I met the actor who played the Sherrif.Really great man. He is a real special force veteran.He said the cast of the X-Files was really kind to him I got a personalized HOME photograph and his 😊autograph for my younger brother.
I didn't think I had seen this episode but the shot of the ground bleeding and the sneaker brought it all back. The 90s was a great time to be a kid. Messed up stuff on tv but no liveleak lol balance.
I didn't understand all i remember was a girl hiding under the bed and her getting killed. This episode stuck with me and probably for a reason lol super creepy.
This episode scared the crap out of everyone back then! We were talking about it at work the next day. One of the guys I worked with was still freaked out by it.
Apparently this episode was so disturbing that the TV station that aired it vowed never to show it on air again but it was actually from a chapter of Charlie Chaplin's autobiography
@@LuisEnriqueFerrerZorola he visited some home where a man with no legs performed tricks and jumped great heights. It freaked him out and the director of this episode remembered that story
@@donnamacauley4080 OMG you're really going to put me on the spot aren't you. I'm partial to the early episodes as they have a darker feel and the conspiracy is just getting fleshed out and I'll leave it at that.
@@floatingchimney The best episodes (for me) are when the monsters or non-humans entities are killed by common gunfire. Like "Roaaarrr Im a monster, look at my superhuman strength" "Ha Ha gun goes bang bang"
That is actually the reason I really didn't like this episode. Their reaction felt so detatched and cold, and made me dislike them. I don't like disliking my favorite fbi duo.
I was a kid when this show aired. I watched it with my family. Sometimes it would be kind of scary, like the guy that could twist his body and stretch it out. that was super scary. This however, was outright terrifying. This episode still haunts me as a 33 year old.
Same story, I was a kid watching it alone at night and get to the part where sheriff and his wife was beaten to death when they found them under bed, that was so terrifying, I turned off TV and never know how it end... Only know when Im 32 I recently rewatch it again and this time till the end, that brings so much great memories...
@@Rezisorss exactly. That scene is horrifying. This one episode and that scene especially are so much scarier than horror movies now ha. It also really gives you a sense of impending doom knowing Mulder and skully aren't there too. Which just builds on their own epicness as characters. It wasn't that they lived due to plot armor. Most of the terrible things from each episode was before they were involved. So when they were in the mix, you knew there was a chance. But yeah.......his wife under the bed when they smelled her out. Good lord that is terrifying.
I remember almost the full episode. Over 20 years later i can’t believe they showed this episode during primetime like all others. What a ride as a kid in the 90‘s! 🤯
This was actually one of the best episodes of "The X-Files". The killings of Sheriff Taylor, Mrs. Taylor, and Deputy Pastor were no more gruesome than any of the killings i saw in other episodes. I think what really shocked people were the themes of sexual abuse and familial incest. None of it was explicitly shown in the story, but just the idea of it was enough to upset people and the TV stations airing it.
I mean they showed this episode in primetime like all the others back in the 90‘s! I was shocked and terrified as a kid…. and fascinated! I mean i watched it the first time over 20 years ago and i can still remember most of the episode. It went deep! 👌🏻
This was the best. I remember watching this and being horrified in the best was possible as it sunk into me and my husband what exactly what was happening. Fantastic and even better everyone in the world freaked out and half complained. This was a fantastic time to be alive before the internet had too much hold. We had to freak out face to face and i loved it. Watching it right now in celebration of this horrific yet winderful episode. Shout out to Johnny Mathis 😅😅
I think that this episode proved how much Mulder and Scully were way in over their heads trying to go after a shadow organization when they couldn't even handle a small towns problem.
One of my favorite episodes because how it’s almost like a horror movie. I watch it occasionally when I’m really bored along with grotesque, pusher, synchrony, Chinga’s, Arcadia, alpha, agua mala, and Trevor (there’s more but those are some of my favorites)
@@subscorpion9560 Most of the episodes on your list are not horror episodes. Arcadia is e.g. one of the comedic episodes, regardless of the scary monster. Trevor and Pusher have nothing to do with horror as well. I don't remember well the rest of the episodes. Home would be a horror episode, Calusari even more so. There were others but I don't exactly remember them by name now.
Horror comes in many forms, comedic and psychological. Imagine having to follow a man’s command when he merely speaks or a man that can go through your body. Pretty creepy
I remember this episode watching with my mother, I was 16...we are both horror fans but this really sunk its teeth in for a new X-Files story telling season! creepy! especially when Johnny Mathis "Wonderful Wonderful" song comes on...
