That is, the implication that if you stray too far into backwoods country, you’ll find that the people there are uncivilized and dangerous. As much as many people may appreciate classics such as The Hills Have Eyes (I’m a giant Wes Craven fan) or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it is hard to escape the problematic aspects of such stories. If written poorly or looked at from a cursory view, it can be demeaning to rural people.
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Mulder and Scully are the outsiders, coming in to see the small town life and what it entails.
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In terms of horror tropes, what is fascinating in the X-Files banned episode “Home” is that it is playing off the trope that is common in horror, and that is “Hillbilly horror”… the idea that if you find yourself taking a wrong turn, you might just find yourself dealing with country folk that aren’t so civilized. If it isn’t clear yet, the title of the episode is very intentional. To bury it.Īnd that was the introduction to the episode. And the disfigured family bringing the baby into the world carry it out into the rainy night. It is dark in more ways than one, but the events are clear enough. It’s quite bold to start the episode the way it does. It begins like many of the classic tales of yesteryear. But the episode is well grounded in a long tradition of what could be called Hillbilly Horror. The first scene really kicks it into gear and could be considered fairly graphic for broadcast television. It was the first episode of X-Files to have a viewer discretion warning and the only X-files episode to have a TV-MA rating when it was first broadcast in 1996. Season 4 Episode 2 of the long-running science fiction crime drama, the episode has become well-known for its controversy. And it’s a line from the famous X-Files banned episode “Home”.
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Someone from a city remarking on small town or country living. “You don’t have to lock your doors around here.” That’s a line I know I’ve heard a lot.