'Scare Tactics' is Coming to Netflix Globally in June 2019. Scare Tactics, the popular prank/game show is coming to Netflix at the end of June in many regions around the world. ... Here's how the show is described by a show that covers it exclusively. Scare Tactics is the hit hidden camera series with a Sci Fi twist.

Examples of scare tactics include mock car crashes, demonstrations of the diseased lungs of a smoker, and the 'this is your brain on drugs' commercial. Scare tactics often do not work, especially for young people. That's because… Fear appeals often change attitudes and intentions without causing a change in behavior.

“Scare Tactics” co-creator Scott Hallock has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over the Netflix show “Prank Encounters,” saying his former partner had no right to create a show similar to their original. ... Hallock is suing for copyright infringement and breach of contract and is seeking unspecified damages.

Although the show aired six seasons and 119 episodes between 2002 and 2013 on Syfy (and originally on the Sci-Fi Channel), there's a lot I didn't know about it, including the surprising way the victims of pranks were cast.