these ads are not for the faint of heart
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
scariest commercials before we begin we
publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re ranking the
most frightening disturbing or downright
creepy ads whether intentionally scary
or not that aired on TV or the Internet
we will not however be taking into
account any creepypastas as those
deserve a list of their own number 10k
fee jump scares you either love them or
you hate them
or in the case of this series of ads for
Germany’s Kaffee caffeine company they
absolutely terrify you
many were caught by surprise when these
brief 20-second ads first hit television
screens in the mid-2000s they depicted a
calm serene scene such as a quiet car
driving down a desolate country road
then out of nowhere a screaming zombie
figure leaps out in front of the screen
and scares the living daylights out of
the unsuspecting viewer the question
could be asked is this method of scare
tactic cheap yes but it’s also very
effective number nine Kentucky Fried lie
detector
this bizarre 1967 commercial from
Kentucky Fried Chicken is full of
unnerving camera angles and odd close-up
shots the plot is relatively simple a
group of ladies strapped Colonel Sanders
into a lie-detector machine demanding to
know the secrets behind KFC’s 11 herbs
and spices
Sanders is having none of it refusing to
give up the goods give up girls how to
blend 11 herbs and spices that make
Kentucky Fried Chicken so finger-licking
good
that’s the Colonel’s secret this ad is
shot more like a torture porn
interrogation however complete with a
laughing narrator and even a trippy
animation sequence to close things out
want more KFC madness a similarly
strange at hit screens a year later
featuring housewives escaping from their
homes in prison-break fashion to go
grab those delicious buckets of chicken
and pick it from the colonel Kentucky
Fried Chicken is finger licking good
number eight little babies ice cream
there’s good reason for my glistening
skin so do you love ice cream we mean
really love it well then maybe you’re
brave enough to handle this series of
ads from Philadelphia’s little babies
ice cream both are absolutely terrifying
and feature a wild-eyed crazy-looking
person covered head-to-toe in frozen
confectionary one of them this is a
special time goes the extra mile however
by having the affer mentioned person
scooping up gobs of ice cream from the
top of its own head I eat little babies
ice cream it keeps me young
it keeps me light on my feet we’re not
sure if this is supposed to bring
customers in or scare them away but
little babies ice cream definitely got
our attention
we love to lick me lick to love number
seven baby laughs a lot
we’re guessing that Remco probably
didn’t intend to scare generations of
kids for life when they first released
this ad for their baby laughs a lot doll
back in 1971 sure the idea of a giggling
laughing little girl doll probably
seemed innocent at first but time has a
funny way of making some things
incredibly creepy and this is definitely
one of those times the ad isn’t helped
by the fact that it’s seemingly being
narrated by a raving lunatic who can’t
stop laughing himself the whole affair
just comes across as some sort of
unstable LSD trip albeit one that’s kind
of cool in its own peculiar way
number six Canadian workplace safety and
insurance board most of us are familiar
with highly dramatized PSAs which are
designed to either make the public aware
of an issue or to bring up something
specific within the workplace this
Canadian PSA is of the latter variety
and has to deal with keeping spills away
from potentially dangerous work
environments
the actress starts off the ad describing
how much she loves her job and how she’s
engaged to be married then she slips and
falls near the hot oil station spilling
a huge pan of the stuff all over herself
the audience is then treated to the
brief but horrible site of life-changing
third-degree burns as the actress howls
in unbearable agony
yikes number five fragile childhood
monsters the fragile childhood campaign
was a 2012 effort by the Euro RSCG
Helsinki Agency to raise awareness about
how alcohol abuse affects young children
they did this via a creepy and
disturbing ad which shows examples of
how children might view their parents
after they’ve been drinking images
featured in the ad ranged from a
deformed bunny rabbit and the Grim
Reaper to a stocking faced carjacker all
of which stir up all kinds of emotions
within the kids in their care it’s a
powerful and effective clip which gets
its message across in a unique way
number four Smokey the Bear in human
skin sure this ad seems to start off
innocently enough with actress Joanna
Cassidy speaking about forest safety in
a manner that seems perhaps a bit of
Radek considering the subject matter but
is otherwise fairly straightforward then
Cassidy’s face is torn away in a
disturbing manner to reveal a short
Alang Smokey the Bear who then states
quote if you knew it was me would you
