I always thought the conversion into a cyberman was one of the most horrifying things to happen to someone in Doctor Who

The Vashta Nerada are quite terrifying, as well. Literally lurking in the shadows, which are impossible to avoid, then strip you down into a skeleton and leaving just an echo of your consciousness for a brief moment. Though, if I'm remembering right, that last part was due to the suits River and her crew were wearing.

Moffat underutilising the Whispermen WAS A CRIME. Finally good to give them some more recognition!

If we’re going to have the Abzorbaloff then we have to have the Slitheen because...being killed, skinned and worn by your killer is quite dark if you ask me. Heck, they could be skinning you alive! Also in the Sarah Jane Adventures, there is a Child Slitheen who wears 2 different disguises over his appearance...meaning that in a KIDS SHOW, 2 kids were killed, skinned and worn as a disguise...Wow.

The Silence are the most terrifying concept to me because of how quickly you could go insane by the lost of your memories and them return each time you look at them all without them touching you. Add to that they can zap you from who knows how far away, you are rather helpless.

What about those peg dolls their ability to slowly turn a person into another peg doll at the moment of a touch is terrifying as well as the fact that the moment they touch a person they practically immobilise them so the moment they got you are doomed to become a peg doll Not to mention the peg dolls themselves are terrifying with the childish voices and giggling as they slowly hunt you down to turn you into one

Great list! How about Missy from Dark Water/Death in Heaven? To be able to capture your soul, strip it of all emotions, and then shove it back into a Cyberman body made out of a corpse is pretty freaking terrifying!

I missed the Vashta Nerada here. A truly terrifying villain who actually can't be defeated.

Whispermen are underrated and underused

I thought The Boneless was a really good concept. I'd never considered life in two dimensions.

You missed one: Chris Chibnall’s horrifying ability to WRITE A SCRIPT

The whole "looking at a Weeping Angel will get into your eyes" thing never worked for me. If that were the case, why wouldn't it have come up in the other episodes? What about all those images of the Statue of Liberty, etc... Loved the initial Weeping Angels bit. Reminded me of the hedge animals in The Shining, which also terrified me. But I didn't see the need to try to make the Angels scarier and I think it just detracted from them...

I am honestly still terrified of weeping angels whenever I see an angel statue I get way to scared for any normal person

What about The Silence? Or did they make you forget to include it? 🤔

The season one daleks are scary since they took you and turned you into a dalek They made you the physical embodiment of hate just to make you do it to others And in time heist the monster who eats your brain and turns it into soup and it’s completely impossible to fight back and you don’t fully die you just become a mindless husk

The weeping angels, Vashta Nerada, and gas masked zombies TERRIFIED me when i was younger

I distinctly remember being traumatized by the first episode of Who I ever watched, 'School Reunion' those Krillitane bat creatures scared the hell out of an 11 year old me. Fast forward to 25 year old me and the Who baddies that creep me out the most are the Dustmen and that whole episode in general.

I love the fact that WhoCulture are convinced that Doctor Who is a kids show - it isn't. It never was. Just because it's 'family viewing' doesn't make it a 'kids' show; it's aimed for people of all ages, which means it has to feature more mature and complex content in order to engage with people - programmes that are designed for kids have more simplistic storylines, and nobody ever dies. In Doctor Who, death happens - Just look at Amy, Adric, Sara, and Clara as prime examples. Alien monsters are supposed to be scary, and not always in a 'man in a rubber suit' kinda way; they can do things we can't do, or sometimes can't even understand.

Telepathic spiders?! OMG, that explains the odd nightmare I had as a kid. I never realized it may have been connected to an episode with my favorite Doctor.

‘They actually killed Jenny….thankfully only for a little while’ - sums up moffats era

Taking the angel. That’s a euphemism right there

I don't know about anyone here but I reckon the mummy on the Orient express could have been a strong candidate for this list. It can't be stopped, bargained with and you couldn't run from it. You have no way to hide or run before it comes and kills you.

I think the weeping angel one was hard to explain lol, its rather complicated. Apparently by looking into the eyes of the weeping angel, Amy was able to remember what the entire angel looked like, and that image she could think in her head itself became an angel, which is scary to think that an image you imagine in your head becomes sentient.

I think the spiders in the eight legs are more scary than the ones in arachnids in the UK

What about sutekh, he had the ability to shread the Doctors nervous system into a million fibers, even when he was still in a paralised state and trapped in the Eye Of Horus. Trapped, weakened, but still has the ability to do that and enslave people and get them to do what you want, even a plan on how to escape. Yep Horus really should have made that secure, maybe instead of haveing a door for Proffesor scarman to stumble apon, maybe a force field, energy barrior, a simple plain brick wall so it Cant be opened. but anyway you take my point on how powerfull sutekh is, and how much more powerfull he would be if he wasnt either trapped in a pyramid or a time corridor.

