I agree that Midnight is the scariest episode of New-Who, but I don't agree with your reasons for thinking that, or rather, I have a different reason on top of all of your reasons why I think this episode is so scary: the Doctor. Doesn't. Win. Every monster, every villain, the Doctor came out on top, or at least did something to significantly damage their cause. This is the only time where he's about to lose. If the flight attendant hadn't sacrificed herself, the Doctor would have been dead, and that thing, whatever it was, would have been able to do whatever it wanted. That, to me, is what makes this episode so scary, and is the reason I always skip this episode whenever I re-watch Tennant's episodes.

The scary thing about waters of Mars wasn't the flood (for me at least), it was the Doctor himself. The time Lord victorious scene gives me chills every time.

I've only been able to watch Midnight once, I don't think I could do it again! What gets me is the end when the Doctor says "Molto bene (sp) " and Donna repeats it, you see this haunted look on his face and he just says "Don't do that..."

To me this list is proof that Doctor Who works its best when it just uses simple ideas and designs and with brilliant execution, makes them creepy. Number 2 on this spot is just a kid with a gas mask. Yet it works really well. Shadows that eat people, statues that move, just another person copying what everyone else is saying- all simple ideas but turn out to be the most effective. Less is definitely more.

I think Night Terrors is really scary. It hasn’t got the greatest word for it, and it isn’t perfect, but I think it’s really underrated(at least I like it). I don’t think it’s the scariest to me, but it’s definitely one of them, probably at my top 5.

I agree with you on Midnight. Minus the diamond planet, it's the most realistic episode of Doctor Who. This is a really plausible example of how people process fear which is why it's so unnerving. I can't imagine there'd ever be statues that move. Or a being that I only know exists during the short time it's in front of me. But people being afraid enough to kill a man out of fear and self preservation? This can happen. This does happen. It's a ugly look in the mirror....

You should do a Doctor Who Top 10 Speeches.

Seriously no Night Terrors that shit was creepy as fuck

I always thought what made Midnight so scary was it’s the closest the Doctor Who series comes to demonic possession or something like it. The moment you touch on possession it becomes many people’s worst fears. It’s terrifying

I think the episode with the diet pills that turn people's fat into marshmallow aliens was completely terrifying, because of the "Trojan Horse" aspect of it. Something that seems so mundane like a consumer pharmaceutical that creates creatures through body horror for fat people really drives home the illusion of such a thing being plausible.

Great list. 😀👍 For me, 'Flatline' was a really scary episode. Creatures from another dimension doing experiments on humans. And when the mural of the missing people came to life... That just made my skin crawl. 😨

I agree with you on "World Enough and Time" definitely. The scenes with Bill have this great tension to them, and there's just this general feeling of unease. And there's a lot of scary moments-- all the "patients" suddenly getting up when Bill is in the room, or the patient that's been muted because he's constantly screaming "Kill me!" The scenery and the mood is spine-chilling. Another aspect I like is that we've seen the Cybermen before. We've talked about cyber-conversion, but we've never really seen it. And to do that as a body horror story...

Basically, tips for a good scary 'villain' antagonist: *1.* We never actually _see_ it *2.* Unsure consequences/Unknown *3.* Knocking sounds, strange unnatural voices *4.* Entering the body (not just the mind, just literally _entering_ the body. AKA body horror/skin horror These are the 4 main keys for a scary antagonist for horror. Also just a personal thing for me: Children. When done right, children can be super, _super_ creepy. Dolls as well maybe because they're generally associated with children, so- creepy.

Praise Him.

A young child walked up to me one day, and I could tell they were scared. He tugged on my sleeve, and asked, "Have you seen my mommy?". I screamed and bolted, which is A) embarrassing, and B) a testament to how much The Empty Child scared me. Midnight still takes the top spot for me. I will never forget certain moments from that.

the whole “don’t cremate me” thing really freaked me out when it first broadcast...

