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"The X Files" Orison (2000)
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Don't Look Any Further, 20 April 2007
Author: Muldernscully from Washington Terrace, Utah
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Orison is an interesting sequel to season two's "Irresistible" which features one of the X-Files most infamous villains Donnie Pfaster. Donnie Pfaster, with the help of Reverend Orison, escapes from jail and continues his evil ways. The teaser has a cool effect of Donnie moving in regular time as he is escaping while everyone around him moves in slow motion. The episode deals with Scully's ability to deal with the new case given her past history with Pfaster. She continually hears the song "Don't Look Any Further" throughout the day, and is certain it means something to her. I think that it was meant for Mulder, as he hears the song before he goes to bed, telling him to look no further than Pfaster seeking revenge on Scully who got away from him. Scully is one tough chick. Pfaster throws her up against a mirror, shattering it, and she's still able to hold her own, knocking him down, and escaping for a moment. I like the end sequence, wonderfully directed by Rob Bowman, with no dialogue, just the score. We see Scully shoot Pfaster, then we hear the gunshots sound. It's a very surreal effect. Orison doesn't have the same magic as Irresistible does, but if you're looking for a good, creepy season seven thriller, don't "look any further" than Orison.
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Satan's Manicurist Strikes Again, 26 October 2006
Author: (andyetris@yahoo.com) from Philadelphia, PA
Recently I was delighted to see Nick Chinlund in a dramatic role on "Ghost Whisperer." I had been blown away by his outstanding performance in the X-Files season 2 episode "Irresistable," and his performance was so creepy I feared he might have wound up typecast!
In this season 7 sequel to the earlier episode, necrophiliac and fetishist Donnie Pfaster vanishes from a maximum security prison. Born-again prison chaplain Orison (Scott Wilson) seems to have something to do with the mysterious escape, but what? As Pfaster murders again, Mulder fears for Scully, who Pfaster views as the one that got away!
This is a solid thriller episode, but the weird elements are just thrown in for effect and aren't really developed. How exactly is Pfaster more evil than Cigarette Smoking Man, Modell, or Ed Truelove (to say nothing of Phyllis Paddock, Betsy Monroe, 'Reverend' Mackey...?)?? I was delighted, but ultimately disappointed, by the Carlos Castaneda reference. The ending is also muddy. Still the suspense is good and the fight scene struck me as a positive element.
Who does your nails, girly girl? You're the one that got away., 4 July 2009
Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States
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Very awesome creepy sequel to one of the early episodes. I remember "Irresistible" was originally one of the few episodes that I couldn't watch because it just gave me the creeps. And now Donnie Pfaster is back. Excaped from prison and looking for the one redhead that got away. The section deals mostly with how Donnie was able to escape in broad daylight and Mulder determines that the prison chaplain had been using group hypnosis on all the others at the prison and had been helping prisoners escape so that he could carry out his own judgement on them by killing them and burying them. But Donnie gets away from Orison because he is pure evil and not just an evil person. His powers are greater than the preacher's who learns that he was doing the evil one's work and not God's and is killed and buried in the grave intended for Donnie. The case is wrapped up and as Mulder and Scully return home to get ready for bed Donnie and Scully have a showdown. I must say that Scully is a total kick a** girl. Her only mistake in the original fight was that instead of running out of her apartment to get away, she ran to the phone to try and call for help. C'mon Scully. Anyway, very creepy scenes follow as Scully escapes her bonds and Mulder shows up but Scully decides that rather than give Donnie yet another chance she is going to take things into her own hands. I've never admired her more than when she struts out in her pajamas, with the gag scarf around her neck and a Hitler blood mustache under her nose, and pops a cap in Donnie. Very well done sequel. The only complaint I might make is that too much of the episode is focused on Orison instead of Donnie. Oh and I love the scenes with the guard who gets hypnotranced by Orison and is completely disoriented when Mulder and Scully snap him out of it. 8 out of 10.
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