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The Walk | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 411 | Rob Bowman - The K Files | An X Files Podcast

The Walk | K-Files | The X-Files Podcast [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/E411.jpg?resize=800%2C436] THE WALK | K FILES | THE X FILES PODCAST | ROB BOWMAN | CASE FILE 411 The K Files has identified an invisible serial killer. In a NEW podcast investigation, Agents Moeller and Lopez pursue the truth in Rob Bowman’s elevated monster of the week ‘The Walk.’ Open the case file here: PLOT (SPOILERS): At a VA hospital in Fort Evanston, Maryland, Lieutenant Colonel Victor Stans makes a third suicide attempt and when halted, claims that a mysterious figure will not let him die. Stans attempts another, way worse death via a tub of scalding water, but is rescued by  hospital staff and subsequently disfigured (mega X Files shit you can’t unsee, this guy’s face). When  Mulder and  Scully question Stans, they learn his wife and children died in a house fire he insists was started by the mysterious soldier who will not allow Stans to die. Captain Janet Draper interrupts the interrogation claiming the agents have no jurisdiction. She turns them over to her superior, an X Files story archetype: the Bad General. See also Bad Military Leaders (Unrequited, Sleepless). After meeting with the agents, Callahan glimpses the phantom soldier Stans described. He also finds his answering machine replaying an unintelligible message. Later, while using the base’s swimming pool, Draper is killed by a force visible only by its shadow on the ceiling over the pool (cool). The K Files The X Files Podcast The Walk [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cap095.jpg?resize=708%2C536] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/walk-k-files-x-files-podcast-rob-bowman-411/attachment/cap095/] Callahan tells the agents about the soldier and the voicemail, which was received twice before at his home. When they visit his house, his young son, Trevor, believes he saw someone go inside; Scully herself glimpses someone in the backyard. Fingerprints are found on the property which belong to the hospital mailman, Quinton “Roach” Freely. As Mulder and Scully take Roach into custody, Trevor is attacked and killed by the invisible force in his sandbox. Under the agent’s questioning, Roach admits to his role in the deaths and states he is only [weirdly] “Rappo’s mailman.” “Rappo” turns out to be Leonard Trimble (played by intense guest actor Ian Tracey [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Tracey]), a Gulf War veteran and quadruple amputee. Scully doesn’t believe Roach, even though he insists that Rappo will kill him next. Scully later finds Roach dead in his cell via another horrible death one cannot unsee: a bedsheet shoved down his throat. Scully assumes suicide, but Mulder thinks that Rappo is the killer, leaving his body through astral projection via a psychic connection forged through Roach’s letters. He also plays the voicemail backwards; it is actually a warning from the phantom soldier. Under questioning, a bitter Rappo declares that the Gulf War took his life away. Meanwhile, Callahan finds his wife’s dead body. He goes to the hospital to talk to Stans, who reveals that Rappo — who he doesn’t know — is responsible for the deaths. When Callahan confronts Rappo, he openly admits his crimes. Rappo tries to goad Callahan into killing him, but Callahan decides to “stand down,” shooting over Rappo’s head. The agents arrive and find Rappo in a trance so naturally Mulder realizes what is happening and tries to find Callahan. The K Files The X Files Podcast The Walk [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Walk-3.png?resize=694%2C521] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/walk-k-files-x-files-podcast-rob-bowman-411/attachment/the-walk-3/] Rappo’s apparition attacks Callahan with steam from the pipes in the hospital’s basement. Stans enters Rappo’s room, locks the door, and brutally smothers Rappo with a pillow. When Rappo dies, his apparition disappears before it attacks Mulder. Callahan remains unharmed. Since there is no actual evidence proving that Rappo killed Callahan’s wife and son, the case remains one the agents handful of unsolved. Mulder reports  that Rappo’s family tried to have him buried at Arlington National Cemetery; he is instead buried in a civilian cemetery in Pennsylvania. PRODUCTION: “The Walk” is the first X-Files script by John Shiban [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shiban]. He found it challenging to write, particularly Mulder and Scully’s first scene where “they have to come together on a case, yet they have to be at odds.” Shiban was inspired by the film The Men [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_%28film%29] and realizing that the main character, who had