The X Files: The Host (1994)

Date of Original Broadcast: 23 September 1994
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Ten Thirteen Productions / Twentieth Century Fox Television
Executive Producer: Chris Carter
Co-Executive Producers: James Wong, Glen Morgan, R.W. Goodwin
Supervising Producers: Howard Gordon
Producer: Paul Brown
Line Producer: Joseph Patrick Finn
Co-Producer: Paul Rabwin
Associate Producer: Crawford Hawkins
Production Manager: J.P. Finn
Production Coordinator: Anita Truelove
Assistant Production Coordinator: Joanne Service

SCRIPT
Script / Creator: Chris Carter

DIRECTION
Director: David Sackheim
1st Assistant Director: Vladimir Stefoff
2nd Assistant Director: Collin Leadley

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John S. Bartley
Camera Operator: Rod Pridy
Focus Puller: Marty McInally
Chief Lighting Technician: David Tickell
Key Grip: Al Campbell
Processing: Gastown Film Labs

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: James Coblentz
Assistant Editor: J.J. Rogers
Post Production Coordinator: Kenneth Dennis
Telecine: Gastown Post and Transfer
Electronic Assembly: Encore Video

MUSIC
Music: Mark Snow
Scoring Mixer: Larold Rebhun
Music Editor: Jeff Charbonneau

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Michael Williamson
Re-Recording Mixers: David John West, Marti D. Humphreys, Gary D. Rogers
Supervising Sound Editor: Thierry Couturier
Post Production Sound: West Productions Inc

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Fern Levin
Hair: Michael Marsden
Costume Designer: Larry Wells
Assistant Costume Designer: Jenni Gullett

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Toby Lindala

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: David Gauthier

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Producer: Mat Beck
Main Title Sequence: Castle / Bryant / Johnsen

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Graeme Murray
Assistant Art Director: Gary P. Allen
Set Decorator: Shirley Inget
Props Master: Ken Hawryliw
Construction Coordinator: Rob Maier

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Wendy McLean
Transportation Coordinator: Bob Bowe

LOCATIONS
Locations: British Columbia, Canada
Location Manager: Louisa Gradnitzer

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Ken Kirzinger

CASTING
Casting: Rick Millikan
Vancouver Casting: Lynne Carrow
Original Casting: Randy Stone
Casting Associate (Vancouver): Coreen Mayrs

CAST
David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
Freddy Andeiuci (Detective Norman)
Marc Bauer (Agent Brisentine)
Darin Morgan (flukeman)
Mitch Pileggi (Walter S. Skinner)
Matthew Bennett (1st workman)
Freddy Andreiuci (Detective Norman)
Don McKay (Charlie)
Gabrielle Rose (Dr Zenzota)
Ron Sauve (foreman)
Dmitri Boudrine (Russian engineer)
Raoul Ganee (Dmitri)
William MacDonald (Federal Marshall)

SUMMARY

In mid-Atlantic, on a Russian freighter, a crewman pulled in to the ship's huge septic tank by something unseen. Meanwhile, Mulder is pulled off another wiretap and assigned to a murder case in New Jersey. A badly mutilated body has been found in a sewer and only when Scully convinces him to pursue the case does Mulder begin to realise that a distinctly X Filesesque aura surrounds the case. Scully discovers a fluke worm living in the body of victim - whose arm bears a Cyrillic tattoo...

CAPSULE REVIEW

The Host underlined The X Files' intermittent interest in ecological issues, helping to position the show as the 90s analogue of the much admired British TV thriller Doomwatch (1970 - 1972). The political machinations are more subdued this time, playing second fiddle to a great, visceral horror story as only The X Files can do them. Hints of things to come (Skinner admits that this should have been an X File, the mystery voice on the phone and so on) keep the viewer hooked and the quality of Sackheim's direction is of the usual high standard we'd expect from the show. Another winner. (Full Review)

AVAILABILITY

Germany
DVD Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Japan
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (PCBP-00065)

UK
Television Distributors: BBC1; BBC2; Sky One
Video Distributor: Fox Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Encore
DVD Distributor: Fox Home Video

USA
Television Distributors: Fox
Video Distributor: Fox Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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KEYWORDS

fbi, flukeworms, mutations

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008