The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn – Watch the trailer for the new director’s cut of the 2008 film

This R-rated version represents the film Chris always envisioned – a darker, frightening thriller exploring a real-life Dr. Frankenstein. The restoration gives fans a chance to experience a side of the film that has never been seen before.

When a group of women are mysteriously abducted, it becomes a case right out of The X-Files™️. Years after walking away from the FBI, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are pulled back from the shadows when a federal agent vanishes without a trace. In a case you’d never see on TV, their only lead is a disgraced, defrocked priest claiming to have horrific psychic visions of the crime. Forced to confront the ghosts of their past, the partners must navigate a chilling winter landscape and an even darker human monstrosity. The truth of these crimes is out there somewhere… and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it.

Eighteen years after the release of the second X-Files feature film, fans will get the chance to see the original vision from Chris Carter, the series creator and I Want to Believe writer-director.

“I made it too scary, and I was told so by the brass at Fox, and they wanted a PG-13 movie,” Carter told Duchovny last year. “Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended … It’s not just doing a director’s cut to do a director’s cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.”

Oscar-winning filmmaker Ryan Coogler (Sinners) recently completed production on a pilot episode for a Hulu reboot that stars Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel.

The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn reimagines creator and director Chris Carter’s original vision in this all-new director’s cut. Streaming on Disney+ and Hulu August 14.