Haven't finished the video but I'm pretty sure midnight is number 1

I pretty much agree with this entire list. Like other commenters I do think Night Terrors is creepy but that's primarily because personally, dolls are really creepy looking. The realisation of what it actually is though, isn't creepy which is where it falls flat. For me the creepiest thing about The Waters of Mars and The Flood as a creature isn't the whole zombie thing, it's the idea that just one drop of water is enough to kill you. Forever the creepiest scene for me is where that one character (i can't remember his name) is in a dry room alone when one single drop of water leaks through the ceiling and lands on him. Then he has a seizure and changes. That creeped me out way more than the actual monsters (and i did think they were somewhat creepy). I would say just as my own personal thing, the Weeping Angels will forever be the scariest villains to me purely because of how vividly i remember the effect they had on 10 year old me.

Not sure why, but anytime the Ood appear I’m terrified :/ also Blink was definitely the scariest because of the fact that they were just statues especially the ending when they highlighted that

#1 Love and Monsters

Once you hit World Enough and Time I was trying to figure out the remaining places. Got all but one, and (coincidentally) it was the Silence I forgot....

Oh yeah..."The Silence" messed me up... especially when they marked themselves to indicate how many are in CLose proximity...that freaked me out.

The WW2 episode where the gas masks are stuck to the kids faces freaked my sister's and I out when we watched it 😂😂

Could you maybe do overrated and underrated episodes

I'm so glad World Enough and Time made it to the list. Having only watched new who I've never found the Cybermen scary until now, that back story is really well fleshed out and seeing the process happening to a beloved character is heart wrenching. And the different stages of Cybermen, like the whole mummy look and the latex mask face is creeeeeeeeeepy.

Hide is one of my favorite episodes for Matt Smith. Listen is one of my top favorite episodes, ever of Doctor Who One of my top 3 favorite episodes is the Empty Child 2 parter. It is the creepiest thing ever.

I have also always loved the way they kept count of the silence, the markings on the skin is really effective. I personally think that the scariest moment in all of doctor who was when Amy when up to the window in the old orphanage, looks out the window, the thunder crashes and we just see her covered in markings. Good God that's scary.

Night terrors almost traumatized me as a little kid.

Great picks! I also want to shout the God Complex because I love the oppressive atmosphere it creates with the canted angles and claustrophobic hotel corridors. I love how it kind of evokes The Shining with the layout changing and not making sense. I love the concept of not knowing what your worst fear is until the moment you see it. The idea of this thing getting inside your head so you go to your death willingly and enthusiastically. I think it's scary in a more subtle way and the layers add up to something that's terrifying the more you think about it.

All those who are saying Night Terrors should have been on the list, I agree. My then 6 year old sister had a dollhouse on her room at the time, and the effect that episode had on her... she was terrified. My parents ended up covering her dollhouse with a blanket for a night or two if my memory serves me correctly. Just... Ugh. Scary stuff.

Under the lake/Before the flood is genuinely terrifying it gives me the shivers everytime

I completely agree with this list but would also have added night terrors and rebel flesh. The gangers in rebel flesh went from terrifying and evil to things you felt bad for which I love and I think is unnerving as your unsure who to trust or who is even ‘good’ in the end. Also dolls terrify me and the fact that it was a boy’s nightmare made night terrors terrifying.

Really glad you put Midnight at the top. The entity is terrifying, the superb acting from the cast adds so much to the atmosphere, the tension is built up throughout the episode so well, it doesn't rely on jump scares and it shows a very disturbing microcosm of society and the effects that fear can have.

There are definitely some really scary classic serials as well: 10. Survival; one of the only times the Master has actually scared me. 9. Spearhead from Space; the Autons 8. Happiness Patrol; there's just something so... wrong about how perfect it all is 7. Power of the Daleks; seeing the Daleks so manipulative and calculating is just terrifying. 6. Terror of the Autons; see number 10 5. The Faceless Ones; the atmosphere, and the Chameleons 4. The Curse of Fenric; everything about it 3. The Seeds of Doom; the Krynoids 2. The Moonbase; the Cybermen at their best. Right here. 1. The Tenth Planet; see above

Totally agree with the #1 pick. spoiler Midnight was utterly terrifying. The slow and foreign progression of "symptoms", the Doctor's inability to do anything at all- And most of all the hindrance presented in the form of humans. Normal people. Scared people. People who are scared and feel victimized are some of the scariest people, because like in the episode, they'll stop at nothing. The fact that we never figured out what the hell that thing was only adds to the fear.