been injured in war and lost his legs, wanted to walk more than anything. The more X Files-y element of astral projection seemed to pair with the concept. Some members of the writing staff were concerned about killing Callahan’s young son, Trevor, but Shiban felt that Rappo wanted to take everything from Callahan, and the worst blow would be to kill his son. Director Rob Bowman felt that Ian Tracey [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Tracey], who played Rappo, was “an incredibly strong actor” and fit the role. Deryl Hayes, who played an army psychiatrist in this episode, previously appeared as a CIA operative in first season episode Shadows [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_%28The_X-Files%29]. The K Files The X Files Podcast The Walk [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cap320.jpg?resize=708%2C536] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/walk-k-files-x-files-podcast-rob-bowman-411/attachment/cap320/] Draper’s drowning was achieved by pulling actress Nancy Sorel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Sorel] down with a cable attached to the bottom of the pool. The image of the wave launching over Draper in the pool was accomplished by the teamwork of special effects department members Mat Beck and David Gauthier. One of the crew members was also buried in sand in the scene where Trevor is killed. The effect in the climax when Rappo’s apparition throws Callahan and Mulder across the room was accomplished with a device called the “Air-Ram” that uses compressed air. The visual effects were almost not completed in time – that’s why the achievement in these episodes is so epic. SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube channel for daily videos! [http://www.hollywoodredux.com/youtube-subscribe] YOUR HOSTS: Katie Moeller Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmoells [http://www.twitter.com/kmoells] Kryzzalia Lopez Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kryzzalia [http://www.twitter.com/kryzzalia] The Truth is Already Here. x files - paranormal [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/x-files-paranormal-1.gif?resize=360%2C270] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/quagmire-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-324/attachment/x-files-paranormal-3/] Listen to the audio podcast below: YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=HollywoodRedux] | Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/hollywoodredux] | Instagram [http://www.instagram.com/hollywoodredux] | Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/hollywoodredux] | Google+ [https://plus.google.com/+Hollywoodredux/posts]The Walk| The K-Files | An X-Files Podcast SOURCED MATERIALS BY: WIKI [HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/THE_WALK_(THE_X-FILES)] The post The Walk | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 411 | Rob Bowman [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/walk-k-files-x-files-podcast-rob-bowman-411/] appeared first on Hollywood Redux [http://hollywoodredux.com].

Tooms | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 410 | Doug Hutchinson - The K Files | An X Files Podcast

K Files Tooms [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/tooms.jpg?resize=800%2C436] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/tooms-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-410-doug-hutchinson/attachment/tooms/] TOOMS| THE K FILES | THE X FILES PODCAST | CASE FILE 410 | DOUG HUTCHINSON The K Files agents continue to investigate the worst serial killers on The X Files! Contortions, escalator death, schmoopies with root beer, and at least one naked Doug Hutchinson – we’re talking Tooms. Open the case file below: DEBRIEFING: Tooms is notable for a number of reasons. The episode featured Mitch Pileggi’s first appearance as ADWalter Skinner aka the SkinMan, and saw Doug Hutchison and William B. Davis reprise their roles as Tooms and The Smoking Man, respectively. When mutant serial killer Tooms is released from prison, Mulder and Scully attempt to thwart him from resuming his killing spree. Tooms, however, takes steps (literally) to frame Mulder for assault before the agents can apprehend him. The K Files The X Files Podcast Tooms [https://i0.