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15 Horror Movies About Showbiz
MaXXXine is the latest in a canon of films about how Hollywood’s dream is killing us.
In his first feature-length digital project, Lynch undercuts the Technicolor glamour of his previous media pastiches (the knowing saccharine soapiness of Twin Peaks, the unnerving artifice of Mulholland Drive) to give a three-hour descent about an actress (Laura Dern) on a path toward a dirty, exposed stretch of Hollywood Boulevard pavement — and along the way, we’re thrown into states of pants-wetting terror and numbing anxiety. Erratic behavior, bodily mutations, and hallucinations line her journey to industry approval, with striking imagery from future Pet Sematary directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer whenever Sarah gives dubious consent to transforming her body on the whims of Hollywood’s powerful. On one hand, Starry Eyes ’ equating of abusive, self-protecting elites with literal Satan worshippers feels didactic and simple; on the other, there’s something visceral and uncomfortable about making an unmistakable connection between the conspiratorial evil of the horror genre and the open secrets that the industry still refuses to address.
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