I was a kid watching it alone at night and get to the part where sheriff and his wife was beaten to death when they found them under bed, that was so terrifying, I turned off TV and never know how it end... Only know when Im 32 I recently rewatch it again and this time till the end, that brings so much great memories...
After watching the first few minutes of this video I watched this episode in full that was mentioned. It was excellent. If you like weird, creepy stuff you will love this episode. The writing, acting, creepy vibes all great! I grew up watching this show on Sunday's when the X-Files series first aired. I didn't appreciate them until I became an adult. Now I am a big fan. Thank you for posting this video in giving me something great to watch!
I was at home in my bed. I loved it and watch all of them. "Home" I called it "Grotesque" There is nothing about I saw it as scary for me. I feel a great deal of sadness and love for their mother and her sons. It was my favorite as well. I love Mulder's humor. He is as that too when interviewed. Not to mention his downright gorgeous! And where he was educated. I degree was English.. Literature..all classics. So I could talked to him forever and never get bored. A few years ago I bought the XFiles dolls online. Trying to find it now is difficult and more expensive. Neither of the agents were ready for what they saw, me either. Family is important no matter what the reasons.
I am from Pennsylvania, there is a actually real small town called Home, I used to pass through it on my way to my family hunting cabin up North (elk County).
My parents saw this ahead of me in 1996, it re-ran later in the year and my mom being a horror buff deemed it "necessary" watching for a 9 year old, i guess. This single episode stuck out for me so much that it stands alone against some of the greatest horror movies ever made, certainly toe to toe with one-off episodes of similar series. Never could quite shake the choice of "Wonderful" for the home invasion seen. Incredibly well directed episode.
1Seen "Home" when it originally aired; only once, and it was so freaking weird that it's stuck with me all these years. It's pretty much about the only episode I've continually talked about other than generalizing about the shows campiest creature episodes.
I didn't watch the X Files much but I did happen to catch this episode . I remember being horrified at the discovery of the mother more than anything else. it was banned from TV a day later and I felt quite proud to jhg have watched it.
Watched "Home" for the first time since it was originally aired 26 years ago. I am still blown away by it. I totally forgot about the comedic reference of the town of "Home" being like Mayberry, the sheriff's actual name being "Andy Taylor" and his deputy being "Barney".
Totally agree. It's one of the best for me too. Definitely the most unforgettable. 20+ years after, I still could not get over it. It was so twisted in so many levels. Not only is this one of the best X-Files episodes ever but also in all of TV.
@@ricosuave5642 Also, cities are major population and economic centers. So there's a greater propensity for human interaction and trade, and thus a greater propensity for crime. There's nothing that can be ascribed to it morally. It's just a byproduct of humanity and human systems.
Thanks for this. I love the X-Files and this has always been my favorite episode, and this episode always gets crapped on for being too dark and oto violent, when in my opinion the X-Files wasn't dark or violent enough, so it's nice to see someone talk well of this awesome episode.
Every Saturday night, me and my parents would the X-files on BBC 1. This one scared the living shit out of me to the point where I had nightmares for a month. TBH, I was like 7 when I watched it
A very memorable episode and I absolutely loved it when it aired. Its one that always stood out along with Tooms, Squeeze, The Host, and Irresistible. The X-Files was one of only a few TV series I used to watch and was lucky to have seen the Pilot episode by chance back in 1994 on BBC 2 in the UK.
banned from tv a few years till re aired for 1st time on halloween. too scary for tv. i remember seeing it when 1st aired in our basement with the lights all off. god dam that intro. almost had to turn the lights on after the intro. was just a kid then
Back in '96, one of my co-workers told me about this episode from the night before. I'd stopped watching the show by then and missed it. His description of it came to mind the other day and I found this here by guessing what to search on. Bingo. Wow!
when i was a kid there was a house that looked like this that i used to sneak into the back garden to pinch apples one day my friend who i was with told me that the house had been haunted by a woman whose husband had tied her up and had starved her to death// and that people who had seen the ghost were confronted by something that had terrified them so much that their hair had turned grey overnight/ still remember how much it scared me forty years later //thanks for vid x
I agree this is one of the darkest episodes, and the most freakish pardon the pun, but you totally glossed over the fact that they also have a scene where the mother asks the boys to lineup for inspection, and seemingly is looking at their genitalia deformed as it is, and we actually see a flash of one. That was the most jarring scene in the episode to me because that was when you first realized that that mother is basically responsible for the way these boys act.
