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

The 2008 theatrical version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe was toned down after 20th Century Fox executives considered Chris Carter’s ideas too dark for the project. Hulu’s new R-rated director’s cut is closer to Carter’s original vision, emphasizing its grisly faith-and-supernatural story and the terror of body-transplant experiments.

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