have listened actually smokey we might
have listened
had you not torn away a human face to
get your point across just makes us want
to run away from the forest screaming to
be honest after he’s dead cut off his
face and wear it is your face I’ve had
to hear what he wants now stab him and
wear his face number three the spirit of
dark and lonely water ready to trap the
unwary the shill of the pool we
mentioned how severe some of Canada’s
PSAs can be but the great white north
has nothing on the United Kingdom lonely
water was just one of a series of well
produced and highly cinematic PSAs which
aired on TVs across the region and
covered everything from playground
safety to traffic laws this one might be
the most memorable however thanks to a
deadly serious narration by the Grim
Reaper it’ll never take his weight he
describes how easy it is to snatch
unsuspecting children who are playing
near unsafe water with only the presence
of smart level-headed youth being enough
to drive death away although not before
he promises that he’ll quote be back
number two ps3 baby Sony’s PlayStation 3
was first released in North America back
in 2006 and this launch naturally
featured tons of supportive advertising
however it’s hard to imagine this oh so
strange ad doing anything but hampering
Sony sales figures at the time the brief
clip features the manipulated image of a
baby doll viewing the ps3 within a stark
white room the baby cries tears of what
we presume are joy while making some of
the most unholy sounds we’ve heard since
baby laughs a lot it’s unsettling it’s
unnerving and it just might be more
memorable than the ps3 itself before we
name our number one scariest commercial
here are a few horrific honorable
mentions Kinder Surprise from Ferrara
I know this Samsung Tocco icon is only
59.95 on pay as you go phones for you
missing hotels warned you one auto way
tire ghost we opened up this list with a
jump-scare so it’s only fitting that we
close our time together with one two
this time a Japanese tire manufacturer
decided to go the extra mile by boosting
the production value and film quality to
create a stark and snowy scene right out
of a horror film the ad even comes
equipped with its own warning beforehand
as a first person driving sequence
becomes the site of supernatural terror
complete with a terrifying ghost girl
bursting out from nowhere we can’t
imagine what audiences felt when they
first saw this ad but we’re guessing it
caused more than a couple of panic
attacks do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
scariest commercials before we begin we
publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re ranking the
most frightening disturbing or downright
creepy ads whether intentionally scary
or not that aired on TV or the Internet
we will not however be taking into
account any creepypastas as those
deserve a list of their own number 10k
fee jump scares you either love them or
you hate them
or in the case of this series of ads for
Germany’s Kaffee caffeine company they
absolutely terrify you
many were caught by surprise when these
brief 20-second ads first hit television
screens in the mid-2000s they depicted a
calm serene scene such as a quiet car
driving down a desolate country road
then out of nowhere a screaming zombie
figure leaps out in front of the screen
and scares the living daylights out of
the unsuspecting viewer the question
could be asked is this method of scare
tactic cheap yes but it’s also very
effective number nine Kentucky Fried lie
detector
this bizarre 1967 commercial from
Kentucky Fried Chicken is full of
unnerving camera angles and odd close-up
shots the plot is relatively simple a
group of ladies strapped Colonel Sanders
into a lie-detector machine demanding to
know the secrets behind KFC’s 11 herbs
and spices
Sanders is having none of it refusing to
give up the goods give up girls how to
blend 11 herbs and spices that make
Kentucky Fried Chicken so finger-licking
good
that’s the Colonel’s secret this ad is
shot more like a torture porn
interrogation however complete with a
laughing narrator and even a trippy
animation sequence to close things out
want more KFC madness a similarly
strange at hit screens a year later
featuring housewives escaping from their
homes in prison-break fashion to go
grab those delicious buckets of chicken
and pick it from the colonel Kentucky
Fried Chicken is finger licking good
number eight little babies ice cream
there’s good reason for my glistening
skin so do you love ice cream we mean
really love it well then maybe you’re
brave enough to handle this series of
ads from Philadelphia’s little babies
ice cream both are absolutely terrifying
and feature a wild-eyed crazy-looking
person covered head-to-toe in frozen
confectionary one of them this is a
special time goes the extra mile however
by having the affer mentioned person
scooping up gobs of ice cream from the
top of its own head I eat little babies
ice cream it keeps me young
it keeps me light on my feet we’re not
sure if this is supposed to bring
