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Everything You Need to Remember From ‘X’ and ‘Pearl’ Before Seeing ‘MaXXXine’
Get ready to hear "I'm a star!" one more time as the final installment in Ti West's horror trilogy hits theaters on July 5.
But as day turns to night, they’re targeted by the old woman, whose reasons for murdering the crew one by one aren’t fully revealed until the next film — save for the point that Pearl looked just like Maxine when she was young. Plus, Pearl’s husband Howard (Alistair Sewell) is away serving in World War I, leaving her with little support as she displays troubling signs of psychopathy, abusing her father in secret and killing farm animals. It’s a stinging and unsettling speech — as Pearl describes her loneliness and depression with her husband away at war, and is candid about a miscarriage, her infidelity, and murderous rages — and its ebbs and flows demonstrate Goth’s dexterity as a performer.
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