Doctor Who hasn't really been a kids show since the 60s. It's been aimed at all age groups from the 70s onwards.

the Midnight being, need i say more?

Today is the first time I realised that the window frames of the house in Blink are TARDIS blue on the outside

The whisper men was part of the "great intelligence", which in itself is a bootstrap paradox. According to the g.i. it has been fighting the doctor since the very beginning when it first appeared. The doctor (according to it) defeated it multiple times without ever being aware of it. It continued to grow until it met the doctor on trenzalore, where it went into the dying tardis's core and was splintered into the doctors entire life time. Over time, it reintegrated itself to once again fight the doctor and return to the cycle. Instead of the doctor defeating it, it was the impossible girl, Clara, that defeated it by also going into the core and being splintered into the same places. The doctor then brought Clara back to herself. Since the tardis was dying as a result of the doctors death, it could only go back to the times the doctor was in before that time. Which means the whisper men can not fight the future doctors.

I think that it was really awful to have the dream crabs in a Christmas special. A joyous time for all the family to gather round and watch TV

what about the 9th doctor's empty child and the 11th doctor's weird doll things from the episode 'Night Terrors'

I know, it's a little late, but there are also the Beast, the House, the Monks, the Nimons and so many more.

Sutekh's power and ability to destroy almost anything at will is pretty scary thinking especially when the Doctor gives Sarah an insight into his destruction. The Wirrn taking over your body and using it as a host is also terrifying and pre-dates Alien by 4 years. The Ogri sucking your blood out the moment you touch them and get stuck.

I'm just surprised the dolls that turned you into wooden dolls like them didn't make this list.

The most terrifying villain for me was the doll creature things from the episode night terrors. When I was a child I couldn’t sleep for over a week because of that episode. I’m pretty sure it was in series three of the reboot.

im surprised the vashta narada aren’t on here

You know I have often wondered if the creator for the slinderman, took inspiration from the silence. I mean if you look at the 2 characters the similarities in their appearance is uncanny.

The Whispermen look a lot like The Trickster from SJA. And where was the Midnight monster? It creeps me out even more than the Vashta Nerada.

Hmmmm, Doctor Who villains with terrifying abilities......how about Chris Chibnall, for the total obliteration of the icon, the legend, that is The Doctor. Miss Whittaker deserves so much better.

this might just be me but i personally thought that the midnight creature was actual nightmare fuel the pure thought of your body essentially being possessed was bad enough added with the fact we never got to see a proper form of it was just spooky

Capaldi's first season was amazing

Daleks: aim for the eye stalk Sontarans: back of the neck Vashta nerada : RUN

The God Complex episode took the premise of the Backrooms 4chan thread from two years before and just fuckin RAN with it Also the fact that the Percy Jackson book series technically came up with this premise first with the clipping out of reality into an endlessly expansive, ever-shifting maze back in 2008 proves that millenia-old myths of the old world are able to be adapted into the present day and also combine with the premise of Simulation Theory, which just makes my nerd brain happy stim so much XD

That Surfshark ad tho… 😂

....I had forgotten this was a whatculture channel until Wilbourn showed up in the ad, and of course he did the silly voices

Great list and a great presenter!

when you realise that the dream crabs where in a christmas episode

love the vid

I've never thought Dr Who is a kids show ... :)

The Whisper Men aren't a Monster, they are just an embodiment of the Great Intelligence.

"Because they hate you having fun" UMM No try "They are smart and don't want your a data sold"

Can you give episode numbers of the old doctors pre ecclestone that were referenced

No-one gonna mention the empty child? I mean, he can make phones start ringing, start radios and stuff. Oh, and he just has to TOUCH you and you become a zombie

I wonder what happened if you took an Axe on one of The Weeping Angels (would they smash into pieces like a Statue or they be cut in half like a human)

Thanks for the nightmares tonight lol I’m terrified of snakes and spiders I’ve dreamt they are in my bed and jumped out in my dream state bad way to wake up. I can’t even do the jumping now as I had an accident last year and can’t use my legs.😢😊😊❤

But the whisper men were barely even used, they just kind of stand behind the great intelligence the whole time

I know its not a doctor who villain but can we just mention the trickster from the Sarah Jane adventures and how amazing he was. I feel he should come in the the doctor who universe sometime and play a nasty trick on the doctor or his companions

