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Like many who watched The X-Files in the late '90s, I'm looking forward to the new film X-Files: I Want to Believe.
But at the same time, I've wondered about where some of the show's wilder concepts really came from.
Chris Carter has acknowledged a variety of influences including the Twilight Zone and Kolchak: the Night Stalker . Curiously, while there's a lot of mood and atmosphere directly attributable to those sources, there's very little of the actual concepts or plots from them in The X-Files.
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This is not the case with another sci-fi series...
The 11th Hour Web Magazine did a story about similarities between key plot points of The X-Files (both the series and first feature film) and a group of four mini-series (all of which were also made into feature films) from England about Bernard Quatermass, a scientist fighting both aliens from beyond and his own disbelieving government superiors! (sound familiar?)
Read the article, then continue...
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Whether or not the copying was deliberate, it's there.
Thus, we consider Nigel Kneale's Quatermass series to be the direct ancestor to Chris Carter's The X-Files both in concept and content.
Thus, we consider Nigel Kneale's Quatermass series to be the direct ancestor to Chris Carter's The X-Files both in concept and content.
In that spirit we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ present a group of the posters of the predecessor series to The X-Files...
The Creeping Unknown (Quatermass Xperiment)
Enemy From Space (Quatermass 2) Italian Poster
Five Million Years to Earth (Quatermass and the Pit)
Five Million Years to Earth (Quatermass & the Pit) French Poster
on a variety of kool kollectibles in the tradition of "Secret Chic" that you have taken to heart.
Enjoy!
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