The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008) on Netflix
PG-1320081h 44mDramaMysterySci-Fi
Fox Mulder lives in hiding and Dana Scully works at a Catholic hospital. When an FBI agent is kidnapped, a defrocked priest's visions bring the bureau to Scully for help finding Mulder.
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Plot summary
Dana Scully is a former FBI agent who now works as a doctor at a Catholic hospital, treating Christian, a boy with a brain disease the administration has given up on. Fox Mulder is a fugitive who has hidden for years, clipping newspaper articles and writing about the paranormal. When women disappear in West Virginia, the latest a young FBI agent, the bureau turns to a priest defrocked for molesting altar boys, who says God sends him visions of the crimes. An agent asks Scully to find Mulder, and she persuades him to help.
Cast
- Fagin Woodcockas 1st Abductor - Franz Tomczeszyn
- Marco Niccolias Christian Fearon
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Mark Snow's score used no trumpets and no high woodwinds, and some of its unusual sounds were created by a variation of silly putty and dimes tucked in between and over the strings of the piano.
- Some of the artwork in Mulder's office came from a friend of Carter's who had a gallery in Vancouver and was named Monica Reyes, a name that had previously been used in her honor for a character in the series' eighth and ninth seasons.
- In June 2025, Carter announced he was working on a director's cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that would restore the original horror elements cut from the theatrical release because of studio and censor demands.
- During filming, Carter placed a carrot juice bottle on the table of the set, having just finished the drink himself, because he thought it would be a nice sort of Mulder touch.
