Sometimes theyre just normal people who are really creepy. Jan 29, 2018 in season 2, six short episodes after scullys abduction, the xfiles presented arguably its most frightening monsteroftheweek. His first appearance had no supernatural elements, but orison revealed that pfaster is actually demonic. The x files could be scary, truly scary, at times and this is one time they succeeded almost too well. Initially, the script called for donnie pfaster to be a necrophiliac, but the idea was soon rejected by the fox broadcasting company for being. In this episode, donnie is creepier than tooms precisely because of what mulder says at the end, essentially donnie could be any of us. Dana scully and fox mulder are unaware that an fbi. Irresistible is the thirteenth episode of the second season of the american science fiction. Donald donnie addie pfaster is an antagonist in the xfiles episodes irresistible and orison. Scully realizes that the life she leads is not the life she wants anymore.
The 10 creepiest xfiles episodes so far by will salmon 27 july 2015. The episode instead focuses on serial killer donnie pfaster. Check out our choice of the best x files episodes and see if you agree. The x files scully fights donnie pfaster 2x youtube. The seventh season of the xfiles has a rather unique interaction with larger continuity of the show. Many mythology collections of the xfiles episodes have. Pre film is the first 3 seasons, where most of the episodes are single monster of the week with bits and pieces showing the cigarette smoking man occasionally.
The problem is that from around halfway through the second season they start off doing the annoying continuity. Orison turns the creepiness of irresistible up to disturbing levels, with heavy religious overtones throughout like scullys clock reading 6. To be fair, the inclusion of donnie pfaster in an episode that owes so much to millennium makes a great deal of sense. The final syndicate scenes from x files season 3 episode 16. Five thoughts on the xfiless irresistible multiversity comics. Jan 09, 2000 orison is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the x files. He liked to collect the hair and nails from dead bodies, particularly from women. But where toombs acted out of necessity, this guy here is. A man gets his fingers chopped off during a workshop in prison and. Mixing him with another character, rev orison, who had the legs for an episode of their own proved that the x files had lost its legs.
I did not include human monsters like donnie pfaster or robert modell or john. This week, we look into the origin of death fetishist and likely demon, donnie pfaster, in irresistible. You cannot do a casual examination of the xfiles without including this episode in your list. Irresistible is one of the few xfiles episodes to have no paranormal element to it. But where toombs acted out of necessity, this guy here is the personification of what he is revealed to be. In this episode, reverend orison releases donnie pfaster, scullys former kidnapper, from jail in the hopes of passing judgment on him. The xfiles could be scary, truly scary, at times and this is one time they succeeded almost too well. The original xfiles series ran from 19932002 and followed fbi agents fox mulder and dana. Pfaster was eventually brought back in the season seven episode orison. How do people feel about the donnie pfaster return in orison.
Pfaster desecrates the bodies of dead women and escalates to kidnapping and murdering women before he finally abducts scully. He worked at a funeral home, and was fired when his. The killer is donald addie pfaster, who goes by donnie. Five years have passed since scully escaped from donnie pfaster, an obsessed death fetishist. The x files season 10 final scene hd by moviebites. Sep 22, 2009 nina offers her selection of the 10 best x files episodes of all time. As of march 21, 2018, 218 episodes of the xfiles have aired, concluding the eleventh season. By cory casciato october 29, 2012 daily lists, tv 0 comment. Orson features the supercreepy donnie pfaster who is a. Eventually this hobby escalates to kidnapping and killing women to feed. Irresistible is the thirteenth episode of the second season of the american science fiction television series the x files. Donnie pfaster is one of the scariest human monsters to exist in the x files, and possibly genre television at all. This week we look at one of the best xfiles episodes with irresistible.
