I always liked the monster-freakaziod-creature feature-evil spirit X-File episodes a lot more than the alien conspiracy ones which got convoluted and boring after a while.
1: One of the scariest (IMO) is the one where this guy is a monster but people can’t really see he’s one except out of the corner of their eye, or if they’re “tuned in” to see him. The scene where he (the monster) scuttles upside down over Mulders bedroom ceiling while Mulder is sleeping was great.
2: The guys with red eyes that hunted people in the woods and hung them upside down in a cave. The final scene with the creature under Scully’s motel bed was a real chiller.
3: The semi-immortal stretching guy that tore out peoples livers and went into hibernation for decades at a time, and made a “nest” out of newspapers, liver juice and saliva. Good times.
What are your X-File monster or freakazoid creep out favorites?
How about the astronaut who was possessed by an alien energy-being for something like 30 years? I imagine that was 30 solid years of horror for the poor guy.
The paramedic with cancer. He got his head chopped off and grew a new one in a tub full of iodine. And he took cancerous growths out of the hospital trash to eat. He killed a guy in a bar to eat his lungs, and the first hint that Scully had cancer was when he tried to eat her.
I like the one with the planned community that has a monster living under it that makes everybody conform to the strict appearance rules. It sounds so much like some real-live places (“Don’t paint your house! It’ll eat you!”)
I also like the one about a man with two marraiges, with both his wives pregnant. Turns out he’s a demon who just wants a human looking son, and his wives keep having babies with horns so he “removes” them in their sleep. One of the wives ends up to be another demon who kills the husband and drives away with her redeyed scaly baby.
Can’t beat the shapeshifting guy with the tail. Between posing in front of his mirror as Agent Mulder and impregnating that woman as Luke Skywalker, he was definitely one of the more fun characters.
I also liked Pusher, the Necrophiliac, and Roche (from Paper Hearts).
The X-files had the best monster-villains bar none. I love the ‘human’ evil ones – Donnie Pfaster (‘Irresistible’) and Robert Modell (Pusher). The moment when Donnie picks up some discarded hair from a bathroom wastebin and orgasms all over it (as it were) is one of the creepiest moments on TV. I also like the old guy from ‘Tithonus’ and Eugene Tooms (the liver-eating mutant).
Although they weren’t exactly villains, the guy with the conjoined twin (okay, the twin was pretty evil) and the tattooed fish-eater from that Jim Rose episode were super-freaky as well.
“Triangle”, the Wizard of Oz parody, was really great.
The other ones I always enjoyed were the baseball one that Duchovny directed, the one with Garry Shandling and Tea Leoni, and the one where Mulder and Scully pretend to be married to infiltrate a homeowner’s association.
The one with Scully and her father (great use of music in that episode), were the traditions roles of skeptic and believer were changed between Scully and Mulder.