"Home" is truly is "One Step Above" normal TV shows...even most Cinema. Morgan and Wong used elements from the TRUE story of the Ward Bros. and some familiar themed movies .Its a Master Piece of horror in its own right, but also examines many disturbing questions and issues as what some "Humans" in severe isolation can do to preserve family (here, inbred genes). The juxtaposition of the song "Wonderful Wonderful" against true ugliness is genius. FOX banned it for three years. (See it once, and you'll know why). Not for the kids.
@@ketcherinthery5079 If you liked that episode there is a truly serious and creepy episode of "Millennium - Goodbye, Charlie" with the same actor that played sheriff "Andy" in "Home" In this episode he sings "Seasons in the Sun" at a very disturbing moment in the show....(internet archive: X-files -Lone gunmen -Millennium), I think you might like this one too.
'When the hills have eyes' that famous horror classic, revisited by a TV show, added with an X-Files sauce , crossover and remake version! ...and it tastes good.....!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👏👏👏👏👏
Classic and very creepy episode, one I won't forget. The Johny Mathis song "Wonderful" made this horror scene extra horrifying - I will never listen to this Mathis song again without thinking of the brutal bludgeoning scene. Classic late 90's horror for TV.
As a kid back in the day when this show was airing, I couldn't watch X-files simply because the music was too creepy. Now I'm old enough to watch without pooping my pants 💩 👖
This episode really give me a nightmares.every time my neighbours arrived late at night.i imagined this 3 brother break into our house and I will hiding under the bed but they find me hiding there
I missed this ep the first time it aired, then when they finally re-aired it later, I was sitting around with my dad (who had seen it the first time). I was eating some dry cereal. About the time Mulder and Scully get back into the bedroom to find the mother, my dad gets this smile and goes 'you about done eating that?'
At the end when mom is loaded in the trunk of the car and they pull away ….this episode caused me to NEVER ride my motorcycle on Pennsylvania back roads again !!! Lol 😂 Great and disturbing episode.
As I watched this episode when it first showed, I could not believe what I was seeing. It was so bent and twisted and I loved it. At work the next day we were all talking about it. This was the best episode
This episode was so terrifying when I saw it. I thought watching the bug one in S1 too young (not a bug, or nighttime person at all) was the top for me…but this one was just so dread-feeling awful to watch. Fantastic episode. Inspired casting-heard it was incidental but absolutely perfect that the sheriff was Black. So horrifying on a societal level. Amazing.
I don't think the episode is as condemning of small town living as you say. First off, Mulder informs Scully that this is the exact place he would be living if he wasn't, you know, on a tireless search for truth and his lil sis. He never has a moment of reconsideration after the events of the episode or anything, so I can only assume that didn't change his mind. Second, the Andy Griffith connection. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned, but I guess I'll do it. The sheriff in this episode is all but the reincarnation of Griffith's own Sheriff Andy Taylor and the deputy the bumbling yet dedicated Barney Fif....er, Pastor. It may be true that the episode makes the "unarmed" policy and the tendency to keep doors unlocked seem naive, but it also sees the value and the appeal. Why else would these two characters be modeled so accurately after the most honorable and likable sitcom duo there is? But it's just an interesting choice overall, making the innocence and timelessness of a Mayberry esque town's quaint yet endearing morals clash so drastically with the horrors of unimaginable amounts of inbreeding.
Mulder jerks it to Bigfoot videos and subscribes to Celebrity Skin, he would be a lesser dark secret in a small town with limbless mothers under the bed pumping out incest babies to their deformed sons.
This episode caused a HUGE furor at the time. From TV critics, parents, and various "media watchdog" groups. Remember this was 25 years ago, in the pre-Internet mostly broadcast-only TV days. The gory violence, and especially the themes of incest and baby murder, caused an uproar. There were calls to boycott FOX from parent groups. Local FOX affiliate TV stations were bombarded with letters from outraged parents and viewers.
My FAVORITE X-Files episode of all time!! Of course I always preferred the "monster of the week" episodes over the 'alien invasion/abduction" ones anyway...
It's amazing. Back when these were first run, I had no interest at all. Which is kind of strange because this is usually exactly the type of thing that I get into. Anyway, recently, they've started running them on Comet and I decided to sit down and watch the first episode. And I am hooked. I have the joy of all these being brand new while, at the same time, showing the world how damn slow I am. But, of the two or three episodes that I seen on their first run, this is one of them. I have no way of knowing if this is one of the top stories. But I remember really getting into this one back in the day.
This episode is fantastic….the hero’s for once do not fully win, the story is realistic, it’s graphic and very dark and the tone of the episode and insane
I met the actor who played the Sherrif.Really great man. He is a real special force veteran.He said the cast of the X-Files was really kind to him
I got a personalized HOME photograph and his 😊autograph for my younger brother.
