I don’t know anybody who had many good things to say about The X-Files: I Want To Believe when it was released back in 2008. I didn’t see it in theatres; instead, I caught up on it at home, and I recall being pretty darn bored with the film. Unlike 1998’s excellent The X-Files: Fight The Future, which I’ve watched many times over the years (including just last night), I’ve never returned to The X-Files: I Want To Believe.
But I think I might now.
Disney/HULU is releasing The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn on August 14, a director’s cut of the original film that appears to add significant horror elements missing from the original release. The trailer, which just dropped, looks creepy and pretty darn appealing, especially if you like the series’ spooky side. You can check it out below.
Here’s the log line: When a group of women is mysteriously abducted, it becomes a case right out of The X-Files. Years after walking away from the FBI, Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully 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.
