"Home" Season 4, Episode 2
The only X-Files episode banned from TV, "Home" features Mulder and Scully investigating the death of a newborn child when they stumble upon an inbred family. Deeply upsetting, this episode showed the deformed results of indreeding and the lengths the family went to protect their twisted secret. "Home" isn't as much scary as it is viscerally disturbing. This episode had a mom trapped inside a closet for breeding purposes, homemade inbred booby traps, and plenty of missing teeth.
It had imagery like this:
"Darkness Falls" Season 1, Episode 19
Praised by the Sierra Club and winning awards for environmentalism, this episode features Mulder and Scully stranded in a remote forest in the Pacific Northwest. While investigating the disappearance of loggers, Mulder and Scully discover the corpses of said loggers encased in an insect's web. Piecing together the evidence, it becomes clear that people are only safe in the light. Hundreds of miles away from civilization, with broken vehicles and a power generator running on its last legs, Mulder and Scully must find a safe way out before they are devoured by the ancient bugs. It also shows the slow terror of a logging manager being eaten alive. This is one of the many episodes where Mulder and Scully are in mortal peril and barely survive.
"Detour" Season 5, Episode 4
On the road to an FBI teambuilding exercise, Mulder and Scully stop to investigate the disappearance of Florida locals in a wooded area. They hear rumors of invisible moth men and go to investigate on their own. Using only the best of late 90s special effects, this episode is haunting, as you can see the creatures pursuing our agents. People of the search party get picked off one by one, without any evidence of who is taking them. The episode closes with a shot of one of the creatures underneath a child's bed and will scare the hell out of you.
"Squeeze" and "Tooms" Season 1, Episodes 2 and 20
These episodes feature Mr. Courtney Stodden as a liver-eating mutant who can stretch into the smallest of cavities, making it possible for him to crawl through pipes to claim his victims. He has been around for centuries, waking every 40 years to find more people to eat. Though the special effects leave much to be desired, Tooms is very creepy and the "nest" he makes gives him an animalistic terror. Furthermore, he takes trophies from each victim and snags Scully's necklace.
"Never Again" Season 4, Episode 13
This Scully-centric features drunken, murderous tattoos voiced by Jodie Foster. After a "nice guy" gets divorced from his wife, he does the logical thing and gets a tattoo. It turns out the ink is infested with ergot and causes hallucinations, which makes him kill his neighbor. Scully ends up going who with the man and finds herself in danger. The tattoo tells the man to kill Scully. The morning after, Scully realizes she is in danger when she's visited by dectectives and must find a way out. Looking at the trailer, it is obvious that this episode played upon many women's very real fears.
Apparently Gillian Anderson's new novel is good. It features a supernatural plot and female lead, and Gillian reads the audiobook.
Source: Read about her novel
Episode descriptions are written by me.
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