The episode is a monsteroftheweek story, a standalone plot which is unconnected to the series wider mythology. The return of donnie pfaster in orison points towards an interesting and larger trend in the seventh season. He liked to collect the hair and nails from dead bodies. Sep 14, 2015 as great as the xfiles was, it certainly didnt have a flawless track record as it entered its seventh season. Much like season 1, the second season of x files introduced a fantastic villain and one of the best human monsters in the world of x files donnie pfaster. Jan 21, 2016 all 201 episodes of the xfiles, ranked. Orison is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series the x files. It premiered on the fox network in the united states on january 9, 2000. Season seven of the x files begins with walter skinner and michael kritschgau trying to find out the truth behind the mysterious alien object. Donald donnie addie pfaster is an antagonist in the x files episodes irresistible and orison he is a serial killer, also labeled as a death fetishist, who preys upon young women and has a special fixation towards blondes. Xfiles 25th anniversary best episodes hollywood reporter.
Pfaster in his first of two appearances in the xfiles, he will return in season 7 orison, is a death fetishist who unearths corpses of young attractive women and removes their fingernails and locks of their hair. Orison features another monsteroftheweek return donnie pfaster of season 2s irresistible and he was certainly a monster that deserved a proper sequel. Now that the return of the xfiles is upon us, its the perfect time to revisit all nine seasons and 202 episodes of the original series before were thrust back into the world of fox mulder. Scully is rescued from donnie pfaster and then insists shes fine just before bursting into tears. Dec 28, 2017 the xfiles is the exception that proves the rule that season one is always a bit iffy in fact, season one is one of the strongest seasons of the show. The k files podcast continues our deep cover investigation into the most disturbing serial killers on the x files. Donnie is a serial killer who is considered a death fetishist, and he preys upon young women. Jan 29, 2016 7 creepy x files episodes and the true stories that inspired them. Reverend orison wants to save donnie pfaster s soul by helping him break out of prison, but pfaster only wants the woman who once escaped from him scully. When reverend orison helps the madman escape from prison. Sometimes the worst x files arent ghosts, or aliens, or stephen king dolls.
Just when scully thought she had gotten off the crazy train. Held captive by the deranged lunatic donnie pfaster, scully suffers from hallucinations in which pfaster takes on the shape. That evil comes in the form of donnie pfaster, played by nick chinlund. Dave grohl, lead singer of the band the foo fighters, makes a cameo appearance, one episode after the term foo fighters was used for the first time in the x files. In season 2, six short episodes after scullys abduction, the xfiles presented arguably its most frightening monsteroftheweek. A deep dive into mulder and scullys love story which began waaaay before you thought it did. The x files is the exception that proves the rule that season one is always a bit iffy in fact, season one is one of the strongest seasons of the show. Even the casting of bruce weitz as agent bock serves to ground the episode somewhat, weitz being best know for his role on the gritty and influentially novelistic drama hill street blues. As of march 21, 2018, 218 episodes of the x files have aired, concluding the eleventh season.
The episode was written by series creator chris carter, directed by david nutter, and featured the first of two guest appearances by nick chinlund as the death fetishist killer donnie pfaster. After losing his job as an assistant funeral director for taking a lock of hair from a dead woman, pfaster. He initially seemed by all outward appearances an extraordinarily ordinary man, however, it soon became apparent that donnie was a recluse and a death fetishist. Jan 09, 2000 one of the scariest x files episodes orison features another monsteroftheweek return donnie pfaster of season 2s irresistible and he was certainly a monster that deserved a proper sequel. In an incredibly creepy episode, mortuary employee and death fetishist donnie pfaster collects nail and hair clippings from dead women. Orison features another monsteroftheweek return donnie pfaster of season 2s irresistible and he was certainly a. The x files scully fights donnie pfaster 2x by agent pendrell.
The xfiles irresistible tv episode 1995 the xfiles. The x files may have been a show about aliens, but it was the oneoff monsters and mutants that left the most lasting impression. Donnie pfaster is as creepy of a villain as youll ever find on t. Bringing pfaster back way later after most people would have forgot about him, killed his place and meaning. When it comes to the second season, it earned some rough spots through the season on an episodic basis, but when binge watched, this season has a lot to offer. Mulder and scully are in minneapolis on the trail of a serial killer who likes to collect trophies from his victims. This episode was originally going to make pfaster a necrophiliac, but fox wasnt cool with that, so he. He likes young women, especially blonds and he keeps a lock of their hair or their finger nails as trophies. For mulder there is the death of his mother and diana fowley, and the end of his search for his abducted sister, samantha. Many mythology collections of the x files episodes have. Eventually ill pitch it to the university as a pop culture film class, but its mainly buffy and x files and how popular shows function. Donnie is one of the best villains to grace the x files. Irresistible is one of the few x files episodes to have no paranormal element to it. You cannot do a casual examination of the x files without including this episode in your list.
