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‘MaXXXine’ Filmmaker Ti West on Capping Off His Unexpected Trilogy and Receiving Calls About Superman
Ti West went into 2020’s pandemic with a script for a slasher called X, and he came out on the other side with two-thirds of a trilogy, the best reviews of his career and newfound supporters such as one Martin Scorsese. Since the mid-2000s, West has made a name for himself through low-budget genre fare, […]
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‘MaXXXine’ Star Mia Goth on Toplining Ti West’s Slasher Trilogy: “It Changed Me Forever”
Much has been made about how filmmaker Ti West has reinvented and refreshed the slasher genre by paying homage to the classics in his A24 trilogy X, Pearl and the upcoming MaXXXine. His leading lady, Mia Goth, agrees with the praise and adds that the back-to-back-to-back gigs have also reshaped something else — her career. […]
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‘Maxxxine’: Ti West, Lily Collins Shock Fans with Surprise Screening of New Horror Movie
Ti West and A24 pulled off a killer surprise Thursday night, unveiling an early screening of their upcoming slasher movie Maxxxine to a group of unsuspecting horror fans. The evening was billed as a double feature of West’s X horror series, which includes X and Pearl, the movies that thrust Mia Goth into the role […]
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Mia Goth Heads to Hollywood in A24’s ‘Maxxxine’ Trailer
Look out Hollywood! Maxine Minx has come to town to be a star, and heaven help those who get in her way. Including, presumably, a mysterious killer who has designs on her. A24 has finally dropped the trailer for Maxxxine, the final nail in the proverbial coffin of its hit and acclaimed X horror trilogy […]
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How Ti West’s ‘X’ Trilogy Shook Up the Indie Business
Ti West’s inspiration for X, his meta slasher film starring Mia Goth, was the independent cinema of the 1970s. Not just the aesthetic style of ’70s horror and soft-core pornography — the plot of X follows a crew trying a shoot a low-budget skin flick in rural Texas only to enrage the Chainsaw Massacre-adjacent farmers next door — but […]
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8 Movie Composers on How They Capture Terror and Tension
If this year’s horror movies are any proof, what you hear can be just as or even more terrifying than what you see. That’s thanks, in part, to a film’s composer, who has an explicit ability to take both the social, physical, metaphorical and even unnatural and uncanny elements of a story and turn them into […]
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