Revenge of the Flukeman Copyright ©1999 by Sarah Stegall Writer: David Amman Director: Rob Bowman Pauline Kael, who dismissed “Alien” as a “haunted house in space”, missed the point: the real horror of that movie was not the skull-crunching monster stalking the ship’s crew (including Veronica Cartwright, most recently seen as Cassandra Spender in last week’s “One Son”). The real horror was the nasty invasion of John Hurt’s body by the tentacled creature intent on turning him into a host for its young. To this day, it’s the “chest-burster” that most viewers recall most vividly and graphically. Being hunted by…
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The X-Files: “Terms of Endearment”
Sympathy for the Devil by Sarah Stegall copyright © 1999 by Sarah Stegall Written by David Amman Directed by Rob Bowman For a series rooted in the paranormal, The X-Files has done remarkably few stories about demons. Perhaps this is wise, given that earlier efforts in the genre such as “Die Hand Die Verletzt“, “Sanguinarium“, and even “All Souls” were muddled messes that never quite got a grip on their subject matter. Unfortunately, writer David Amann, in his first X-Files effort, doesn’t do much better with “Terms of Endearment”, a gothic horror comedy about demon babies and a devil who…