‘X’ Film Review: Director Ti West Delivers A Love Letter To Slasher Cinema
deadline.comX directed by Ti West, is a new love letter to the slasher film genre. This movie within a movie that aims to tackle the strict relationship between sex, violence, desire, and the rage that manifests when one’s life lacks all of those things.
West employs all the tropes involved with pornography and horror and tries to inject personal hints of creativity and originality into the narrative.
Will it age well if I watch it again in five years? Probably not. But it provides enough fun and excitement in the current moment to keep audiences engaged.Wayne (Martin Henderson) is out to make an amateur porn video called The Farmers Daughter.
He’s looking to take advantage of the market by shooting his own self-financed movie. His film crew consists of a couple RJ (Owen Campbell) and Lorraine (Jenna Ortega), with actors Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow), Jackson (Scott Mescudi), and Maxine (Mia Goth).
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