The highly anticipated third film in Ti West‘s X trilogy, MaXXXine is finally here, and the fans of the franchise are loving it. With a setting of the 80s when the real-life Night Stalker murders took place, the final film in the X trilogy follows the story of Maxine Minx as she finally gets her big break into the film industry, but when a mysterious serial killer begins to kill the starlets of Hollywood, Maxine’s future in the City of Angels comes into danger. MaXXXine stars Mia Goth in the lead role with Elizabeth Debicki, Halsey, Lily Collins, Sophie Thatcher, Moses Sumney, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Giancarlo Esposito, Chloe Farnworth, and Bobby Cannavale starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the glitz, glamour, murder, and mystery in MaXXXine, here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Pearl (Prime Video) Credit – A24
Pearl is the second film...
Pearl (Prime Video) Credit – A24
Pearl is the second film...
- 7/10/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Spoiler Warning: This story discusses plot details from “X” and “Pearl.”
Maxine f——ing Minx is ready to take ‘1980s Hollywood, so get ready to hear “I’m a star!” one more time as the third and final installment in Ti West’s horror trilogy hits theaters on July 5.
“MaXXXine” centers around an adult film star and aspiring actress named Maxine (Mia Goth) who finally makes it big with her first feature film. She’s the only survivor of the massacre that took place in the trilogy’s opener, “X,” but now, she’s the target of another killer—the Night Stalker. With Maxine and her friends’ lives in danger yet again, the horror of her past begins to unravel.
Before heading to the theaters for “MaXXXine,” here’s what you need to know from West’s past films:
“X” (2022)
The first two films in the trilogy were shot back-to-back...
Maxine f——ing Minx is ready to take ‘1980s Hollywood, so get ready to hear “I’m a star!” one more time as the third and final installment in Ti West’s horror trilogy hits theaters on July 5.
“MaXXXine” centers around an adult film star and aspiring actress named Maxine (Mia Goth) who finally makes it big with her first feature film. She’s the only survivor of the massacre that took place in the trilogy’s opener, “X,” but now, she’s the target of another killer—the Night Stalker. With Maxine and her friends’ lives in danger yet again, the horror of her past begins to unravel.
Before heading to the theaters for “MaXXXine,” here’s what you need to know from West’s past films:
“X” (2022)
The first two films in the trilogy were shot back-to-back...
- 7/3/2024
- by Lexi Carson
- Variety Film + TV
A new video series called Modern Horror Movie Talk recently made its premiere on the Arrow in the Head Show YouTube channel, and with each episode of this show we’ll be joining host Tyler Nichols as he covers all new horror releases, the latest horror movie news, and new horror trailers. Films discussed in previous episodes of Modern Horror Movie Talk include Cocaine Bear, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, The Pope’s Exorcist (a couple times!), the newly released entry in the Children of the Corn franchise, The Blackening, Scream VI, 65, Infinity Pool, Terrifier 2, Knock at the Cabin, Renfield, Evil Dead Rise, Gerald’s Game, Apostle, and It Follows. Now, for the twelfth episode, Tyler is joined by special guests Lance Vlcek and Mike Conway to discuss director Ti West’s X (watch it at This Link) prequel Pearl (watch that one Here). To find out what they had to say about it,...
- 5/15/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
‘Pearl’, ‘Allelujah’ and ‘Winners’ are also out this weekend.
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods is leading the charge this week at the UK-Ireland box office, opening in 654 sites across the UK and Ireland for Warner Bros.
Star Zachary Levi returns as the hapless crime fighter, with director David F. Sandberg also back for the DC sequel. The 2019 original, Shazam!, topped the box office in its opening weekend in April 2019, taking £4m debut from 603 sites – an average of £6,634.
Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu round out the cast for the sequel, as two Greek gods who want control over planet Earth.
Pathe...
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods is leading the charge this week at the UK-Ireland box office, opening in 654 sites across the UK and Ireland for Warner Bros.
Star Zachary Levi returns as the hapless crime fighter, with director David F. Sandberg also back for the DC sequel. The 2019 original, Shazam!, topped the box office in its opening weekend in April 2019, taking £4m debut from 603 sites – an average of £6,634.
Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu round out the cast for the sequel, as two Greek gods who want control over planet Earth.
Pathe...
- 3/17/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
‘Pearl’, ‘Allelujah’ and ‘Winners’ are also out this weekend.
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods is leading the charge this week at the UK-Ireland box office, opening in 654 sites across the UK and Ireland for Warner Bros.
