10 X-Files Episodes That Should Have Been Horror Movies
8. The Host
One of the show's most infamous, and frankly disgusting, monsters is the aquatic monstrosity known as the Flukeman. Appearing way back in season two's 'The Host', this slimy sewer-dweller is one of the show's most memorable creatures.
After a string of attacks in the sewers below Newark, New Jersey, Mulder is brought in to find out what's going on. It's not long before he's confronted with the Flukeman, a half-human, half-Fluke creature that's been living below street-level for god knows how long. As if things couldn't get much worse, we later discover that the Flukeman is the result of a radioactive primordial soup created by the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster.
'The Host' has all the makings of a truly great monster flick, with the confines of the murky sewers conjuring up all manner of scary imagery and The Flukeman's utterly grotesque appearance ticking all the right boxes. All of these elements would give the writers a lot more to play with outside the of the standard 'creature in the sewers' set-up that so many B-Movies choose to go with.
Maybe there could be more a whole colony of these things lurking below us?
Actually it's best to not think about that...