As I see those episodes are from earlier seasons. So I guess seasons 6,7,8,9 are not scary at all?

No, they are scary, but for a completely different reason. They serve as a horrible warning for all to see how a once great show can go terrifyingly wrong.

another vote for Home for me...1st time i watched...i had nightmares ...i think it was the music that did it for me...*shudders*

There are some good episodes in the later seasons. As far as scary goes, there's one in season eight (I forget the name) with a bat type thing that was kind of creepy.

Wow this thread brought back a lot of great memories of The X-Files.

There is one episode that has always stood out. It was about a man who ate a certain part of people he killed and then would leave them in a bathtub full of iodine. I believe he also had the ability to regrow lost extremeties. Also he had a gooey cocoon-like lair that Mulder found underneath a mall escalator.

For some reason or other this episode left me pretty shaken back when I was a young teen. If anyone can tell me the name I'd appreciate it.

I think you're mixing up two different episodes/characters. Eugene Tombs was this creepy guy that could stretch himself to fit into anywhere, and he had a lair in under a mall built of bile. He liked to eat the livers of his victims. The cancer man was a guy who was completely made up of cancerous cells, and he needed cells from others to survive (he attacked Scully and thats how they found out she had cancer). He could completely regenerate himself, and at least once, did it in a bathtub of iodine.

Thanks for the info.

I actually haven't seen either of those since probably their first airing.

Its Tooms for me then.

I remember and episode dealing with snakehandlers and a woman impregnated by the minister. The ending

yea the other guy/episode was Leonard Betts, played by Paul McCrane (guy u was Dr Romano in ER). Another good episode, not that scary, but still...

Yeah, Seasons 1 through 5 are the best seasons, but Season 6 definitely had some highlights (like "Field Trip", "Dreamland I/II" and "Monday") which is why I didn't hesitate to buy it (...and it was the last season I bought).

And one episode from Season 6 that I thought was a bit scary was "Alpha" featuring a guy who could turn into a killer wolf. The scenes of the snarling wolf alone are very effective in this episode.

Can't believe no ones mentioned Irresistible yet, the Season 2 episode about that fetishist who collected the hair of deceased women and kept their fingers in his freezer. One of the best of the series, they also made a decent sequel to it called Orison.

Folie a deux, wasn't that giant cockroaches controlling peoples minds? shudder, very scary.

The Callusari was a scary favourite of mine, kinda like the exorcist but for X-files, also Beyond the Sea, but then I'm a huge Brad Dourif fan.
Kaddish was quite creepy too, and All Souls was an interesting twist on the ususal Angels V Devils stories, but I never liked Home, just too "out there" for me.

Yes, that ep made my skin crawl.

The episode "Tooms" is actually a sequel to "Squeeze", which was the first appearance of Eugene Tooms -- and a whole lot scarier, as a result.

Never got into the X-Files but I did make an effort to see "Home" a couple of weeks after it's first airdate because it seemed everyone was talking about how creepy it was. I finally saw it when one of the VHS tapes that had two episodes each on it was released. It certainly lived up to the hype and works as a stand alone episode for those (like me) who didn't watch the series on a weekly basis.

the endings of the episodes "El Mundo Gira" and "Darkness Falls" were scary to me.

It's funny, when I think of scarry, it's more ones that stay with you for awhile with a creepy feeling, not the ones that make you jump and then it's on with the show.

For me, it was the one from the first season with Brad Dourif as the death row convict who could have different spirits come into him and talk in their voice. It wasn't even Dourif that I found scary/disturbing, it was Scully's vision of her father, who had just died in another town, suddenly sitting in the chair in front of her and talking, but with no sound coming from his mouth. Don't ask me why that stayed with me for so long, but it really did.

Which was the one with the guy who makes the images of people appear real spooky on film. Mulder sees a pic of scully and knows that she is in trouble. The guy did something to the ladies eyes and it always freaked me out.

Don't worry. He didn't really die. It was a covert op. He runs the SG-C now.

i didn't watch the show regulary, but there was this one where this guy had his eyes sewed shut, and then at the end he peeled the string off and blood dripped down his face. scary episode.

"Home" for me as well, I remember the big thing about how it was the lost episode and was too disturbing to be shown originally, i'm thinking cripes how bad could it be. Lived up to the hype, that was some sick stuff.

I dont know the name of the ep. But it was the one, where the civil war freaks had their legless mom on a creeper under the bed and would pull her out for sex, they killed the black sheriiff andy, buried the deformed baby alive. freaky stuff man.

Did you happen to read the first page of this thread?

Yep. That's Home as everyone's been talking about.

Since a lot have been mentioned, another that sticks out in my mind is the one where they look for 6 deformed girls, one of whom was named "Paula Klaas" and how this one priest was looking for her as well was actually a demon. Turns out the girls were offsprings of Seraphims. It was just disturbing how they would all die in the same posture, sort of in a state of elation when their father appeared to them to take their soul.

^^ great ep.