Top 10 Scariest TV Moments You Totally Forgot About

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These forgotten TV terrors will haunt your dreams all over again! Join us as we revisit the most chilling small screen moments that may have slipped your memory. From demonic dolls to possessed characters, these scenes delivered scares that burned into our subconscious and deserve to be remembered for their nightmare-inducing power.

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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the small

00:09screen scares that might have flown under the radar. Some of these moments

00:12cover crucial plot points, so a spoiler alert is in effect.

00:22Number 10, Locked in the Refrigerator, Veronica Mars

00:30It's easily one of the CW drama's most chilling moments. High school private eye

00:37Veronica Mars has finally discovered the identity of her best friend's killer.

00:41Unfortunately, the villain she spent the first season chasing down gets the drop

00:45on her in a crucial moment. The murderer locks her in an abandoned refrigerator,

00:49douses it with gasoline, and threatens to ignite it if she doesn't lead him to some incriminating

00:53evidence she's hidden.

01:04She's in the fridge, Keith. You might want to check up on her.

01:07Fire swallows up the fridge as Veronica's father tries to save her. It may take place in a high

01:12school, but Veronica Mars is a show that really goes to some dark places.

01:25Number 9, The Railroad Crossing, Duel

01:28Master director Steven Spielberg made this disturbing movie of the week from 1971.

01:45A businessman cuts off a fuel truck on a deserted California highway and suddenly finds himself the

01:50target of its deranged driver. It's like Jaws, but instead of a great white shark,

01:54it's a relentless tanker truck. While stopped at a railroad crossing, the man is horrified as

01:59the truck begins physically pushing his car toward the passing train.

02:15It's as if the truck is trying to feed him to the passing train's crushing wheels. We're forced to

02:19watch as the man is caught between two dangerous, inhuman, and destructive machines. This is just

02:24one of the movie's many pitch-perfect suspense sequences.

02:47Number 8, Why Are You Repeating? Doctor Who

02:50The Weeping Angels get all the love, but this entity capable of possessing humans,

03:02stirs up chaos on a shuttle in this terrifying Doctor Who episode. Even as the Doctor tries to

03:07take control, the creature's eerie mimicking of their fellow passengers begins to drive them all to the

03:12brink of reason. Like a classic Twilight Zone episode, the real villain here may just be human

03:25suspicion and paranoia. The Doctor has traveled across many dimensions and encountered many,

03:30many monsters. It's especially unsettling when he goes up against an enemy that almost bests him.

03:35She's repeating, at exactly the same time. That's impossible. It's not even a delay.

03:42Oh wow, that is weird. I think you should all be very, very quiet. Have you got that?

03:48Number 7, Manson Leaps at the Judge, Helter Skelter. I'm gonna fight for my life. One way or another,

03:54you might as well let me do it with words. If you don't stop, I'll have to have you removed.

04:00If you don't stop, I'll have you removed. I've got a little system.

04:04In part two of this true crime mini-series, cult leader Charles Manson faces trial for his role in

04:09the Sharon Tate murders. After Steve Railsback's performance as Manson is spine-tinkling. One of

04:15his most memorable and blood-curdling moments is when his notorious character makes a daring

04:20and violent leap for the presiding judge. In this moment, we see him as the animalistic monster he is.

04:37The Manson family murders were still fresh in 1976. Seeing the man behind them so unhinged and wild

04:43might have been almost like reliving the terror of the real event.

04:46It's not my conspiracy. It's not my music. I hear what it relates. It's this rise. It's this kill.

04:56Why blame it on me? I didn't write the music.

04:59Number 6, Talkie Tina, The Twilight Zone.

05:05My name is Talkie Tina, and you'll be sorry.

05:09You better be nice to her. On screen, talking dolls are rarely as innocent as they seem.

