'The X-Files' Creator Chris Carter Says New Director's Cut of 'I Want to Believe' Is 'the Horror Movie that We Really Wanted to Make' (Interview)

The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie

The version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that premiered in 2008 was not exactly the movie co-writer / director Chris Carter intended to make. Carter wanted to bring agents Mulder and Scully back to the big screen with a grisly story about faith and the supernatural. But executives at 20th Century Fox felt that Carter's ideas were too dark, and he was pushed to turn the project into a PG-13 feature. Now, almost two decades after I Want to Be…

Disney+'s New 'X-Files: I Want to Believe' Director's Cut is Shorter and "Scarier"

The X-Files is widely considered one of the greatest horror-science fiction television series of all time. However, its second feature film proved to be a disappointing chapter for many fans. Now, series creator Chris Carter may finally deliver what both he and the audience wanted all along: something genuinely scary. Carter’s new director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe will be shorter than the original movie despite restoring some of i…

The X-Files creator Chris Carter on Scully, science and the truth that’s still out there

The creator of The X-Files discusses the Frankenstein elements in the newly released director’s cut of "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," and how Mary Shelley’s classic influenced the story.

18 Years Later, The Creator Of 'The X-Files' Reveals His Secret To Writing Mulder And Scully

The Walt Disney Co. Although it comes at it from a decidedly skeptical perspective, faith — whether it be in UFOs, government conspiracies, or the Catholic Church — has always been a core element of The X-Files. Series creator Chris Carter describes himself as an observer, someone who’s “curious” about life’s greatest mysteries and the human response to them: “I'm actually fascinated by faith, and the intersection of science and faith in particu…

'The X-Files' creator Chris Carter says new director's cut of 'I Want to Believe' is 'the horror movie that we really wanted to make' (interview)

Eighteen years later, it still gives me a jump scare, even though I know it's coming.Agent Mulder, hot on the trail of a group of murderers who are harvesting their victims' organs, breaks into a makeshift laboratory in an attempt to save an abducted woman. He finds a gruesome scene of bodies on ice and surgeons, scalpels in hand, preparing to transplant the villain's head onto the abducted woman's body. Mulder turns and  — there it is! The vill…

X-Files Creator Chris Carter On How Real-Life Head Transplants Inspired The Show’s Scariest Movie

IFLScience chats with Chris Carter about the grisly real-life science that inspired 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe' ahead of the director's cut of what he calls a "twisted, dark love story” released this week.