The Six Best Monsters From The X-Files Season 1

Developing a premiere season is a tough task for any producer but what made Chris Carter and Co. jobs that much harder was the originality of The X-Files, it was experimental broadcasting  with no guide rope they just had their creativity, instincts and penchant for anything spooky, oh and they also had the notorious FOX Network executives to deal with.

The first season of The X-Files was rich in Monster of the Week episodes, in-fact it boasted nineteen in total the highest amount of stand-alones in any of the nine seasons.  Not all were classics mind and some were definitely dud but there was many diamonds amongst the rough.

Some of these monsters make the cut because they are just plain scary especially for the John Doe of 19 years ago some however make us smile and others make us sad.

With so many MoW’s to choose from narrowing them down to a list of six was not easy but here it is, the definitive list of the six best monsters from MoW episodes:

6. Cecil L’Ively, Fire

Possibly a controversial choice, Cecil’s general exclusion from these types of lists can only be merited to the overshadowing hate for Phoebe Green a women equally annoying and fugly. Cecil just makes the cut based on the fact that he should not be underestimated. The highly intelligent psychopaths’ dedication to his killings is unrivalled and his anti-establishment views make him an ideal candidate for world domination. His each and every sanctimonious move derived from pure evil. A wicked black heart gets this pyro-kinetic monster a top six spot.
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5. Roland, Roland

The hapless autistic Roland was an early example of the variety of emotional avenues Chris Carter would be granted to travel down over the course of the next 8 seasons. This X-Files MoW week didn’t scare anybody it may have got a few laughs but in truth they only feeling we were left with was that of sorrow, loneliness and possibly empathy for the most innocent and ill-fated young man. Perhaps that is fear.
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4. The bugs, Darkness Falls

These carnivorous nocturnal bugs cocoon and slowly digested their prey, eating them alive. What makes their fear factor worse is that they are undetectable in daylight. They could be gathering around your bed waiting for darkness to fall. If The X-Files ever gave us a reason to sleep with the lights on this was it.
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3. The Eves, Eve

Creepy test tube twins Cindy Reardon and Teena Simmons both killed the respective adoptive fathers through means of exsanguination at the tender years of eight. These highly intelligent blood thirsty sentence finishers are destined to drive themselves to psychotic madness in later life, just ask their big sis, eye ball biter Eve 6.
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2. Luther Lee Boggs, Beyond the Sea

On death row and desperate for a pardon, Boggs claims he can use psychic channelling to help locate a killer before he kills his kidnap victims. His claims seem to hold up against adverse facts to the matter. Is he to be believed and even if he is; is this a chance for redemption and should his sins be forgiven? A most memorable character responsible for bringing passion to The X-Files, his importance to the show should not be undervalued.
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1.  Eugene Victor Tooms, Squeeze/Tooms

We became acquainted with this bile spewing stretchy odd ball over two episodes that allowed us to get a real insight into his peculiar existence. Tooms appearance was also the first MoW appearance in The X-Files history. We learned early on that behind his jaundice liver hungry eyes laid the brains to challenge Mulder and Scully, he is good at what he does after all he has been doing it over a matter of centuries. His ability to stretch out and squeeze through the tightest of spaces meant that no one was safe from his appetite, his prey seldom escape. He was disgusting, the sneer on his face was unpleasant, his method of sticking his nest together was sickening and his methods of entry repugnant (the sewer especially). It was fitting that Tooms suffered such a gruesome demise at the hands of Mulder and an escalator, an unforgettably brilliant end that he earned and it was no less than he deserved.
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There you have it my definitive list of The X-Files first season best monsters from MoW episodes. Let me know your lists, who would of you include?

EVE Episode 11 Season 1 of The X-Files

EVEil Genius 10/10

Synopsis: Mulder and Scully investigate two identical murders that happened at the exact same time only miles apart.

EVE is an amazing episode full of red herrings and twist. From start to finish the unfolding plot keeps Mulder and Scully guessing on the potential suspects. The likelihood that a sophisticated Murder could be carried out by an eight year old girl was beyond the realms of thinking even for Mulder. As a viewer it was nice to see a tightly woven story unravel in front of my eyes.

There is no denying that twins in horror works as for some reason they are able to possess a certain unnerving quality much like a china doll. The younger EVE twins are murders are evil and genius, a scary group of attributes to hold. They are capable of killing without feeling regret but instead share jubilation in their methods homicide, gleefully watching as their self-cultivated poison terminates the closes thing the girls could ever come to calling a mother. This gives much reason behind the elaborate ways in which the fathers of the two girls met their demise. Exsanguination is a word I had to look up not a method of murder, least that is what I thought. The creativity involved in the murders inevitably contributed to the girls undoing as it was quickly passed down as an X-File due to its oddness in nature and without Fox Mulders intuitive observance the girls break for freedom would have been successful.

Harriet Harris turns in some credible performances playing Dr Sally Kendrick, EVE 6 and EVE 8. As the psychotic EVE 6 she was very convincing, chattering her teeth whilst telling stories of biting a guard eyeball and I really wouldn’t like to be locked in a cell with her. She had an air of unpredictability about her and played unhinged very well. Another of her scenes is also rather thrilling. Cindy Reardon lies in bed when her wardrobe doors begin to open, we then see from Mulder and Scully’s view point that she is then quickly snatched. Scully runs to Cindy’s aid entering the house she doesn’t know what she will find and neither do we. Whoever or whatever it was that snatched Cindy had to have been waiting in that wardrobe for two days as the house was under surveillance. The music adds to potential scare we’re about to receive. Scully makes her way up the stairs and is knocked down by EVE 7 who then bursts through a patio window and escapes the waiting Mulder by holding a gun to Cindy’s head. A top sequence in the episode of which there are so many highlights. My favourite sequence of the lot has to be the rest stop scene. The girls poison the agents drink only to be thwarted by Mulders intuition. I thought it was filmed really well and showed Mulders at his think ‘outside the box’ best.  Not many agents would evaluate the evidence in such a way as to suspect little girls.

Deep Throat makes an appearance here, divulging the project that created the EVEs called the Lichfield experiments. These experiments were designed to rival that of the Russians attempt of creating a super race at the height of the cold war. They created a group of genetically modified children, the boys were called Adam and the girls were called Eve. We know from meeting Eve 6 that the experiments still continue and that these children grew to be psychotic. We learn from EVE 7 that the young EVEs; Cindy and Teena have developed at a greatly accelerated speed, meaning they’re very dangerous. On their capture they are returned to the Lichfield experiment.

Quotes I have picked out for this episode are:

Mulder’s unwitty quip to Scully whilst she reads from the autopsy report.

Scully: Death by hypovolaemia. 75% blood loss. That's over 4 liters of blood.

Mulder: I'd say the man was running on empty.

Mulder’s and Scullys banter. He also points to the sky and says that maybe their looking in the wrong place.

Mulder: One girl was just abducted.

Scully: Kidnapped.

Mulder: Potato, potahto.

Two psychopathic girls that have never met murder their fathers in exactly the same bizarre manner at exactly the same time on different sides of the country. Psychotic clones run amok. Exsanguination, poisoning and biting eyeballs. A supposedly expired highly classified experiment continues. Creepy twins that may in-fact be cloned to create more of the little murderers. This episode had a lot I think I enjoy it more than any other in this series and as I realise I can be stingy with my scoring I feel it is only right to slap a 10/10 on this one.

Join me once more for the next episode ‘FIRE’ coming in the next couple of days. Thank you for reading.