A24 is all-in on Ti West and Mia Goth‘s X Universe, with this year’s slasher movie X spawning this weekend’s brand new prequel movie Pearl. And as we learned just last week, there’s a third movie titled MaXXXine that’s on the way from West, Goth, and A24, a sequel to X that will be set […]
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Announced this week, Ti West completes his X trilogy with the upcoming MaXXXine, a sequel to this year’s slasher X that will come along in the wake of prequel movie Pearl this weekend. Confused? Don’t be! Set in the 1970s, X was the first movie in the franchise, while Pearl is a prequel that takes […]
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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 […]
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Bloody Disgusting’s Pearl review is spoiler-free. Writer/Director Ti West nestled his ode to independent, exploitation filmmaking into ‘70s set slasher X. For its prequel, West rewinds the clock much further to pay tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood. Mia Goth reprises her role as the repressed killer Pearl, this time exploring a much different, younger side. Pearl makes for […]
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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 […]
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Writer/Director Ti West opens his ‘70s set slasher, X, to a gruesome crime scene, then backtracks to set the stage for the pending massacre. West bides his time, letting audiences get well acquainted with his cast. Once attachments are well in place, the filmmaker violently rips the rug from under viewers with a savage kill […]
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Spoiler Warning: The following article contains spoilers on two character deaths. Ti West delivered no shortage of memorable, gnarly deaths in his slasher, X. Each one different than the last, and most of them gruesome and bloody. The filmmaker previously shared with Bloody Disgusting that the first kill, that of aspiring director RJ (Owen Campbell), “was meant to say, […]
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It’s a pretty good rule of thumb that if you’re making a horror movie and you’re also making a prequel origin story for that movie’s villain before it’s even released, you better be pretty damn sure that you came up with one hell of a compelling villain. Not that there has been any established precedent […]
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Bloody Disgusting’s X movie review is spoiler free. It’s been almost an entire decade since writer/director Ti West‘s last horror feature, The Sacrament. Far too long. Luckily, West ensures that the wait has been worth it with A24’s X, an homage to the gritty indie horror of the ’70s but with savage style and a deranged […]
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“Dying to show you a good time.” Ti West makes a long-awaited return to horror with X, a brand new horror movie being distributed by the arthouse horror masters over at A24 (The Witch, Hereditary, Midsommar). Now, new character posters have arrived courtesy of the film’s official Twitter account, hot on the heels of SXSW announcing the film as […]
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Ti West makes a long-awaited return to horror with X, a brand new horror movie being distributed by the arthouse horror masters over at A24 (The Witch, Hereditary, Midsommar). Judging by the insane new trailer, below, we’re in for “one f**ked up horror picture!” Here’s the brand new plot synopsis: “In 1979, a group of young […]