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‘MaXXXine’ Review: Ti West And Mia Goth’s Horror Trilogy Comes To A Satisfyingly Bloody Conclusion
‘MaXXXine’ review: Ti West and Mia Goth’s horror trilogy comes to a satisfyingly bloody conclusion
Ti West ’s decades-spanning horror trilogy, which began in the late ’70s with X(2022) and then jumped back over half a century for the same year’s WW1 prequel Pearl, now fast-forwards to the mid-’80s with a capper that requires a little more thought than its gory, crowd-pleasing predecessors. Advertising its time rather than evoking it, West’s film spells out what was going on in the mid-’80s: Serial killer Richard Ramirez (AKA The Nightstalker) was on the loose in California, and Al Gore’s wife Tipper was on a mission to clean up rock and rap music after overhearing her 11-year-old daughter listening to Prince’s sexually explicit “Darling Nikki”. Surprisingly, despite an obvious nod to the Mitchell brothers’ 1972 porno-chic breakout Behind the Green Door, West is very traditional this time round, literally romping through the Universal studio lot in a journey that will take MaXXXine to the Psycho house and, well… is that really the Back to the Future town square set?
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