![]() Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) goes to a mansion to pick up a free piano with a U-Haul, and gets sucked into the realm of a man named Teddy Perkins, played by Glover under so much heavy make-up that Stanfield reportedly didn’t even realize it was him and he isn’t credited in the episode itself. The great director Hiro Murai collaborated with Glover on one of the most unsettling half-hours of TV in the 2010s, an experience that unfolded without commercial breaks. In general, Donald Glover’s masterful FX show would be classified as a comedy - but then there’s the sixth episode of season two, which is something else altogether. ![]() Some of the production values are dated, but Scorsese delivers enough great shots to justify a revisit. It’s bad enough when it’s just in a mirror, but it’s eventually in glasses and even eyes. The Oscar winner helms the tale of a horror writer, played by Sam Waterston, who starts to see a disfigured man in every reflection. Steven Spielberg’s brilliant anthology series didn’t often go straight horror but they sure went for it in this incredible episode from a story by Spielberg and directed by, believe it or not, Martin Scorsese. With that in mind, here are the scariest ones to make our cut - the 50 best TV episodes to watch when you’re looking for a truly chilling scare. Trimming this list down to fifty was difficult: There are truly terrifying episodes of Dexter, The Outer Limits, Fringe, and others that just barely missed the cut, and you could put together an entire separate list from the very best of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking masterpiece. The truth is that horror has been a reliable part of the TV landscape for generations, and it’s a remarkably diverse genre. When people think about TV horror, they probably think of the zombies of The Walking Dead or an old episode of an anthology series like The Twilight Zone or Tales From the Crypt that haunted their dreams - or, lately, Netflix’s very scary Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. With Halloween right around the corner, it’s the perfect time for a marathon of television frights. ![]() This post was originally published in 2017 and has been updated to include even more terrifying television. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos Courtesy of the Networks ![]()
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