Død Kalm

Episode aired Mar 5, 1996
TV-14
45m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

4.6K

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Gillian Anderson in Salaiset kansiot (1993)

Crime Drama Mystery

The crew of a U.S. military ship that disappeared in the Norwegian Sea is found dead from what seems to be rapid aging. Thinking it's another Philadelphia Experiment, Mulder boards the ghost... Read allThe crew of a U.S. military ship that disappeared in the Norwegian Sea is found dead from what seems to be rapid aging. Thinking it's another Philadelphia Experiment, Mulder boards the ghost ship along with Scully and a local skipper.The crew of a U.S. military ship that disappeared in the Norwegian Sea is found dead from what seems to be rapid aging. Thinking it's another Philadelphia Experiment, Mulder boards the ghost ship along with Scully and a local skipper.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in Salaiset kansiot (1993)

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in Død Kalm (1995)

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Trivia
In the FBI Headquarters, Mulder talks to Scully about the Philadelphia Experiment. According to this urban legend, this was a series of secret experiments made in 1943 by the U.S. Navy to manipulate electromagnetic fields, making a ship (USS Eldridge) invisible to enemy radar. This story line was used in Tuhon kuilu (1984).

Goofs
When Mulder lists the ships that had gone missing, he says a Royal Navy Battleship left Leeds. Leeds is a landlocked city in Yorkshire.

Quotes
Dana Scully: [writing in her journal] I found a children's book of Norse legends. From what I can tell, the pictures show the end of the world, not in a sudden firestorm of damnation as the Bible teaches us, but in a slow covering blanket of snow. First the moon and the stars will be lost in a dense white fog. Then the rivers and the lakes and the sea will freeze over. And finally, a wolf named Skoll will open his jaws and eat the sun, sending the world into an everlasting night. I think I hear the wolf at the door.

Connections
Referenced in Old (2021)

Soundtracks
The X-Files
(uncredited)
Written by Mark Snow
Performed by John Beal

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Featured review

5/10

Disappointing

Dod Kalm has a very simple but intriguing plot, and is full of good character moments, but ultimately, it falls flat.

While the atmosphere is good, and the sets are excellent, the art direction is plagued by shoddy special effects.

While Anderson and Duchonvy give typically good performances, the rest of the cast is plagued by terrible acting. The less important the character, the worse the acting, which makes the scenes establishing the base story and the atmosphere unbelievable.

On top of all that, however is the problem that the episode is just plain boring. Even with far worse episodes, things manage to always stay somewhat interesting, however for some reason about fifteen minutes in, things stop happening and the episode becomes just plain hard to get through. The whole thing might work better if it was half the length that it was.

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