Pearl: Everything We Know About Ti West's Prequel To X
Earlier this year, Ti West released the 70s-set slasher movie X, his first feature film in six years. A product of renowned indie movie studio A24, X wasa critical success, and now fans can look forward to its prequel. Ti West's secret project, Pearl, was shot immediately after X wrapped, and serves as an origin story for the titular villain of the first film.
Mia Goth, who played the dual role of final girl Maxine and senior citizen Pearl in X, will reprise her role as the latter, taking center stage once again. A new trailer for the movie teases sex, murder, and betrayal — much like X — and fans can't wait to see how it compares. Fortunately, they won't have to wait long. With Pearl's release on the horizon, here's a look at what else to expect from the slasher, which looks to be just as X-citing as its inspiration.
What Horror Filmmakers Can Learn From Ti West's X
X follows a group of adult filmmakers in the late 70s who head to rural Texas to shoot a movie. While staying at an old farmhouse, they try to keep their project a secret, but elderly hosts Pearl and Howard (Stephen Ure) catch them in the act and murder them one by one. Pearl, meanwhile, is set some decades earlier, in 1918. In the film, Pearl is shown living with her parents in the same house where the massacre of X eventually takes place.
As shown by the trailer, Pearl's father is ill, and her devout mother is cruel. All she wants is to leave the farm and «be special, dancing up on the screen like the pretty girls in the pictures.» She's so desperate to achieve this dream, in fact, that she's willing to kill for it, as she's shown contemplating feeding her father to the crocodiles and wielding a pitchfork. In many ways, Pearl isn't so different from Maxine.
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