ULTRAVIOLET: It's British!!!

It has been well documented in this column and various police records that I have an undying love for horror films. It’s not that I enjoy seeing people impaled on things or being generally terrorized, it’s just that when I see a movie, I want it to effect me in some way. Now, granted, comedies can make you laugh and dramas can make you cry, but it’s only the horror film that can make you refuse to walk to your car by yourself because you parked by a large bush that might be hiding a maniac of the axe-wielding variety. Not that your friend is going to do you any good, what with him/her being just as weak and spineless as you, but still, it’s comforting to know that if you’re going to take an axe to the chest, you won’t be the only one. Anyways, I like horror films and we all know it. What isn’t so well documented is my love for a certain TV show that’s main focus tends to be a bit… alien? I am of course referring to MAYBERRY RFD. Ha Ha, I joke! No, I’m talking about X-FILES, the little conspiracy show that could. I’ve been watching the show since it’s inception roughly nine years ago and it’s never gotten old for me. I watch and re-watch old episodes like a junkie, always looking forward to the next hit. If you’d told me two years ago that I’d ever find a show that matches the X-FILES’s creepy coolness at every step, well, I’d have laughed in your face and possibly have stolen your wallet. And then I saw ULTRAVIOLET (which, if you remember, was the point of this article).

It started with a, “Hey, you should check this out” from my good friend Braden, a man whose film tastes run nearly parallel with mine (although he does like anime, which I try not to hold against him). On his advice, I checked it out and really, the only word for the occasion is, “Wow.” ULTRAVIOLET is the story of a team of British government agents (think Mulder and Scully with better funding and more of them) that hunt down an “infected” portion of the population. Now, these people that are infected have a few very unusual traits. They’re allergic to sunlight, they drink blood, they can be killed by stakes through the heart and they cast no

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