customers in or scare them away but
little babies ice cream definitely got
our attention
we love to lick me lick to love number
seven baby laughs a lot
we’re guessing that Remco probably
didn’t intend to scare generations of
kids for life when they first released
this ad for their baby laughs a lot doll
back in 1971 sure the idea of a giggling
laughing little girl doll probably
seemed innocent at first but time has a
funny way of making some things
incredibly creepy and this is definitely
one of those times the ad isn’t helped
by the fact that it’s seemingly being
narrated by a raving lunatic who can’t
stop laughing himself the whole affair
just comes across as some sort of
unstable LSD trip albeit one that’s kind
of cool in its own peculiar way
number six Canadian workplace safety and
insurance board most of us are familiar
with highly dramatized PSAs which are
designed to either make the public aware
of an issue or to bring up something
specific within the workplace this
Canadian PSA is of the latter variety
and has to deal with keeping spills away
from potentially dangerous work
environments
the actress starts off the ad describing
how much she loves her job and how she’s
engaged to be married then she slips and
falls near the hot oil station spilling
a huge pan of the stuff all over herself
the audience is then treated to the
brief but horrible site of life-changing
third-degree burns as the actress howls
in unbearable agony
yikes number five fragile childhood
monsters the fragile childhood campaign
was a 2012 effort by the Euro RSCG
Helsinki Agency to raise awareness about
how alcohol abuse affects young children
they did this via a creepy and
disturbing ad which shows examples of
how children might view their parents
after they’ve been drinking images
featured in the ad ranged from a
deformed bunny rabbit and the Grim
Reaper to a stocking faced carjacker all
of which stir up all kinds of emotions
within the kids in their care it’s a
powerful and effective clip which gets
its message across in a unique way
number four Smokey the Bear in human
skin sure this ad seems to start off
innocently enough with actress Joanna
Cassidy speaking about forest safety in
a manner that seems perhaps a bit of
Radek considering the subject matter but
is otherwise fairly straightforward then
Cassidy’s face is torn away in a
disturbing manner to reveal a short
Alang Smokey the Bear who then states
quote if you knew it was me would you
have listened actually smokey we might
have listened
had you not torn away a human face to
get your point across just makes us want
to run away from the forest screaming to
be honest after he’s dead cut off his
face and wear it is your face I’ve had
to hear what he wants now stab him and
wear his face number three the spirit of
dark and lonely water ready to trap the
unwary the shill of the pool we
mentioned how severe some of Canada’s
PSAs can be but the great white north
has nothing on the United Kingdom lonely
water was just one of a series of well
produced and highly cinematic PSAs which
aired on TVs across the region and
covered everything from playground
safety to traffic laws this one might be
the most memorable however thanks to a
deadly serious narration by the Grim
Reaper it’ll never take his weight he
describes how easy it is to snatch
unsuspecting children who are playing
near unsafe water with only the presence
of smart level-headed youth being enough
to drive death away although not before
he promises that he’ll quote be back
number two ps3 baby Sony’s PlayStation 3
was first released in North America back
in 2006 and this launch naturally
featured tons of supportive advertising
however it’s hard to imagine this oh so
strange ad doing anything but hampering
Sony sales figures at the time the brief
clip features the manipulated image of a
baby doll viewing the ps3 within a stark
white room the baby cries tears of what
we presume are joy while making some of
the most unholy sounds we’ve heard since
baby laughs a lot it’s unsettling it’s
unnerving and it just might be more
memorable than the ps3 itself before we
name our number one scariest commercial
here are a few horrific honorable
mentions Kinder Surprise from Ferrara
I know this Samsung Tocco icon is only
59.95 on pay as you go phones for you
missing hotels warned you one auto way
tire ghost we opened up this list with a
jump-scare so it’s only fitting that we
close our time together with one two
this time a Japanese tire manufacturer
decided to go the extra mile by boosting
the production value and film quality to
create a stark and snowy scene right out
of a horror film the ad even comes
equipped with its own warning beforehand
as a first person driving sequence
becomes the site of supernatural terror
complete with a terrifying ghost girl
bursting out from nowhere we can’t
imagine what audiences felt when they
first saw this ad but we’re guessing it
caused more than a couple of panic
attacks do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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