Awwww 😊
I didn't think I had seen this episode but the shot of the ground bleeding and the sneaker brought it all back. The 90s was a great time to be a kid. Messed up stuff on tv but no liveleak lol balance.
Matthew Stanton it was so disturbing it got taken off public television😂
The 90s were great. I remembered many shows push the envelope on network television, especially NYPD Blue and its nudity.
Well LiveLeak is dead. There's no balance now. And white internet isn't quite as controlled as TV, it's getting closer.
Best time was early 2000s
@@gemini-mg6sc Are you talking about Dennis Franz's naked ass?
"Wrong turn" got the idea from this episide. Best episode EVER!
Totally thought so too when I saw Wrong Turn.
And both of them influence by Texas Chainsaw and Hills have eyes.
Loved this show growing up,this was the only episode that really freaked me out!!!
The story of Sawney Bean inspired it.
I can't get Greenbrier country West Virginia out of my head as a defense don't go there. Lol 😆
Yeah i watched this as a kid when i shouldnt have XD
As in, i wasnt allowed to
I didn't understand all i remember was a girl hiding under the bed and her getting killed. This episode stuck with me and probably for a reason lol super creepy.
@@fantasea4460 Funny how this was the episode that stuck in everyones head
Is Gabe from the office narrating this ?
This one kept me up many years. This is the first time iv seen since i was a kid all gud nw😁
@@p4pzmancharlie12 Its tame now but back then
It scared the shit out of me
This episode scared the crap out of everyone back then! We were talking about it at work the next day. One of the guys I worked with was still freaked out by it.
Apparently this episode was so disturbing that the TV station that aired it vowed never to show it on air again but it was actually from a chapter of Charlie Chaplin's autobiography
The Republic Of Ireland this was on a facts thing on snap chat isn’t it ?? Just saw it too
@@harleydtj6174 yep
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What?? Charlie Chaplin's life inspired this episode?
@@LuisEnriqueFerrerZorola he visited some home where a man with no legs performed tricks and jumped great heights. It freaked him out and the director of this episode remembered that story
I wouldn't call it the best episode, but definitely without question the most disturbing episode.
Out of curiosity, what episode do you think is the best?
@@donnamacauley4080 OMG you're really going to put me on the spot aren't you. I'm partial to the early episodes as they have a darker feel and the conspiracy is just getting fleshed out and I'll leave it at that.
@@donnamacauley4080 There is no "THE BEST" episode.
@@floatingchimney The best episodes (for me) are when the monsters or non-humans entities are killed by common gunfire. Like "Roaaarrr Im a monster, look at my superhuman strength" "Ha Ha gun goes bang bang"
I remember watching this when I was like 8yo with my dad. I had nightmares for awhile after it lol
The most disturbing part was Mulder and Scully's lack of reaction from the death of the cop going in and getting torn to pieces.
That is actually the reason I really didn't like this episode. Their reaction felt so detatched and cold, and made me dislike them. I don't like disliking my favorite fbi duo.
They had to watch out for themselves if they reacted it would have gotten the brothers attention.
watching it as edited here I found it pretty funny, like "and there goes our cooop aaand now he's gone... Why did we sent him alone again?"
😂 I just finished the episode, it is kinda fucked up how they gave no fucks about him. The build up of them getting revenge was so dumb
I actually forgot that he was dead on the floor when they are talking to the mum
I was a kid when this show aired. I watched it with my family. Sometimes it would be kind of scary, like the guy that could twist his body and stretch it out. that was super scary. This however, was outright terrifying. This episode still haunts me as a 33 year old.
Ah yes, Tooms. One of the best monsters.
Same story, I was a kid watching it alone at night and get to the part where sheriff and his wife was beaten to death when they found them under bed, that was so terrifying, I turned off TV and never know how it end... Only know when Im 32 I recently rewatch it again and this time till the end, that brings so much great memories...
@@Rezisorss exactly. That scene is horrifying. This one episode and that scene especially are so much scarier than horror movies now ha.
It also really gives you a sense of impending doom knowing Mulder and skully aren't there too. Which just builds on their own epicness as characters. It wasn't that they lived due to plot armor. Most of the terrible things from each episode was before they were involved. So when they were in the mix, you knew there was a chance.
But yeah.......his wife under the bed when they smelled her out. Good lord that is terrifying.
@@bassbeardiful True, that bed scene haunted me many times, lol, awesome show
Me too.
