The X-files (1993 series)
Summary
"The truth is out there. I want to believe." Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
Details
- Release Date: 1993-present
- Country/Language: US, English
- Genres/Technical: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery (monster-of-the-week), occasional Comedy (dark humor)
- Runtime: (generally formatted for a 1-hour commercial television slot)
- Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi
- Creator: Chris Carter
- Producer/Production Co: Ten Thirteen Productions, 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Century Fox Television, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Dune Entertainment III
- View Trailers/Promotional Shorts: (Intro), (Season1), (1998_film), (2008_film), (2016_revival)
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Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: generally TV-14/PG-13(Violence, mild Profanity and Adult Content)
Episodes of the series over its long run could range anywhere from mostly kid-friendly, to the infamous episode "Home" (about depraved, incestuous, hideously deformed mutant hillbilly cannibal-rapists, the first episode of The X-Files to be rated TV-MA and carry a viewer discretion warning about graphic content).
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- Ss___ (One and a Half Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian)
Generally not very "Lovecraftian", though Lovecraft was almost certainly one of the inspirations (either directly or indirectly) for the series; the monster-of-the-week formula used in the program's long run, combined with a main story arc premise involving paranormal investigators tracking down sketchy information about ancient alien astronauts and conspiracies filtered through a variety of unreliable narrator sources should hint at some occasionally vaguely Lovecraftian themes and make this series a useful source of ideas for Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu scenarios.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
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Synopses of Suggested Episodes
Some suggested episodes either with vaguely Lovecraftian overtones, or which might provide some inspiration for Call of Cthulhu or Delta Green scenarios:
- "Pilot" - FBI Agent Dana Scully is assigned to work with Agent Fox Mulder on the "X-Files" in an attempt to discredit his work on the paranormal. Their first case has them investigating apparent alien abductions when a near comatose man, Billy Miles takess his classmates into the woods, where they are killed in a flash of bright light.
- "Squeeze" - A series of murders appear to have no tangible method for the murderer's entrance and escape. Eugene Victor Tooms, a seemingly normal janitor, is suspected to be a mutant who kills his victims and extracts their livers in order to prolong his existence.
- "Conduit" - As the Section Chief expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files department, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an encounter he experienced as a child, which dealt with alien abduction and an exploration of Mulder's determination to find his sister, Samantha.
- "The Jersey Devil" - An homage to Night Stalker (1972 franchise) in which the murder of a homeless man leads Mulder and Scully to the legendary man-beast the Jersey Devil roaming in the forests surrounding Atlantic City.
- "Ice" - When an Arctic research team mysteriously kill each other and themselves only days after drilling deeper into the ice than ever before, Mulder and Scully accompany a team of doctors and scientists to investigate. They discover an organism which infects living creatures and amplifies the host's feeling of anger and paranoia, and the new team starts to deteriorate as they wonder who among them are killers.
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Associated Mythos Elements
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