The Most Unsettling, Creepy TV and Film Logos Of All Time 

We had a weird idea of what scared us as kids.

If you watch these with the sound off, they aren't creepy at all. In nearly every case, it's the damned music, which ALWAYS sounds threatening and aggressive.

It's creepy trying to imagine these weird lonely abstract dimensions inhabited only by autonomously moving shapes and disembodied living music

Why these were so creepy was that they played after the closing credits, and so one of them tended to be the last thing we saw and heard before our parents turned the TV off for the night. Then I would wake up in the middle of the night with one of the logos playing over and over in my head, and I would imagine words or symbols suddenly appearing in the middle of the room, with nobody to help me.

I swear I'll have a nightmare tonight about logos chasing me with knives. Thanks a lot.

it's like the people who make these intend for them to be creepy

something about disembodied artificial shapes floating in space juxtaposed with these loud, jarring synth stingers is just creepy as all get out. I feel the same way about the old BBC Protect and Survive videos, though at least those had CONTEXT that could kind of explain the creep factor. i remember a lot of these from my childhood, but never thought i was particularly affected by them...and then a few months back, i had to stream some old 70s shows for my History of TV class. i don't know what it was, but the Worldvision logo zooming out at me gave me the sudden urge to hide under the covers. also, the SFM logo can go eff itself.

I have this weird thing where I can't watch logos at the end of movies. The beginning is perfectly fine-- I've been obsessed with logos since I was little, so I get really hyped about them at the beginning-- but for some reason it just feels wrong to watch them at the end. Same with post-credits scenes; they just feel really cursed for some reason, like you're watching the movie cling to life as it dies or something. That's really melodramatic but it's the only way I know how to describe the feeling. Just thought I'd share this here lol

It's so surreal and strange watching these really late at night/early in the morning when everything is quiet and everyone else in the house is asleep...

6:22 The "Rainbow Release" doesn't even line up with the little rainbow in the man's hand.

I’m glad my mom and I weren’t the only ones disturbed by logo jingles growing up. The ones that scared me the most were WGBH, THX, and Rankin Bass. Why on earth do these companies do this?? All scary things aside, I want someone to sample the Converge logo for a song. That’s straight fire right there.

I don't recall ever fearing TV logos, but scary TV logos has become one of my many hyper fixations

6:12 looks like something that a 5 year old drew after you told them what a period is.

7:49 used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. I had to cover my eyes.

Here is the list of scary logos in their respective Nations and states 0:04 Lorimar Home Video 🇺🇸 0:20 Regal Films 🇵🇭 0:28 Ontario Educational Communications Authority 🇨🇦 0:43 PBS 1971🇺🇲 0:52 Viacom V of doom 🇺🇸 1:02 RKO Television 🇺🇸 1:12 WGBH Boston 🇺🇸 1:18 Converage Video 🇳🇱 1:31 Worldvison Home Video 🇺🇸 1:43 Bryanston Pictures 🇺🇸 2:11 The Bedford Falls Copany 🇺🇸 2:14 Paramount Closet Killer 🇺🇸 2:18 Revue/MCA TV 🇺🇸 2:28 Goodtimes Home Video 🇺🇸 2:36 Metromedia Producers Corporation 🇺🇸 2:40 3-G Home Video 🇺🇸 2:49 Screen Gems 🇺🇸 2:55 Films incorporated 🇺🇸 3:03 PolyGram Video 🇺🇸 3:13 Family Home Entertainment 🇺🇸 3:34 Wiess Global Enterprises 🇺🇸 3:43 SFM 🇺🇸 3:49 Program Exchange 🇺🇸 3:53 BBC Video 🇬🇧 4:01 Interglobal home video 🇨🇦 4:11 United Film Distribution Company 🇺🇸 4:20 Golden book Video (closing) 🇺🇸 4:33 MCA TV 🇺🇸 4:42 Bing Crosby Productions 🇺🇸 4:46 Desilu 🇺🇸 4:57 Viacom Pinball 🇺🇸 5:00 DIC 🇺🇸 5:04 ITC 🇬🇧 5:12 Genesis Entertainment 🇺🇸 5:25 Viacom Wagga Wagga 🇺🇸 5:33 Paramount Home Video 🇺🇸 5:44 Walt Disney Home Video 🇺🇸 5:58 ViD TV 🇷🇺 6:13 PFFR 🇺🇸 6:14 A rainbow release 🇺🇸 6:33 Castle Home Video 🇬🇧 6:41 Rank Video 🇬🇧 6:53 Rank Video Library 🇬🇧 7:08 Crown Movie Classics 🇨🇦 7:16 Atlas International 🇩🇪 7:34 Palace Video 🇬🇧 7:48 Hikon film 🇬🇧 7:59 Lorimar 🇺🇸 8:04 Canadian Video Factory 🇨🇦 8:13 View Askew Productions 🇺🇸 8:40 Colombia-Tristar Home Video 🇺🇸 8:47 Simitar Entertainment inc. 🇺🇸 9:07 MG Perin Inc 🇺🇸 9:12 Rankin-Bass 🇺🇸 Edit: 16 Comments!?!? Keep it up.