Star Zachary Levi returns as the hapless crime fighter, with director David F. Sandberg also back for the DC sequel. The 2019 original, Shazam!, topped the box office in its opening weekend in April 2019, taking £4m debut from 603 sites – an average of £6,634.
Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu round out the cast for the sequel, as two Greek gods who want control over planet Earth.
Pathe...
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods is leading the charge this week at the UK-Ireland box office, opening in 654 sites across the UK and Ireland for Warner Bros.
Star Zachary Levi returns as the hapless crime fighter, with director David F. Sandberg also back for the DC sequel. The 2019 original, Shazam!, topped the box office in its opening weekend in April 2019, taking £4m debut from 603 sites – an average of £6,634.
Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu round out the cast for the sequel, as two Greek gods who want control over planet Earth.
Pathe...
- 3/17/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Ti West’s X, released last year, was a Seventies-set slasher about pornographers working on the sly in a remote Texan farmhouse. It was a pleasingly nasty work, if limited by its questionable reliance on treating the ageing body as a source of repulsion. Pearl is its (far superior) prequel, a film written in two weeks by director Ti West and his star Mia Goth, shot in total secrecy and scrawled in bloodied guts and impotent rage. It is a wholly different beast – a tragicomic portrait of a woman so unable to process the falsity of her daydreams that it drives her to murder and mayhem.
In X, Goth played a wannabe pornstar named Maxine and, under layers of prosthetics, an elderly woman named Pearl who craved and resented Maxine’s youth. This film, set in 1918, sees the young Pearl living on the same farmstead featured in X. She is the daughter of immigrant parents,...
In X, Goth played a wannabe pornstar named Maxine and, under layers of prosthetics, an elderly woman named Pearl who craved and resented Maxine’s youth. This film, set in 1918, sees the young Pearl living on the same farmstead featured in X. She is the daughter of immigrant parents,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
In Ti West's second installment of his "X" slasher trilogy, "Pearl," Mia Goth solidified herself as a force to be reckoned with in the horror genre. After playing aspiring adult film star Maxine Minx in the first film, Goth went back in time to play a young version of Pearl, the serial killer that wreaked havoc in "X."
"Pearl" tells the origin story of a naive girl living on an isolated farm with her parents, whose continual rejection slowly shapes her into a vengeful killer. Not only does Goth give perhaps her best performance yet, but she delivers a movie-defining monologue that spans eight minutes.
After an unsuccessful dance audition, Pearl vents to her sister-in-law Mitsy (Emma Jenkins-Purro) about her seemingly unfair life and gets shockingly honest about her own violent tendencies. For much of the scene, we are just as terrified as Mitsy is, witnessing Pearl confess to...
"Pearl" tells the origin story of a naive girl living on an isolated farm with her parents, whose continual rejection slowly shapes her into a vengeful killer. Not only does Goth give perhaps her best performance yet, but she delivers a movie-defining monologue that spans eight minutes.
After an unsuccessful dance audition, Pearl vents to her sister-in-law Mitsy (Emma Jenkins-Purro) about her seemingly unfair life and gets shockingly honest about her own violent tendencies. For much of the scene, we are just as terrified as Mitsy is, witnessing Pearl confess to...
- 2/5/2023
- by Marcos Melendez
- Slash Film
A subtle pattern emerged when reflecting upon the year’s standout horror moments and performances: it’s been one hell of a year for knockout monologues. A monologue relays vital information about the story or the character relaying it and supports its central themes, but there’s an art form to its delivery. Some of the most unforgettable performances of 2022 belonged to actors that delivered uncanny, showstopping monologues that glued us to our seats and left us in rapturous awe.
Writer/Director Andrew Semans’s Resurrection explored the psychological toll of abuse via dread-soaked horror. Rebecca Hall stars as Margaret, a savvy career woman with a sturdy head on her shoulders. She’s single-handedly raised an independent teen, Abbie (Grace Kaufman), on the cusp of leaving the nest for college. But Margaret’s carefully assembled life begins to untangle from her grasp when David (Tim Roth), a menacing man from her distant past,...
Writer/Director Andrew Semans’s Resurrection explored the psychological toll of abuse via dread-soaked horror. Rebecca Hall stars as Margaret, a savvy career woman with a sturdy head on her shoulders. She’s single-handedly raised an independent teen, Abbie (Grace Kaufman), on the cusp of leaving the nest for college. But Margaret’s carefully assembled life begins to untangle from her grasp when David (Tim Roth), a menacing man from her distant past,...
