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Pearl director Ti West set out to make a Disney version of a horror movie
From the moment the first trailer for Pearl arrived, tacked on to the end ofTi West’s stylish A24 horror movie X, it was obvious that the film was a satire of a broad section of Hollywood history. Tyler Bates and Tim Williams’ comically swoony score, the retro title treatments, and even the emphatic, exaggerated performances all conjure up images of canonized movies, from the 1930s classics The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind to 1950s melodramas like Douglas Sirk’sImitation of Life and All That Heaven Allows.