SPOOKY TASK: Make the House Haunted | Full Task | Taskmaster

To celebrate halloween, the contestants attempt to make the Taskmaster House haunted.
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.

[@lasergod]

Mike got robbed here, his film was the most inventive and well produced. Sarah’s looked great but it was just a direct copy of the shining

[@Jennyfisch]

I agree. Sarah was probably my favourite contestant that season, but why she was given the five points instead of Mike here I don't quite understand.

[@Hexen_Wulf]

@@Jennyfisch I think because, while Mike's was very creative and well executed, it wasn't quite a horror short. It was more of a comedy. Treacle covered puppies? It was like straight out of a Monty Python/Mighty Boosh sketch.

[@whoknowsnotme]

@@Hexen_Wulf The task is just to "make the house haunted" though, there's no mention of needing to be the most horrifying

[@nat3007]

@@whoknowsnotme I found Mike's horrifying when you think that the treacle covered puppies wouldn't be able to move. It sets like concrete.

[@SkinnyLegend1800]

@@Jennyfisch Because the task master says so and that's enough

[@daniel_wilkinson]

Post-production did an outstanding job. I wish I could give props to the cinematographer and editor and sound engineer individually. Also the PAs that rounded up all that string.

[@Blingo88]

They actually deserve the 5 points for this task

[@lionguardant5468]

Are you saying Little Alex Horne didn’t run around London buying all the string?

[@chil3988]

Little Alex Horn riding on a little tricycle while recreating that scene from "The Shining" was something I did not expect but is a welcome surprise! Happy Halloween!

[@yuki97kira]

Honestly, jamali's would be creepy if it was psychological horror of a guy manipulating things in the house to make alex do what he wants

[@SennaAugustus]

If the twist was all the strings tightening on Alex and trapping/harming him.

[@shetlandapache949]

Why not fishing line?

[@giffypophd]

@@shetlandapache949 head slice that's why

[@Jay-jn6ul]

Except that wouldn’t fulfil the task.

[@5PYZ3R]

@@shetlandapache949 because it was a comedy horror. of strings.

[@ym10up]

Actually Lee's really caught me by surprise therefore spooky. He lowered our expectations and lulled us into a sense of security then the clumsy incompetent switched to Japanese horror film vibe. It really made me jump. None of the others did.

[@chrisdechiara9116]

The editing of the tasks is amazing, like do the contents tell the editing team their vision or so they have to edit?

[@Shamanized]

Greg is weirdly so generous in this task starting at 3 points. I also am kinda disappointed that everyone went for tricks whereas I know some other contestants from other series would've straight up gone for performing a real seance with a Ouiji board and just hoped something weird happened lol

[@yourmum69_420]

seance isn't real ffs

[@Shamanized]

@@yourmum69_420 No a seance is a real activity, the potential results being real is the debatable part. I'm saying I wish someone didn't rely on obvious tricks and just went as serious as they possibly could with it even if it resulted in nothing

[@cathnz9726]

I think Rhod would have been out of control on this one!

[@ClarkDroneFilms]

0:15 spooky task appearing on the desk!

[@helenl3193]

Oooh I didn't spot that!

[@foobar476]

Those cabbages scared the living sh!t out of me.

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

Little Alex Horne on a tiny tricycle is beautiful.

[@Assmodean]

I forgot about this task but about 5 seconds into the video I burst out laughing when I remembered the spooky strings

[@Mijal15]

"I need a gun and 30 or so people with unfinished business"

[@michaelcross7665]

I thought the last one would be disqualified for not actually being in the house

[@nexenzy5825]

8:19 why does this guy remind me of Shane from Buzzfeed Unsolved XD

[@hunter5822]

0:07 “....make the house haunted” [clutches white knuckled onto a kitchen knife as a cold sweat ripples down their face and neck] “Right.... uh.... oh god, I guess we should get to this......” [proceeds to chop up crew and summon a demon] Crowd: [losses their fucking mind with laughter]

[@PatrickPrejusa]

I call shenanigans. Lee made the caravan haunted not the house.

[@RhJones]

In order to make a house haunted you need to make a ghost and I’m very disappointed that no one suggested murder.

[@blackbonsai]

Why is nobody insisting that the last film does not make the HOUSE haunted?

[@jonhohensee3258]

Cowards!

[@nat3007]

Because it doesn't matter.

[@lucyoli4]

Lee got robbed

[@SKULLCRUSHERnr1]

The task never mentioned making a film, why was the score based on it then?

[@vinawaldren6888]

👍 Sveeet! 👻🎃

[@kompik]

You consider yourself an actor, now?

