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today we're counting down our picks for
the top 10 scariest band tv shows slash
episodes you didn't get that sword the
way you said you did no
no
you shot that officer after he
surrendered
you're crazy a japanese officer dropped
the sword and surrendered
you killed him in cold blood for this
list we'll be looking at controversial
episodes series and tv movies that were
deemed too intense for the small screen
what's the scariest episode of tv you've
seen let us know in the comments
number 10 earth hannibal typically
controversial tv episodes are banned by
networks they're deemed either too
inappropriate too insensitive or too
scary for the target audiences we found
a match to a set of prints we pulled
into turner home they belong to a 13
year old boy from reston virginia his
name is connor frist another kid another
missing kid
vanished 10 months ago case was never
solved in the case of earth however it
was hannibal's creator brian fuller who
ultimately pulled the plug fuller felt
it would be inappropriate to air the
episode which showed children in a dark
situation in the months following the
tragedy of sandy hook elementary school
the family you're born into isn't really
family those are just people you didn't
choose you have to make family that's
what we're doing we're making our family
although the plot had very little in
common with the real life events the
association was just too strong as a
result the episode never aired on tv and
was instead turned into a short series
of webisodes before being made available
in full on itunes and amazon whoever
this woman is she wants these children
to burst with love for her
but she has to erase their family to do
that so she abducts them convinces them
no one can love them as much as she does
and then may stamp sure number nine
don't look under the bed at the time
when disney was airing a boy meets world
and bear in the big blue house it
premiered a original film titled don't
look under the bed it was the second
original film from the network to
receive a tv pg rating due to scary
scenes and towed the line between a fun
halloween jaunt and an actually
frightening horror film maybe you could
give it to him yourself
you know maybe i could talk to darwin
and and i could get him to believe in
you again
it's a little late for that friend
director kenneth johnson said they tried
to make the movie scary but not too
scary but were ultimately hit with what
he called derogatory mail from outraged
parents they had decided to run a little
disclaimer at the beginning
sort of saying portions of this may not
be suitable for the youngest viewers
because as a director i was eager to to
make it spooky and creepy and scary but
not terrifying you know the backlash
against the film caused it to not be
rebroadcast on the network and it's gone
down in history as the scariest decom
ever it's scary to take such a long long
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it can now be seen at viewers discretion
on disney plus
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number eight earshot buffy the vampire
slayer when the columbine tragedy took
place in 1999 it was the deadliest high
school shooting in us history concerns
about violent media and its ramification
rose one of the tv shows affected by
this tension was teen horror show buffy
the vampire slayer and the unfortunately
timed episode earshot this dark episode
originally set to air a week after the
real life incident reveals that buffy
can now read minds and overhears a
student mentally planning on doing
something drastic i don't know i mean i
was
hardly human it was so full of anger and
pain she and the gang eventually find
the student armed with a rifle but
managed to talk him down you could hear
what they were feeling
loneliness the
confusion
it looks quiet down there
it's not
it's deafening the show's third season
finale was similarly postponed for its
depictions of violence in a school
setting
number seven corrupt angel
this episode of angel was deemed so
controversial that it didn't even make
it through production corrupt it would
have been the second episode of the
buffy the vampire slayer spin-off and
was primarily about the city's seedy
underbelly i wrestled with this decision
which you made without me i tried to do
what i thought was right
and it's complicated how this all
happened buffy you know it's kind of a
long story your new sidekick had a
vision i was in it you came to sunnydale
okay maybe not that long the episode's
main focus was on character kate lockley
who at the time was conceived as a
police officer working undercover but
slowly becoming entrenched in the very
world she'd been sent to dismantle she
was also shown to be suffering from a
drug addiction if there's no great
glorious end to all this if
nothing we do matters
and all that matters is what we do
because that's all there is what we do
now
today it was ultimately decided that
this plot was too dark and hopeless for
the wb it was scrapped and lonely heart
was written as an alternate introduction
to the character are you okay
what oh no nothing sorry
am i okay
you just looked
bad
i mean you don't look bad you look very
nice
i think i'm just gonna have my drink
number six heathers there have been
several reboots of popular films in
recent years but few have been quite as
controversial as the heather's tv series
even before it aired the show was
harshly criticized for its poor handling
of social issues including its portrayal
of lgbtq plus characters don't you think
that's a bit offensive dylan lutz is one
16th first nations peoples
ah it's cool honestly i didn't even
notice this isn't about you quat these
issues would be seen as secondary
however when the network banned three
episodes from airing in the u.s due to
their portrayals of violence this
included the series finale which unlike
the film showed all but one of the
students dying and being sent to prom in
heaven heather
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heather
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you guys
it's me veronica is also a darker
character in the reboot implied to have
already killed someone long before
meeting jd and trust and believe when we
test that dna