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/x-files-tooms-3.gif?resize=450%2C240] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/tooms-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-410-doug-hutchinson/attachment/x-files-tooms-3/] In the end, Tooms is not smarter than our agents and progress literally crushes him under its wheels in the escalator. He was losing his edge anyway – the toilet latch kept him from murdering Michigan angry dad. PLOT: After the violence of “Squeeze,” Eugene Victor Tooms has been placed in a sanatorium in Baltimore. He attempts to escape but is forced to abort when he is visited by psychologist and cheeseburger waiting to be eaten, Dr. Monte. Scully is called before Skinner, accompanied most frequently in these early days by the Smoking Man. Despite the success of the X-Files investigations, Skinner criticizes their unorthodox investigative methods and wants Scully to ensure their cases are by the book. After getting called on the carpet, Scully joins Mulder at a release hearing for Tooms, where Monte claims that Tooms’ attack on Scully was due to being falsely accused of murder. Mulder tries to point out the physical evidence of Tooms’ physiology and crimes but is ignored by the hearing’s panel. Spooky Mulder is not always the most persuasive so Tooms gets released into the care of an elderly couple and must continue his treatment with Dr. Monte. And by continue his treatment we mean Tooms was always going to eat that guy. Scully meets with Frank Briggs, the detective who investigated Tooms’ 1933 murders. Briggs claims that the body of one of the victims from that spree remained elusive. Scully and Briggs visit a chemical plant where a piece of the victim’s liver was found and discover a skeleton encased in concrete. Meanwhile, Mulder watches Tooms at work and intervenes as he stalks a would-be victim. Later that night, Mulder follows him when he tries to break into a man’s house. Tooms flees without attacking anyone. A researcher examining the skeleton identifies it as the missing victim from 1933. However, there seems to be no substantial evidence proving that Tooms was the murderer. Scully relieves Mulder, who is watching Tooms’ new residence; they are unaware that Tooms is hiding in the trunk of Mulder’s car. He manages to break into Mulder’s apartment, where he injures himself and imprints Mulder’s shoe print on his face. Tooms’ meddling leads to Mulder being questioned by the police. Skinner forbids Mulder from contacting Tooms. Further research on the skeleton reveals bite marks matching Tooms’ teeth. When the old couple watching Tooms depart and Tooms is visited by Monte, he kills him and consumes the final liver he needs before his thirty-year hibernation. Upon discovering Monte’s body, Mulder and Scully head to Tooms’ former residence at 66 Exeter Street, which has been demolished and replaced with a shopping mall. Inside, Mulder crawls below an escalator and finds Tooms’ new/old nest. Tooms bursts out, covered in bile, and pursues Mulder, who makes it to the surface and activates the escalator, trapping and killing Tooms. The K Files The X Files Podcast Tooms [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/x-files-tooms-2.jpg?resize=400%2C300] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/tooms-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-410-doug-hutchinson/attachment/x-files-tooms-2/] Skinner reads Scully’s final report on the Tooms case and asks the Smoking Man if he believes it, to which he replies, “Of course I do.”Because he probably created Tooms in a decommissioned train car or something similar. Outside, Scully finds Mulder, who is observing a caterpillar’s cocoon musing as he is wont to do on a change that is coming to the X-Files, heralded by Skinner’s admonishment to Scully and the impending season one finale, The Erlenmeyer Flask. SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube channel for daily videos! [http://www.hollywoodredux.com/youtube-subscribe] YOUR HOSTS: Katie Moeller Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmoells [http://www.twitter.com/kmoells] Kryzzalia Lopez Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kryzzalia [http://www.twitter.com/kryzzalia] The Truth is Already Here. The X Files Podcast Tooms [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/x-files-tooms.gif?resize=268%2C189] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/tooms-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-410-doug-hutchinson/attachment/x-files-tooms/] Listen to the audio podcast for Squeeze below: We previously covered this episode via audio podcast! Listen for further evidence in the Tooms investigation below and revisit the previous case here: [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/204-the-k-files-the-x-files-201-days/] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=HollywoodRedux] | Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/hollywoodredux] | Instagram [http://www.instagram.com/hollywoodredux] | Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/hollywoodredux] | Google+ [https://plus.google.com/+Hollywoodredux/posts]Tooms| The K-Files | An X-Files Podcast The post Tooms | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 410 | Doug Hutchinson [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/tooms-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-410-doug-hutchinson/] appeared first on Hollywood Redux [http://hollywoodredux.com].

