The Sex Files > The X-Files, But for Reasons Other than Hardcore Naughtiness
After I posted the teaser trailer for the X-Files porn parody The Sex Files, I hadn’t planned on running anything more on it for a while. But the folks at New Sensations (who’re the ones releasing the DVD) sent me this trailer, and holy shit if it doesn’t look good. And I don’t mean like a porn parody — I mean genuinely good. First of all, it’s not a comedy — it appears to be going for suspense and supernatural horror, just like its inspiration. Second of all, it appears to have a decent plot (well, for a porn) and one I could actually imagine being a real X-Files episode back in the ’90s. Third, and most importantly, watch it — if there were no title logos and I hadn’t told you it was a porn, it would just look like a really well-made X-Files fan film, wouldn’t it? And not a porn at all, right? That’s insane. And kind of cool, actually.
The craziest thing is that this trailer for the X-Files porn is like 20 times more interesting to me than the actual trailer for the last X-Files movie. I’m not sure whether because The Sex Files is being so well done because the last X-Files movie was so crap, but right now I’m going to say it’s a significant amount of both.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.