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…
Biohazard, The House of Usher, Play Dead
BIOHAZARD (1985) The incomparable Fred Olen Ray—who has, as of this writing, directed over 100 movies—returned to the Ridley Scott inspirations he so brazenly tackled in The Alien Dead (1980) with this charming tale of a psychic and her alien…
The X-Files Retrospective: Ghost in the Machine
Season 1, Episode 7—Ghost in the Machine Mulder is asked by a former colleague to assist in the investigation of the murder of a technology company CEO who was inexplicably electrocuted by the building’s self-learning AI security system. The creator…
The X-Files Retrospective: Shadows
Season 1, Episode 6—Shadows “I would never lie. I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation.” To their surprise, Mulder and Scully are requested by Chief Blevins to quietly investigate the unexplained deaths of two terrorists who are the victims…
Carnosaur, Monkey Shines, Windows
CARNOSAUR (1993) Reptilian creatures resembling dinosaurs hatch from genetically manipulated chicken eggs and terrorize a dust bowl town that neighbors the evil genetics laboratory responsible for creating the chicken monsters. The creatures waste no time in munching on human flesh,…
The X-Files Retrospective: Jersey Devil
Season 1, Episode 5—The Jersey Devil This review contains spoilers. “I heard the same story when I was a kid, too. Funny thing is, I believed it.” A corpse with gnawed-off body parts discovered outside Atlantic City is thought to…