It's Over.

lol rekt

It was good I guess, but not amazing like the previous movies.

Let me tell you something about Ti West and how he operates. He is not a planner. He's an aesthetics and vibes first, and over all, kind of dude. He likes period pieces and cultivating a time period, but not as far back as Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman), more recent history.

The House of the Devil encapsulates his method well. It's shot like a 1970s movie, it has a creepy atmosphere but truth be told the screenplay is undercooked. It's a look and feel type of movie with a very minimalist story.

He wrote X. It wears it's inspirations on it's sleeve. The Texas Pornstar Massacre. Once more we are in the 1970s, this time though he had a novel idea to make it edgy with it's porno under current. People lapped it up.

X was made during COVID lockdowns, per West they were stranded in New Zealand and were enjoying relative freedom whilst most of the world was locked inside their homes. He came up with the idea of shooting another movie back-to-back whilst they were there. He wanted to make Pearl a black-and-white 4:3 aspect ratio movie, inspired by silent cinema of the 1920s. A24 told him to fuck off so he said how about I make a technicolor inspired movie, invoking the 40s/50s? They said go ahead buddy. So he and Mia Goth wrote a back story for Pearl and got to work. That's the planning that went into Pearl. They just pulled the movie out of their asses whilst chilling in New Zealand.

Now I like Pearl, don't get me wrong, but that's the story behind it. There was no master plan. It came about by chance and was made on a whim.

I've yet to see MaXXXine but I hear it's a style over substance movie. That's Ti West in a nutshell. This time he makes a 80s De Palma style movie, so I've heard.