- 12/29/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
It is the second feature in the horror franchise, following on from ‘X’.
Universal Pictures Content Group has snapped up all international rights to Ti West’s Pearl from A24.
The feature is the second in the horror franchise that kicked off with X, and will be followed by the recently announced third film, MaXXXine.
Pearl had its world premiere at Venice and also played at Toronto and Sitges.
Pearl sees Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Matthew Sunderland, Tandi Wright and Emma Jenkins-Purro star in the origin story of the murderous titular character, played by Goth. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm,...
Universal Pictures Content Group has snapped up all international rights to Ti West’s Pearl from A24.
The feature is the second in the horror franchise that kicked off with X, and will be followed by the recently announced third film, MaXXXine.
Pearl had its world premiere at Venice and also played at Toronto and Sitges.
Pearl sees Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Matthew Sunderland, Tandi Wright and Emma Jenkins-Purro star in the origin story of the murderous titular character, played by Goth. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm,...
- 11/11/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
When our own JimmyO interviewed director Ti West and star Mia Goth about their X (watch it at This Link) prequel Pearl (watch that one Here), West said that he and Goth crafted the script for Pearl together while he was spending two weeks in quarantine before he could start working on X in New Zealand. They would discuss the story and the Pearl character over FaceTime, then work on the script. During an appearance at the Savannah College of Art and Design during the 25th Scad Savannah Film Festival, Goth talked more about the scripting process – and revealed that the creepy smile Pearl gives at the end of the film was something West just thought of when they were on set that day.
If you have watched Pearl – and you should, as both JimmyO and Martin Scorsese recommend it – you’ll surely remember the moment where Goth delivers a...
If you have watched Pearl – and you should, as both JimmyO and Martin Scorsese recommend it – you’ll surely remember the moment where Goth delivers a...
- 10/26/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Pearl,” a horror film by filmmaker Ti West that is a prequel to last year’s “X”. “Pearl” is set at the same farm as “X,” and tells the story of the old woman from that film. “Pearl” is currently in theaters.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Mia Goth portrays the title character, a dreamy farm girl in 1918 who desires to dance and eventually be in the fledgling movie industry. This is constantly squelched by her stern German mother (Tandi Wright) who resents caring for her invalid father (Matthew Sunderland). But Pearl will not be denied, and sneaks into town to watch more movies, where she hears of a dance audition and is mesmerized by a local projectionist (David Corenswet). There are obstacles in the way, and Pearl will knock them down.
”Pearl” is currently in theaters, including Chicago’s Music Box Theater, click...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Mia Goth portrays the title character, a dreamy farm girl in 1918 who desires to dance and eventually be in the fledgling movie industry. This is constantly squelched by her stern German mother (Tandi Wright) who resents caring for her invalid father (Matthew Sunderland). But Pearl will not be denied, and sneaks into town to watch more movies, where she hears of a dance audition and is mesmerized by a local projectionist (David Corenswet). There are obstacles in the way, and Pearl will knock them down.
”Pearl” is currently in theaters, including Chicago’s Music Box Theater, click...
- 10/3/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
This article contains major spoilers for "Pearl."
We may still have a few more months to go, but I think it's safe to say that director Ti West has pulled off what is possibly the greatest one-two punch of 2022. Folks like myself appreciated what the "House of the Devil" filmmaker did with "X," a gloriously smutty ode to '70s exploitation. To sweeten the deal even further, it turned out that West already had "Pearl," a colorful prequel about the bloody beginnings of the titular farm-bound slasher through the eyes of Golden Age Hollywood, ready for theatrical release less than six months later.
As if he wasn't already on fire, West has already been given the go-ahead by A24 to round out his "X" trilogy with the '80s-infused "MaXXXine," which has yet to secure a release date. While the "Innkeepers" filmmaker is certainly an important ingredient in bringing these films to the screen,...
We may still have a few more months to go, but I think it's safe to say that director Ti West has pulled off what is possibly the greatest one-two punch of 2022. Folks like myself appreciated what the "House of the Devil" filmmaker did with "X," a gloriously smutty ode to '70s exploitation. To sweeten the deal even further, it turned out that West already had "Pearl," a colorful prequel about the bloody beginnings of the titular farm-bound slasher through the eyes of Golden Age Hollywood, ready for theatrical release less than six months later.
As if he wasn't already on fire, West has already been given the go-ahead by A24 to round out his "X" trilogy with the '80s-infused "MaXXXine," which has yet to secure a release date. While the "Innkeepers" filmmaker is certainly an important ingredient in bringing these films to the screen,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Matthew Bilodeau
- Slash Film
Spoiler alert: The entire plot of “Pearl” and “X” will be discussed in this article.
