I’m not that much on horror. Like at all. Honestly, I do not seek horror out but it occasionally finds me, usually when I stumble into a movie has some horror elements. I might even make it to the end of the movie.
But I ain’t gonna read horror. Just, no.
Recently, though, I decided to start rewatching X-Files. The original. From the beginning. In small bits of a couple of episodes at a time. Don’t know how far I will make it but we’ll see.
Thing is, I had forgotten just how much horror there was in that series. Or buried the information in my subconscious. I see a lot of scene skimming ahead though.
It got me to thinking about other series with horror elements and I thought of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, again the original. I actually like that series and will usually watch all the episodes when I can find them. There’s only 20 so that’s an average weekend binge nowadays.
So I did a search only for comparisons of X-Files and Kolchak and ran across an article, ‘Kolchak: The Night Stalker’ – The DNA of Horror Shows, that makes an very good point about Kolchak basically doing what Mulder does only alone. Very much alone. Very thought provoking.