X Movie Cast & Character Guide
Ti West's inventive new slasher X packs several larger-than-life characters and a genre-perfect cast. First premiering on March 13th, 2022, at SXSW festival and released domestically on March 18th, 2022, Ti West's "erotic slasher" X has opened to rave reviews. In particular, critics have cited X's desire to return to a classic slice-and-dice formula that firmly acts as a poignant homage to slasher classics such as John Carpenter's Halloween and Alfred Sole's Alice, Sweet Alice.
X follows a brash film crew as they arrive at a secluded farmhouse in Texas to shoot a pornographic film in the late 1970s. Their elderly hosts, at first shocked by the amount of cast and crew members involved in the shoot, eventually, take a leering interest in proceedings. However, as night falls, this reclusive elderly couple's emotional baggage becomes increasingly apparent — leading to violent and bloody consequences.
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X's already stellar story is undoubtedly enhanced by the cast Ti West enlists for his pitch-perfect slasher. In particular, horror stalwarts such as Brittany Snow and the newly crowned scream queen of 2022 Jenna Ortega perform with aplomb in West's ode to the risque slashers of old. As a result, here's the cast and character guide for X, as well as where you know each actor from.
The shy-yet-steely Lorraine is the sound girl for wannabe porn-pioneer RJ's production crew, as well as RJ's new girlfriend. As X progresses, Lorraine begins to come out of her shell, even attempting to star in RJ's project, but her newfound confidence coincides with the murderous intentions of their backwoods hosts. Lorraine is played by Jenna Ortega, who has enjoyed a meteoric rise as the slasher genre's new
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