Who knew a church dance tryout would result in one of the year’s strongest film monologues?
That’s the case with “Pearl,” Ti West’s twisty, hallucinatory ode to Technicolor-era film. It’s the prequel to this year’s grimy porn slasher “X,” in which Mia Goth played an aspiring XXX actress as well as a makeup-laden, nearly-unrecognizable elderly woman named Pearl who ended up killing most of the film crew staying on her farm. In the latest film, Goth takes on a third role of Pearl as a young woman.
This serial killer origin story finds Pearl trapped on her family farm in 1918, with her husband Howard a world away from Texas while fighting in the war, leaving her to keep up the chores for her strict German immigrant mother and invalid father.
Who knew a church dance tryout would result in one of the year’s strongest film monologues?
That’s the case with “Pearl,” Ti West’s twisty, hallucinatory ode to Technicolor-era film. It’s the prequel to this year’s grimy porn slasher “X,” in which Mia Goth played an aspiring XXX actress as well as a makeup-laden, nearly-unrecognizable elderly woman named Pearl who ended up killing most of the film crew staying on her farm. In the latest film, Goth takes on a third role of Pearl as a young woman.
This serial killer origin story finds Pearl trapped on her family farm in 1918, with her husband Howard a world away from Texas while fighting in the war, leaving her to keep up the chores for her strict German immigrant mother and invalid father.
- 9/21/2022
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Heads up! This piece contains Massive Spoilers for the movie Pearl. We kindly “axe” that you see the movie first and come back to read this after.
We all know the story. The story of little Dorothy Gale and the adventure she has when she’s whisked away to the wonderful land of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is one of the most timeless pieces of American literature ever produced, and the 1939 film adaptation remains one of the greatest (and most frightening) films of all time. This has caused numerous filmmakers of all genres and backgrounds to be inspired by the classic story in different ways over the years. Ti West brings it to a whole other level with his new film Pearl, the prequel to his slasher movie X that tells the story of the titular character and her descent into complete madness.
The film is littered with parallels...
We all know the story. The story of little Dorothy Gale and the adventure she has when she’s whisked away to the wonderful land of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is one of the most timeless pieces of American literature ever produced, and the 1939 film adaptation remains one of the greatest (and most frightening) films of all time. This has caused numerous filmmakers of all genres and backgrounds to be inspired by the classic story in different ways over the years. Ti West brings it to a whole other level with his new film Pearl, the prequel to his slasher movie X that tells the story of the titular character and her descent into complete madness.
The film is littered with parallels...
- 9/21/2022
- by Reyna Cervantes
- bloody-disgusting.com
Ti West's new psychological horror film "Pearl" is out in theaters, and it's definitely worth a watch. It's about a sweet young woman named Pearl (Mia Goth) who wants to be a famous actress, and she'll stop at nothing to make that happen. If Pearl was growing up today she'd probably rise to fame as a chaotic TikTok star, but unfortunately she's stuck in 1918: There's still a pandemic going on, but there's not even any internet to help pass the time. Can you really blame her for going a little off the rails?
The obvious parallel that comes to mind with "Pearl" is the beloved classic "The Wizard of Oz." Not only did Ti West embrace the vibrant technicolor look of the old movie, but Pearl's motivations are remarkably similar to Dorothy's: She wants to get off this miserable old farm. Both movies also memorably feature a scarecrow,...
The obvious parallel that comes to mind with "Pearl" is the beloved classic "The Wizard of Oz." Not only did Ti West embrace the vibrant technicolor look of the old movie, but Pearl's motivations are remarkably similar to Dorothy's: She wants to get off this miserable old farm. Both movies also memorably feature a scarecrow,...
- 9/19/2022
- by Michael Boyle
- Slash Film
This article contains major spoilers for "Pearl."
The distinction of the greatest cinematic one-two punch of the year has to go to director Ti West. Not only did "X" reign as one of the best horror flicks of the year so far, but less than six months later, West had the colorful nightmare prequel known as "Pearl" ready for a theatrical release. Time will tell if it gains traction over its predecessor, but as it stands, "Pearl" is an absolute blast.
Where "X" was a tremendously entertaining ode to its '70s exploitation roots, "Pearl," on the other hand, is an unhinged beast all its own, emulating a bloody concoction of "Psycho," "Cinderella," and "The Wizard of Oz." Mia Goth is a ferocious presence who eats up the screen at every available opportunity. While we've already become acquainted with her "X" character, the much younger Pearl is a whole different experience.
