Hulu’s Director’s Cut Recasts The X-Files Movie as a Fuller Horror Experience
Ars Technica reports that Hulu released Chris Carter’s R-rated director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, now titled The X-Files: I Want to Believe–Vrach Frankenshteyn, fully re-edited to emphasize the horror Carter always envisioned. The revision adds material, shifts focus from Mulder–Scully romance to a scarier, life-creation-themed story, and ties in themes of faith vs. science. Carter says the cut, created with two editors, reflects a more timely vision and hints at a potential future X-Files movie separate from the Ryan Coogler reboot. The revised cut is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.
