Blood
- Episode aired Sep 30, 1994
- TV-14
- 45m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
5.1K
YOUR RATING
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of violent killings committed by seemingly normal residents of a small town.Mulder and Scully investigate a series of violent killings committed by seemingly normal residents of a small town.Mulder and Scully investigate a series of violent killings committed by seemingly normal residents of a small town.
Ashlyn Gere
- Bonnie McRoberts
- (as Kimberly Ashlyn Gere)
Gerry Rousseau
- Mechanic
- (as Gerry Rosseau)
André Daniels
- Harry
- (as Andre Daniels)
BJ Harrison
- Clerk
- (as B.J. Harrison)
Richard C. Burton
- Murder Victim
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSecond appearance in the series of The Lone Gunmen. They were originally only intended to appear in the season 1 episode E.B.E. (1994), but they proved so popular on internet forums that they were revived for this episode.
- GoofsIn one of the police car scenes, a Canadian flag is flying from a flagpole.
- ConnectionsFeatures Bobby's World (1990)
- SoundtracksThe X-Files
Written by Mark Snow
Performed by John Beal
Featured review
"Frustrated Jehova's Witnesses?"
Writer and producer Darin Morgan's first writing contribution to "The X-Files", although only a story credit and not a teleplay (that was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong), is an unjustly forgotten and much-ignored X-Files episode with an interesting concept, a darkly comic nature, and some excellent individual scenes. While the first season concerned itself primarily with the sort of thing you could see on any other supernatural show, the second season has already given us a flukeworm-man-thing and this episode about people driven to kill by a chemical sprayed on the local farms and they even have subliminal messages play a part.
"Blood" is really, really well-directed by David Nutter, who creates a fabulous atmosphere of tension and claustrophobia, and crafts certain scenes especially well. My favorite is the scene where the woman who is paranoid about rape goes to see her mechanic and the scene is initially constructed to make us feel what she's feeling, to make us think feel how lonely this garage is and how this greasy mechanic is lurking in the shadows but then slowly we realize how innocent and friendly the guy actually is, and our expectations are subverted when he becomes the victim as opposed to the aggressor. Brilliant stuff.
I would have liked to see what Darin Morgan would have done had he written this episode, as I am sure that it would have been even more bizarre and much funnier, although this is still quite darkly comic and features some great dialogue between Mulder and Scully ("Frustrated Jehova's Witnesses?" is one of my favorite Mulder one-liners) which tends to be included in even Morgan and Wong's darkest episodes ("Home", for instance, not only features funny dialogue, but is also very, very darkly ironic, especially with the use of music). William Sanderson plays the main guest character of Edward Funsch and although I'm not crazy about the climactic stages of the episode "Blood" is still a great and sadly neglected X-File.
9/10
"Blood" is really, really well-directed by David Nutter, who creates a fabulous atmosphere of tension and claustrophobia, and crafts certain scenes especially well. My favorite is the scene where the woman who is paranoid about rape goes to see her mechanic and the scene is initially constructed to make us feel what she's feeling, to make us think feel how lonely this garage is and how this greasy mechanic is lurking in the shadows but then slowly we realize how innocent and friendly the guy actually is, and our expectations are subverted when he becomes the victim as opposed to the aggressor. Brilliant stuff.
I would have liked to see what Darin Morgan would have done had he written this episode, as I am sure that it would have been even more bizarre and much funnier, although this is still quite darkly comic and features some great dialogue between Mulder and Scully ("Frustrated Jehova's Witnesses?" is one of my favorite Mulder one-liners) which tends to be included in even Morgan and Wong's darkest episodes ("Home", for instance, not only features funny dialogue, but is also very, very darkly ironic, especially with the use of music). William Sanderson plays the main guest character of Edward Funsch and although I'm not crazy about the climactic stages of the episode "Blood" is still a great and sadly neglected X-File.
9/10
helpful•252
- ametaphysicalshark
- Oct 7, 2008
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content