Squeeze | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 409 - The K Files | An X Files Podcast

Squeeze - The K-Files Podcast - Hollywood Redux [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/E409.jpg?resize=800%2C436] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/squeeze-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/e409/] SQUEEZE | THE K FILES | THE X FILES PODCAST | CASE FILE 409 Contort your sense of human decency alongside The K Files agents in a continuation of our deep cover investigation into the worst serial killers on The X Files! This week we’re flicking Tooms’ liver juice off our fingers without betraying our cool exterior in Squeeze. Open the case file below: DEBRIEFING: Ah the young X Files. The early days of the show are so special because it was something new: the way it was lit, the sophisticated writing, its ability to convey the uncanny, and perhaps most notably, for the clever mirror held up by its monsters. “Squeeze” was written by early show MVP’s (and revival key players) Glen Morgan and James Wong [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_%28The_X-Files%29]. They kicked off the continuing inference on the show’s writing from Chinese medicine or eastern schools of thought in the way Tooms comes to personify an imbalanced anger which manifests in liver trauma. It’s interesting when you consider through this lens that Tooms goes after Scully – is this an implication that Scully is a workaholic? Or maybe it’s not about her liver at all, maybe she went to his lair, so he went to hers… The K Files The X Files Podcast Squeeze [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/x-files-squeeze.gif?resize=560%2C318] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/squeeze-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/x-files-squeeze/] The episode featured the first of two (we’ll investigate Tooms next week) guest appearances by a then very young now very creepy, Doug Hutchison [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hutchison], as the mutant serial killer Eugene Victor Tooms. This was the first “monster-of-the-week” episode of The X-Files, so it’s telling that Tooms is obsessed with unbalanced liver aka his victims have anger issues. They’re business men working late – in the followup episode, Tooms, the victim to be is a dad who won’t pay attention to his family, angrily working late at night. But the writers don’t put too fine a point on it, after all, the mystery of the show in those early episodes was a big part of what drew a cult audience. The world of the show had no real answers just endless dark tunnels to explore. The K FIles The X Files Podcast Squeeze [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/X-FIles-squeeze-goo.gif?resize=634%2C360] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/squeeze-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/x-files-squeeze-goo/] Many other monsters in the XF Rogues’ Gallery follow the Tooms model, such as the sad fast food waiter in Hungry, or the reptile man in Alone. These are monsters that are technically human or appear humanoid anyway for the most part, but who on the inside lack conscience similar to predators in the wild. When M and S catch up to them, the law enforcement protocol doesn’t always fit these cases – they are more like animals in nature than a human with a moral compass. The K Files The X FIles Podcast Squeeze [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/x-files-squeeze-face.jpg?resize=640%2C478] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/squeeze-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/x-files-squeeze-face/] The K Files is on the scene of Tooms next week to close the case on Eugene Victor. Our exploration of the bizarre (and bloody) serial killers of The X Files continues on into 2017. [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/the-k-files-agents-investigate-serial-killer-john-lee-roche-in-paper-hearts/] Check out this awesome behind the scenes video from the 90’s – these used to air on FX in conjunction with the very early syndicated showings of episodes every week day. Agent Moeller caught up on the show before the advent of Netflix via this method, every day after middle school – it was magical, just like young Glen Morgan and James Wong palling around on set: Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube channel for daily videos! [http://www.hollywoodredux.com/youtube-subscribe] YOUR HOSTS: Katie Moeller Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmoells [http://www.twitter.com/kmoells] Kryzzalia Lopez Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kryzzalia [http://www.twitter.com/kryzzalia] The Truth is Already Here. Listen to the audio podcast here: YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=HollywoodRedux] | Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/hollywoodredux] | Instagram [http://www.instagram.com/hollywoodredux] | Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/hollywoodredux] | Google+ [https://plus.google.com/+Hollywoodredux/posts]Squeeze| The K-Files | An X-Files Podcast The post Squeeze | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 409 [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/squeeze-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/] appeared first on Hollywood Redux [http://hollywoodredux.com].

