31 Days of Horror 2023 Day 11 X

 

TITLE-X

SOURCE-DVD

Yea in 2022 I heard about X,and it's prequel Pearl. Heard it was inspired by the original TCM. Already having seen and liked some of Ti West's earlier films I planned on seeing X. 

Then I forgot about it till one day earlier this year when I saw the DVD was $5. And the Blu Ray/DVD/Digital Copy of Pearl was like 13 bucks. Grabbed both and was gonna watch them back to back one day.

Ended up watching X one day. And Pearl was watched much later. 

Set in rural Texas in the late 70s X has a crew going to a farm. Where they rented the guest house. They are going to film a porno called The Farmer's Daughter.

But when the wife of the farm's owner sees what they are filming it awakens something in her. IF she doesn't get what she wants she will start killing.

Take the feel,look and even some exact camera angles and shots from the classic 1974 Texa Chainsaw Massacre,add in a dash of Tobe Hopper's Eaten Alive and you got X.

The FX work is good. The cast is better than expected. With Mia Goth doing well in her dual role. Yea Mia plays Maxine,the young porn star,and Pearl,the farmer's elderly wife. 

Besides just so many scenes where not only is the angle exactly lifted from TCM but the set and set dressing looks like it was lifted too,my only real complaint is the film is a bit too long. Ti West makes slow burn horror films. Look at House of the Devil. This one just needed a bit of editing.

Is it worth seeing? Yes. Is it some amazing groundbreaking film? Nope. It is a well done tribute/homage/ripoff of TCM. Nothing more nothing less.

X gets a C+