The Virus of Fear by Sarah Stegall copyright ©1995 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter and Howard Gordon Director: Rob Bowman For a guy who used to write for Walt Disney, Chris Carter sure knows a lot about fear. In Friday night’s episode of “The X-Files”, he and co-writer Howard Gordon mix fears the way a bartender blends drinks: an ounce of terror, two fingers of revulsion, and a dash of jitters. We begin in the rain forests, where Dr. Robert Torrence is collecting specimens of the flora and fauna on behalf of a pharmaceutical company hoping to discover the…
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The X-Files: “Die Hand Die Verletzt”
Farewell to the Lords of Darkness by Sarah Stegall copyright ©1995 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Glen Morgan and James Wong Director: Kim Manners The flip side of paranoia is humor. In Friday’s episode of “The X-Files”, departing staff writers James Wong and Glen Morgan steep a rather mundane tale of demon worship in a New England town in their own unique blend of sly wit and sudden terror. From the opening scene, where a bourgeois school board ends a rather prosaic meeting with an invocation to the Lords of Darkness, through giveaways like “Crowley High School”, to a rain of…