This episode is noteworthy for being banned from TV, due to its disgusting subject matter. The plot centres around an elderly woman who lives under the floorboards of a spooky house. She emerges only occasionally to mate with her grotesque sons, thereby producing ugly, inbred monsters.
Every season of the X files has at least 4 or 5 classic episodes. Episodes of such artistic quality that they can easily hold their own against most cinema releases.
"Home" isn't one of those episodes, but it contains several very memorable and cinematic sequences. The most famous is the "Wonderful! Wonderful!" sequence, which occurs at the middle of the episode.
During this sequence, a gang of deformed, inbred hillbillies, drive an open-top Cadillac whilst listening to Jonny Mathis' "Wonderful! Wonderful!" on the car radio. They then go on a horrific night time killing spree, breaking into homes and murdering everyone inside.
The sequence feels like something Tarantino or the Coens would direct, the music underscoring the violence, the cinematography carefully obscuring the faces of the inbred monsters. Like the famous "there's something on the wing!" scene from the Twilight Zone series, this sequence is simultaneously scary, absurd, violent and funny.
Every season of the X files has at least 4 or 5 classic episodes. Episodes of such artistic quality that they can easily hold their own against most cinema releases.
"Home" isn't one of those episodes, but it contains several very memorable and cinematic sequences. The most famous is the "Wonderful! Wonderful!" sequence, which occurs at the middle of the episode.
During this sequence, a gang of deformed, inbred hillbillies, drive an open-top Cadillac whilst listening to Jonny Mathis' "Wonderful! Wonderful!" on the car radio. They then go on a horrific night time killing spree, breaking into homes and murdering everyone inside.
The sequence feels like something Tarantino or the Coens would direct, the music underscoring the violence, the cinematography carefully obscuring the faces of the inbred monsters. Like the famous "there's something on the wing!" scene from the Twilight Zone series, this sequence is simultaneously scary, absurd, violent and funny.