05:14This classic Twilight Zone episode features Talkie Tina, a ghoulish little doll who raises

05:19the suspicions of a little girl's stepfather. It's when the doll finally gives the game away,

05:23making explicit threats toward him over the phone, that the episode really gets freaky.

05:28And it just keeps getting worse from there.

05:32You are going to be sorry.

05:35With that cutesy voice provided by the legendary June Foray and soulless face, Talkie Tina's

05:45threats are genuinely scary. She's not like Chucky. You never see her do anything all that weird.

05:50Sometimes, the unseen is the most unsettling, however.

05:53Hello? My name is Talkie Tina, and I'm going to kill you.

06:00Number 5, The Laboratory Ambush, Stranger Things.

06:03We're too late!

06:07What's going on? We're under attack.

06:09The season finale of season 2 sees all the story threads smashing together in a big,

06:14bold, and bloody showdown at Hawkins Lab. Put upon Will Byers is possessed by the Mind Flayer.

06:20A team of scientists watches as a group of vicious Demogorgons escape from the portal to the upside down.

06:29We gotta go. We gotta go.

06:44These monsters begin to unleash all hell on the lab. Most of the cast is left to flee for their lives,

06:49while the scientists are massacred by the otherworldly creatures. The chase is a breathless sequence

06:54that culminates in one of the show's most heartbreaking character deaths.

07:09Number 4, Pick the Right Door. Are you afraid of the dark?

07:13Pick the right door, and you'll go free. Pick the wrong door, and there he'll be.

07:21Nickelodeon's anthology series did an incredible job of exploring familiar settings and making them

07:26feel completely surreal. This funhouse-set horror story uses its setting to its full advantage.

07:32Josh learns the hard way that a game of Got Your Nose can have deadly consequences. The clown whose nose

07:48he stole pursues him, cornering him in a funhouse full of misshapen and oversized doors. The game is

07:54simple. Open the right door, and he's free to go. But open the wrong door, and Zebo the Clown will be

07:59there to seal his fate. It is truly nail-biting television, even after all these years.

08:12Number 3, Possessed. Trilogy of Terror. Good. I'll be waiting for you.

08:20In the third of three horror tales, a woman named Amelia finds herself trapped in her apartment by a

08:25doll. The figurine is said to be possessed by an ancient and malevolent spirit. After fighting

08:30for her life, Amelia finally gets the upper hand and tosses the doll into an oven. Thinking she's

08:35finally defeated the doll, she opens the burning oven where she's trapped it, only to be attacked

08:39once again. This time, though, the demon switches bodies. The last shot reveals Amelia, her face

08:53disfigured by the possession, lying in wait for her mother to arrive, presumably to murder her. She

08:58stabs absently at her floor, before bearing the same sharp, fang-like teeth that the doll used to have.

09:04Talk about twisting the knife.

09:14Number 2, The Nuclear Bomb. Threads.

09:22Praised for its realism, this British-Australian TV movie was released at the height of the Cold War.

09:27The movie's brutal depiction of a nuclear detonation over the UK is not easy to forget. And that's the

09:33point. We see the calamity through the eyes of several citizens.

09:51Some characters we came to care about die instantly, some flee in vain, and some are frozen with fear.

09:57Through the use of inserts, flashes, and even complete silence, the sequence shows how impossible it is

10:02to truly take in the experience. It was designed to stick with you, and it really does.

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10:45From the mind of David Lynch, this murder mystery series got metaphysical very fast.

10:50The villain is not even a real person, but an evil entity called Bob, whose anthropomorphic form is

10:55somehow scarier than any abstract image you could think up. His most memorable moment is in Twin

11:01Peaks' second season, when he appears to Maddie in a vision. Bob makes his way slowly from the kitchen

11:06and into the living room, climbing over the couch and crawling right into the camera.

11:10A maniacal smile is glued to his face the whole way. It's so simple and so terrifying.

11:29Do these TV moments give you nightmares? Let us know in the comments.

11:32Are you dirty? Come on, give me a break, please.

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