By the end of the episode we are well and truly introduced to the Peacock family and their mother - a handicapped woman who is confined to a roll-out cot under a bed. Mulder and Scully investigate the murder of an infant child who they discover is the product of multiple generations of inbreeding. This is the episode that was so disturbing that US network Fox vowed never to screen it again. He would hibernate in a nest constructed with newspaper and bile for 30 years before returning for a new killing spree/feeding frenzy. Barely functioning as a human, he got by just well enough to defy being noticed by the authorities.
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Introduced in the third episode of the show, Tooms was the very first 'monster of the week' (episodes one and two deal with aliens) and became the gold standard of creepy weirdness the show aspired for.Ī serial killer with a twist, Tooms would hunt and kill people before feasting on their liver. When viewers think back on The X-Files, it's Eugene Victor Tooms that most will immediately remember.
Some episodes were way more disturbing than others, but we can all agree that these five episodes were among the most memorably creepy. Was any TV show more responsible for generating nightmares than The X-Files? A huge cultural phenomenon in the '90s, it managed to creep out viewers of all ages - permanently scarring kids who probably shouldn't have been staying up late to watch it, as well as adults who never quite knew what they were in for each week.Īnd that was what made The X-Files so scary - because the show changed genres every episode and played around with so many different types of monsters, viewers never knew going into an episode whether it might be something that they'd have a great time with, or something that might freak them right out.
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