This list was great and not only because it overlaps mine 100%. but it was so well structured and effective. Great work

Blink is only Scarry the first couple times

Although I agree about the episode Midnight, you mentioned the episode twice in your listing, The Library and Turn Left sent chills up my spine. Also would you add Night Terrors, I find this episode haunting because of the boy who is scared of everything, and those dolls in the dollhouse were just creepy. Anyway, I look forward watching your videos, thank you.

I am sooooo scared o night terrors with the dolls

Listen is #1 bc it’s so relatable, everyone has been scared of the dark or the felling there being watched/not alone. I remember when I first saw it that night sleeping with the light on and I was 15 years! I had even had that dream (the one with the hand grabbing my ankle) it’s definitely #1

Moffat has the reputation for doing all the scary episodes and yet the number one pick is a Davies written episode. Love it. I still actually get surprised that Midnight was written by RTD. It feels just like a Moffat episode

I think your list is very good! The placements make sense to me too. However, for me the scariest one for me has to be Night Terrors. I actually have a fear of dolls (especially porcelain), so the fact that they are ALL over the episode... yeah.

The empty Child is one of my fav episodes and one that scared me the most. The creepiest Moment was for me right before they change, when they were talking normal and suddenly they said mummy insted of what they wanted to say. Uhh that gets me every time

10) Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead 9) Human Nature/The Family of Blood 8) Listen 7) Hide 6) Blink 5) Heaven Sent 4) Midnight 3) The Waters of Mars 2) World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls 1) The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

The empty child, weeping angels, waters of mars, the satan pit, TERRIFIED me so much as a kid. Whenever someone who say “are you my mommy?” Freaked me out. I couldn’t watch the impossible planet/satan pit for the longest time because it terrified me so much. I was scared of statues for a while. And the waters of mars was just so creepy.

Night terrors, midnight, and empty child and the doctor dances terrified me as a kid I'm able to watch them know but damn the dolls faces and how they can turn you into one of them in night terrors kept me up at night and the fact that in midnight there is this entity that can control someone as powerful as the doctor creeped me out

midnight is such a good episode oh my god!

[No Particular Order] 1. Under the Lake/Before the Flood 2. Oxygen 3. Hide 4. Blink 5. Midnight 6. Listen 7. The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit 8. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances 9. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead 10. Night Terrors 11. Flatline 12. Mummy on the Orient Express 13. The Waters of Mars 14. Tooth and Claw 15. The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon 16. The Unquiet Dead 17. The Angels Take Manhattan 18. Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone 19. Knock Knock 20. Extremis 21. World Enough and Time 22. Praxeus 23. The God Complex 24. The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion 25.

Night terrors though

Hi, I just found your channel and been working my way through your videos. I would have to add "Nightmare in Silver" as an honorable mention. I hate bugs in general, and silverfish are among the creepiest to me. I agree with your take on "Midnight" 100%. I teach English and like using it as a tool to demonstrate character and plot progression, and how mob thinking develops.

Hide was fine but its like it didnt know if it wanted to be horror or not so its all over the place. And the Doctor saying he was afraid felt very out of character as he's faced much scarier things.

I was pleasantly surprised that "World Enough and Time" made the list, because I do think it's scary, for exactly the reasons you gave, but it's not scary like the Weeping Angels, the Silence, the Vashta Nerada, or the Empty Child, so I didn't expect it to make the list.

Your list covered every episode that scared the crap out of me. I think however that Blink was the scariest because anyone who has seen it has never looked at a statue the same. Blink changes people.

Difficult ranking task indeed... it is difficult to argue on many pointes, so I'll give you a big thumbs up, but you nailed it with Midnight. I was wondering if you'd put it on top. You often argue things in a similar way I would, so Midnight is definitely my no.1, even if the rest is kind of fuzzy. Even as I've rewatched it, it still gave me creeps, together with Tennant's performance - like at the end when Donna wants to make an echo joke, and he says "Just don't."

The 2 parter the empty child and the dr dances were my favourite but also the ones that scared me the most for starters the monkey saying are you my mummy over and over and the radio also saying that it just felt eerie also when the tape ran out that was scary too

Heaven Sent had the idea of confessing possibly every terrible thing you've ever done to survive a bit longer, which was definitely unnerving, because it's one of those things that shows how far people will go, especially depending on what is at stake

NIGHT TERRORS!!!!That episode creeped me out soo much

A very good video and I agree with most of what you say. God I still remember watching Blink for the first time and I didn't watch it again for years, I was so scared.