5:02 "DIE"

I'm too young to have encountered these logos but I know exactly the kind of fear these evoke. Imagine the lights are off, your parents have either fallen asleep or gone off to bed, and you're left alone with the television playing. Add a dark doorway or hallway near and you have pure, primal terror. And there's literally nothing you can do about it as the logo plays. Truly horrific.

8:00 is just so damn peaceful and beautiful.

7:33 "Oh, it's all calm and quiet and-" *LOUDEST THUNDER EVER* HOLY SHIII-!!!

I see Viacom has always given people a bad vibe...

1:12 OK that WGBH logo needs to calm the fuck down!

8:12 the most unsettling, disturbing logo i have ever seen in my entire life ever...

all of these are weirdly nostalgic and unnerving at the same time

A lot of these sound like PSI abilities Ness would use in EarthBound, the hell.

1:19 why is nobody hip to the jingle being so fire 🔥

Lots of these are actually really cool and aesthetically pleasing to see _and_ hear...

These guys really let their interns go nuts with the synths.

0:20 sounds like A Nightmare on Elm Street 4:41 I see this on MeTV all of the time, you wimp 4:45 Star Trek 5:00 Lol, it kinda looks like it's saying the word die 5:05 The F? 5:26 Another Viacom. And I've seen this before, too. 6:13 Okay, now that's actually creepy AF. 7:34 Huh. Starts out creepy, but then gets the exact opposite. One second a scary castle, the next a sin city. 8:13 What the -- 8:42 Huh. 8:48 sounds like an action movie 9:07 looks like a non-creepy CGI kids show.

I find PBS pretty Calming.

the one at 7:37 made me rip my earphones out and i almost cried! that thing is way too loud for anything!

They say that each one of these is a ritual in esoteric magic. The power of labels and signs is surprising. That is why advertising is such a fine tuned tool. You often see logos that depict images similar to ritual magic or the occult.

9:13: As much as I love the Rankin/Bass Christmas animations, I used to be creeped out by their logo at the end of the credits. But when I became older, I see it as more nostalgic and enjoyable.

2:41 WTFFFFFFFFFF MAH EARS

Okay... who ever came up with the View Askew logo needed to be arrested, ASAP. How was that logo even remotely appropriate for ANY Viewers, especially when you KNOW there's gonna be kids present?

Growing up with VHS those home video logos really weirded me out. What really creeped me out though was the Thames clips shown before and after a lot of Nickelodeon shows during the early 80's. That an those EBS tests.

6:00 Gets my vote for the most unsettling video/tv logo here

1:05 RKO OUTTA NOWHERE

5:59 Even "ВИD" is here, nice.

Is this vaporwave?

The Bedford Falls one used to always scare the shit out of me after watching My So-Called Life

5:33 That is my favorite logo.

I am a kid of the 70s. In those times those logos represented: being at home, watching TV with the family with no worries at all. They bring back a lot of good memories.

0:29 THANKS ONTARIO.

What's horrible is when some affect (or affected you) and yet, some affect and are nostalgic at the same time (like the f.h.e. logo; came on before every TMNT VHS I owned; nostalgic and still gives me the creeps to this day)

The synth sounds of the first one are rather nice

THAT GOD DAMMED 3-G LOGO IS SO LOUD, IT IS LOUD ENOUGH TO MAKE BOTH MY EARS BLEED!!! Who the hell created a logo that is so GOD DAMMED LOUD???

How fitting that you end off with Rankin Bass. That one creeped me out a lot for some reason. In fact, ten years ago, my wife and I were watching a classic animated Christmas movie and we both fell asleep to it. I woke up to that logo and turned off the TV and went back to bed, and then wondered for the next two days why I felt spooked.

1:22 You have to give them props. It's pretty funky.

Why is 3:53 so depressing like someone just learned terrible news...😖

6:10 - Hell yeah boys! You have mentioned "Vid" company (телекомпания "Вид"). That's the scariest thing 90s Russian boys have ever seen on TV! 😄👍

Love these!!! Thanks for posting. Something very intriguing about the Screen Gems logo at 2:49, interesting music, like ET communication

4:46 Ah, yes the creepy alien at the end of the Star Trek credits! That one always creeped me out as a kid

logos the movie

2:16 That Paramount logo punched me in the nightmares as a kid.

5:46 - a revenant Mickey has come...to EAT YOUR SOUL!!

Gonna be honest, I feel like this is some psychological phenomenon that it isn't really the logo itself (though the sounds play a part), but rather the fact that the VHS tape is through playing, you have a feeling of eerie loneliness. You favorite characters in media are no longer on screen to keep you company followed by an unsettling and unfamiliar sound effect with a sense of silence afterwards in a giant empty bedroom or living room (depending on where your VHS player was located) with no other souls around. You wonder what's there left? No one. Or I could just be talking out of my ass, IDK

I wonder if the strange feeling you get listening to stuff like this is related to ASMR.