Terror of the zygons that nurse scared the 5 year old me I'm 50 this year & zygons still scare me

melody pond before she became river song but after she regenerated into the form. river song is overpowered as is with her gun skills and her lipstick that can hypnotize you. now look at her when she is evil from the doctors prospective: looks like the woman your pretty sure your going to marry, knows that its your best mates kid but wants to kill you and succeeds lets face it the thought of your love one betraying you and kill you with a single kiss is terrifying not to mention the fact that its not just that one regeneration the Tardis says that its stopping regeneration meaning that its just it death. also does no-one else want to talk about the doctor repeatedly trying to regenerate on what ( at the time) he thought was his last regeneration. i mean granted it could just be a laps as the war doctor was added later but still. also whats with his power to fake regenerate now( i forget what episode but the monk one with bill)

Axos. A space dwelling parasite that can suck entire planets dry, but does so by exploiting the greed of that world's inhabitants, causing them to be the engineers of their own destruction. The Master of the World Of Fiction, who controls heroes, villains and monsters from ALL fiction in the universe. They can only speak with dialogue they were given, but a real-time print out is constantly created. If trapped there, and it is a trap, you can edit the hardcopy - so long as you don't put your name anywhere - if you do, you become part of the narrative, a fictional character, and are doomed to remain there forever.

What about The Silence? They make you forget that they were there as soon as you stop looking at them.

How long can you last if something ate the sun? About 5.5 hours.

I thought the Kassavin in the episode Spyfall was a revamped Boneless when I was the trailers for Spyfall

The whisper men just look exactly like the trickster….

The Whisper Men were cool and stuff but it makes me mad no one thinks that one guy from Sarah Jane Adventures is one.

Some papers reporting the singer Ollie Alexander could very well be the next Doctor Who

Mate, you forgot about the silence

8:02 Indiana Jones’ worst nightmare

I love this video and I love this man. What the hell.

the adipose

At least from what we’ve seen it’s an instant death so not too bad the dream crabs are not a bad way to go either.

The Silence! 😊

What about that thing that "turned ur brain into soup"?

What about "Insert villian that wasn't mentioned here". Just saves reading the rest of the comments.

They actually killed Jenny. Sadly only for a little while.

Considering the sponsor… I’m guessing that the WiFi is gonna be on here XD

So much contradictions with the weeping Angel's like the one you mentioned an image of an angel becomes an angel because theres been many people looking at photos of weeping Angel's then theirs the whole statue of liberty (not stone, made of copper)

I’ve been a Doctor Who fan since 2005 with 9, and have never considered it a children’s show. Maybe a handful of modern episodes are, but I wouldn’t let any hypothetical children of mind watch most of them alone until they were at least 13. Like X-Files or Fringe. Why give them nightmares?

How about the Midnight monster?

You want to talk about terrifying? How about the Silence. They're memoryproof. The moment you look away, you forget they even exist.

The Prison Ship is sorta like the Backrooms in a way....

Concerning the Abzorbaloff ... Devilman's Jinmen did it better ...

In 1 universe anti matter comes in monster form nd turn you into a mummy in another universe they use anti matter as a fuel source and in another it is it's own universe created by an anti matter being tht can use the antimatter to wipe out the multiverse

no reference to the waters of mars? really? man i thought that was the most terrifying monster

the monsters that eat life kinda seem like a dementors rip off

What about the Veil?

I'm not sure I buy the idea that Doctor Who is still a kid's show. It originally aired on Saturday afternoons which is the sort of time slot I would expect for a kid's show. Now it airs in early prime time on a weekday. That's not a kid's show time slot. It's the time slot for an all ages show that is meant to appeal to adults too. The content suggests that it is least partly aimed at adults as well. I can buy that the original Doctor Who was aimed at kids. I can't buy that the new series was ever entirely aimed at kids.

what about the silance and their mind shananagans

One thing I hate about Flash and Stone is the way that the Weeping Angel started to move in the forest.

Why can't you pronounce Geiger? Also, the crack wasn't the main thing behind the door as we see later (in the episode or in the pandorica I don't remember) was actually a young Amy pond waiting for him

Family show not kids show just correcting you on that

The angels were best in ‘blink’, they shouldn’t have ruined their lore by bringing them back. I refuse to count anything from ‘flesh and stone’ onward as angel canon.

I feel anyone who calls Doctor Who a kids show has never actually watched a kids show. Or, they think everything under GoT is a kids show. I wouldn't want my five year old watching Doctor Who.

Uhhh, the Silence??

Midnight entity

3 mins ago but still not first

Since when is Doctor Who a kids show?

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No offense but how come the master was not on this list remember when he got the power to like you use lightning and shoot it out of his hands also super strength and speed also he ate people so I saw this was a pretty scary power it should have been on the list no offense to the ones on the list though

You like me I don’t like spiders