Doctor Who: 10 Best NuWho Episodes

Sometimes, the best way to scare the audience is to make them afraid of the unknown, what they cannot see.

The most chilling and effective horror episode in the revival era, Midnight is a masterclass in building and maintaining suspense throughout a forty five runtime and the best part is, it features a monster whose true form we still do not know and will probably never discover.

In this well acclaimed adventure, Tennant’s Doctor drops Donna off at a luxurious spa on the planet Midnight, where he decides to go along on a bus tour to the Sapphire Waterfalls, only for a mysterious deadly entity to infiltrate the holiday escape and turn everything into a nightmare.

Russel T Davies crafts a claustrophobic, disturbing setting as the entity possesses one of the passengers, Sky Silvestry, who begins to take the voices of those around her, leading to a horrific state of paranoia and eventual mob mentality from the passengers.

Lesley Sharp is incredible as the possessed Sky, giving unnatural body movements when she first awakens after being taken over and her demonic repetition of everybody’s lines is eerily creepy. Equally as brilliant as always is David Tennant, whose Doctor faces one of the biggest challenges in his life, villainised by the group of humans who do not trust him and eventually turn against him.

Midnight is hands down one of the best NuWho episodes for its psychological horror and admirable craft from all involved to result in a very chilling watch.