Mia Goth applies camp to a melodramatic horror in Ti West's 'X' prequel 'Pearl.' Our VeniceFilmFestival review:
Ti West’s X is one of 2022’s most acclaimed horror movies. It follows a batch of 1970s filmmakers who clandestinely shoot a skin flick in a farmhouse they rented. When the elderly homeowners discover what’s going on they aren’t horrified, they’re hornified. And when their libidos aren’t respected by the young hotties the bodies start piling up dead. Mia Goth played both the hot new porn ingénue and the old woman, Pearl.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Personally, X’s intentions felt hypocritical and ageist; old people desiring sex was not just the motive for the killing but also, in the way it was filmed with prolonged takes and excessive makeup, it felt like the audience was supposed to constantly be as equally and gleefully grossed out by elderly sexuality as they were by the intense bloodletting. For a movie that started out as sex-positive, it ended up exclusionary in that approach.
Refreshingly, West is attempting a different mood with Pearl, mimicking classic Disney animation moments to show her attempts to be cheerful with an audience of farm animals for her dance routines. Inside the homestead, however, she has an overbearing mother and a father so ill from the Spanish flu that he’s confined to a wheelchair and unable to speak—only his lips sucking in liquid morphine prove that he’s still alive.
Pearl was written while the X set was on quarantine during the height of COVID. It was shot back-to-back. Its plot features lives stalled by both the Spanish flu and World War I. It makes for interesting production notes, but it surely will more so please people who thought X was funny and less those who appreciated the tension and gore. The first film was a love letter to slasher films of yore.
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