The X-Files Retrospective: Beyond the Sea
Season 1, Episode 13 “I thought you’d be pleased that I opened myself to extreme possibilities.” —Scully after Mulder dismisses her belief in serial killer Luther Lee Boggs. In a moment of despair, Scully puts her faith in the hands…
The Hearse, Lurkers, The Soultangler
THE HEARSE (1980) City girl Jane (Trish Van Devere) moves into her deceased aunt’s home in the middle of Hicksville, USA—actually, Bradbury, California—and experiences not only hostility from the locals, but strange goings-on in the house. When Jane isn’t spotting…
The X-Files Retrospective: Eve
Season 1, Episode 11—Eve The unexplained exsanguination of two fathers on opposite sides of the country sparks an investigation that brings Mulder and Scully to the two men’s 8-year-old daughters, Teena and Cindy—both girls unrelated but having the physical characteristics…
The X-Files Retrospective: Fire
Season 1, Episode 12 Mulder is paid a visit by Phoebe Green (Amanda Pays), a Scotland Yard detective and former Oxford schoolmate/lover who believes members of the British aristocracy are being set on fire by a serial arsonist—that killer being…
Deadly Blessing, Embrace of the Vampire, The Kindred
DEADLY BLESSING (1981) Wes Craven’s theatrical follow-up toThe Hills Have Eyes plays like an Amish version of The Omen. Battlestar Galactica‘s Maren Jensen is a widow who believes the religious farming community that neighbors her property is responsible for the…
The X-Files Retrospective: Fallen Angel
Season 1, Episode 10 Mulder receives intel from Deep Throat on a crashed UFO—government codename: Fallen Angel—in Wisconsin and is captured by the military while documenting the crash site. While in captivity, Mulder meets Max Fenig (Scott Bellis), a UFO…
The X-Files Retrospective: Space
Season 1, Episode 9—Space While on a space mission, astronaut Lt. Col. Belt (Ed Lauter) encounters an intergalactic entity that latches onto him and follows him back to Earth. Years later, Mulder and Scully are contacted by a NASA communications…
Enter the Devil, Ganja & Hess, The Thrill Killers
ENTER THE DEVIL (1974) (AKA: The Eerie Midnight Horror Show) An art student (Stella Carnacina) is gradually terrorized/possessed by Satan (Ivan Rassimov). After the sexually repressed Carnacina purchases a life-size sculpture of Jesus on the cross (actually, the Devil in…
The X-Files Retrospective: Ice
Season 1, Episode 8—Ice “Before anyone passes judgment—may I remind you, we are in the Arctic.” —Mulder before removing his clothes in front of his colleagues. Mulder and Scully find themselves stranded in the middle of the Arctic with a…