Grotesque | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 408 - The K Files | An X Files Podcast

The K Files The X Files Grotesque [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/unspecified.jpg?resize=800%2C436] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/unspecified-2/] GROTESQUE | THE K FILES | THE X FILES PODCAST | CASE FILE 408 The K Files agents continue our pursuit of serial killers of The X Files in Grotesque! Mulder goes hunting gargoyles, but sees only a familiar face in the mirror in this third season horror show. Open the case file below: ABOUT THE EPISODE: Filed under M for Mulder Goes A Little Crazy (see also Demons [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/demons-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-337/], Folie a Deux [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/folie-deux-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-328/], Biogenesis [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/211-k-files-fate-mulders-amor-x-files-201-days/]), this episode serves up some layered horror from writer, Howard Gordon, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Gordon] and director, Kim Manners. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Manners] The agents assist Mulder’s former mentor with a case involving a serial killer who claims a gargoyle spirit committed the crimes. When Mulder joins the case, his obsession with solving it causes Scully to question his sanity. Grotesque premiered on the Fox network in the United States on February 2, 1996. The episode is a “Monster-of-the-Week” story, which means its plot stands alone from the series’ wider mythology. “Grotesque” earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.6, being watched by a whopping 18.32 million people in its initial broadcast. That was a solid audience in 1996 an is massive by today’s standards. The episode received mostly positive reviews from television critics. The K Files The X Files Grotesque [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/x-files-season-3-14-grotesque2.jpg?resize=600%2C454] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/x-files-season-3-14-grotesque2/] Gordon was inspired to write the episode after walking on the streets of New York and seeing several stone gargoyles staring down at him from buildings there. Gordon developed the concept with series creator Chris Carter, who suggested adding more mystical/emotional aspects to the episode (as he is always wont to do). Kim Manners called Grotesque his favorite third-season episode and praised David Duchovny’s performance especially: “Duchovny drove himself, and he was brilliant in that show.” Manners also said of the episode: “I think ‘Grotesque’ is a frightening show. I think it is a disturbing show, and I think that’s why—for me—it’s such a good show. We pulled it off making the viewer feel uneasy. I even found it a difficult show to watch. Yeah, it was a pretty dark hour of television and I would like to do more of those.” The K Files The X Files Grotesque [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/1280x720-GZp.jpg?resize=800%2C450] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/1280x720-gzp/] In order to get a proper feel for the episode, Manners listened to the music from the 1990 film Jacob’s Ladder until his wife “finally asked, ‘Do we have to listen to that (bleeping) CD again?” Manners also theorized that the episode may have been the template for the show Millennium, which premiered on Fox the following television season. It’s certainly dark enough to be part of the Millennium oeuvre. Check out our investigation into the Millennium crossover episode of The X Files [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/millennium-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-401/] PLOT SUMMARY: A group of artists sketch a nude male model in a drawing class. One of the artists, John Mostow (Levani Outchaneichvili [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0653654/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1]), looks disturbed and draws a demonic creature in the model’s place. Even more disturbing, while using a utility knife to sharpen his pencil he cuts his hand then smears the blood on the drawing. After the session, model walks to his car and is attacked and killed by an obscured assailant. The following morning, Mostow is arrested in his apartment by an FBI task force led by Agent Bill Patterson (Kurtwood Smith aka Red Forman [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001748/]), who finds the utility knife from the murder covered in blood. The K Files The X Files Grotesque [https://i0.