The distinction of the greatest cinematic one-two punch of the year has to go to director Ti West. Not only did "X" reign as one of the best horror flicks of the year so far, but less than six months later, West had the colorful nightmare prequel known as "Pearl" ready for a theatrical release. Time will tell if it gains traction over its predecessor, but as it stands, "Pearl" is an absolute blast.
Where "X" was a tremendously entertaining ode to its '70s exploitation roots, "Pearl," on the other hand, is an unhinged beast all its own, emulating a bloody concoction of "Psycho," "Cinderella," and "The Wizard of Oz." Mia Goth is a ferocious presence who eats up the screen at every available opportunity. While we've already become acquainted with her "X" character, the much younger Pearl is a whole different experience.
- 9/19/2022
- by Matthew Bilodeau
- Slash Film
Plot: The twisted prequel to Ti West’s X explores the early years of Pearl, a young woman obsessed with fame. So much so that she’d commit any act of violence to get what she desired.
Review: In March this year, filmmaker Ti West brought us the wildly entertaining slice of genre goodness, X (read our review Here). The film featured Mia Goth as a young woman named Maxine looking to be a porn star. And it also featured Ms. Goth as the older woman living in the location where the horrors occur. Recently, however, fans of the film discovered that a sequel/prequel was coming to theatres. That film is about Mia’s character, Pearl. Once again, Mia takes on the role of Pearl, but this time in her younger years. Not only did we, as audience members, collectively discover that X had a prequel shot directly after,...
Review: In March this year, filmmaker Ti West brought us the wildly entertaining slice of genre goodness, X (read our review Here). The film featured Mia Goth as a young woman named Maxine looking to be a porn star. And it also featured Ms. Goth as the older woman living in the location where the horrors occur. Recently, however, fans of the film discovered that a sequel/prequel was coming to theatres. That film is about Mia’s character, Pearl. Once again, Mia takes on the role of Pearl, but this time in her younger years. Not only did we, as audience members, collectively discover that X had a prequel shot directly after,...
- 9/16/2022
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
Ti West thrilled me with this year’s fright flick, X. Yet, I was more than a little curious about how good a sequel could possibly be only released a few months later that same year. Thankfully, the prequel Pearl is a delightfully creepy follow-up (read our review). Once again featuring Mia Goth, the latest examines the early years of her character Pearl, with a stunning leading performance. Mia is incredible here, and frankly, so is the rest of the cast. And now, fans of X can check out what West and company have cooked up with the latest. The film also features impressive performances from David Corenswet, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Matthew Sunderland, and Tandi Wright.
We recently sat down for a Zoom conversation with the filmmaker behind the madness, Ti West, as well as the film’s stars, Mia Goth and David Corenswet. I asked both Ti and Mia about...
We recently sat down for a Zoom conversation with the filmmaker behind the madness, Ti West, as well as the film’s stars, Mia Goth and David Corenswet. I asked both Ti and Mia about...
- 9/16/2022
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
One of the core tenets of American mythology is the "rags to riches" story, the idea that any anonymous individual can, through sheer ambition and force of will, achieve lasting success in life. Nowhere is this myth best utilized than in the numerous stories about people making it big in show business. Most films about this topic throw enough hardship at their protagonists to keep things feeling realistic, but they make sure to perpetuate the myth: most of these stories have a happy ending worthy of a fairy tale.
"Pearl" is a different kind of fairy tale, and its emotionally harrowing finale subversively looks like a Technicolor happy ending while being anything but. This shouldn't come as much surprise to those who saw "X," which was co-writer and director Ti West's initial installment in what we now know is a trilogy of films. In "X," star Mia Goth portrayed both that film's nubile lead,...
"Pearl" is a different kind of fairy tale, and its emotionally harrowing finale subversively looks like a Technicolor happy ending while being anything but. This shouldn't come as much surprise to those who saw "X," which was co-writer and director Ti West's initial installment in what we now know is a trilogy of films. In "X," star Mia Goth portrayed both that film's nubile lead,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Pearl Review — Pearl (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Ti West, written by Mia Goth and Ti West and starring Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Alistair Sewell, Matthew Sunderland and Tandi Wright. Mia Goth takes campy acting to a new level in what could be called the definitive female American Psycho movie, [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Pearl (2022): Mia Goth is Excellent in Prequel to X but the New Film is Much Different in Style...
