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* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?/Nightmare Fuel|Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]''

* ''[[Babylon 5/Nightmare Fuel|Babylon 5]]''

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Nightmare Fuel|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''

* ''[[Carnivale/Nightmare Fuel|Carnivale]]''

* ''[[Doctor Who/Nightmare Fuel|Doctor Who]]''

* ''[[Farscape/Nightmare Fuel|Farscape]]''

* ''[[Fringe/Nightmare Fuel|Fringe]]''

* ''[[Game of Thrones/Nightmare Fuel|Game of Thrones]]''

* ''[[Louie/Nightmare Fuel|Louie]]''

* ''[[Millennium (TV series)/Nightmare Fuel|Millennium]]''

* ''[[Nikita (TV series)/Nightmare Fuel|Nikita]]''

* ''[[Oz/Nightmare Fuel|Oz]]''

 

== ''Delocated'' ==

 

== ''Farscape'' ==

* "Eat Me" was an entire episode of horror, best summed up by these two lines:

"Because, because, because THEY'RE ''EATING'' MEEEEEEE!" }}

** From the same episode, Kaarvok. Just... [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2663225856/tt0187636 Kaarvok].

* Diseased Plokavian judges melting all over the place while sentencing Moya's crew to death.

* Captain Jenek frying a test subject's unborn child alive with Heat Projection.

** Scorpius' nanny getting a broken coolant rod [[Eye Scream|through her eyeballs]] and dying horribly as Scorpius lowers the temperature of the cell until she freezes to death, alone and blind.

 

* The horror in [[Poltergeist: The Legacy]] has an unfortunate tendancy to end up in [[Narm]] territory. But one episode featuring a cursed Cabbage Patch-like doll turning its head and telling a little girl not to talk in a demonic voice freaked this fairly immune-to-horror trooper out.

* One opening teaser scene of [[Six Feet Under]] featured a first person perspective of a three week-old infant lying in a crib. As the adoring parents leave the baby to sleep, the camera (serving as the baby's perspective) looks up at the roof into a rather creepy black and white baby's mobile. As the camera blurs and zooms, the shot [[Fade to White|fades to white.]]

2001 - 2001 }}

* Realistic and disturbing, [[Six Feet Under|"That's My Dog"]] is an entire episode of a realistically terrifying {{spoiler|carjacking}}. David picks up a "cute" hitchhiker who {{spoiler|forces David at gunpoint to take out all his money at an ATM, beats and punches him, forces him to smoke crack, makes him suck the barrel of a gun, threatens to set him on fire after pouring gasoline on him, steals his van, and leaves him in the middle of nowhere, beaten half to death.}}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Qeee8D2Ro Recorded Live: a thing by S. S. Wilson] was used as filler material on HBO in the late 70s and early 80s. In it, a man goes to a job interview at a film lab and finds something... horrifying... S. S. Wilson would later bring us the [[Tremors]] films.

** You can see it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpo18cjoYcg&feature=related#movie_player here].

*** What's really scary about that sketch is that {{spoiler|you don't see the pill-induced knife-fight coming. You think it's just going to be some silly sketch, but it turns dark real quick}}.

** The Digital Short on the last episode of season 35 (Alec Baldwin with musical guest Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) is not as scary as "The Tizzle Wizzle Show," but it does have some [[Nightmare Fuel]] that makes you wonder if ''SNL'' is trying to make people laugh or scare them to death (it's a little from column A and a little from column B in this case), like the [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] of light, cheery music playing over a pan shot of [[Trash of the Titans|a trashed kitchen and living room]], the convincing make-up job done to Andy Samberg to make him look like a coked-up freak (to go along with Samberg's acting), the sudden break in song when Samberg yells at the dancers not to touch him, how fast the song progresses (reminds me of being in a car with failing brakes), and {{spoiler|how the whole thing turns out to be a vivid, drug-induced hallucination}}.

*** What makes the whole thing even worse is that Caligula REALLY WAS THAT BATSHIT INSANE.

* ''[[Truth in Television|Mystery Diagnosis]]'': Imagine having one of the bizarre diseases that show up on ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', only you've been suffering from it for ''decades''.

* That Latin American priest wasn't the only one terrifed when Puddy on ''[[Seinfeld]]'' painted his face to "support the team" the New Jersey Devils and did [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTJMtZWx29s&feature=related this].

* Spike TV's ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]''. The tone is darkly humerous but the fact that most of the deaths being reenacted did happen still makes most of the unusual and bizarre deaths horrific.

* In ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]'' we have the [[Ax Crazy]] sociopath Charles Hoyt. In particular, the way he preys on and tortures his victims, most notably Jane, is uncomfortably and [[Nightmare Fuel|disturbingly]] reminiscent of rape. He also threatens to rape Maura at one point. The guy is just so unsettling and unpredictable in his behavior, it's scary.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRf6hjm9hvU This episode] of ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' called "Perils of Punky". Episode was completely out of left field.

* [[Unsolved Mysteries]] had VERY high doses of Nightmare Fuel. Even the true crime segments was bone chillingly creepy.

** The faceless hitchhiking ghost.

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