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Credits
Title:	X
Directed by:	Ti West
Written by:	Ti West
Produced by:	Ashley Levinson; Sam Levinson; Karina Manashil; Peter Phok; Scott Mescudi; Dennis Cummings; Jacob Jaffke; Harrison Kreiss; Kevin Turen
Music by:	Tyler Bates; Chelsea Wolfe
Cinematography:	Eliot Rockett
Edited by:	David Kashevaroff; Ti West
Production
Production:	A24 BRON Studios
Distributors:	A24
Released:	March 13th, 2022
Rating:	R
Running time:	105 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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X is an American feature film of the psychological thriller subgenre of horror. It was written and directed by Ti West and produced by A24 and BRON Studios. It premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 13th, 2022. It opened to theatrical release in the United States on March 18th, 2022. The film stars Mia Goth as Maxine/Pearl, Jenna Ortega as Lorraine, Brittany Snow as Bobby-Lynne, Scott Mescudi as Jackson, and Martin Henderson as Wayne. In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

Cast[]

Actor

Role

Mia Goth

Maxine Minx/Pearl Douglas

Sheriff Dentler

Deputy

Officer Mitchell

Store clerk

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline for this film is "Dying to show you a good time".
There are a total of twelve credited cast members in this film.
Although the film takes place in the United States, it was shot entirely in New Zealand, with scenes filmed in Queenstown, Rotorua, and Wellington.
Actor Kid Cudi, who plays Jackson Hole, is credited as Scott Mescudi in this film.
Actor Geoff Dolan, who plays a sheriff's deputy, is credited as Geoffrey Dolan in this film.
Actor Matthew J. Saville, who plays Officer Mitchell, is credited as Matthew Saville more than once.
X opened at number 4 at the box office, falling behind The Batman, which was entering its third week of release. It was also beat out by Uncharted, which had been in theaters for twenty-nine days. However, it beat out other film premieres such as The Outfit, which opened at number 7, The Kashmir Files, which opened at number 9, and Umma, which opened at number 11.
With a budget of approximately one million dollars, X had a domestic opening of $4,275,126 and a total domestic gross of $11,765,309. It earned $3,014,549 internationally for a combined worldwide total of $14,779,858.
X was released on video-on-demand services including Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Google Play, and VUDU on April 14th, 2022.
X was released on Region 1 DVD and Region A Blu-ray by Lionsgate Home Entertainment on May 24th, 2022.
On the Internet Movie Database, X has a star rating of 6.6 out of 10 based on more than 108,000 ratings.
On Letterboxd, X has a weighted average of 3.57 out of 5 based on 481,700 ratings.
The movie has a Tomatometer rating of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 222 approved critic reviews, averaging 7.70 out of 10. It has 208 positive reviews and 14 negative reviews. It has an audience score of 75% based on more than five-hundred verified ratings, averaging 3.8 out of 5.
Director Ti West began developing the story elements for this film's prequel, Pearl, while in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the strength of his script for X, A24 greenlit the prequel project prior to X' s theatrical release.
A third film in the series, MaXXXine, also starring Mia Goth, was announced in March, 2022.
The events of this film take place in Texas in the year 1979.
The title of this film refers to the X-rating, a non-trademarked film rating that was utilized by the Motion Picture Association of America to denote films that contained extreme violence, strong language and excessive nudity, which was considered too strong for the R-rating system. It later evolved to almost exclusively include pornographic material, though some films with extreme violence were being given an X rating as late as 1990, ultimately being replaced by the NC-17 rating. Being a non-trademarked rating, the adult film industry more or less co-opted it for themselves to make commercially successful projects. The X-rating was first used by the MPAA in 1968.
Reference is made to the 1978 pornographic film Debbie Does Dallas, which is one of the most commercially successful adult films ever made.
Other films of note produced by A24 include Bodies Bodies Bodies, Hereditary, Men, and Midsommar.
Actors Stephen Ure and Mia Goth share an uncomfortable sex scene with one another, albeit with multiple prosthetic appliances. They are thirty-five years apart from one another.
The song that Bobby-Lynne Parker sings is "Landslide", recorded by Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac in 1975.
The events chronicled in this film will come to be known as the "Texas Porn Star Massacre".
The imagery of the back-end of a car sticking up out of the swamp is an homage to the closing scene from Psycho, when authorities are pulling Janet Leigh's vehicle out of the swamp.
A newspaper article seen in MaXXXine establishes that this movie takes place in Fordell, Texas. There is no Fordell in Texas, but there is one in New Zealand, which is where this movie was shot.

Continuity errors[]

Pearl's first victim in the film, killed prior to the events of the main story, is featured on a missing persons report on the side of a milk carton. The events of the film take place in the year 1979. The placement of missing persons posters on milk cartons did not begin until 1984.

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Film Series
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Films

X • Pearl • MaXXXine

Characters

Maxine Minx • Pearl Douglas • Howard Douglas • Bobby-Lynne Parker • Lorraine Day • R.J. Nichols • Jackson Hole • Wayne Gilroy • Mitsy • Ernest Miller • Ruth

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