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Ti West Interview: The ‘MaXXXine’ Director Ends The ‘X’ Trilogy With A Look At The Seedy Side Of Hollywood In The Excessive ’80s – Karlovy Vary
Ti West interview: The ‘MaXXXine’ director ends the ‘X’ trilogy with a look at the seedy side of Hollywood in the excessive ’80s – Karlovy Vary
Christmas has come early for genre fans this year with the release of MaXXXine, the third and perhaps not-so-final part of a horror trilogy that began in 2022 with X, a splatterfest set in the ’70s porn industry. She has bigger fish to fry, though, since a satanic, leather-gloved serial killer — possibly the notorious Richard Ramirez, AKA The Night Stalker — is on the loose, and her friends in the sex-work business are firmly within his (or her) sights. Though the film has fun with ’80s tropes — big hair, neon lighting, electro-pop hits (like Animotion’s “Obsession”) and the “Satanic Panic” that saw the likes of Judas Priest accused of hiding secret messages in their music — MaXXXine doggedly continues the throughline of West’s films in its investigation and subversion of movie tropes, notably a scene that sees Maxine chased by Bacon’s PI into the fake interior of the Psycho house on the Universal lot.
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