2006, since 2008
length 20 minutes
genre TV show , reality TV
production Hallock & Healey Entertainment

Scare Tactics (to German: scaremongering , scare tactics) is a reality TV show , they are dismayed at the unsuspecting participants. The program was first broadcast in April 2003 on the US SciFi channel , the last episode ran there on January 1, 2006. In Germany, the show was on MTV . Scare Tactics was produced by Hallock & Healey Entertainment.

format

Scare Tactics is a hidden camera show . Shannen Doherty , later Stephen Baldwin , present up to four cases per broadcast, in each of which one or more ignorant victims are placed in terrifying situations. In order to give the participants a realistic picture of the horror scenario, elaborate special effects , make-up effects and costumes were used. Decoys were usually friends, relatives, and actors.

The ignorant victim was usually lured into an unusual situation and confronted with terrifying scenarios, for example a man-eating alien during a car breakdown on the highway, a blood-covered corpse in the bathtub or her crazy killer during an assembly job or supposedly dangerous acids during cleaning work in a laboratory. Hidden cameras document the fear and panic of the victim. The scenario usually ends when one of the actors or decoys asks the victim: “Are you scared?” (“Are you scared?”). It replies "Yes!" And then gets to hear "You shouldn't be, you're on Scare Tactics" ("You don't need to, this is scare tactics."

In order to artificially increase the dramaturgy of the show, additional special effects and scenes were cut into the show afterwards. For example, while the victim only hears a mass murderer sneaking around or through the house, scenes can be seen later in the post of the murderer killing other “victims” / decoys.

Two DVDs were also released for the broadcast with the title Best of Scare Tactics I and Best of Scare Tactics II .

Since July 2008, the sci-fi channel has been broadcasting a third season hosted by Tracy Morgan.

Criticism and lawsuit against the producers

Some internet discussion forums have suggested that the majority of the victims might also be actors. Contrary to this, one of the victims, Kara Blanc, filed a lawsuit against the producers in 2003. She suffered psychological damage from the anxiety inflicted on her. Critics of the show complain that some of these shock scenarios are against human dignity, as the victims are exposed to a disproportionately strong emotional stress. For this reason, the voluntary self-regulation television has classified some of the consequences because of "limit value" as not broadcastable.

List of Scare Tactics episodes (original title)

First season

  • 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

Second season

  • 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

Third season

  • 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

Fourth season

  • 401 - It's My Party, The Squatters, Fraud Stick-Up, 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

Web links

Individual evidence

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