What's that film where...

[Beaky Smoochies]

Bloody hell, SBT dude, you bought an entire season box-set for a mere FIVER?  That says a lot about how popular the latter seasons of The X-Files are, and how much that particular franchise outstayed it's welcome...

I'll see your Ice  and Squeeze /Tooms  (all great episodes), and up you with the matchless Darkness Falls , the one with the bugs in the forest, X-Files at it's very and scary best...

[TordelBack]

...but then there was that episode of X-Files called Millenium which had Lance Henrickson playing Frank Black for the last time and wrapped up the Millenium Group storyline to give Frank a happy ending (being a Millenium crossover, this entailed his eternal estrangement from the parents of his wife, a life a of destitution and unemployment, and a spell in a mental hospital), which made things pretty unambiguous.

How have I never seen this thing!   

[DeFuzzed]

As for it being suitable for kids- well, it's suitable for my kids and I can't speak for any others.

Currently the scariest ones stand as 'Ice' at number one, followed by the Eugene Tooms double at number two, so I'm told.

SBT

Not criticizing, trust me, being responsible myself for my nephews' scary 'education'. Let them watch the epsiode Badlaa if you really want to freak them out. Might ruin Willy Wonka for them but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I'll see your Ice  and Squeeze /Tooms  (all great episodes), and up you with the matchless Darkness Falls , the one with the bugs in the forest, X-Files at it's very and scary best...

I think SBT already mentioned they've watched the bugs episode, unless he meant the other bugs episode with the cigarettes. Or the one with the colony in that jackass wannabe's brain. Or that other one with the death row ghost.

...but then there was that episode of X-Files called Millenium which had Lance Henrickson playing Frank Black

How have I never seen this thing!   

Due to watching a movie which began with Lance picking his nose and looking at it, I've never been able to watch anything with him in it without remembering that. Kinda messed with my Alien rewatches.

There was apparently another XFiles offshoot called Harsh Realms, a virtual reality thing, but I've never seen it anywhere. I might be confusing it with something else. Anyone know about it?

[Professor Bear]

The Lone Gunmen was the other X-Files spin-off.  It was the one that had a pilot episode about three conspiracy nuts trying to prevent planes being flown into the World Trade Center.  For some reason this has not been repeated often.

[DeFuzzed]

I forgot about the Lone Gunmen, but no, I definitely heard about Harsh Realms too.

[Mardroid]

...but then there was that episode of X-Files called Millenium which had Lance Henrickson playing Frank Black for the last time and wrapped up the Millenium Group storyline to give Frank a happy ending (being a Millenium crossover, this entailed his eternal estrangement from the parents of his wife, a life a of destitution and unemployment, and a spell in a mental hospital), which made things pretty unambiguous.

How have I never seen this thing!   

I seem to remember that one featuring [spoiler]zombies[/spoiler] too...

[Judo]

Bloody hell, SBT dude, you bought an entire season box-set for a mere FIVER?  That says a lot about how popular the latter seasons of The X-Files are, and how much that particular franchise outstayed it's welcome...

I'll see your Ice  and Squeeze /Tooms  (all great episodes), and up you with the matchless Darkness Falls , the one with the bugs in the forest, X-Files at it's very and scary best...

I read the book for the darkness falls for the first time alone in a caravan in the woods. Scary biscuits x

[Steve Green]

Sure it was a manbat? Could have been a supersoldier episode. Or the ironman one. No continuance of Patience as far as I remember.

But more importantly, kid-friendly?? I bet the kids love you! Anything that scares them stupid seems to win the cool factor.

Not at all sure it was the manbat, to be honest. All I remember is that, of the very few Doggett episodes I caught when it was on BBC1 or 2 back in the day (I'd stopped watching regularly partway through season four) I remembered the manbat as a good monster of the week one (always my favourites- I literally couldn't give a toss about the conspiracy bollocks), and had a memory as I described. Imagine my confusion when I blew the dust off my season eight boxset, moved it from where it had sat since I bought it for a fiver a couple of years ago, googled "Xfiles manbat" and realised I had it, then put it on and didn't recognise a single scene. As it ends with the creature still on the loose, and having marked Scully and Doggett for death, I just wondered if there was a later one where it has another go. Apparently not.

As for it being suitable for kids- well, it's suitable for my kids and I can't speak for any others. Mind you, they love scary stuff (they'd have to, living in the house they do, with the things they have around them) and are happier watching Night of the Living Dead than Horrid Henry. Being TV, it lacks the swearing and sex I don't want them to see in some of the movies I would otherwise be happy for them to watch. So yeah, while I know there are a few dodgy episodes that contain themes that might spark some interesting conversations, I'd be mostly happy for them to watch any of The X Files.

Currently the scariest ones stand as 'Ice' at number one, followed by the Eugene Tooms double at number two, so I'm told.

SBT

I'd avoid 'Home' then - a bit Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Cradlegrave, brilliant episode but horrible.

[Trout]

Wait - I've got it!

It's the Bridges of Madison County!

[the 'artist' formerly known as Slips]

Bringing the topic back...
70's/80's film in which an astronaut ends up in a parrallel universe where everything is written backwards or was it looked through a mirror.  He thinks he escapes at the end and until he signs his signature incorrectly when he lands the second time.   

[Tiplodocus]

There was a Gerry Anderson thing called DOPPLEGANGER but I think that was just a mirror earth on the opposite side of the sun.

[mygrimmbrother]

What's that film where yer man has his head transplanted onto a fly, and the fly's head is transplanted onto the man, and y'know, his wife's always trying to hide the jam...?

[TordelBack]

Battleship Potemkin?

[Satanist]

I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over fifty and if its speed dropped, it would explode! I think it was called... "The Bus That Couldnt Slow Down"

[JOE SOAP]

Bringing the topic back...
70's/80's film in which an astronaut ends up in a parrallel universe where everything is written backwards or was it looked through a mirror.  He thinks he escapes at the end and until he signs his signature incorrectly when he lands the second time.   

There was a Gerry Anderson thing called DOPPLEGANGER but I think that was just a mirror earth on the opposite side of the sun.

Also known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun. There's some nice FX and model work and it's a nice idea but the story execution's a bit funky.