[@majorfallacy5926]

awkward timing for a soviet themed house

[@jonhohensee3258]

It is if you make a big deal of it.

[@nat3007]

This was filmed a few years ago

[@nan9180]

@@jonhohensee3258 Average braindead tankie loving the totalitarian dystopia

[@nan9180]

@@nat3007 the crimes of ussr are known for more than a couple of years tho

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@nan9180 No idea what you're trying to say.

[@LordBete]

I want that Russian picture of Greg

[@Psy0psAgent]

Uploaded 2 min ago

[@blackdragoncyrus]

I love Alex riding on the tricycle like the little boy that he is.

[@nitramreniar]

Well he's riding it exactly like a little boy, that has grown too large for his little tricycle.

[@Eggzy-b7f]

Both weirdos, especially the Cyrus K person Strange

[@nondescriptbeing5944]

@@Eggzy-b7f weirdo

[@whythenumber]

Ok greg

[@caterinadc5567]

I love how proud all of them were of their performance on this task! And rightly so, they all did great. Surely though Lee or Mike should have won that one. Sarah's was less involved and was mostly imitating an already-made horror film; Lee and Mike both did something original.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

I thought the invention of treacle puppies alone should have sealed the deal.

[@lionguardant5468]

Charlotte emerging from the table with a little ‘boo!’ made my heart melt

[@FAB1150]

I really liked Jamali's film as a psychological horror. Who's pulling the strings? Why does he do that? What's he planning on doing? We'll never know.

[@tylerquebedeaux1867]

I love how Charlotte’s attempt is very similar to the plot of an actual episode of Ghosts

[@TaskmasterMN]

"She was found four days later and she wasn't alive. She was.... not alive"

[@MustbeTheBassest]

Jamal's could have ended with him controlling Alex with strings too

[@shadoxir]

Mike should've gotten all 5 points here. His is the only "Haunted House". That was amazing.

[@TonyTheYouTuba]

They all did great. Lee is able to come up with this sort of thing in real-time so he probably had his entry planned out before he finished reading the task out loud…

[@jonhohensee3258]

No, not all did great.

[@giggiwidit5638]

10:20 : Actually, in the film Alien, one of the best 'shock and horror' scenes stemmed from the Director NOT telling the actors what was going to happen ... (hint : The chest buster scene)

[@kungfuhustling4832]

I'm surprised that Lee wasn't disqualified for haunting the caravan instead of the house. All were hilarious!

[@spinozatheobvious626]

I think it's generally understood that "the taskmaster house" is the entire property. I do admit that if a task said "you cannot leave the house" and someone went out to the caravan they'd be disqualified without question. So... hmm...

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@spinozatheobvious626 It's not generally understood.

[@Blingo88]

@@jonhohensee3258 all the information is on the task

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@Blingo88 And....???

[@Blingo88]

@@jonhohensee3258 nothing is generally understood on taskmaster 😀

[@miriamheinrichs1]

I was terrified at how generously Greg gave points

[@smallstepseveryday22]

okay but him saying, "you see the amount of string you was going to get.... MORE string." is exactly what i say to waiters when i order anything with pickles. literally, if you think you have gone too far with the pickles, give me two more handfuls than that. I want all of the pickles in the establishment.

[@helenl3193]

The Ron Swanson special (but with bacon for him)

[@jonhohensee3258]

Okay? Okay but what???

[@MrsHLecter]

@@helenl3193 and eggs!

[@catlovernat]

​@@jonhohensee3258 look up Parks and Rec Ron Swanson special

[@sparky4878]

@@helenl3193 nothing but all the bacon they have

[@davitto01]

The task was to make the house haunted. I can't believe no one even considered just murdering Alex and trapping his spirit in the house. I am disappointed. 0/666 pumpkins.

[@sedg83]

I don't feel like Sarah should have been rewarded for ripping off the Shining. She didn't even put her own spin on it. Treacle covered puppies won it for me

[@Fiery.Dragon]

I like how the Taskmaster is pretty cool about scoring in the creative rounds -- if people put an effort in, they get a few points - this time sort of a gold, silver, bronze award, where there's 3 tiers, sometimes it's a 5/3 point split, but either way, these were all pretty cool in their own way. I think I'd have gotten a whole group of creepy nans in to scare Alex, and have them too close, just over his shoulder as he tours the house, creeping him out, making interesting statements as a nan might do...

[@jonhohensee3258]

Carlotte's and Jamali's sucked.

