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There is little in common between Ti West’s X trilogy of horrors, beyond the cardinal forces of blood, sex, and Mia Goth. X, released in 2022, saw a crew of Seventies pornographers methodically massacred in a Texan farmhouse. It was followed by Pearl, framed as a backstory for X’s youth-obsessed, geriatric villain – but it was really a far more singular (and oddly moving) technicolour tragicomedy about daydreams curdled into butchery. MaXXXine, West’s (for now) final chapter, ties up the story by blasting it across the landscape of Eighties Hollywood, all so he can land one, final embittered joke about America’s twisted moral hierarchy.