"mulder picks a weird time to flirt" is a good summary of some of the best scenes in txf ahah
This is the ONLY episode I can remember. The image of the limbless mother under the bed still haunts me to this day
I remember almost the full episode.
Over 20 years later i can’t believe they showed this episode during primetime like all others. What a ride as a kid in the 90‘s! 🤯
This and the Tooms episodes 😵
This was actually one of the best episodes of "The X-Files". The killings of Sheriff Taylor, Mrs. Taylor, and Deputy Pastor were no more gruesome than any of the killings i saw in other episodes. I think what really shocked people were the themes of sexual abuse and familial incest. None of it was explicitly shown in the story, but just the idea of it was enough to upset people and the TV stations airing it.
No they were egregious.
What about burying a living infant?!!!
There was no sexual abuse though
@@ernestogastelum9123 Incest is sexual abuse.
I mean they showed this episode in primetime like all the others back in the 90‘s!
I was shocked and terrified as a kid…. and fascinated! I mean i watched it the first time over 20 years ago and i can still remember most of the episode. It went deep! 👌🏻
I always watched this series with all my sisters during dusk...and all lights are off..what a scene...
@gonna darude sandstorm ya all bro what
We were kids at the same watching X files in the dark
This was the best. I remember watching this and being horrified in the best was possible as it sunk into me and my husband what exactly what was happening. Fantastic and even better everyone in the world freaked out and half complained. This was a fantastic time to be alive before the internet had too much hold. We had to freak out face to face and i loved it. Watching it right now in celebration of this horrific yet winderful episode. Shout out to Johnny Mathis 😅😅
I think that this episode proved how much Mulder and Scully were way in over their heads trying to go after a shadow organization when they couldn't even handle a small towns problem.
I love them all. At the end of the day..the worst episode is still better than most!! My top fav series of all time.. without question. 😉
One of my favorite episodes because how it’s almost like a horror movie. I watch it occasionally when I’m really bored along with grotesque, pusher, synchrony, Chinga’s, Arcadia, alpha, agua mala, and Trevor (there’s more but those are some of my favorites)
Hell, this episode alone is better than most of the crap they R chucking out there.
Well actually a lot of X-files episodes are really mini horror movies by themselves.
I know that’s why I put a list of others that Are also mini-horror movies. Those among a large list of favorites to me
@@subscorpion9560 Most of the episodes on your list are not horror episodes.
Arcadia is e.g. one of the comedic episodes, regardless of the scary monster.
Trevor and Pusher have nothing to do with horror as well. I don't remember well the rest of the episodes.
Home would be a horror episode, Calusari even more so. There were others but I don't exactly remember them by name now.
Horror comes in many forms, comedic and psychological. Imagine having to follow a man’s command when he merely speaks or a man that can go through your body. Pretty creepy
I remember this episode watching with my mother, I was 16...we are both horror fans but this really sunk its teeth in for a new X-Files story telling season! creepy! especially when Johnny Mathis "Wonderful Wonderful" song comes on...
The Song on the Radio really made this episode.
Love they way it plays again for the outro.
makes for a chilling ending
Who's here from Charlie's video?
Me, I was so curious about it and it kinda reminds me of hills have eyes plot
You bet
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Yup
Yup lmao
This episode is truly terrifying. Indeed one of the best in the show.
Exactamundo, X Files first four seasons R some of TV's finest.
I was a kid watching it alone at night and get to the part where sheriff and his wife was beaten to death when they found them under bed, that was so terrifying, I turned off TV and never know how it end... Only know when Im 32 I recently rewatch it again and this time till the end, that brings so much great memories...
After watching the first few minutes of this video I watched this episode in full that was mentioned. It was excellent. If you like weird, creepy stuff you will love this episode. The writing, acting, creepy vibes all great! I grew up watching this show on Sunday's when the X-Files series first aired. I didn't appreciate them until I became an adult. Now I am a big fan. Thank you for posting this video in giving me something great to watch!
Where did you find the episode
I was at home in my bed. I loved it and watch all of them. "Home" I called it "Grotesque" There is nothing about I saw it as scary for me. I feel a great deal of sadness and love for their mother and her sons. It was my favorite as well. I love Mulder's humor. He is as that too when interviewed. Not to mention his downright gorgeous! And where he was educated. I degree was English.. Literature..all classics. So I could talked to him forever and never get bored. A few years ago I bought the XFiles dolls online. Trying to find it now is difficult and more expensive. Neither of the agents were ready for what they saw, me either. Family is important no matter what the reasons.
