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* The subliminal messages people start seeing all over the place in ''Blood''. "KILL 'EM ALL." Oh God.....

** The opening birth sequence, with the scream and shot of the umbilical cord being cut, is unforgettable, though Wikipedia makes it sound worse than it is.

** The scene with the couple getting beaten to death and the accompanying music... *shudder* The cheery song ''Wonderful, Wonderful'' has become linked with creepiness in the minds of fans.

** The episode has the distinction of being the only one in the show's history to be ''banned from network TV''. Honestly, it's surprising it ever made it to air in the first place, but it was something like five years before it was shown again. (As part of a Halloween scare-fest, of course.)

* The cursed doll from ''Chinga''. Particularly the way it speaks when attempting to kill the mother. "Don't play with matches. Let's play with ''the hammer''."

** "I want to play!"

* The horrible vision of the charred, bloody doll in ''Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose''.

** The last shot of the episode -- the eyes opening up under Scully's hotel bed -- was incredibly creepy.

** The pit with the bodies.

{{quote|"Why are you crying?"

"Because...'''you can't kill me.'''" }}

* ''Invocation'', especially when Scully plays the tape backwards. -shudder-

* The alien bugs of ''Darkness Falls'' attack you in the dark, rather like the Vashta Nerada of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Turn the light off, now, and sleep tight!

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* "We're not who we are" (''Ice''), although admittedly possibly coloured because it's basically ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'' but science-y.

* Leonard Betts, and the storage locker sequence.

* One episode has a subplot where Mulder and Scully discover a hidden camera and stacks of video tapes behind a family's bathroom mirror. Earlier, you see the eyes of the a man watching the woman undress as he breathes heavily. She has two boys. And in confession, he says he ''loves those boys''.

** Seconded. Mulder and Scully were experiencing, together, what very much seemed like reality, but in fact they were trapped under ground. Makes one wonder where the [[All Just a Dream]] ended. Maybe Mulder and Scully actually died underground, and the rest of the series was [[Fridge Horror|just a hallucination]].

* ''Soft Light''. The clear despair and self-loathing Tony Shalhoub's character feels for what he is inadvertently doing, and the genuine fear and horror as he tries to warn people away from his shadow is bad enough... but what the shadow itself does... ''*shivers and curls up in a ball, rocking back and forth*''

* The beginning of the episode ''Beyond the Sea'' has Scully's parents over at her place for a dinner. After they've left, she wakes up on the couch later at night and sees her father sitting on the armchair. She says she thought they had gone home already, but he doesn't even react. The phone rings, she turns away, looks back and her father has disappeared. She answers the phone and her mother tells her ''his father died of a heart attack an hour ago''. Just the way he's sitting there, with a glassy stare, lips moving but no words coming out--

* The scene where the plastic surgeon in ''Sanguinarium'' is removing his own face.

** '''THE WHOLE EPISODE!!!!!!''' [[Squick]] and [[Nausea Fuel]] abound. Vomiting needles. Bathtub full of blood. A guy getting his organs ripped out by a liposuction device. Gruesome plastic surgery accidents. Don't ever watch that episode, EVER. It makes "Home" look extremely tame.

 

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