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- What kind of slasher/horror movie is this, a jump scare movie pop Horror, or a slower burn atmospheric movie? Definitely a slower burn atmospheric horror movie.
- When you say this is a slow burn horror, does that mean I’m going to be bored the first hour like so many of these types of movies? We weren’t particularly bored, because we thought the script did a good job of investing you in the mechanics of how a low budget adult film would operate in the 70s.
- This is about a making of an adult film. Is there gratuitous nudity in this? There’s a decent amount of nudity, more female than male, but definitely both, and there’s definitely sex, but they don’t actually show a lot.
- How gory is this slasher? There’s some gore, probably middle of the road as far as slashers go, but if you’re going for the scares and not the gore, you can get through this movie.
Mar 21, 2022 · By Michael Green March 21, 2022. X (2022) Score Details. Buy for $4 at Amazon. X, from arthouse distributor A24, is a slasher movie about what really horrifies us. Writer/director Ti West (The ...
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Mar 18, 2022 · It makes for one of the most fully realized pieces of horror cinema in recent memory that never sets a wrong foot even as its characters do nothing but. It is a dynamic, deadly work of filmmaking ...
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Mar 19, 2022 · The task of matching an all-time classic seemed impossible. But a new horror film proves that challenge was hardly insurmountable: Ti West’s X is a lurid slasher based in rural ’70s Texas that ...
- Putting The X in Texas, 1979
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- Ti West's History of Horror
- X Marks The Spot
Massive letters decorated by U.S. of A. Stars and Stripes get scrawled across the screen, informing audiences that they're entering 1979, a simpler time. This was the year that New York Times film critic Janet Maslin walked out of a screening of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, saying she "was able to sit through only the first 15 minutes" of the ...
Yes, there are several adult scenes, filmed in the exact style of Debbie Does Dallas, which was released the year before X is set. One might think, after reading this and considering the plot of the film, that the movie is smut; again, West has disguised a detailed masterclass on horror and femininityas trashy exploitation. "Nobody's coming to see ...
X takes viewers through a kind of history of horror as it explicates the infamous idea of 'the final girl' (a term coined by the aforementioned Clover). The final girl is traditionally virginal, the one who survives because of her good morals and chastity, while the promiscuous characters get killed off one by one, audiences and filmmakers vicariou...
Like many great horror movies, there really isn't even any violence until more than halfway through the picture (after a character knowingly says, "It's high time we get to the chase and give the people what they want to see"). Instead, X takes its time actually developing its characters and thematic motifs; it even takes time for a stunningly unir...
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Mar 18, 2022 · While X could have dug a bit deeper into certain aspects of the story, the film’s twists, layered themes, and intriguing character dynamics blend together to make it one of the best horror films of the year so far. Next: Deep Water Review: Affleck & De Armas Fail To Liven Passionless Erotic Thriller. X is playing in theaters as of Friday ...
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Mar 15, 2022 · Mar 15, 2022, 2:50 PM PDT. Photo: Christopher Moss/A24. This review of Ti West’s X originally came from the 2022 media expo SXSW. It has been updated for the film’s digital release. The House ...
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