Aw man, just thinking of all those good Midnight moments is giving me chills.

Midnight was brilliant, not only a scary monster but showing just how scary humans can be too, especially when they're frightened. Good choice!

The Impossible Astronaut honestly terrifies me

I saw Water of Mars when I was younger and it freaked me the hell out.

Silence in the library seriously messed me up as a kid. Reignited my fear of the dark for a good few months 😂😂

World Enough in Time is terrifying. I think only Blink and An Earthly Child can rival it. I love Midnight but this whole "mystery on the train" kind of story makes it feel less scary.

Omg thank you! Midnight is an incredible episode and people hardly appreciate it

honestly, I'm most scared by the 3 parted of utopia the sound of drums (and the last one I can't remember) due too 1 thing, the fact that eventually the universe will die and that in Dr who the way humans avoided that was to become sadistic childlike killers driven and by the end of existence. The looming presence of a end no matter how hard one struggles to avoid is one that fills me with dread.

Midnight is the first and only real episode that frightened me and still does to this day.

The beast in the Impossible planet scared the hell out of me as a child, still gives me the heebie jeebies

i liked and enjoyed the reasoning and placing of the episodes, but out of quriosity, did you consider '42' by chris chinbal?the episode where the sun is alive and is controling a husband to kill people by its eyes - i would find that this episode would be aound 11th place or higher up?

I’m scared shitless in them THE FLESH episodes because it was quite scary to me as a kid and still is today

Tooth and Claw terrified me when I was younger.... *shivers*

2006. I'm 7 years old, my mum is out and and my sister is looking after me but she's upstairs, while I'm watching The Girl in the Fireplace downstairs by myself. The Doctor notices the broken clock and points out that something is ticking. From that point onwards, I was absolutely terrified.

I've been working my way through all of Classic Who (starting right from the beginning with An Unearthly Child) and I just finished Inferno... I gotta say... I *never* expected an episode of the show in its earlier days to be so bleak and terrifying as that one.

I feel like with the situation of Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, it’s a different form of “scary” it’s more trippy and unnerving than spooky or with jump scares

I like that a lot of opinion on scary episodes comes from whether you were a child or adult when you watched it. Waters of Mars scared the crap out of me at 20 years old. I had to Google Night Terrors just to remember the episode.

I think I was about six when I was watching the lonely child it scared me so much. I didn't know what the gas mask was made it scared me and the scene when the soldier became one with the gas mask coming out of his mouth was weird. However watching it after being so young seeing how it developed made it less scary, yet it is still scary. then there was midnight which I saw when I was a bit older and have watched it multiple times since and it is still really scary.

For me, silence in the library scares me because it targets my specific fear of shadows and silhouettes. It is especially bad at night time and I feel like they are moving.

As a concept i agree that Midnight is absolutely the scariest but mostly im just fascinated when i watch it. In terms of the episodes that actually make me feel too much fear to watch them at night those are: Silence in the Library, Blink, Waters of Mars

I love Hide, it’s incredibly underrated

Every time I see hash marks on random boxes or sheets of paper, I start to wonder if the Silence are around.

I’m literally still afraid of watching Midnight again it’s so creepy and unnerving, I’ve only watched it the once a few years ago when I was getting into the show, but man I get shivers just thinking about it still. As for Waters of Mars, I was a bit unnerved by the monsters, but I was most terrified by the Doctor.

I got scared on the Season 3 episode 10 "Blink" when we got introduced to the character Sally Sparrow and villains The Weeping Angels!!!!

For the single creepiest moment “don’t cremate me” in dark water terrified me as a kid. Especially since it wasn’t long after my Grandads funeral where he was cremated which is why I think it’s so scary. My creepiest episode however is midnight. The doctor doesn’t win and he almost died . He nearly almost always wins but this time he doesn’t.

World enough and time was the first Cyberman story to absolutely scare the crap out of me

Waters of Mars. And Midnight.

'Fury From The Deep" (1968) Very eerie atmosphere and of course the iconic scene when Maggie Harris is choking from the fumes emiting from Mr.Oak and Mr.Quill's mouths.'Inferno" (1970) Again very eerie atmosphere with The Doctor having to watch parallel versions of his best friends die with no chance of saving them.

