5. X-Files
Mulder and Scully took the television by storm in the 1990s with their dark overcoats and bright belief in the fact there was alien life messing things up here on earth.
The show won numerous Emmys and has resulted in two feature films and to this day, defines both actors who played the principals – David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
Created by Chris Carter, Fox television took a chance on a spooky series and discovered gold.
As the show got older, it may have slipped, but during its hey day, there was nothing more gripping, and occasionally funny, than a Sunday night with the couple-that-never-hooked-up-but-should-of-while-making-the-world-safe-from-aliens.
4. Night Gallery
With the success of The Twilight Zone behind him, Rod Serling branched out into the horror genre in 1970 with Night Gallery.
This weekly series offered up several stand alone stories written, acted and directed by some of the top names in the business. Serling hosted as he had done with Twilight Zone, this time with frightful paintings hung in a dark room as the backdrop for his opening monologue.
From “Good Evening” to the last of the credit role, Night Gallery is one show that is sure to give you nightmares.
3. The Night Stalker
The Night Stalker was a 1970’s supernatural action series about a reporter (Darren McGavin) who had a nosy for creepy news. Healthy young men age and die in a matter of minutes, a dead man keeps returning to the scene of the crime and then there’s the sucking — blood, bone marrow, basic life force, stuff like that. Though produced with tongue firmly in cheek, The Night Stalker was still big on thrills and chills and poor Kolchak, no matter what he discovered, his proof was always destroyed in the end. Case closed.
2. The Outer Limits
Where The Twilight Zone was thoughtful, The Outer Limits was in your face frightening.
Watch as this show evolves over its run. There is little debate that the stories on Outer Limits hit closer to home than the reality conjured on Twilight Zone.
1. Lost
Sure, as if surviving a plane crash is not the worst thing in the world. You wake up on a deserted island inhabited by what and who, we don’t know…now that is scary!
To be specific, audiences need to look at the first season for this series to pack its mightiest punch.
J.J. Abrams created Lost and in the process launched a sensation. His time-jumping method of storytelling grabbed viewers from moment one and for die-hard fans, still have not let up to this day.
Where every scary TV show that came before it mastered, Lost takes on puts it on its head. Creatures, mad scientists, global conspiracy and intertwining love stories holding it all together puts Lost at the top of shows that spook.
Lost is the perfect television series from the first shot. Witnessing our hero Jack’s eye opening in close-up to the terror littered across the beach that is Oceanic 815’s wreckage from his point of view to the close of the pilot episode where the mysterious monster in the jungle rears its head, everything audiences crave in a thriller is well represented on Lost.
Dominic Monaghan’s character perfectly exemplifies the sentiment of the entire show during those closing moments when he says, “Guys, where the hell are we?”
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