@@canadianangel1979 it’s on freevee now
@@dragoneye386 the whole series is on Hulu,. Watching it right now. Just finished this episode
For a long time they wouldn't air this episode after it premiered.
I remember one year they showed it on Halloween and made a big deal out of it.
They showed it again? I thought Fox swore this episode off?
"Synchrony" was my favorite x-files episode. Time travel. Also about this episode, the song the inbreds play in their car still haunts me.
I am from Pennsylvania, there is a actually real small town called Home, I used to pass through it on my way to my family hunting cabin up North (elk County).
My parents saw this ahead of me in 1996, it re-ran later in the year and my mom being a horror buff deemed it "necessary" watching for a 9 year old, i guess. This single episode stuck out for me so much that it stands alone against some of the greatest horror movies ever made, certainly toe to toe with one-off episodes of similar series. Never could quite shake the choice of "Wonderful" for the home invasion seen. Incredibly well directed episode.
The Hills have eyes somewhere has inspired this movie. Not really a novel plot but this episode sends out shock waves.
@Sonic Phos • That's definitely real. These people live and hide out in forests. Deep in the woods
@@brooklynzoo2810 Spoken like someone who lives in the woods.
Great video analysis. This is one of best episodes of the series imo
Fall of 96. I was in 8th grade. I remember this well, growing up in a small town in Ohio we would always joke about this episode too.
1Seen "Home" when it originally aired; only once, and it was so freaking weird that it's stuck with me all these years. It's pretty much about the only episode I've continually talked about other than generalizing about the shows campiest creature episodes.
That's cause it only got aired once.
Same with me. Not necessarily the best but definitely the most memorable.
yes my fav episode for sure..it was fast paced,a lil more action than usual a good story and a nice plot twist and creepy ending...perfect
By far THE most disturbing episode. It sticks with you............for decades .
Still creeps me out! Funny thing is I heard that song a week ago and it all came flooding back to my mind, your absolutely right....." For decades".
@@damonbombino1237 It is as the expression goes , Something that you cannot unsee ! 🙈
LLLLUUUUUUUBBBBBBBB !!! 😨😨😨😨😨
That Johnny Mathis song still creeps me out to this day.
The creepiest episode ever!
Best episode and perhaps the darkest and mind-blowing one.
I didn't watch the X Files much but I did happen to catch this episode . I remember being horrified at the discovery of the mother more than anything else. it was banned from TV a day later and I felt quite proud to jhg have watched it.
Fun fact: this episode was inspired by an actuall event taken from Charlie Chaplin's autobiography
Really? 🤯
@@skinniestpuma yup
You got the details?
@@akmalfirdaus4465 google "How Charlie Chaplin Influenced the Most Disturbing Episode of The X-Files"
This show had so many good episodes it's unbelievable.
This episode made me check to make sure my windows & doors were double locked..
Watched "Home" for the first time since it was originally aired 26 years ago. I am still blown away by it. I totally forgot about the comedic reference of the town of "Home" being like Mayberry, the sheriff's actual name being "Andy Taylor" and his deputy being "Barney".
Totally agree. It's one of the best for me too. Definitely the most unforgettable. 20+ years after, I still could not get over it. It was so twisted in so many levels.
Not only is this one of the best X-Files episodes ever but also in all of TV.
“Small towns aren’t any more wholesome than big cities,” he said, ignoring every major crime statistic ever written.
Exactly my thought
Only because small town major crimes get brushed over n forgotten much like this episode
@@ricosuave5642 Also, cities are major population and economic centers. So there's a greater propensity for human interaction and trade, and thus a greater propensity for crime. There's nothing that can be ascribed to it morally. It's just a byproduct of humanity and human systems.
Thanks for this. I love the X-Files and this has always been my favorite episode, and this episode always gets crapped on for being too dark and oto violent, when in my opinion the X-Files wasn't dark or violent enough, so it's nice to see someone talk well of this awesome episode.
Every Saturday night, me and my parents would the X-files on BBC 1. This one scared the living shit out of me to the point where I had nightmares for a month. TBH, I was like 7 when I watched it
I watched this episode when i was 4 when it first aired on tv. It was such a trip for a kid my age.
A very memorable episode and I absolutely loved it when it aired. Its one that always stood out along with Tooms, Squeeze, The Host, and Irresistible. The X-Files was one of only a few TV series I used to watch and was lucky to have seen the Pilot episode by chance back in 1994 on BBC 2 in the UK.
banned from tv a few years till re aired for 1st time on halloween. too scary for tv. i remember seeing it when 1st aired in our basement with the lights all off. god dam that intro. almost had to turn the lights on after the intro. was just a kid then
I've been watching the X-Files for the first time lately. After finishing this one I know it was an episode I would not forget.
