Patients undergoing cosmetic surgery die horrible deaths at the hands of doctors possessed by witchcraft.Patients undergoing cosmetic surgery die horrible deaths at the hands of doctors possessed by witchcraft.Patients undergoing cosmetic surgery die horrible deaths at the hands of doctors possessed by witchcraft.
Greg Thirloway
- Dr. Mitchell Kaplan
- (as Gregory Thirloway)
Leanne Adachi
- ER Nurse #2
- (uncredited)
Constance Barnes
- Nurse
- (uncredited)
Erin Jeffery
- ER Nurse
- (uncredited)
Nancy J. Lilley
- Liposuction Patient
- (uncredited)
Celine Lockhart
- The Skin-Peel Patient
- (uncredited)
Kevin McCrae
- ER Surgeon
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe pentagram is obvious in some scenes and not so obvious in others. Production designer Graeme Murray created rooms with five sides and had the plastic surgery unit with five operating rooms represent an imaginary pentagram.
- GoofsMulder pronounces the the name of Gaelic holiday of Samhain as "sam-hayne," like it's spelled in the Roman alphabet. The correct pronunciation is "sah-win."
- Quotes
Dana Scully: There's magic going on here, Mulder. Only it's being done with silicone, collagen, and a well-placed scalpel.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Horrifying X-Files Moments (2018)
Featured review
More Grotesque than Grotesque...
Despite Gillian Anderson's complaints about the gore factor of this episode, it is one of the best.
You just have to slide and give yourself a little bit of belief suspension... before you ingest any milk of magnesia, or other upset stomach suspension fluid.
"What comes out generally has to go in"
This also shines a light on the entire cosmetic surgery profession. We have seen results of cosmetic surgery in real life, with real people that we know about, where it has backfired spectacularly. There is a point where something that is beneficial when done frugally becomes detrimental when performed unnecessarily and repeatedly. And so it is relatively appropriate to take a documentary style episode about this kind of surgical addiction and stick it into the X-Files as horror- because ultimately, what people do to each other, or actually what they have their doctors do to them, can be more frightening than anything that we have ever seen done by Freddy Kruger.
Because how many "kidney" operations do you really need?
I could not figure out what was actually going on until they reveal it with utter finally. And reveal it they did, just like in the film 'beneath the planet of the apes', where they chant: "let us reveal our inner selves to our God".
I won't get into too much detail, but something very similar to what happens in that scene from that movie, happens in this episode.
And we are chasing the wrong bad guy when this episode starts. We are totally focused upon one person, but when you go back and watch the episode again you realize, that person really did not do anything to merit being scrutinized as the bad guy. Or bad woman. But we were tricked, beautifully and cleverly tricked.
By Richard Beymer from West Side Story nonetheless! Whoda Thunk?
You just have to slide and give yourself a little bit of belief suspension... before you ingest any milk of magnesia, or other upset stomach suspension fluid.
"What comes out generally has to go in"
This also shines a light on the entire cosmetic surgery profession. We have seen results of cosmetic surgery in real life, with real people that we know about, where it has backfired spectacularly. There is a point where something that is beneficial when done frugally becomes detrimental when performed unnecessarily and repeatedly. And so it is relatively appropriate to take a documentary style episode about this kind of surgical addiction and stick it into the X-Files as horror- because ultimately, what people do to each other, or actually what they have their doctors do to them, can be more frightening than anything that we have ever seen done by Freddy Kruger.
Because how many "kidney" operations do you really need?
I could not figure out what was actually going on until they reveal it with utter finally. And reveal it they did, just like in the film 'beneath the planet of the apes', where they chant: "let us reveal our inner selves to our God".
I won't get into too much detail, but something very similar to what happens in that scene from that movie, happens in this episode.
And we are chasing the wrong bad guy when this episode starts. We are totally focused upon one person, but when you go back and watch the episode again you realize, that person really did not do anything to merit being scrutinized as the bad guy. Or bad woman. But we were tricked, beautifully and cleverly tricked.
By Richard Beymer from West Side Story nonetheless! Whoda Thunk?
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