For years, the world has seen reality distorted, facts manipulated and truth hidden.
But there's more to the story than anyone suspected.
Because no-one has been able to see the whole picture.
Until now.
Cherish the past. Enjoy the present.
Because the the truth is coming.

Spoilers: The X-Files movie, episodes immediately before & after it.

The X-Files movie.
Released in US: June 19th 1998 Cert. PG-13
Released in UK: August 21st 1998 Cert. 15
Director: Rob Bowman
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, Martin Landau, William B Davis, Blythe Danner & Armin Mueller-Stahl
Dist.: Fox

As conspiracies go, the one by numerous powerful figures in world government - the syndicate - to help aliens conquer the earth has got to be both the most -  and least secret of them all.
So many of this planet's inhabitants have tuned into the TV antics of FBI double-act Agents Mulder & Scully (David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson) that to be unaware of them, you would have to be from another planet...

But in the show, the men of the syndicate, including the mysteriously named Cigarette-Smoking man, the late (?) Well-Manicured man and the little known Big-Mac eating man will do just about anything to keep the darn thing secret - and don't we know it.
Perhaps that's why the team that make The X-Files decided to make a feature film - to reward the long running fans, to introduce the show to a new audience, to explain what the heck is going and to bring us one hell of a movie!

The movie, subtitled "Fight the Future", was essentially like an extended episode of the TV show. But one hell of an episode!!
"Bigger, Bolder, Sexier than ever" boasted the billboards.
And that it was. With a movie-sized budget, a huge screen and surround sound and two of the newest, but most well-known stars of modern entertainment on their hands, the production team went wild with the effects, locations and storylines of the movie, introducing a lot of things they couldn't do on the small screen.

With locations as wide-spread as Antarctica, Tunisia, London, Washington and Texas, and effects including the explosion of a Dallas federal building, numerous aliens, a huge alien ship, thousands of angry bees, oil that moves of its own accord, several helicopter scenes and more than 220 others in total, the movie was in the running to be one of the summer's big blockbusters.

The movie opens in North Texas - 37 million years ago.
Through the snow and the wind appear two stone-age men, persuing mysterious prints in the snow.
They find a cave in the ice and pursue their unknown enemy down under the ground, where the men separate.
Eerie silence. You know something is about to happen and you have a good idea what.
This is The X-Files, all right, straight into the shocks, suspense and several of my friends covering their heads with their coats.
WHAM! The audience draws their breath and through half-shut eyes looks up at the screen. There, a rarely-seen creature screeches loudly as it pounces on to the man, tearing at his skin. SPHUT! The man stabs him with a stone weapon. SCREEEECCHH!!!
The creature falls down.
From it's wound, black, oily blood spills out on to the floor. Then turns.
Splitting into small, slug-like creatures they aim for the defenceless man. Under his skin. Towards his eyes.
And all he could do was scream.

WOAH!!!!! A boy falls through the ceiling of the same cave in North Texas, 37 million years later.
"You OK Stevie?" ask his worried friends.
He splutters through the dust. "Yeah, I just got the wind knocked outta me."
Then he sees it. A human skull. Oddly translucent when held up to the light.
Stevie looks down. Oil. Black oil. Moving, onto his shoes, under his skin, up, up, up to his eyes. Stevie looks up at his friends through the black oil running across his terrified eyes. They run.

Well, I won't go on or we'll be here forever, that was just a taster of the start of the movie, and believe me, it gets even better.
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