Has anybody else seen the episode of the X-Files named "Travelers" where most of the episode is a flashback with FBI Agent Daley? Well, in the episode there is a killer that sucks the life out of people by spitting a giant bug-like thing out of his mouth and into the other person's! The actual scenes look right out of this movie! Does anybody else see this?
"Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy...or are you gonna bite?"
There were other episodes on that series that were similar to "The Hidden": the alien ooze that went from body to body in a couple of their episodes. I think the episode I'm referring to was a 2-parter & was called Piper Maru & Apocrypha. Yeah, you're right......I was thinking the same thing when I saw this episode.....probably borrowed the actual alien for this one.
shareThe black oil was an important part of the mythology. Though, I think the last time it's featured is in the season 8 episode "Vienen"; season 9 shifted focus to the super soldiers.
shareApparently the writers of the X-Files got a lot of the inspiration for their storylines from movies as well as folklore and legends.
shareI was watching an episode of The X Files the other day and I realised that they have used music cues from The Hidden in the earlier seasons.
shareOne of the reasons I found it hard to get into "X-Files" was that during the first few seasons every other episode seemed to be a riff on a film well known to me and not done well enough to share the turf.
Which was a shame because the "Twin Peaks" crowd were calling it the logical successor to that show long before it came over here (the UK).
It was only when the show started to move away from that lazy writing motif that it started to become fun to watch and to be honest I had already missed the boat by then.
I think the first season has some fantastic episodes in it.
shareThe X Files did seem to borrow an awful lot of conceptual and visual cues from The Hidden (black oil moving from person to person, the look of the alien parasite in Travellers, which also occurred to me while watching this) but there were also episodes from which elements were borrowed by movies which came out later, for example the episode 'Quagmire' is very similar to the later released Lake Placid.
shareUm, no.
-um, no.2;Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense." -Steve Landesberg
So, did Jason Goes to Hell borrow fro The Hidden?
Did REC2 borrow from The Hidden? Did REC series borrow from Demons 2? Did Demons 2 borrow from Evil Dead? Did Ringu borrow from Night of the Demon and Demons 2?
I could go on forever.
I remember hearing that the creators of "Jason Goes to Hell" swear that they never saw "The Hidden" before making the film.
Yeah, right.
Wasn't that thing a government-created hybrid monster? Not much about it moving from body to body.
shareX-Files ripped off everything. I mean, is there anything they didn't rip off?
Now, that show could've been an amazing classic, but I think something happened, as it might've gotten a bit too close to the truth.
The IDEA that there exists some kind of bureau or at least compartment deep within the deep, dark corridors of governmental Black Ops side, out of sight of regular people, is a great one. That the governments of the world have a secretive task force to deal with UFO sightings and crashes, does inspire the imagination, doesn't it?
The pilot episode was downright amazing, especially back in the dark days of pre-internet times (sure, internet existed, but it wasn't as global and prevalent as it is now, the masses didn't use it yet, or even know about it), revealing actual truths to the casual viewer so much.
The PROMISE of the pilot was never realized; what started off as a deeply conspirational, governmental revelation of all kinds of power structures, secrets coming to light, and the UFO phenomenon and all the mystery surrounding it, was suddenly watered down to "yet-another spooky monster show".
Suddenly the show diverted and shied away from what the pilot promised us, and became a mundane, ordinary, 'monster-of-the-week'-type trope that has a dull sceptic that can always explain everything 'rationally', so the viewer never has to accept anything 'fantastic' as even a possiblity, let alone reality.
And the shady shadow government became just some cigarette-addicted old guy and the conspirational 'main plot' became a few rare episodes here and there that never really went anywhere, and the eventual revelations were as stupid as they were materialistic, with the idiotic black goo crap and other moronic messes of similar nature. It became 'dramatic' crap about Mulder and Scully's 'relationcrap' instead of something cerebral and truth-revealing.
Instead of what it COULD have been, the way the pilot promises it would, it became just another trope show.