The Red Museum by Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1994 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter Director: Win Phelps Watching “The X-Files” is sometimes like watching a horror movie through your hands–you get a shocking, teasing glimpse now and then of something both fascinating and repulsive lurking just below the surface. The story is sometimes in the images, in brief glimpses of a reality beyond the mundane, a peek into terror. Friday’s episode, “The Red Museum” is classic Chris Carter–no one is who he seems to be. The robot-like cultists of the “Red Museum” are not Branch Davidian wannabes, but mild mannered,…
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The X-Files: “The Host”
The Creature from the Muck Lagoon By Sarah Stegall copyright © 1994 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter Chris Carter should be terrified to learn that, seven minutes into last night’s episode of “The X-Files”, four of the five TV viewers in my household left the room and never came back. This is bad, bad news for anyone in the ratings game. The “X-Files” has built its reputation on being cool, hip and just a little bit twisted. Viewers have come to expect something more sophisticated than a gore-filled remake of “The Creature from the Black Lagoon”. When we settle…