[@EebstertheGreat]

"Hemisect" is indeed a word, but it usually refers to cutting along the sagittal plane, i.e. cutting it into equal left and right halves. The term is most often applied to teeth, where the left or right half of a tooth is removed only. Removing only the top half of a tooth is not a hemisection. The term is also used to refer to damage to the left or right half of the spinal cord only, as in Brown-Séquard syndrome. In the video, the bodies were cut along the transverse plane, cutting them into equal cranial (top) and caudal (bottom) halves. So I wouldn't call that a hemisection, though it is a bisection in any case.

[@veryshyemily]

Charlotte could've brought in the entire Ghosts cast and she technically would've won

[@caterinadc5567]

Creepy idea popped into my head when this one was read out, and since the contestants all say you end up running with your first thought... My first thought was to create a film showing how Alex is actually a businessman with ambitions of his own, but a malevolent spirit in this house possesses him to grin and play the assistant character against his will. ... I'm a little bit appalled that this was my first thought, and now realize I must be a little of a 'Sara Pascoe' or 'Al Murray' competitor. Didn't they both have first thoughts that involved an 'against will' element? (Kidnapping Alex's kids to surprise him?)

[@visekual6248]

I was expecting someone to use real spooky stuff, like tax returns, calling a service provider, being harassed by call centers.

[@FrenkTheJoy]

I actually independently had an idea to start a "haunted house" tour where instead of every room being actors who just shriek at you while covered in fake blood, every room is just like "the room of ringing phones" or "standing in line at the grocery store when the person in front of you had $200 worth of food and is paying in coins and the person behind you keeps kicking you in the leg" and "the room of overly friendly service people".

[@jacobnorris8256]

I'd just turn the house into an office building, force some of the cameramen to work for decades until they die of old age filled with regrets, and we'd have a properly haunted house. Absolute amateurs.

[@matishtar]

Woooh, Taskmaster and Halloween, two of my favourite things 😊

[@morgantaylor84]

10:20 Actually sometimes they don't and you get the best scenes from them not warning the actors in advance. Here's Johnny from The Shining and the chest burster scene from Alien are prime examples.

[@genericname2747]

But that's also how you end up traumatizing someone, like The Birds where real birds got thrown at someone for an attack scene. (Actually just don't do things to hurt actors and you'll get a great scene and have fun)

[@FrenkTheJoy]

The actors did know the chest burster scene was going to happen in Alien, there was just way more blood than anyone had been told about.

[@icturner23]

Sarah’s was a nice homage but she didn’t add anything. It was just the same as the film, which I happened to see yesterday.

[@jonhohensee3258]

I agree. I think it won because it was genuinely the creepiest. Maybe the task should have inlcluded the instruction "Don't rip off any books or movies".

[@peterjordan5807]

Charlotte was robbed

[@chingnakn4951]

They didn't need to add extra music for this task to make it look spooky... The original theme itself is spooky😌

[@jonhohensee3258]

No it's not. You are.

[@Christopher_Clark]

Those five points should be taken off Sarah and given to Stanley Kubrick.

[@ella_lmaoxd8641]

Nah, I’m sorry but that girl who appeared from behind the door at 9:35 minutes in looks identical to me. WTHHHHH 😳💀😂

[@yellowmaster52]

"Make the house haunted" I'm pretty sure that's illegal.

[@allaussietraveller9879]

Love Lee, what I'm abou...BAHH ah see you jumped

[@motodog242]

So… if it wasn’t obvious… you use fishing line over string, see it less, does the same thing, and most importantly… you don’t see it.

[@kisbie]

Sarah Kendall has the same initials as Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick, writer and director respectively of The Shining.

[@Jennyfisch]

Spooky!

[@constitutionalli7522]

🤯

[@chrissiem3958]

Its been over a year, but its still my reality: Im totally crushing on Mike Wozniak 💖💖💖💖💖 😁

[@chrisburn7178]

What this proves is that horror is more about sound design than the images 🙃

[@toomanyneutrons]

I like the little touch of the task fading into existence at the beginning

[@BigMeachRants]

I was really hoping someone would make Alex the monster in the house, like some crazy taskmaster slave/cultist and the contestant reacts to the house

[@chychywoohoo]

Good thing they were spread out! I'm sure that stopped the spread! Hahahaha

[@Marcoose81]

Lee Mack should be disqualified as he did not make the house haunted, as the task stated. He made the caravan haunted.

[@Ryzza5]

0 points for Lee for using the Caravan instead of the House. Greg's gone soft.

[@LeornianCyng]

S11 was so much fun to watch. Sarah genuinely creeped me out with her task.