Continue reading: Film Review: Pearl (2022): Mia Goth is Excellent in Prequel to X but the New Film is Much Different in Style...
- 9/16/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
So, it’s looking like 2022’s box office final returns will be dominated by a film that’s already nabbed a spot in the all-time “top ten” earners, that’s Top Gun: Maverick of course. Ah, but will the year be mainly known for one big sequel? No, perhaps not since a prequel did very very well, the last Gru/Minions outing while another did, hmm…not so well (Lightyear). But we’re about to get another prequel that’s not animated and it’s from a flick that was released just six months ago. And since its focus is on a character from the earlier film, it could also be considered a “spin-off”. Oh, that March film was titled simply X. And I have not seen it. So this puts one of my staunchest movie beliefs to the test: you shouldn’t have to see the original to enjoy (or not) a follow-up.
- 9/15/2022
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ti West’s X prequel, Pearl, screened last night at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of its Midnight Madness lineup. The most shocking part, perhaps, is what came after the screening.
A quick VHS-style teaser popped up post credits to reveal a 1985 setting and a title card: MaXXXine. A third movie that’s coming soon from West and A24.
That’s right. We’ll see more of Maxine (Mia Goth) years after she survived the events of X.
While West remained tight-lipped about what we can expect from this upcoming sequel, he did say this: “What I can tell you is that we’re going to catch up with Maxine. And we’re going to find out what she’s up to. The way that X is a movie that is informed by and affected by independent exploitation auteur Americana and 1970s cinema, and Pearl is perhaps affected...
A quick VHS-style teaser popped up post credits to reveal a 1985 setting and a title card: MaXXXine. A third movie that’s coming soon from West and A24.
That’s right. We’ll see more of Maxine (Mia Goth) years after she survived the events of X.
While West remained tight-lipped about what we can expect from this upcoming sequel, he did say this: “What I can tell you is that we’re going to catch up with Maxine. And we’re going to find out what she’s up to. The way that X is a movie that is informed by and affected by independent exploitation auteur Americana and 1970s cinema, and Pearl is perhaps affected...
- 9/13/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Click here to read the full article.
A24 and director Ti West have unveiled MaXXXine as the third film set in the world of their X slasher horror franchise.
The announcement was made last night at the Toronto Film Festival as part of the Midnight Madness program during a screening of Pearl at the Royal Alexander Theatre. West will write and direct MaXXXine, with Mia Goth reprising one of her two roles in X.
In the third installment, Maxine (Goth) after the events of X is the sole survivor continuing her journey towards fame as an actress in 1980s Los Angeles. Pearl, the sequel to X, world premiered in Venice and had its North American premiere in Toronto on Monday.
Goth, who played Pearl in West’s horror slasher X for A24, returned for Pearl to reveal the origins of her iconic villain character where she’s a starry-eyed farm...
A24 and director Ti West have unveiled MaXXXine as the third film set in the world of their X slasher horror franchise.
The announcement was made last night at the Toronto Film Festival as part of the Midnight Madness program during a screening of Pearl at the Royal Alexander Theatre. West will write and direct MaXXXine, with Mia Goth reprising one of her two roles in X.
In the third installment, Maxine (Goth) after the events of X is the sole survivor continuing her journey towards fame as an actress in 1980s Los Angeles. Pearl, the sequel to X, world premiered in Venice and had its North American premiere in Toronto on Monday.
Goth, who played Pearl in West’s horror slasher X for A24, returned for Pearl to reveal the origins of her iconic villain character where she’s a starry-eyed farm...
- 9/13/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stars: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro | Written by Ti West, Mia Goth | Directed by Ti West
Mia Goth reprises her role as Pearl in Ti West’s prequel to this year’s X, co-written with Goth while on lockdown during production, and shot on the same New Zealand locations. Combining a fabulous visual aesthetic with a delightfully unhinged central performance and some spectacular gore moments, this is an unabashed genre treat that’s full of surprises.
Pearl takes place in 1918, some 60 years before the events of X, in which the members of a porn shoot at a remote farmhouse were menaced by a horny old lady. As the rest of the world deals with the tail end of WWI and the global outbreak of Spanish Flu, 20-something Pearl (Goth) is forced to work on her family farm, where her duties include looking after her severely...
Mia Goth reprises her role as Pearl in Ti West’s prequel to this year’s X, co-written with Goth while on lockdown during production, and shot on the same New Zealand locations. Combining a fabulous visual aesthetic with a delightfully unhinged central performance and some spectacular gore moments, this is an unabashed genre treat that’s full of surprises.
