The first time I watched this in the 90's I didn't think much of it.I didn't find it scary at all.And it ripped off so many previous ideas as well. It says a lot about the US audience that it is considered the most disturbing,dark and scary episode.I think there are way more scary and disturbing episodes. However in the last year since getting online DVD rentals I decided to catch up on x files episodes that I had never seen originally or not seen for 10+ years.Home was one that I thought should be watched again as it seems online to be considered this big deal as being banned and offensive and I never remembered it like that. Well I watched it and I thought the exact same thing as when I saw it on TV in the 90's.Its a good episode,but derivative and not very scary. First of all since seeing it I have seen Deliverance,Texas Chainsaw Massacre,The Hills have Eyes and Wrong Turn a bunch of times and the episode plays like soft-core versions of elements of all them.Also it takes the Blue Velvet concept of turning idyllic small town life upside down,like most Stephen King stories do as well...and so do many previous x files episodes.Also considering I've always been lead to believe that many backwoods Americans are inbred and incestuous,the concepts involved aren't shocking to me.People in all parts of the world,in cities and villages have been doing that stuff since day one of human life.And genetically similar DNA when mixed causes illness and deformity in animals and humans,which would be a good example of why not to do it. I think that people who have been shocked by it must have seen it as one of their first episodes.If someone had seen all the first and second series and then said that any episodes from the following series were too dark or scary then I wouldn't believe them. Since I was always more interested in the monster episodes than the mytharc ones I would put it in a top ten of episodes to recommend,but not top five.