[@failenoohayo6678]

Like how the actors were "warned" in poltergeist, alien & the shining......

[@thatchoirgirl94]

4:08 James Acaster's worst nightmare. Oi, oi, savoy!

[@edwardp5748]

im scared now. scared of taskmaster being cancelled. surely we have another decade before that happens.. mock the week is gone though, so terrible things happen! alex and greg need to mind the law and not make enemies because the world NEEDS this freaking show!

[@nondescriptbeing5944]

It does really brighten my day

[@TheCoolDragon100]

0:17 Why… why does the envelope just materialize into existence? 😂🤣

[@zhuofanzhang9974]

In one of the outtakes, a PA was rotating the trophy while everyone was watching the clips. But the placement of the trophy stayed consistent throughout this video. Having something like this happen without you knowing is truly haunting.

[@mcgregor266]

First time I noticed that the white typewriter has cyrilic keys.

[@ryeencoke]

Bad Dong

[@maquert1678]

The russian phrases on the picture means taskmaster and tasks are our duty

[@truthyahweh9877]

I thought I've seen every episode. I don't remember this one always good to find something new which u thought was old. So I think yall should release every seasons tie breaker tasks. Also maybe make it point based or like flashback to who won the tiebreaker in that episode but also the one who actually one the task

[@d283jdsk2]

Sarah just copied The Shining

[@motodog242]

I legit mean this, Charlotte’s was actually unnerving me, until she revealed herself, like it was actually making me shudder.

[@eggsontoast]

I would've fully misinterpreted this task then. My immediate thoughts was saying Bloody Mary in a mirror three times and other assorted urban legends. Doing as many as possible

[@Link_Says]

I love Lee mack

[@jonhohensee3258]

No you don't.

[@robinmabbott7334]

A haunted house . Have a blow up doll of Jo Brand suddenly appear out the back of t5he sofa . That would scare everyone

[@markdswan]

I'm surprised that no one argued that making the caravan haunted is not the same thing as making the house haunted.

[@bloody_fobbit2758]

Damn it Greg I can't I watch this streaming in the USA

[@adammullarkey4996]

The task specified that they had to make the house haunted. Lee made the caravan haunted instead. He should have been disqualified.

[@rizzoosper4245]

Lee got robbed. It was the only one that had an original narrative, built suspense, and had a twist.

[@SirStirAlot]

still reuploading the same tasks with new titles

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

I've never seen this task before, it's brilliant!!

[@gaymer618]

Thank you for the upload mr spook spook taskmaster

[@infinitestare]

lol the soviet communist parody poster on the wall is hilarious. Создатель задачи. Задачи наша обязанность. - Creator of a task. Tasks are our obligation (/duty).

[@michaelbyrne8238]

Oh you consider yourself an actor now?

[@christopher7539]

Big. String

[@joobus-stoobus-magoobus]

*reads note* *makes Alex a ghost*

[@LPKelly380]

I’m confused how Sarah won for having a complete lack of original thought.

[@jonhohensee3258]

It was the execution. The final product. It was genuinely the creepiest.

[@squiglemcsquigle8414]

Sarah should've gotten 1 the rest 5

[@gthgirl392]

Absolute LOVE this episode! Of course, i'm a bit biased since i frickin love all things Halloween. It is a lifestyle XD

[@jonhohensee3258]

biased

[@MrsHLecter]

Bi-assed

[@pia91]

Thank you, TM-Gods for this gift😍

[@buskergirl]

The production is such high standard, yet they make the most rubbish statue of Greg as the prize... Just push his face into a mold, statue done 🤷‍♂️

[@ozzieenkees]

Yup. You got the point.

[@krashd]

He would eat the molding medium. Not a sentence I thought I would ever say.

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@krashd Why would he do THAT?

[@hunter5822]

....literally perform a séance inviting demons and ghosts to forever haunt this house. ....the burden of proofs on the hosts to prove it isn’t and also that you didn’t give the ghost hunters 50 bucks to ham it up,

[@lester44444]

this isn't fair, charlotte is literally the main character in ghosts. That show has probably broken here sense of spooky hahaha they're so goofy and fun

[@taelok]

Was this filmed 2 years ago? Why are they sitting so far apart still?

[@EurydiceAllAlong]

Yes, this was during the pandemic

[@leftblank131]

Ok. [Kills assistant and camera crew]. There! their ghosts shall haunt these halls forever.

[@ninereeds1810]

y'know, I totally missed that Charlotte was the actress from 'Ghosts' until I saw this!

[@BeccaB529]

Just saw the outtake where the head trophy was moved around. . .where are the results?