Pearl takes place in 1918, some 60 years before the events of X, in which the members of a porn shoot at a remote farmhouse were menaced by a horny old lady. As the rest of the world deals with the tail end of WWI and the global outbreak of Spanish Flu, 20-something Pearl (Goth) is forced to work on her family farm, where her duties include looking after her severely...
- 9/5/2022
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Something’s not quite right with Pearl, who wields a pitchfork less like a tool than a sex toy when tending the family farm. Such macabre behavior will come as no surprise to fans of Ti West’s “X,” who met the character in her advanced years, horny and homicidal, killing the amateur adult film crew staying on her property, then feeding their pieces to a grateful alligator. West wrapped that early-2022 horror offering with a trippy teaser for “Pearl,” a stand-alone origin story rendered in the style of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. The trailer suggested something practically avant-garde, with a dance scene, dream sequences and a super-saturated color scheme, but the reality is more mundane than A24 audiences have come to expect.
Whereas “X” unspooled like a backwater “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” homage with a lascivious Russ Meyer streak, this turns out to be a fairly straightforward cross between...
Whereas “X” unspooled like a backwater “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” homage with a lascivious Russ Meyer streak, this turns out to be a fairly straightforward cross between...
- 9/3/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Venice film festival: This brilliant prequel to Goth and West’s previous collaboration, X, is a cine-fever dream set in the dying days of Spanish flu
The Venice film festival is springing some surprises on us, and one of the biggest and nicest has been the news that Mia Goth is an actual superstar: she is fiendishly good in this outrageous shocker from director Ti West, an origin-myth prequel to his previous film X, shot back-to-back on the same location. Goth starred in that one too, of course, but is now a co-writer on the followup; she takes her performance to the next level: Goth is now the Judy Garland of horror. Her work on the closing credits sequence alone deserves some kind of Golden Lion.
The film itself is terrifically accomplished and horribly gripping, with golden-age movie pastiche and dashes of Psycho and The Wizard of Oz. And anyone...
The Venice film festival is springing some surprises on us, and one of the biggest and nicest has been the news that Mia Goth is an actual superstar: she is fiendishly good in this outrageous shocker from director Ti West, an origin-myth prequel to his previous film X, shot back-to-back on the same location. Goth starred in that one too, of course, but is now a co-writer on the followup; she takes her performance to the next level: Goth is now the Judy Garland of horror. Her work on the closing credits sequence alone deserves some kind of Golden Lion.
The film itself is terrifically accomplished and horribly gripping, with golden-age movie pastiche and dashes of Psycho and The Wizard of Oz. And anyone...
- 9/3/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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Ti West’s wickedly entertaining X, released earlier this year, transplanted the small cast and crew of a low-rent 1970s Los Angeles porn production to Texas Chainsaw Massacre territory, then unleashed an unsuspected evil on them. Its film-within-a-film, bump-and-grindhouse gambit doubled the exploitation fun while subverting norms of female sexuality, upending the male gaze and resurrecting that most lurid throwback, the deranged nymphomaniacal hag. Rewinding six decades, Pearl stokes more dreams of stardom only to dismantle them pitilessly, meaning someone’s going to pay in blood.
If the resulting series of kills stints on imagination and lacks much of a genuine scare factor, the prequel’s retro stylings are a treat. The saturated colors of cinematographer Eliot Rockett’s visuals practically leap off the screen and the big surging sounds of Tyler Bates and Tim Williams’ old-school orchestral score signal high drama and danger from the start.
Ti West’s wickedly entertaining X, released earlier this year, transplanted the small cast and crew of a low-rent 1970s Los Angeles porn production to Texas Chainsaw Massacre territory, then unleashed an unsuspected evil on them. Its film-within-a-film, bump-and-grindhouse gambit doubled the exploitation fun while subverting norms of female sexuality, upending the male gaze and resurrecting that most lurid throwback, the deranged nymphomaniacal hag. Rewinding six decades, Pearl stokes more dreams of stardom only to dismantle them pitilessly, meaning someone’s going to pay in blood.
If the resulting series of kills stints on imagination and lacks much of a genuine scare factor, the prequel’s retro stylings are a treat. The saturated colors of cinematographer Eliot Rockett’s visuals practically leap off the screen and the big surging sounds of Tyler Bates and Tim Williams’ old-school orchestral score signal high drama and danger from the start.
