12 Most Anxiety-Inducing Sci-Fi TV Shows EVER

11. Channel Zero

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Lasting an impressive four seasons, The Act producer Nick Antosca's urban legend-adapting anthology melded elements of sci fi, horror, and mystery with each season new twisted tale, and the show was never stronger than when it slid into more trippy genre-blurring territory.

But the series was reliably terrifying throughout, with its slow burn approach never limiting the amount of creepy moments and unforgettably scary images which made their way into the likes of Butcher's Block and season one's Candle Cove, a tales wherein a lost children's TV show turns into some far stranger and more disturbing, with its conclusion making Videodrome look like a missing episode of Max Headroom...

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