Were quickly introduced to donnie pfaster, an assistant to the. Donald donnie addie pfaster played by nick chinlund was a serial killer from minneapolis. His odd mannerisms and methodical speech gives this nonparanormal case an otherworldly vibe while maintaining the gritty atmosphere. Irresistible is the thirteenth episode of the second season of the american science fiction television series the xfiles. Irresistible the xfiles wikipedia republished wiki 2. While the x files is best known for its epic conspiracy plot lines and the swirl of smoke always coming from wherever cancer man might be lurking, part of. The xfiles episode leonard betts scully staring at corpse. Here are the 20 scariest creatures the series inflicted on us. Twentyfive years later, the series has 11 seasons the. It was written by chip johannessen, directed by rob bowman, and featured guest appearances by nick chinlund. The only thing that could make donnie pfaster creepier is if he was zachary quinto.
While most of the x files episodes center on the paranormal or conspiratorial, irresistible takes a different approach with the introduction of donnie pfaster, a budding serial killer who crosses paths with scully and mulder. I thought the cool part about pfaster was that he was a totally mundane, non x files serial killer, yet he was the creepiest thing mulder and scully had encountered. Allowing for the fleeting glimpses of donnie pfaster as an overlyworldly demon, irresistible is an episode grounded in the mundane. Orison is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the x files. Jul 27, 2015 the 10 creepiest xfiles episodes so far. His name is donnie pfaster and hes a death fetishist he collects dead womens hair and fingernails, which is unquestionably creepy and the actor completely sells it. Scully takes the case pretty hard will mulder just kiss her already and make her feel better. For scully it is a time to face her own personal demons, among them the return of death fetishist donnie pfaster. Donnie pfaster nick chinlund, a man who hates women. As trophies, pfaster takes locks of hair from his victims. A series of prison breaks bring agents mulder and scully face to face with scullys former kidnapper, donnie pfaster, as. Its one of the few episodes of the x files where theres no good argument for paranormal forces at play, and despite some kinda goofy moments when head villain donnie pfaster seems to shapeshift, what makes it so terrifying is its restraint.
Season 7, episode 7, s erial killer donnie pfaster was described as a death fetishist. When it comes to the x files its really split into pre and post film. Initially, the script called for donnie pfaster to be a necrophiliac, but the idea was soon rejected by the fox broadcasting company for being unacceptable for broadcast standards. For they are about to enter a time of closure and a time of new beginnings. Donnie pfaster is one of the most genuinely skincrawling villains to ever have been portrayed on tv. A man gets his fingers chopped off during a workshop in prison and all the people in the prison move very slowly to help him, while one man walks out at regular speed. Donnie pfaster returns in the seventh season episode orison, making him the second monster of the week antagonist to appear in more than one episode after eugene victor tooms and followed by robert patrick modell. The 10 creepiest xfiles episodes so far gamesradar. A deep dive into mulder and scullys romantic relationship, which probably started before you thought it did. On april 20, 2017, fox officially announced the x files would be returning for an eleventh season of ten episodes, which premiered on january 3, 2018. After all, pfaster had made his first appearance in an episode that.
Orison the xfiles orison is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series the xfiles. On april 20, 2017, fox officially announced the xfiles would be returning for an eleventh season of ten episodes, which premiered on january 3, 2018. This episode is exactly on the level with two of season 1s creepoeps. Aug 07, 2012 while the x files is best known for its epic conspiracy plot lines and the swirl of smoke always coming from wherever cancer man might be lurking, part of what made the longrunning show so. A series of prison breaks bring agents mulder and scully face to face with scullys former kidnapper, donnie pfaster, as scully is forced to question her faith and confront the clash of morality. Im doing an analysis of each episode for my class that i teach. The 10 freakiest and creepiest characters ever, ranked.
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