6:18 - creep meter pinned

I am comforted by the nostalgic pshooo of the F.H.E. card dropping off screen.

5:30 i remember seeing that on tv before, its probably still on there

Why did they forget the klasky csupo logo

3:54 the BBC one really unnerves me because it really hits me in the childhood and yet the music behind it seems so dooming and sad like what the hell

I swear to god, I’m now gonna be chased by scary logos in a dark alley with knife’s, axe’s, and chainsaw’s! Thanks a lot, you scary logo RU-vidr! (I like your channel and videos, BTW).

I'm glad you didn't include any of the logos that were intended to be scary! It would've been so easy to put something like the MTM strt elseware finale variant on the list, but you didn't. And i'm gald about that. :)

...AND ''A HIKON FILM'' WINS!

If you ever saw a scary logo from the 1970's and 80's, it was scary because the creators of the logo at that point wanted to insult your intelligence.

These are so fun to watch. I used to be scared of most of these! Nostalgic! (Also, that 3-G logo made me jump because of how Loud it was.)

4:46 WHAT THE HELL I've never seen this before and it made me feel scared due to how abrupt the image shows up. 5:59 is exactly the same way. I've never felt so unsettled before. Shouldn't have watched this in the dark.

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Man, the logos with disembodied voices are always super creepy. That's what made the UBU Productions logo, scary for me, as a child.

1:44 I think whoever made this logo needs to insert another coin.

It’s weird that I’m searching for logos that scared me as a kid. Maybe I’m just curious and wanting to find out why I was so afraid. I remember this one that would come on at the end of a TLC show about pregnancy and birth. Upbeat music was playing and the logo was a black void with something white in the middle I didn’t remember what. There was the Moon rising on the side but while that was going on a baby cried. Then the TLC logo came on. I finally found it. The show was called A Baby Story and the logo was for Pie Town Productions. It didn’t look exactly as I remembered it. The “Moon” was a pie, the thing in the middle was a town and there was red letters saying Pie Town Productions but as soon as I heard that familiar crying which sounded just like I remembered it I felt a wave of nostalgia, relief as I found the name of the logo..... and dread. This weird dread. I’ve been feeling like this all day. I’m not one to suspect it’s a supernatural thing of course but I am still creeped out. I keep watching it to figure out why. Anyone know? Here’s a clip of it if anyone is curious. But if you’ve had a bad history with logos like this then be careful. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tSrK66lQzxU.html

6:12 Wtf That Logo Tho...

6:16 - a revenant Orson Welles has come...to eat...your ham and cheese sandwich and ask if you're gonna finish those fries. Also, to EAT YOUR SOUL!!

Most of these are just loud. Really offensively loud and jarring. Thank you for including the Bedford Falls one. That always freaked me out as a kid. Think it followed "Thirtysomething" lmao.

The Converge Video one is honestly a bop tho

God, that 3G video thing keeps getting me! Why is it so loud?

8:00 That logo calmed me down after seeing the one before it

The BBC logo is my personal favorite "scary" logo. The music sounds like the theme of a Law and Order-type crime drama.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that was creeped by these as a kid!

4:47 still better than Sonic in new Movie LOL

6:13 says yea boi

i love how this all wouldve terrified me as a kid but i lurk through this kinda content just for the soundtracks to sample or try and replicate......younger me would see me as a little too crazy

Some of the logos we've seen was creepy but nostalgic.

Glad to see that I wasn't the only one, who was creeped out by the Rankin Bass productions logo, growing up!! I loved watching Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, etc., but I was always creeped out, after the end credits, due to that damn logo, lol. Now, it doesn't bother me, & I love it!

LOL, SO CREEPY! There are some terrifying ones here. A lot of them make you feel like the world's about to end and you're going to die. I think the overall winner here has to be 3:03 - UTTERLY CHILLING! (Also take a look at the 1986 Video Gems ident.)

I think most of these are more like "WTF were they thinking", but Palace Video and PFFR are... something else...

0:44 AAAAH IT'S P-HEAD!!!

1:50 LUMPY TOUCH THATS where he got that audio from

8:42 I Love This Logo This Isn't Unsettling!!!

Wow, finally someone included the Bedford falls company logo cause the rest have not included this one. This got to me as a kid cause my mom use to watch “30 something”

No United Artists logo with the slow-turning logo and creepy piano music? That was the ultimate in scariness for me. Still is, actually….

The paramount closet killer stinger was an act of terror. I used to love the ITC productions logo because that meant Muppet Show time.

Regal Films to start off - check That horrible BP Scanimate abomination - check Self moving Revue camera - check Weiss Global - check Rainbow Release - check Palace Video - check Plus a lot of other examples you'd expect to see. This is good.

How can you be scared of this? It's amazing! Every logo has awesome synth music!

More nostalgic for me than scary but if you never grew up with them I can see how they would be scary.

8:30 Elsagate from the 20th Century

1:05 OUTTA NOWHERE!!!!!!!

BP, Hikon, and WGBH are terrifying. I find the Screen Gems one just makes me smile. .

Warning: DON'T WATCH THIS AT NIGHT.