The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The original television series aired from September 10th 1993 to May 19th 2002 on Fox. During its original run, the program spanned nine seasons, with 202 episodes. A short tenth season consisting of six episodes ran from January to February 2016. Following the ratings success of this revival, The X-Files returned for an eleventh season of ten episodes, which ran from January to March 2018. In addition to the television series, two feature films have been released: The 1998 film The X-Files and the stand-alone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released in 2008, six years after the original television run ended.
The series revolves around Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who investigate the eponymous "X-Files": marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder is a skilled criminal profiler, an ardent supernaturalist, and a conspiracy theorist who believes in the existence of the paranormal, whereas Scully is a medical doctor and skeptic who has been assigned to scientifically analyze Mulder's case files. Early in the series, both agents apparently become pawns in a much larger conflict and so come to trust only each other and a few select people. The agents discover what appears to be a governmental agenda to hide positive proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Mulder and Scully's shared adventures initially lead them to develop a close platonic bond, which by series' end develops into a complex romantic relationship. Roughly one third of the series' episodes follow a complicated mythopoeia-driven story arc about a planned alien invasion, whereas the other two-thirds may be described as "monster of the week" episodes that focus on a singular villain, mutant, or monster.
The X-Files was inspired by earlier television series featuring elements of suspense, horror, and speculative science fiction, including The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside, Twin Peaks, and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker. When creating the main characters, Carter sought to reverse gender stereotypes by making Mulder a believer and Scully a skeptic. The first seven seasons featured Duchovny and Anderson relatively equally. In the eighth and ninth seasons, Anderson took precedence while Duchovny appeared intermittently. New main characters were introduced: FBI Special Agents John Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), among others. Mulder and Scully's immediate superior, Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), began to appear regularly. The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, before production eventually moved to Los Angeles, apparently to accommodate Duchovny's schedule. However, the series later returned to Vancouver with the filming of The X-Files: I Want to Believe as well as the tenth and eleventh seasons.
The X-Files was a hit for the Fox network and received largely positive reviews, although its long-term story arc was criticized near the conclusion. Initially considered a cult series, it turned into a pop culture touchstone that tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and embraced conspiracy theories and spirituality. Both the series itself and lead actors Duchovny and Anderson received multiple awards and nominations, and by its conclusion the show was the longest-running science fiction series in U.S. television history. The series also spawned a franchise that includes Millennium and The Lone Gunmen spin-offs, two theatrical films, and accompanying merchandise.
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I'm also looking for vampire movies, mixture of classics, shlock, and stuff that's thematically linked.
True Blood mentioned a few:
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Rabid
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
It sounded like those were thematically linkes to True Blood, i.e. vampires as an allegory to civil rights struggles (True Blood was an allegory for queer liberation, besides being good shlock).
Classics:
Nosferatu (1922)
Vampyr (1932)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Others:
True blood
VERY horny HBO vampire show, that is also a not so subtle allegory about queer liberation. It's kind of slop, but good slop IMO
I haven't seen it yet but what about Park Chan Wook's Thirst? It's got Song Kang Ho so it's gotta be good, right?
I'll check it out, there has never been a bad Park Chan Wook movie lol.
The 1958 Dracula movie from legends-of-horror Hammer Film Productions. A true classic. It has a stacked cast. It feels schlocky at times but that's mostly because it was imitated and parodied so much since it was released that it's retroactively become schlocky by association. Christopher Lee plays the most menacing Dracula ever put to film.
Transylvania Twist, One of the better horror parodies despite what a bunch of humourless critics think. It is extremely silly. This is the movie that the awful "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" wanted to be and completely failed at. Jim Wynorski is on record as saying it's the movie he had the most fun making.
Lesbian Vampire Killers, which is actually more schlocky than it sounds. But also a fun watch.
A girl walks home alone at night. Only lovers left alive. There's a silly movie where the sexy vampire lady accidentally turns a mob leader in to a vampuire then has to stop them with the help of a cop.
Daybreakers is fun. Love me some evil sam neil.
Lost boys
Vampire$ is fucking hilarious in a completely teenage dick jokes and cool guys doing cool stuff way. Has some neat stuff, though, like they go in to vampire strongholds, stake them with harpoons, then use a truck winch to drag them outside in to the sun.
I think there were some Mexicano movies where some big name luchadors fought vampires, but I might be thinking of a Hellboy one-shot where he teams up with three Luchador brothers to fight rural vampires so idk
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person was also really good. Indie dark comedy from Quebec. Somehow totally slipped my mind.
Also, From Dusk Til Dawn was really fun, Tarantino's writing debut iirc.