“The X-Files,” which starred Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny as two intrepid FBI agents who investigated bizarre and unexplainable cases, debuted on Fox on Sept. 3, 1993.
The sci-fi cult hit from Chris Carter not only had a profound impact on pop culture, but also inspired more women to enter the fields of science and medicine, like Anderson’s character Dana Scully.
The character was largely modeled on Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling in 1991’s Oscar-winning “Silence of the Lambs,” while the show’s eerie theme song was partly inspired by The Smiths’ “How Soon Is Now?”
In honor of the show’s 30th anniversary, here are some facts you might not know about “The X-Files,” including how integral it is to the existence of “Breaking Bad.”
Orion/Fox
Dana Scully was inspired by Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs”
“It’s not a mistake that Dana Scully has red...
The sci-fi cult hit from Chris Carter not only had a profound impact on pop culture, but also inspired more women to enter the fields of science and medicine, like Anderson’s character Dana Scully.
The character was largely modeled on Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling in 1991’s Oscar-winning “Silence of the Lambs,” while the show’s eerie theme song was partly inspired by The Smiths’ “How Soon Is Now?”
In honor of the show’s 30th anniversary, here are some facts you might not know about “The X-Files,” including how integral it is to the existence of “Breaking Bad.”
Orion/Fox
Dana Scully was inspired by Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs”
“It’s not a mistake that Dana Scully has red...
- 9/3/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Stars: Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Hannah Fierman, Bryan Batt, David Keith | Written by Elisa Manzini, Sara Sometti Michaels | Directed by Erik Bernard
As I’ll Be Watching opens, Julie is having a terrible day. Her husband Marcus is having problems with connecting flights and is going to miss the showing of her latest paintings. Even worse, her sister Rebecca (Hannah Fierman; Dead by Midnight (11pm Central), Evil Little Things) goes to Julie’s apartment to give her cat Pepper her meds, while she’s there she’s killed by an intruder.
Months later Julie is still suffering from guilt over her death and lets herself be pressured into moving to a new home in the middle of nowhere by Marcus and their therapist Dr. Tate. They tell her not living in the place where her sister died should help her recover. Marcus can work from home so she won’t be alone,...
As I’ll Be Watching opens, Julie is having a terrible day. Her husband Marcus is having problems with connecting flights and is going to miss the showing of her latest paintings. Even worse, her sister Rebecca (Hannah Fierman; Dead by Midnight (11pm Central), Evil Little Things) goes to Julie’s apartment to give her cat Pepper her meds, while she’s there she’s killed by an intruder.
Months later Julie is still suffering from guilt over her death and lets herself be pressured into moving to a new home in the middle of nowhere by Marcus and their therapist Dr. Tate. They tell her not living in the place where her sister died should help her recover. Marcus can work from home so she won’t be alone,...
- 5/4/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
There's lots of great stuff hitting streaming this week, but the debut of the Netflix film "Seven Kings Must Die" and the return of HBO Max's fourth season of "Titans" are two guaranteed to deliver high-intensity action. Fans looking to pair brutal historical epics with their watch of "Seven Kings Must Die" need to look no further than Robert Egger's Shakespearean Viking epic "The Northman" on Prime Video or Neil Marshall's Romans-vs-Picts action-adventure film "The Centurion," available on more than half a dozen streaming services. For those looking for something less bloody and closer tied to "Titans," there's always the Superman origin story series "Smallville," streaming on Hulu, or if you want to get really vintage, there's the young adult shapeshifting series "Animorphs," streaming on Prime Video. There's no shortage of action and adventure available on streaming this week, so let's get to it.
Seven Kings Must Die...
Seven Kings Must Die...
- 4/10/2023
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
The Blood Stream mines the Internet for horror gold so you don’t have to, delivering streamable horror titles never before featured on Dread Central. Occasionally I’ll dredge up something good, maybe even great. To find those gems, I’ll have to sift through a lot of breathtakingly bad cinema. Enjoy!
It's hard to think of many movies more intentionally, non-ironically derivative than Proteus (1995).
First the obvious: A group of unsuspecting people happens upon an oil rig housing a dark, mutated secret. Right off the bat we've got direct plagiarism of maritime monster movies like Leviathan and Deepstar Six, albeit a decade late and several million production dollars short. (Obviously Leviathan and Deepstar. I will hear no argument on the subject.) But Proteus' shameless cribbing doesn't end there.
With the exception of the finale's more or less passable money shot, the gloppy, haphazard creature effects are a halfhearted...
It's hard to think of many movies more intentionally, non-ironically derivative than Proteus (1995).
First the obvious: A group of unsuspecting people happens upon an oil rig housing a dark, mutated secret. Right off the bat we've got direct plagiarism of maritime monster movies like Leviathan and Deepstar Six, albeit a decade late and several million production dollars short. (Obviously Leviathan and Deepstar. I will hear no argument on the subject.) But Proteus' shameless cribbing doesn't end there.
With the exception of the finale's more or less passable money shot, the gloppy, haphazard creature effects are a halfhearted...
- 4/28/2014
- by adamdileo
- DreadCentral.com
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