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/xfiles-grotesque8.jpg?resize=400%2C211] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/xfiles-grotesque8/]Mostow, an immigrant from Uzbekistan with a history of involuntary commitment, is charged with killing seven men by mutilating their faces. Mulder  and Scully become involved when Mostow insists that he was possessed during the killings and his claims are given credence when another murder occurs after his arrest. Mostow draws a gargoyle and claims it made him kill. Mulder meets with Patterson, his former mentor, who has spent three years on the case. The relationship between the two is tense, and Patterson is skeptical of Mulder’s theories. Mulder and Scully go to Mostow’s studio and discover a hidden room full of gargoyle sculptures, plus bonus corpses within them. The K Files The X Files Grotesque [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/download.jpg?resize=259%2C195] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/download/]A glassblower is attacked and hospitalized. Patterson finds Mulder in the library studying gargoyles; he tells Mulder that he’s wasting his time and is a disappointment to him. Scully goes to Mulder’s apartment and finds it covered with gargoyle drawings. Mulder, having sculpted a gargoyle himself in Mostow’s studio before falling asleep, awakens to find a figure with a gargoyle-like face standing over him; he gives chase but is attacked, his face slashed with a utility knife. Mulder refuses to explain to Scully why he was in Mostow’s studio. Disturbed by his behavior, Scully confronts Patterson, who tells her not to try and stop Mulder from doing what he’s doing, because she won’t be able to. Mulder goes to see Mostow again, but Mostow will not tell him how to find the creature that attacked him. The K Files The X Files Grotesque [https://i0.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Gargoyle_Drawing_Grotesque.jpg?resize=800%2C600] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/gargoyle_drawing_grotesque/]Scully finds a disassembled utility knife at the latest crime scene with Mulder’s prints on it and notices that the murder weapon is missing from the evidence room. She meets with Skinner, who is also worried about Mulder’s behavior. They’re not wrong: Mulder has a nightmare about being attacked by a gargoyle that is really himself. He wakes up and goes to Mostow’s studio again and finds a severed arm. Mulder searches Mostow’s studio and finds Nemhauser’s body inside a new sculpture. Mulder is then confronted by Patterson, who is unaware of how he arrived at the studio. Mulder deduces that Patterson is the killer, based on his three-year obsession with Mostow and his request for Mulder to investigate the case. The K Files The X Files Grotesque [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/xfiles-grotesque2.jpg?resize=400%2C218] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/xfiles-grotesque2/]Mulder confronts him, but Patterson flees when Scully arrives. Mulder pursues him and they fight; Patterson is shot and apprehended. In the last scene, Patterson is pressed against the bars of his cell, screaming that he is innocent, while the camera focuses on a gargoyle drawn in blood on the wall of his cell. The K Files The X Files Grotesque [https://i0.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/hqdefault.jpg?resize=480%2C360] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/hqdefault/]Earlier in the episode, Mulder told Scully that he and Patterson disagreed on the best way to investigate serial murders, that Patterson always tried to empathize with the suspect and imagine himself in the killer’s place. Mulder’s closing narration concludes that it was this that eventually drove Patterson to insanity: “…But if a man’s character is his fate, it’s not a choice but a calling…” AGENTS: Katie Moeller Twitter: @Kmoells [http://www.twitter.com/kmoells] Kryzzalia Lopez Twitter: @kryzzalia [http://www.twitter.com/kryzzalia] Join us next Wednesday for another NEW episode of The K Files! [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/kitsunegari-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-403/] We continue our foray into the most heinous serial killers of The X Files. [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/irresistible-the-k-files-podcast-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-406/] Twitch Gameplay is NEW tomorrow [http://hollywoodredux.com/videos/gameplay/ultimate-mortal-kombat-3-for-super-nes-twitch-gameplay-thursday-hollywood-redux/]and more content throughout the week, so subscribe to us on Youtube. [https://www.youtube.com/user/HollywoodRedux]Like and share us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/HollywoodRedux/] and Twitter. [http://www.twitter.com/hollywoodredux] The truth is already here. The K Files Grotesque [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/gif.gif?resize=245%2C185] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/attachment/gif/] No viddy? Tune in to the audio podcast below: SOURCED: WIKIPEDIA, [HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/GROTESQUE_(THE_X-FILES)]IMDB [HTTP://WWW.IMDB.COM/NAME/NM0001748/] The post Grotesque | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 408 [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/grotesque-k-files-x-files-podcast-case-file-408/] appeared first on Hollywood Redux [http://hollywoodredux.com].

