Halloween Horror Marathon 2016
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 10:03 pm
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[slide projector turns on, revealing a blurry photograph of an unassuming, sandy-haired man, early-40's, pushing carriages through a supermarket parking lot]
MULDER: Looks like we have a new case to study, Scully.
SCULLY: [examines picture] Let me guess...genetic mutant? Alien abductee? Elvis clone?
MULDER: [chuckles] Hardly. Meet Monterey Jack, age 42. Works as a grocery bagger. Pays his rent, pays his taxes, not much luck with the ladies.
SCULLY: [frowns] Sounds a little sad to me, but hardly the genesis of an X-File.
MULDER: [flips open manila folder] On the surface, yes...wage-slave, not many friends, but it's the man's viewing habits that are a little odd.
SCULLY: "Odd"?
MULDER: Every October, this man makes a concentrated effort to watch as many horror movies as possible. [looks at list] For at least the last decade, he's kept up this annual tradition. He's fanatically dedicated to it. He hasn't missed one day in the month or October, in all of those years combined. Sometimes two or three movies per day if he can manage it.
SCULLY: Okay...so the man lacks a social life. Sound like anyone we know...?
MULDER: [grins] Point taken. Still, it begs the question...why? Why so many "scary" films, concentrated around a specific time of year?
SCULLY: Um, there's a holiday that occurs at the end of said month every year. You may have heard of it?
MULDER: That's what this man wants us to think, to conceal the real reason he ingests so many movies of this type.
SCULLY: Which would be what, Mulder?
MULDER: I'm not exactly sure, but it has to tie in somehow to the X-Files, Scully. He doesn't just watch these things for a cheap thrill, he always seems to study them obsessively, cataloguing and ranking his experiences and sharing them online.
SCULLY: So, what you're saying is...
MULDER: ...these "movies" are X-Files...only ones that have been redacted by the government in the most ingenious manner possible. By hiding them in plain sight, in movie theaters and on video store shelves, disguised as cheesy monster movies and ghost stories.
SCULLY: [frowns] That's a stretch, even for you, Mulder.
MULDER: Nevertheless, we need to know just what sort of secrets these movies contain, the kernels of truth hidden inside the glossy Hollywood lies. In short, we need to watch what he watches. [hands over list of movie titles]
SCULLY: [perusing list] Mulder, this is madness. NO one can watch this many movies in a month.
MULDER: That's why we're trading off, Scully. Every other day in October, you will have to watch the indicated movies [points] and study them for inconsistencies, plot logic, subtext. [picks up bag of sunflower seeds] I'll take the other days. We'll compare notes on Halloween and cross-check them for recurring motifs, imagery and subliminal messages hidden in the margins.
SCULLY: [takes off glasses, rubs eyes] Something tells me I'll need Visine before the month is half-over, Mulder.
MULDER: [smiles] That's why they put the "Eye" into F.B.I.
Halloween Horror Marathon '13
Halloween Horror Marathon '14
Halloween Horror Marathon '15
[slide projector turns on, revealing a blurry photograph of an unassuming, sandy-haired man, early-40's, pushing carriages through a supermarket parking lot]
MULDER: Looks like we have a new case to study, Scully.
SCULLY: [examines picture] Let me guess...genetic mutant? Alien abductee? Elvis clone?
MULDER: [chuckles] Hardly. Meet Monterey Jack, age 42. Works as a grocery bagger. Pays his rent, pays his taxes, not much luck with the ladies.
SCULLY: [frowns] Sounds a little sad to me, but hardly the genesis of an X-File.
MULDER: [flips open manila folder] On the surface, yes...wage-slave, not many friends, but it's the man's viewing habits that are a little odd.
SCULLY: "Odd"?
MULDER: Every October, this man makes a concentrated effort to watch as many horror movies as possible. [looks at list] For at least the last decade, he's kept up this annual tradition. He's fanatically dedicated to it. He hasn't missed one day in the month or October, in all of those years combined. Sometimes two or three movies per day if he can manage it.
SCULLY: Okay...so the man lacks a social life. Sound like anyone we know...?
MULDER: [grins] Point taken. Still, it begs the question...why? Why so many "scary" films, concentrated around a specific time of year?
SCULLY: Um, there's a holiday that occurs at the end of said month every year. You may have heard of it?
MULDER: That's what this man wants us to think, to conceal the real reason he ingests so many movies of this type.
SCULLY: Which would be what, Mulder?
MULDER: I'm not exactly sure, but it has to tie in somehow to the X-Files, Scully. He doesn't just watch these things for a cheap thrill, he always seems to study them obsessively, cataloguing and ranking his experiences and sharing them online.
SCULLY: So, what you're saying is...
MULDER: ...these "movies" are X-Files...only ones that have been redacted by the government in the most ingenious manner possible. By hiding them in plain sight, in movie theaters and on video store shelves, disguised as cheesy monster movies and ghost stories.
SCULLY: [frowns] That's a stretch, even for you, Mulder.
MULDER: Nevertheless, we need to know just what sort of secrets these movies contain, the kernels of truth hidden inside the glossy Hollywood lies. In short, we need to watch what he watches. [hands over list of movie titles]
SCULLY: [perusing list] Mulder, this is madness. NO one can watch this many movies in a month.
MULDER: That's why we're trading off, Scully. Every other day in October, you will have to watch the indicated movies [points] and study them for inconsistencies, plot logic, subtext. [picks up bag of sunflower seeds] I'll take the other days. We'll compare notes on Halloween and cross-check them for recurring motifs, imagery and subliminal messages hidden in the margins.
SCULLY: [takes off glasses, rubs eyes] Something tells me I'll need Visine before the month is half-over, Mulder.
MULDER: [smiles] That's why they put the "Eye" into F.B.I.