Product Details

• Directors: Richard Compton, James A. Contner, Allen Coulter, Tucker Gates, Ralph Hemecker
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, German
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: May 20, 1997
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304432496
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #368,598 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Irresistible
Original Broadcast Date : 01/13/95
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by David Nutter

A female corpse, dug-up and mutilated, is brought to Mulder's attention by a Minnesota agent claiming it as the work of aliens. Mulder believes otherwise and is vindicated when a similarly mutilated prostitute is found. Meanwhile Scully has to deal with how this case seems to be affecting her.

Special Agent Fox Mulder - David Duchovny
Special Agent Dana Scully - Gillian Anderson
Donald Eddie Pfaster - Nick Chinlund
Toews - Robert Thurston
Agent Bocks - Bruce Weitz
Agent Karen Kossef - Christine Willes
Marilyn - Denalda Williams

Die Hand Die Verletz
Original Broadcast Date : 01/2795
Written by Glen Morgan & James Wong
Directed by Kim Manners

Some teenagers' feign an occult ritual in an attempt to score and inadvertently cause the murder of one of their group. When Mulder and Scully are called to look into the matter, the town's real worshipers attempt to hide their tracks though they fear that the boys' attempt to "get some," got them more than they thought.

Special Agent Fox Mulder - David Duchovny
Special Agent Dana Scully - Gillian Anderson
Phyllis H. Paddock - Susan Blommaert
Jim Ausbury - Dan Butler
Pete Calcagni - Shaun Johnson
Shannon Ausbury - Heather McComb

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Snake's Touching, August 6, 2002

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Black_Samurai (Twin Peaks) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The X-Files: Irresistible/Die Hand Die Verletzt [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Irresistible & DHDV are two of the best episodes from the second season, the even better being Little Green Men, The Host & Humbug. Die Hand..is very creepy and has a nice scene with a snake strangling and later eating a man. It's also the last episode written by Glen Morgan & James Wong, before taking a break from the third season, and returning in the fourth with the sick "Home". Once again they're showing us to be two of the most original & absorbing writers, dealing with a fragrant subject for an X-file, satanism. The unusual practisings being a bunch of secretive school inspectors, another feature of the well-known black humor. A mystical woman with a snake's eye & organs in her deskdraw, is also doing her part of the tricks, and it all gets more exciting.

Irresistible presents a real weirdo, perfectly acted by Nick Chinlund (Billy Bedlam, Con Air) When you hear this psycho talk, you know something isn't right about him. He's also a deadly fetishist, collecting hair and nails from his victims. Cutting off their fingers, when starts killing on his own, instead of only picking on dead people. The episode is extraordinary, because of the much emotion it adds to the character of Scully. Making her very fragile, when hitting her weak spot. Gillian Anderson is credible here, & I like the last scene where she really let go of all her feelings in front of Mulder. Besides being suspenseful and riveting, it's also the first episode not dealing with the paranormal. A thing the X-files also needs sometimes.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creepy!, March 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The X-Files: Irresistible/Die Hand Die Verletzt [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Irresistible was so freaky! I was terrified when Scully was in the house with Donny Pfaster! But the episode also had some funny bits (How Pfaster had all the different shampoos). Overall, one of my favorite episodes! Die Hand Die Verletzt wasn't as scary as it was spooky. The snake was so neat! Little touches (Water running counterclock wise, the frogs, e.t.c.) kept you wondering what exactly was happening. The opening scene, where the PTA starts muttering a satanic prayer, was kind of funny in a sick, morbid way.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wicked and Nasty X, September 1, 2000

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John Nelson (North Fond du Lac, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The X-Files: Irresistible/Die Hand Die Verletzt [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Season 2 of X Files had plenty of great shows, two of the better/best ones are included here and both dabble with the creepy and scary aspects of the dark side.

IRRISISTABLE has our intrepid FBI duo traveling to chilly Minnesota and learn that a grave desecration thought to be done by aliens is actually the work of a morbid cosmetologist with a penchant for young women's hair and other body parts. Mulder faces impossible odds at finding the sicko in Minneapolis but at the same time he must deal with the fact that Scully's strong independence is permitting her from expressing to Mulder that she is terrified of the foe they seek.

I am not a shipper (Non X fans, this is a person who likes to see involvement in Mulder and Scully's personal lives together) but the penultimate scene to this episode with Mulder and Scully is very special nor is it sappy in the least, and I applaud the writers and actors for pulling it off well. In the whole series, it is one of if not my most favorite scenes.

DIE HAND DER VERLETZT is a step deeper into darkness where some New England highschoolers are trying to impress their girlfriends with they're "dark powers" and may have accidentally conjured up more then they could chew when everybody starts noticing odd changes in town particularly when the school kids start dying and acting strange. Mulder and Scully step in to investigate the mayhem and may end up the victims of a town's dirty secret.

This isn't an episode for the meek or timid as some rather unpleasant goings on are abundant. Anyone else though have fun, especially trying to figure out what part and what character Mrs. Paddock, substitute teacher has in the show.

Up for a fun evening with nasty things going on? By all means pick up this chapter in the X Files second season.