Ti West's X Is The Best Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake Of 2022
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Ti West's X.
Ti West's X is the best The Texas Chain Saw Massacre remake of 2022 despite Netflix's official franchise installment. First released on February 18th, 2022, David Blue Garcia's Texas Chainsaw Massacre puts a contemporary twist on the abandoned Texas town of Harlow nearly 50 years after Leatherface's original killing spree in Tobe Hooper's 1973 classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Yet despite chronologically picking up after the original film in deference to Hooper's movie, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not even its best remake of the year thanks to Ti West's X.
Also set in rural Texas in 1979, Ti West's "erotic slasher" X follows a film crew as they arrive at a secluded farm to shoot a pornographic film, which idealistic director RJ (Owen Campbell) believes will be "a piece of cinema." Seemingly blinded by their ambitions to capitalize on a burgeoning home video porn industry, the young group remain largely unaware of a covetous presence in the farmhouse next door in the form of Pearl (Mia Goth). However, as night falls, Pearl's lustful intent turns violent, with Maxine (also Mia Goth), Lorraine (Jenna Ortega), Wayne (Martin Henderson), Jackson (Scott Mescudi), Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow), and RJ forced to contend with the horrors of Pearl's jealousy.
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Although by no means an official continuation of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, Ti West's X is nevertheless the best TCM remake of 2022. From the grainy immediacy of X's sexually charged atmosphere to its savage overtures to the horror genre, Ti West's slasher acts as a worthy homage to Tobe Hooper's original film. As a result, here's why X is
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