Is The X-Files scary?

Moderately so — The X-Files mixes scares with other modes. As a conspiracy film, it scored 7.0/10 for fear, 8.4/10 for atmosphere, and 7.7/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

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The X-Files

1998 · PG-13 · 2h 1m

Fight the future.

Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.

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Curator Score

7.7

Overall

Based on 1 curator rating

Strongest on atmosphere, light on gore.

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7.7Overall

Fear7.0

Gore1.0

Atmosphere8.4

Genres

science-fictionmysteryhorrorthriller

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Details

Budget$66M

Box office$189.2M

Directed by

Rob Bowman

Written by

Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz

Cinematography

Ward Russell

Music

Mark Snow

Starring

David Duchovny as Agent Fox Mulder · Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully · Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner · William B. Davis as The Cigarette-Smoking Man · John Neville as The Well-Manicured Man · Martin Landau as Kurtzweil · Jeffrey DeMunn as Bronschweig · Tom Braidwood as Frohike

Production

20th Century Fox, Ten Thirteen Productions

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