we will find the sick
and twisted individual who did this and
bring them to justice number five
the encounter the twilight zone the
twilight zone first aired over half a
century ago but its age hasn't stopped
people from enjoying its uniquely
unsettling stories the show's popularity
has even led to several top 10 lists in
the modern era recounting its scariest
episodes it's 20-odd years since pearl
harbor
but two ancient opponents are moving
into position for a battle in an attic
crammed with skeleton souvenirs momentos
old uniforms and rusted metals
ghosts from the dim reaches of the past
in spite of its terrifying legacy
however only one twilight zone episode
was ever banned from the airwaves
although unfortunately for racism rather
than creepy content the episode the
encounter was controversial for its
inclusion of a japanese american
character whose father was said to have
spied for japan during pearl harbor he
was a traitor
he signaled the planes
he showed them where to drop the bombs
he was a traitor in real life there's no
evidence to support the idea that any
japanese americans were actually
involved in the attack and thus the
depiction only served to further
anti-japanese sentiments in the country
cbs
pulled um that episode and it has a
unique distinction of being the only
twilight zone series that was aired only
once
it's never been
re-aired number four the scooby-doo
project the same year that the blair
witch project shocked and horrified the
nation cartoon network aired the
scooby-doo project alongside a marathon
of the popular horror cartoon show
shaggy what are you doing in the corner
i'm scared man
like scared a parody of the blair witch
project the short showed the mystery
gang lost in the woods intercut with
live-action segments of police officers
looking for the still missing teens like
the film the short was presented as
found footage have you heard these woods
are haunted you can't stay away
those woods are cursed i never go near
them
like i bet she never goes near a dentist
either although it was well received by
critics even winning its team and annie
award the scooby-doo project was never
shown on tv again after its initial
airing some believe that this is due to
the specials content which was said to
have struck fear in the hearts of kids
hoping to enjoy a day of classic
cartoons search parties have spent
several days searching the woods and
found hundreds of scooby snacks but no
trace of the teenage sluice have been
found number three ghost watch the
mockumentary format is a pretty common
one for film and television being
employed by sitcoms like the office and
film directors like christopher guest
for the most part however mockumentaries
tend to be comedies ghostwatch is not
we're going to investigate one of the
most baffling and fascinating areas of
human experience the supernatural
tonight television is going ghost
hunting in an unprecedented scientific
experiment we hope to show you for the
first time irrefutable proof that ghosts
really do exist the fictional tv special
filmed as if it were a real documentary
was treated with complete seriousness
and thus mistaken for a genuine live
broadcast by some viewers at home i
should say that this tape is completely
undoctored there's no uh edit on it
whatsoever we should also
warn
our viewers of a nervous disposition
that the
things on this tape that they might find
a little bit distressing when the show
turned sinister and a malicious ghost
began to wreak havoc on the reporters
people were genuinely scared for the
lives of those on screen resulting in
genuine psychological harm the bbc and
show creators issued an apology for the
harm cause and the special never aired
again on uk television the switchboard
was jammed with complaints reports that
children were terrified pregnant women
had gone into labor and intelligent
people felt duped conversely many of the
11 million who watched it thought it was
a brilliant piece of television number
two miri plato's stepchildren the empath
and whom gods destroy star trek the
original series look at my arms
that's what's going to happen to you
unless you let me help you madness
torture sadism and disease four words
you don't hear very often in relation to
family-friendly media and for good
reason nonetheless these words are
commonly used to describe four episodes
of star trek the original series miri
plato's stepchildren the empath and whom
gods destroy don't
let them
break you in the uk where star trek was
considered to be a children's show these
subjects caused the four episodes to be
banned from tv even the u.s limited
earrings of the empath despite the
episode's popularity because it deemed
its graphic torture scenes to be too
intense for earlier time slots series
creator gene roddenberry famously
disagreed with these bands insisting
that suffering and pain are part of life
the humiliation must have been most
difficult for you to bear
i can understand
the release of emotions mr spark is what
keeps us healthy
emotionally healthy that is before we
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number one home the x-files home is
widely considered to be one of the
x-files scariest and most disturbing
episodes controversial from its initial
conception the episode features extreme
violence that was shocking to even more
seasoned fans of the series did you
question them
because they've been watching us the
entire time that farm belongs to the
peacock family
three boys now
well men
guess you could call him human even more
shocking is the fact that mulder and
scully never get to see the antagonists
caught in the end instead the episode
ends with the depraved individuals
driving off into the night hoping to
restart the cycle and find a new place
to call home we're witnessing scully's
undiluted animal behavior mankind absent
its own creation of civilization
technology and information regress to an
almost prehistoric state
obeying only the often savage laws of
nature due to its disturbing content the
episode was banned from ever being
re-aired on fox and was the first
episode of this series to have a tvma
rating and viewer discretion advised
warning in time we'll catch him
i think tom already caught them scully
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