Back in '96, one of my co-workers told me about this episode from the night before. I'd stopped watching the show by then and missed it. His description of it came to mind the other day and I found this here by guessing what to search on. Bingo. Wow!
when i was a kid there was a house that looked like this that i used to sneak into the back garden to pinch apples one day my friend who i was with told me that the house had been haunted by a woman whose husband had tied her up and had starved her to death// and that people who had seen the ghost were confronted by something that had terrified them so much that their hair had turned grey overnight/ still remember how much it scared me forty years later //thanks for vid x
I agree this is one of the darkest episodes, and the most freakish pardon the pun, but you totally glossed over the fact that they also have a scene where the mother asks the boys to lineup for inspection, and seemingly is looking at their genitalia deformed as it is, and we actually see a flash of one. That was the most jarring scene in the episode to me because that was when you first realized that that mother is basically responsible for the way these boys act.
This is one of my top 5. I love the “monster of the week” episodes SO much and tbh sometimes a lot more than the overall conspiracy arc.
The home invasion scene with the Mathis song will forever stay with me.
you should do more videos like this, really enjoyed watching this 😃
"Home" is truly is "One Step Above" normal TV shows...even most Cinema. Morgan and Wong used elements from the TRUE story of the Ward Bros. and some familiar themed movies .Its a Master Piece of horror in its own right, but also examines many disturbing questions and issues as what some "Humans" in severe isolation can do to preserve family (here, inbred genes). The juxtaposition of the song "Wonderful Wonderful" against true ugliness is genius. FOX banned it for three years. (See it once, and you'll know why). Not for the kids.
I watched it as a kid and loved how horrifying it was! And that song, oh that song! The juxtaposition is just wonderful!
@@ketcherinthery5079 If you liked that episode there is a truly serious and creepy episode of
"Millennium - Goodbye, Charlie" with the same actor that played sheriff "Andy" in "Home" In this episode he sings "Seasons in the Sun" at a very disturbing moment in the show....(internet archive: X-files -Lone gunmen -Millennium), I think you might like this one too.
When i come in from shopping or from being out when I come in this is one of my favorites episodes of course i watch other episodes too
'When the hills have eyes' that famous horror classic, revisited by a TV show, added with an X-Files sauce , crossover and remake version! ...and it tastes good.....!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👏👏👏👏👏
I heard it’s based on a part of Charlie Chaplins autobiography
Ahmad Raja it is! It’s stated it’s based on a night at a miners home in Wales!
William Fuselier thanksss
@AHMAD WHAT??*
How? Care to explain?
Classic and very creepy episode, one I won't forget. The Johny Mathis song "Wonderful" made this horror scene extra horrifying - I will never listen to this Mathis song again without thinking of the brutal bludgeoning scene. Classic late 90's horror for TV.
As a kid back in the day when this show was airing, I couldn't watch X-files simply because the music was too creepy. Now I'm old enough to watch without pooping my pants 💩 👖
For all yall saying they banned it after, yall didn't know it was banned until years later. Stop acting like it was public knowledge
Gosh I was so addicted to this show back then 🤪
Still am, best tv series of all.
C. Bailey...
This was my fav too. Gave me nightmares. Specially the mom attached to the board.
I hated that sheriff, it always seemed to me like he just didn't want to do his job.
I think he knew he just didn’t want to intervene because of the Peacocks reputation
If someone never watched X-files, they shouldn't be allowed to watch anything else til they do!
Best project ever!!!
Just got done watching this episode I wholeheartedly think that the X Files should dip more into horror Territory
This episode really give me a nightmares.every time my neighbours arrived late at night.i imagined this 3 brother break into our house and I will hiding under the bed but they find me hiding there
We wouldn't even raise an eyebrow to this sort of behaviour over here in Lincolnshire.
Scully being a skeptic even when she sees something that is suppose to be impossible is one of the more annoying things about her.
lol yep 😂
Right, she literally sees a bounty hunter morph into Mulder and back in S1 and its never mentioned again 😂
who’s here cause of critikals video
Bruh, moi :D
you know it heheh
@@fuwa9899 do u guys also wish u had a limbless piece of fuck meat on wheels under ur bed ?
@Candy Heidy Bruh, I'm in the middle of learning French, I can only pick put a few words here and there. "est" and "une" for example.
What video did he talk about it in
It’s hard to pick a “best” episode but this is no doubt a good one
I too remember this when it aired and loved this one!
