I learned a while ago that the “X-Files” episode called “Home” (the one with the violent inbreeders) was partially inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s autobiography. Specifically, the quadruple amputee mother whom her sons kept hidden under a bed when they weren’t trying to knock her up (super gross). Since I am kind of fascinated with the freakish and macabre, I KNEW I would have to read the book! So I started reading this Thursday…
And tonight I found the passage that inspired the writers of the “X-Files…” I am positively giddy!
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