- 9/3/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A24 will be giving director Ti West’s Pearl, a prequel to his film X (which was released earlier this year, and now you can watch it at This Link), a theatrical release on September 16th… and since I loved X, I’m hyped to check this one out. In anticipation of the film’s quickly approaching release date, a batch of new images from Pearl have shown up on the film’s IMDb page, and you can check them out at the bottom of this article.
X was set in 1979. Written by West and star Mia Goth, Pearl turns the clock back to 1918 to tell the following story:
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide,...
X was set in 1979. Written by West and star Mia Goth, Pearl turns the clock back to 1918 to tell the following story:
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide,...
- 9/2/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Mia Goth is back in A24‘s “X-traordinary origin story” Pearl, Ti West‘s brand new feature film prequel to this year’s X. Pearl will be released theatrically on September 16, 2022.
From Fandango this morning, check out a brand new image below.
This September’s new prequel movie is set in 1918, decades prior to the 1970s-set X, which was released in theaters back in March of this year. Goth played the dual role of Pearl, a senior citizen, and Maxine, the film’s final girl. The film ends with Maxine killing Pearl, who along with her husband Howard had been brutally slaying Maxine’s friends throughout the movie.
But where did Pearl’s story begin, you ask?
“Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies,...
From Fandango this morning, check out a brand new image below.
This September’s new prequel movie is set in 1918, decades prior to the 1970s-set X, which was released in theaters back in March of this year. Goth played the dual role of Pearl, a senior citizen, and Maxine, the film’s final girl. The film ends with Maxine killing Pearl, who along with her husband Howard had been brutally slaying Maxine’s friends throughout the movie.
But where did Pearl’s story begin, you ask?
“Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies,...
- 8/24/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Mia Goth, who played Pearl in Ti West’s horror slasher X for A24, is back to reveal the origins of her iconic villain character in Pearl, which dropped its trailer ahead of a Sept. 16, 2022 release.
“Please Lord, make me the biggest star the world has ever known,” a young Pearl says at one point in the trailer, before we see her pushing an old man in a wheelchair to the end of a pier alongside an alligator-infested lake.
Director West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, as we see Pearl trapped on her family’s isolated farm. The young woman must care for her ailing father amid the overbearing scrutiny of her devout mother.
Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide as she wields a...
Mia Goth, who played Pearl in Ti West’s horror slasher X for A24, is back to reveal the origins of her iconic villain character in Pearl, which dropped its trailer ahead of a Sept. 16, 2022 release.
“Please Lord, make me the biggest star the world has ever known,” a young Pearl says at one point in the trailer, before we see her pushing an old man in a wheelchair to the end of a pier alongside an alligator-infested lake.
Director West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, as we see Pearl trapped on her family’s isolated farm. The young woman must care for her ailing father amid the overbearing scrutiny of her devout mother.
Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide as she wields a...
- 7/26/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The horrifying trailer for Ti West's "Pearl" is here. The film is a prequel to West's "X," and follows that movie's villain, Pearl, as a young woman growing up on a farm and searching for fame. In "X," Mia Goth played the elderly Pearl using prosthetics, and she reprises her role as the younger version of the character here. Ahead, watch the trailer for the new horror flick.
Back in March, West revealed the existence of "Pearl" at SXSW. "Pearl" was filming in a secret location in New Zealand and was already in post-production when "X" was released. Here's how A24 describes "Pearl:" "Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of 'X,' in this astonishing follow-up to the year's most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family's isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother.
Back in March, West revealed the existence of "Pearl" at SXSW. "Pearl" was filming in a secret location in New Zealand and was already in post-production when "X" was released. Here's how A24 describes "Pearl:" "Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of 'X,' in this astonishing follow-up to the year's most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family's isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother.
- 7/26/2022
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
Pearl is the highly anticipated follow-up to Ti West's X, taking viewers further back in time to reveal the origin story of X's iconic villain. With the movie being released theatrically on September 16, 2022, here's a look at the brand-new trailer:
Synopsis: Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, in this astonishing follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies. Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide, in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.
Directed by Ti West Written by Ti West, Mia Goth Based on Characters Created By Ti West Produced by Jacob Jaffke, Ti West, Kevin Turen, Harrison Kreiss Executive Producers Mia Goth,...
Synopsis: Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, in this astonishing follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies. Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide, in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.
Directed by Ti West Written by Ti West, Mia Goth Based on Characters Created By Ti West Produced by Jacob Jaffke, Ti West, Kevin Turen, Harrison Kreiss Executive Producers Mia Goth,...
- 7/26/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
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