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** [[The Movie]] remake takes this [[Up to Eleven]] because [[John Lithgow]]'s eyes {{spoiler|bulge out in a creepy way}} when he sees the gremlin (which incidentally looks like a mini [[Alien (franchise)|Predator]]).
* The episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" is full of [[Fridge Horror]]. A jumbo jet full of passengers somehow travels back in time, once to where they go back to the dinosaur era and again when they go back to the 1930's. It ends with the pilot trying to get the plane to travel forward in time, but there's no way of knowing when they'll end up. Take into account that their fuel and food will eventually run out, and you've got some horrific implications.
* "The Shadow Man" from the '80s [[Revival]] is... rather frightening. In short there are [[Living Shadow
* "The Midnight Sun", where the earth has fallen out of its elliptical orbit and is about to be consumed by the sun. Think of it this way: Everyone on the planet spends their last hours ''burning to death''. {{spoiler|At the end of the episode, it's revealed that the scenario was [[All Just a Dream]], caused by the main character's dangerously high fever. So everything's okay... Until her doctor and neighbor start talking about how the earth has moved out of its elliptical orbit ''away'' from the sun and will completely freeze over in a number of years. *shudder* }}
** The part where the woman screams and everything in the room just starts ''melting''...
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** The clown was pretty disturbing in how he seemed to constantly turn on a dime between [[Comic Relief|funny]] and [[Sad Clown|depressing]] while always keeping that smile painted on his face.
* "Time Enough At Last" features Burgess Meredith as a meek clerk who loves to read, but never has the time to... Until a nuclear blast kills everyone else in the world. First, the episode plays on our [[Primal Fear]] of loneliness, and second, there's the famous ending where his glasses slip off his nose and shatter, with him shouting, "It's not fair! There was ''time'' now!" [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether the ending is scary or unintentionally hilarious, though, but the idea of being ''completely alone for the rest of your life'', on top of not being able to see... Brrr.
** [[Your Mileage May Vary]],
** The ''[[Futurama]]'' parody is [[It Got Worse]]. He says he can still read the large print books. His eyes fall out. He can still read Braille. His hands fall off. Then, IIRC, [[And I Must Scream|his tongue falls out]]. Then his head falls off, which, at that point, is a mercy.
* The TOS episode "It's a Good Life" features a 6 year old boy with [[Physical God|god-like abilities]]. When he was born he isolated his hometown away from the rest of the world, cutting off electricity, automobiles and the like. He can create and destroy, as well as read minds. Everyone must be happy and have happy thoughts, or they are [[Fate Worse Than Death|sent to the cornfield]].
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** [[It Got Worse|And then we see the standard she's held up to...]]
* "Mirror Image". There's a woman in a bus station. Her bags get moved around and the clerk says that she did it. She meets a man that later calls the cops on her for saying that there's an evil lookalike among them. Then the man turns and sees a lookalike of himself...
** The same subtle
* "The Hitchhiker", the episode with the lady going on a cross-country drive. Somewhere along the middle of the drive, this creepy guy in black begins to stalk her, trying to lead her into all sorts of lethal situations. Creepy enough on its own, gets worse when {{spoiler|you find out that the woman died in a car accident somewhere during the middle of the drive, and the guy was actually the Angel Of Death}}. Gives me the creeps every time.
** The sudden shot where {{spoiler|the hitchhiker's face suddenly pops into frame}}.
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* The episode "The Lateness of the Hour" centers around a young woman who lives with her elderly parents and their domestic robots. She begins to wonder why she and her parents never go outside and questions other such abnormal behavior. {{spoiler|The twist is that she is a robot built to be their daughter, and when she figures this out, she freaks. She starts hitting her arm screaming "No pain!" and lastly says "I can't even feel love!" The parents then convert her to a maid robot.}}
** {{spoiler|That then [[Squick|gives the mother a shoulder massage.]]}}
*** Worse. {{spoiler|It's easy for them to reprogram their "daughter" because they never considered her human. [[Humans Are
* The ending of "The Bewitchin' Pool" terrifies me. Why? [[Alternative Character Interpretation|Because I'm pretty sure that grandmotherly old lady is actually the Grim Reaper]]. Notice that the children have to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|dive all the way to the bottom of their pool to see her, and once they've decided to live with the old lady forever, they never resurface]]. In short: I'm pretty sure those kids drowned themselves. ''Sweet Jesus''.
** The rest of the episode. Look at how many children are in her world, all perfectly happy and having forgotten the voices of their parents. Now, look at what drove the two children to go back to her world for good. Just watching how the parents are so cold to their children, to the point where the children are happier abandoning their world and willfully ignoring the cries of their parents calling for them (because the last time they gave in and returned, they were still miserable), well, there's a whole lot of [[Adult Fear]] there.
* In "Uncle Simon", aging scientist Simon and his niece Barbara hate each other, but she takes care of him because she's his only heir. However, she finally tires of his abuse and kills him, thinking that she is finally
* Sterling Holloway in ''What's In The Box''. "You will recommend my services... won't you?"
* "Long Live Walter Jameson", especially the radio drama version. That old woman... "Hello, Tommy." ''BRRR.''
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* ''Twenty-Two.'' "Room for one more, honey."
* The original series episode "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" (and its remake for the 2000's series, "The Monsters are on Maple Street") are scary mainly because of the real life subtext. Especially when you consider that "Due" aired almost 50 years before the remake, and how little things have changed....
** In the remake {{spoiler|it was the humans who were doing the experimenting and allowing the riot to happen. Aliens is one thing, but humans doing it puts it in the [[Humans Are
*** It's implied to be {{spoiler|for a good cause. The government soldiers are testing to see how a small town would react during a blackout in a post-9/11 world.}} But the damage was done.
* 'The Masks'. {{spoiler|Their faces are stuck like that FOREVER.}} Which, admittedly, is more or less [[Asshole Victim|what they deserved.]]
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** Well, {{spoiler|[[Half Truth|technically they weren't there to harm humans... but it would suck for those humans that ''do'' get eaten]]}}.
** ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''' parody ended with the humans thinking that the book was a {{spoiler|guide to cooking humans}}, when it was actually a {{spoiler|guide to cooking for humans}}. Now watch the episode again, at the part where the woman screamed " {{spoiler|IT'S A COOKBOOK!}}"
* "Elegy". {{spoiler|The robot caretaker of the asteroid cemetery kills the astronauts because [[Humans Are
** {{spoiler|And all of the people in the model town standing around and not moving are actual dead bodies of real people.}}
* "Nick of Time". Man (played by [[William Shatner]]) and Woman stop in a small time to get a bite to eat at a diner; they start playing with the freaky Devil-head, fortune teller thingy, whose fortunes are eerily accurate. At the end of the episode {{spoiler|they manage to escape - but another couple rushes in who are completely enslaved to the answers the thing gives them.}}
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