I liked the water on Mars episode simply for the character development of the tenth doctor, with the very end of the episode and how it affects him.

i don't find a zombie on it's won scary, i don't find the monsters scary, i find the Virus, or way it's spread scary, because how realistic a Diseases coming in and ravishing the entire Human population is and the complete collapse of all Human morals in the survivors also scares me.

wow flesh and stone doesn't even get a mention, i mean it wasn't just the angels but the danger of something even worse (the crack in time) made it a really high tension episode

I hate it that flatline is so underrated.

I agree with Midnight! I guessed it would be number 1. It is my number one for sure...had nightmares from that...i think empty and midnight are the only episodes of doctor who that have given me nightmares. Midnight is so unnerving.. the creature is so creepy and it also just grows and learns SO fast that it's just scary, because it'll take over the whole plane and it's barely doing anything. And yes the people willing to throw others off a plane and how that escalates is horrible.

I honestly forgot about listen, it was tucked away in my childhood because it was so traumatizing

I have almost seen all of David's episodes but... There are a few I haven't seen because I have seen clips and they have terrified me. Here's the list: Waters of Mars, duh! The flood! The shakespear code, I saw the first seen of the guy being ripped apart and I know a guy basically vomits water, I'm terrified of vomit. I made my friend watch it in her laptop because I said it was scary and she didn't and she kept going like "Oh yep, now he's coughing up the water" and I was just like "How you not being grossed out?!" That's all I can remember off the top if my head, I would have to look into his episode list to see. Its strange, I love the episode Midnight! I know many people are terrified of the Midnight entity but I love the concept of it, I have even made an Oc that is a midnight entity, but don't worry, he is not the same one that possessed Sky and Doc, he kills that one xD. But yeah, I love that episode! But I'm scared so easily, I don't understand why I'm not scared. :/

I agree with you.Reminded me of so many Twilight Zone episodes.It's human beings that can turn on each other. They could have ended the Doctor.Whatever that entity was, it played on humans fears and paranoia. I enjoy listening to you.Thank you.Even when you are critical of somthing, you explain your reasoning, and don't just say you Hate it.The Doctor is such a gift to us (at this time, especially)even though he/she is fictional.

I think the Empty Child is fairly creepy, but I don't really get why people rate it as one of the scariest ever. It's still a great episode, but I found it more sad than scary and then was overwhelmed with joy when everyone is cured. Also, episodes I think should be included: Mummy in the Orient Express The Name of The Doctor Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone (in my opinion even scarier than Blink) Night Terrors The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People Army of Ghosts/Doomsday I dunno, too many good ones! Hard to fit them all in. Props to you for compiling this list!

Given your love of Heaven Sent, I'm surprised it didn't at least make the lower part of this list. The Veil and the way they use its slow movement and its point of view cameras are tremor-inducing for me. Like being in a living Pac-Man game.

Excellent list. I pretty much agree with you, especially on your #1 pick! :D

I was waiting for Midnight all along. It had to be in there!

While Classic Who didn't too regularly delve into scariness, there are a few that would deserve a mention were this list to include classic episodes. Brain of Morbius is actually quite creepy. The whole atmosphere throughout was consistently eerie, with the scene where the mangled frame of Morbius rises in the background, unbeknownst to Sarah Jane, is one of the most creepy cliffhangers in Doctor Who. Another story in classic who that might be eligible would be Caves of Androzani. This story, widely regarded as THE greatest Doctor Who story ever, has a really creepy factor in the form of its villain, Sharaz Jek. The design is simple, distinct and creepy (and his eventual unmasking is a great scene) while he is played in a truly creepy and unhinged manner, something I don't think I have ever seen in a Doctor Who story. I feel like a whole video talking about Caves of Androzani would be an interesting watch.

I’ve gotta say the weeping angels just work for me (in Blink at least) so Blink is my number 1, but I completely agree, as Midnight does something that actually does the same as my favourite horror movie of all time, the VVitch, in the villain only doing something quite small which results in the people turning against one another and having to live in constant paranoia of the future. If you haven’t seen the film, go and give it watch because it’s brilliant, and midnight is probably v high on my list for that same reason.