What Horror Filmmakers Can Learn From Ti West's X
Ti West's 2011 film The Innkeepers is a solid, beautifully shot story about a haunted hotel, and horror fans could tell that his 2022 movie X would be something to talk about. Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow), Jackson Hole (Kid Cudi), and Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) are starring in an adult movie, with Wayne Gilroy (Martin Henderson) as producer and RJ Nichols as director. The innocent and young Lorraine (Jenna Ortega) is RJ's girlfriend who has come to help out, but she starts realizing that she might want to play a greater role than she thought at first.
When the characters rent out a guesthouse on the property of an older couple, they notice that something isn't quite right, and an incredibly smart and chilling horror movie is the result. The movie has messages about getting older, the beauty of youth, and becoming comfortable with one's sexuality. There are a lot of lessons that horror filmmakers can learn from Ti West's amazing film X.
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X is a horror movie with a great setting as the characters rent a farmhouse in Texas. The movie is shot in an incredibly intelligent, careful, and thoughtful way. The movie shows that leaning into a setting and really letting audiences enjoy it is the best way to tell a terrifying story. In this case, the camera pans across the country landscape, allowing fans to see the fading paint on the main house, the creepy old porch, the grass surrounding the place, and the nearby lake that is full of alligators just waiting to pray on humans.
Owen Campbell's character RJ makes a comment about shooting an adult movie like a real movie, and in the same way, Ti West proves that horror movies should be shot just as artistically as dramas and Oscar-worthy biographical
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