Orison | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 407 - The K Files | An X Files Podcast

k-files-407 [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/k-files-407.jpg?resize=800%2C436] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/orison-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-407/attachment/k-files-407/] ORISON | K FILES | X FILES PODCAST | CASE 407 | GILLIAN ANDERSON Glory Amen! The K Files continues the investigation into Donnie Pfaster in Orison in a NEW episode. Open the case file: About the Episode “Orison” is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on January 9, 2000. It was written by Chip Johannessen, directed by Rob Bowman, and featured guest appearances by Nick Chinlund. In this episode, Reverend Orison releases Donnie Pfaster, Scully’s former kidnapper, from jail in the hopes of passing judgment on him. What he discovers instead is that he has released pure evil, and it’s headed for Scully. “Orison” was written by Johannessen, who had formerly been an executive producer on the television series Millennium. Johannessen’s first draft featured an escaped prisoner who could stop time. Executive producers Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, and John Shiban enjoyed the premise and decided to bring back Donnie Pfaster. However, instead of continuing in the style of “Irresistible”, the episode went in a “substantial new direction.” Season 7 x Episode 7 Directed by Rob Bowman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Bowman_(filmmaker)] Written by Chip Johannessen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Johannessen] Original air date January 9, 2000 Running time 44 minutes x-files-orison [https://i1.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/x-files-orison.jpg?resize=764%2C425] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/orison-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-407/attachment/x-files-orison/] Writing: “Orison” was written by Chip Johannessen, who had formerly been an executive producer on the Chris Carter-created television series Millennium. In Johannessen’s first draft, the episode’s main antagonist was a prisoner with the ability to stop time. Executive producers Carter, Frank Spotnitz, and John Shiban found the episode’s premise promising. However, Carter enjoyed the story because it bore stylistic similarities to the first season episode “Beyond the Sea”. After reading the first draft, Spotnitz and Carter decided to reintroduce Donnie Pfaster, a character from the second season episode Irresistible. Carter noted that, “we had talked about possibly revisiting some old monster this season, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.” The writers and producers decided to take Orison in a “substantial new direction.”  Although Donnie Pfaster was originally portrayed as a “death fetishist,” his nature was non-supernatural. In Orison, however, it was decided to make Pfaster into a true demon. Shiban explained “we decided late in the process to turn him into this totally demonic character, essentially evil as an entity.” Spotnitz was very excited about bringing closure to the Pfaster-Scully story. He explained, “For me, what really justified bringing Donnie back was the final act of the script when Donnie comes for Scully and she ends up shooting him full of holes.” The final scene, however, proved difficult to script. Director Rob Bowman noted, that the act “was a tough scene. Frank and I had spoken on the phone about the dialogue in the wrap-up scene with Mulder and Scully. Even though she shot him in the heightened state, you couldn’t deny the fact that she killed Donnie Pfaster in cold blood. How do we deal with that?” x-files-orison-2 [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/x-files-orison-2.png?resize=800%2C500] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/orison-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-407/attachment/x-files-orison-2/] Music: The song that Scully keeps hearing in the episode is “Don’t Look Any Further” by former Temptations singer Dennis Edwards. Production staff went through several cover versions in order to find the right one for the episode. Unfortunately, according to producer Paul Rabwin, none of the songs “really worked.” Rabwin wanted Lyle Lovett to record a cover for the episode, but the singer was unavailable, so the staff asked singer-songwriter John Hiatt. Rabwin called Hiatt’s version “chilling, eerie, and soulful.”. Mark Snow, the show’s composer, used musical effects for emphasis. He explained, “There’s a slo-mo scene where Mulder comes in the room with Scully and guns are drawn. They’re looking around, and I do these big boom single hits with a lot of reverb. There’s nothing else but that. Sometimes, that is really effective.” Love you, Mark Snow. Agents: Katie Moeller Twitter: @Kmoells [http://www.twitter.com/kmoells] Kryzzalia Lopez Twitter: @kryzzalia [https://twitter.com/Kryzzalia] Join us next Wednesday for another NEW episode of The K Files! We continue our foray into the most heinous serial killers of The X Files. [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/irresistible-the-k-files-podcast-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-406/]Twitch Gameplay is NEW tomorrow and more content throughout the week, so subscribe to us on Youtube. [https://www.youtube.com/user/HollywoodRedux]Like and share us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/HollywoodRedux/] and Twitter. [http://www.twitter.com/hollywoodredux] The truth is already here. x-files-glory-amen [https://i2.wp.com/hollywoodredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/x-files-glory-amen.gif?resize=400%2C267] [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/orison-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-407/attachment/x-files-glory-amen/] SOURCED: WIKIPEDIA [HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/ORISON_(THE_X-FILES)] The post Orison | The K Files | The X Files Podcast | Case File 407 [http://hollywoodredux.com/podcasts/thekfiles/orison-the-k-files-the-x-files-podcast-case-file-407/] appeared first on Hollywood Redux [http://hollywoodredux.com].