I missed this ep the first time it aired, then when they finally re-aired it later, I was sitting around with my dad (who had seen it the first time). I was eating some dry cereal. About the time Mulder and Scully get back into the bedroom to find the mother, my dad gets this smile and goes 'you about done eating that?'
This episode scared the shit out of me...then years later I saw Wrong Turn smh...scary shit!
At the end when mom is loaded in the trunk of the car and they pull away ….this episode caused me to NEVER ride my motorcycle on Pennsylvania back roads again !!! Lol 😂
Great and disturbing episode.
I usually hate movie/show critics, but I really enjoyed listening to you talk about this.
They're such good boys
- mrs peacock
This episode and 'Tooms' were easily my favourites from the whole series.
Home, PA is about a 10 minute drive from where I live! The best episode is a local one
Want me to pray for you?
Except it was filmed in Canada.lol
It was filmed in Canada
Lmao I live in PA
Xfiles was filmed in Vancouver Canada. Later seasons in LA.
Reminds me of Texas chainsaw massacre.
As I watched this episode when it first showed, I could not believe what I was seeing. It was so bent and twisted and I loved it. At work the next day we were all talking about it. This was the best episode
Well traumatized
This is everyone's favorite episode
No, it's not. But thanks for speaking for everyone lol
This is the only episode of X Files I ever saw and never watched another one.
Season 13 has begun.. And the online omen is still walking free in America.
Man, as a big David Lynch & those in a similar genre fan, this episode actually shocked me... not braggin!
This episode was so terrifying when I saw it. I thought watching the bug one in S1 too young (not a bug, or nighttime person at all) was the top for me…but this one was just so dread-feeling awful to watch. Fantastic episode. Inspired casting-heard it was incidental but absolutely perfect that the sheriff was Black. So horrifying on a societal level. Amazing.
I don't think the episode is as condemning of small town living as you say. First off, Mulder informs Scully that this is the exact place he would be living if he wasn't, you know, on a tireless search for truth and his lil sis. He never has a moment of reconsideration after the events of the episode or anything, so I can only assume that didn't change his mind. Second, the Andy Griffith connection. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned, but I guess I'll do it. The sheriff in this episode is all but the reincarnation of Griffith's own Sheriff Andy Taylor and the deputy the bumbling yet dedicated Barney Fif....er, Pastor. It may be true that the episode makes the "unarmed" policy and the tendency to keep doors unlocked seem naive, but it also sees the value and the appeal. Why else would these two characters be modeled so accurately after the most honorable and likable sitcom duo there is? But it's just an interesting choice overall, making the innocence and timelessness of a Mayberry esque town's quaint yet endearing morals clash so drastically with the horrors of unimaginable amounts of inbreeding.
Mulder jerks it to Bigfoot videos and subscribes to Celebrity Skin, he would be a lesser dark secret in a small town with limbless mothers under the bed pumping out incest babies to their deformed sons.
Had no idea Vince Gilligan was a producer on this show . Wow
This episode caused a HUGE furor at the time. From TV critics, parents, and various "media watchdog" groups. Remember this was 25 years ago, in the pre-Internet mostly broadcast-only TV days. The gory violence, and especially the themes of incest and baby murder, caused an uproar. There were calls to boycott FOX from parent groups. Local FOX affiliate TV stations were bombarded with letters from outraged parents and viewers.
my gosh this one gave me nightmares. shortly after this episode my family was staying at a hotel. with a freaking Cadillac in the parking lot...
This was just as scary as the sewer monster.
My FAVORITE X-Files episode of all time!! Of course I always preferred the "monster of the week" episodes over the 'alien invasion/abduction" ones anyway...
It's amazing. Back when these were first run, I had no interest at all. Which is kind of strange because this is usually exactly the type of thing that I get into. Anyway, recently, they've started running them on Comet and I decided to sit down and watch the first episode. And I am hooked. I have the joy of all these being brand new while, at the same time, showing the world how damn slow I am.
But, of the two or three episodes that I seen on their first run, this is one of them. I have no way of knowing if this is one of the top stories. But I remember really getting into this one back in the day.
The scariest show I have seen on buffy the vampire slayer. The episode "Hush". Scared the hell out of me! I had to put the lights back on!😱
That theme was enough........😂😂😂😂😂
Most small towns are more wholesome than big cities
Great episode. A celebration of real American culture and conservative values. The Peacocks are the true heroes of X Files.
This episode is fantastic….the hero’s for once do not fully win, the story is realistic, it’s graphic and very dark and the tone of the episode and insane