When will I learn to not watch creepy things after dark...

[requiella]

...and I'm really glad my mattress is on the floor.*

I got season 4 and 5 of the x-files. My weird computer dvd player will only play certain dvds and will spit out anything it doesn't like.

Why oh why couldn't it have kicked out disc one?

The episode is called "Home". Seems harmless enough. The blurb doesn't really imply anything to scary. So in it goes.

*ACK*

I should have stopped watching when the legless mother was giving bloody birth on a dirty kitchen table or when the inbred family beat the sheriff and his wife to death, or when they pulled hideous, screaming, legless mother out from under a bed...oh wait I did stop watching then.

I did a google search and read that it was the only x-files episode to get an "MA" rating and the network said they would never show it again (they did).

Apparently her sons kept legless mother strapped to a rolling board *under the bed so they could procreate with her and carry on their inbred family line.

The episode is interesting, it's just not something I should be watching in a dark, quiet, new apartment.

So now I'm going to watch Harry Potter and try and get the image of the mother out of my head. *shudder*

Comments

[ex-rhovanio.livejournal.com]

Ooooh friggin X-Files.. I watched one once and right after had a fight with the BF and he left for the night.. That was the least of my problems.. :P Its was the episode about some guy.. and he didnt have legs either.. Maybe its the same episode.. whoever it was used to sit in the corner of the room.. so as soon as I turned the lights off to go to bed.. i freaked out. I bet its the same STUPID episode.. I still get freaked out about it and that was like.. 6 years ago :P

[ex-rhovanio.livejournal.com]

That probably didnt help much :P My Little Pony dvds are a good thing to watch when you want to get un-scared :D

xoxo

[requiella]

hahaha My little pony! Mybe i'll watch the care bears. ;p

was the guy in the episode a vet? that's the only legless guy i can think of off hand.

and yay! someone's awake! So if creepy inbred family attacks me in my sleep i know someone is up. How long will it take you to get here from AU? ;)

[ex-rhovanio.livejournal.com]

I dont know if he was a vet.. he looked like an oompa loompa and sat on a skateboard? :P SHOOSH.. *must get him out of my head*

It would take approximately 10-15 years for me to get to the US.. I need to save up :P

[requiella]

oompa loompas are scary as hell, legless ones just might push me over the edge!

Harry's in the chamber of secrets and is about to meet a very darkly handsome Tom Riddle, this should work *eye candy*

[white-jenna.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yeah, that's a freaky one. He's something like an Indian swami...

[ex-rhovanio.livejournal.com]

Yeah!! Everytime I picture him in my head (which is too often unfortunately :P) I picture the oompa loompa from the Johnny Depp version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!!

You have a MLP icon :P

[lafemmezilla.livejournal.com]

hee, i remember that one. i *think* it's from the later season, because i seem to remember doggett in it. if you're looking to avoid it again anyway... yes super scary! small things that move fast while close to the ground - it must be some subconscious psych prob humans have. like, i know mice aren't really anything to be afraid of, but i scream like a little girl when i see one moving.

[ex-rhovanio.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah :) We got a kitten for xmas and it has made me a nervous wreck!! It hides behind things just waiting for me to walk past then it attacks.. and it doesnt just grab my foot, it springs halfway up my leg then starts climbing up my clothes.. The first time it did it I dropped to the floor screaming my head off flailing around like a moron trying to get it off :P

[white-jenna.livejournal.com]

Now, see, Home didn't freak me out too much.
But grey aliens terrify me. So I haven't seen some episodes, or I made Jason (who hates the show) watch them with me while I had my eyes closed.
Personally I always enjoyed the "monster of the week" ones more than the mythology ones.
Although the liver eating guy (Toomes?) really freaked me out. That was the first episode I saw.
*nice happy MLP icon*

[requiella]

The alien ones scare me as well, more so then the monster ones. have you ever seen the movie Communion or read the book?

http://www.amazon.com/Communion-True-Story-Whitley-Strieber/dp/0380703882/sr=1-1/qid=1169929202/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-9292011-6994246?ie=UTF8&s=books

the book scared me so much that my friends made sure i didn't see the movie. I am a wuss that loves being scared. ;)

[white-jenna.livejournal.com]

No, I try to avoid greys at all cost. Really sucks that they're popular. Went to a haunted house years ago that had an alien room, with someone in costume standing by the door. I just shut my eyes and hung on to the person in front of me.

[lafemmezilla.livejournal.com]

unquestionably the creepiest x-files ep ever, and doubly so due to the complete lack of supernatural factor. just fucked up people being super nasty!

the one miz jenna mentions, i saw as well and that was a true return to creepy form for the x-files in its later seasons. i remember it was mainly doggett and scully wasn't in it much. scary!

[requiella]

there is no elctricty in the inbred people's house. the way the atmosphere changes once the agents enter the dark house is such a stark contrast to the sunny outside and really adds to the creep factor.
I think you hit the nail with this ...doubly so due to the complete lack of supernatural factor . just fucked up people being super nasty... there are 2 other episodes that I can think of where the monster is human and those are damn scary ones.
I probably didn't see the oompa loompa one, I stopped watching when Mulder left.

[ex-rhovanio.livejournal.com]

The un-supernatural ones were the best I think.. :)

Anyhoo, did you survive the night m'dear?? Or did creepy little legless people come to get you??

xox

[requiella]

I finally went to bed at 7am, because I wasn't tired not because of the x-files, so it was light out, evil underbed bogie-women don't attach during the day. So far. ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_boxinghelena/]

I remember that episode. I've seen re-runs of it too.

[requiella]

yeah, I'd love to be channel surfing and come across that episode. 0_0

[lore]

What's sad is, I've become so numb to the X-Files that the episode doesn't faze me at all anymore. DO NOT watch it again without lots of friends around. And never become numb to it like me. ;) *HUGS*

love, lore

[requiella]

Nice icon ;)

I was surprised when I first got season one and two (or is it 3-4?) that Duane Barry didn't scare me, I remember the first time I saw it and being terrified during the scene where the aliens are looking through his window. There are still a few of super-natural ones that I can't watch at night, problem is they're no fun to watch during the day. ;)

[the-megstress.livejournal.com]

OMG! That is my favorite X Files episode! I saw that the first time it aired and it was soooooo disturbing - and I was officially hooked on the show. That is some of the best tv ever made!

[requiella]

okay so you're going to be the one to hold my hand when I finally watch it. ;)

[daskreestof.livejournal.com]

That is indeed the scariest episode of the X-Files, and perhaps the most disturbing hour of fiction television ever broadcast.

"You don't know the pride"

I couldn't believe Fox broadcast it, but they did so only once. Afterwards they never showed it on broadcast TV again.

[daskreestof.livejournal.com]

FX did show it again, but that's not broadcast TV.

[requiella]

There are still episodes of the x-files that I haven't watched because I think they will scare me and I have a hard enough time going to sleep without worrying about aliens abducting me or my cat becoming possessed.

But you bring up something (whether intentional or inadvertent) that interests me. "scary" vs. "disturbing" the episode is scary but not in the things that go bump in the night way. A ghost story will scare but not disturb me. Severely inbred people do scare me but it's more disturbing then scary....
*hurm* Must give this more thought, now I have to find things I find disturbing but not straight out scary. This should be fun. ;)