Director Ti West expands his porn-shoot slasher movie 'X' into a possible franchise by fleshing out the villain's backstory in Pearl. Karma will catch up with her eventually, but in the meantime, it’s sort of a blast to watch her unravel.
’s “X,” who met the character in her advanced years, horny and homicidal, killing the amateur adult film crew staying on her property, then feeding their pieces to a grateful alligator. West wrapped that early-2022 horror offering with a trippy teaser for “Pearl,” a stand-alone origin story rendered in the style of a Douglas Sirk melodrama.
In “X” — which audiences needn’t have seen first — Goth played both the “final girl,” Maxine, and the jealous crone who tried to kill her . The double casting didn’t quite track in that context: It should have suggested that the elderly Pearl saw something of herself in the younger character, who’d run away from a televangelist father to become an amateur porn performer.
When it comes to being discovered, Pearl is open to practically any shortcut. One day, the projectionist invites Pearl up to the booth, where he shows her a primitive stag film, lasciviously suggesting that he’d like to see her in such a movie. Pearl prefers the “Palace Follies,” where pretty blond dancers keep their knickers on, but is flattered by the handsome stranger’s attention. She’s also conflicted about her absentee husband, Howard, who’s been off fighting the war abroad.
That’s not such a tall order — not in the era of “Joker” and “Wicked,” when antiheroes are all the rage. Audiences know enough about Pearl from the first movie to realize that she won’t be punished for her crimes, but the nature of the crimes themselves — and her delusions of being discovered so far from Tinseltown — are compelling enough to keep us hooked and increasingly horrified as likable supporting characters fall prey to her increasingly deranged behavior.
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