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Scare Tactics
Overview
Unsuspecting people witness science fiction inspired pranks with alien abductions, hauntings, and other paranormal events.
Status
Ended
Created By
Scott Hallock, Kevin Healey
Network
Syfy
Seasons & Episodes
Season 5
The horror high jinks continue this season with Brooke Hogan masquerading as a hungry zombie to trick the season's first victims.
Episodes
Driver's Dead
Singer/Actress Brooke Hogan is all smiles in her Scare Tactics debut until a leak at a nearby chemical plant turns her into a ravenous zombie.
Pregnant With a Mutant
An accident at an old chemical plant causes a woman to give birth to a freaky mutant.
Blown to Green Pieces
A warehouse worker is implicated when radical eco-activists rig the building with explosives.
Bicentennialien
An investigative journalist unearths the remains of an ancient alien-human hybrid, and incurs the wrath of the hybrid's bizarre ancestors.
Barnacle Boy
The clean-up crew on a boat with a cursed past come face-to-face with a terrifying mutant sea creature.
Touched by an E.T.
A sci-fi TV show host has to deal with angry aliens after he accidentally lures their spaceship down to earth.
The Happening Again
A mysterious deadly fog contaminates a family farm and threatens to kill everyone in its path.
Party 'Til You Nuke
A party-planner becomes involved with extreme activists who plan to blow up a nuclear reactor. A cult guru and his assistant formulate a doomsday plan to kill his followers. One man's hospital "prank" kills an innocent patient and a ghost protects a rich woman from thieves!
The Corpse Whisperer
A security guard is attacked by zombies, and a young man's with a gorgeous woman is spoiled by her demonic ex-boyfriend. Scientists get eaten alive by flies and a children's birthday becomes deadly.
Alien Car Crash
An insurance investigation turns into a wild encounter with outer-space visitors. A morgue assistant learns that a corpse has a crush on him. The ghost of a legendary explorer guards his booty from searchers and a coma-ward is terrified when an awakened patient tries to murder her.
Gnome Sweet Gnome
A vengeful garden gnome comes to life and attacks a babysitter. A man's "prank" results in a vehicular homicide. A psychiatrist murders his assistant after getting in touch with his inner-baby. A show assistant drives a co-host crazy, and it becomes deadly.
Fright at the End of the Tunnel
An exterminator's assistant learns that rat traps cannot contain the creatures living under a tunnel. The loser of a comedy awards show tries to kill his way to the top. Target practice turns deadly for a knife-thrower and a young man is forced to marry pair of freakish sisters.
Twilight My Fire
Two journalists learn the consequences of offending a satanic cult. A guard tries to fend off possessed treasure thieves. A reporter gets caught as he dresses like a woman to participate in a feminist club. A therapist's assistant must sing a lullaby to soothe a savage prisoner on the hunt.
