With astonishing skill, director Ti West has turned what seemed like a successful experiment into one of the most important horror sagas of our time. Xreleased in 2022, tells the story of a group of amateur filmmakers who are eventually brutally murdered. Closest to Hagsploitation what in slasherthe film became an instant success due to controversy. The same thing happened with the prequel. Pearl but this MaXXXineone that takes the formula to the extreme.
The film takes place in 1980. Maxine Minx (Mia Goth is crowned once again as the current Queen of Terror), the actress of the first feature film of the saga. Far from the fields red with blood and guilt, she is now a thriving actress of North American pornographic cinema.
MaXXXine
MaXXXine mixes the mid-1980s North American obsession with blood and sex into one script. The result is a tense and violent horror film that also has an interesting tongue-in-cheek take on cultural hypocrisy. It doesn’t always work, but when it does, it’s surprising in its skill and vicious brutality.
Ti West, who has already demonstrated his ability to create intriguing settings on a shoestring, uses the idea of decadent and sinister Hollywood adult entertainment to create MaXXXine. But rather than nostalgia, the director uses the aesthetic of neon and dusty signs as a creepy setting. There’s more to it when exploring how North America views its sexual vices and obsessions. So it’s not just a brutal killer that Maxine must face, but to the morality of the decade in which he moves.
A horror film that breaks stereotypes
Scenario MaXXXine takes the above and turns it into a rare look at violence and brutality. In this dark story, which the director ends with innuendos about cultural hypocrisy, no one is truly good, kind, or blameless. Maxine is a porn actress who is content to be single (and what’s interesting about the film is that she makes no apologies for it), but who wants something more. And this rating is present in horror films, to which it is added at the beginning of the film.
MaXXXine It’s very self-referential and meta, so while a brutal killer goes from one place to another, leaving a trail of horror in his wake, the production ponders other interesting themes. One of the best things about this strange vision of evil is that it can show a murder with screams, sex, and blood splatter heard on camera, as well as meditation in the background. As part of a new kind of horror, the film takes just enough risks to be original without being completely weird. The result is a morbid atmosphere with a touch of the classic. slasher How Halloweenor Friday the 13th , but much more perverted.
And that’s because Ti West mixes the obsessions of depraved cinema into the same setting. On the one hand, Mia Goth’s character is last girl unconventional, obsessed with her sexuality and cruelty, but not quite a victim. The other extreme is equating explicit sex with the desire for murder, death and desire. With such a combination MaXXXine It’s blinding in its most brutal moments, and leaves something remarkable in the ones that aren’t so brutal. It’s as if Hollywood — or pop culture in general — thrives only on depravity and evil. An ideal field for criminals and murderers of all stripes.
Despite the shortcomings, MaXXXine manages to surprise
Perhaps the only problem with this unhealthy, perverted film with many scenes of unbearable violence is that he doesn’t know where to stopThe combination of absurd humor and meta-messages about a moralistic America, among many others, sometimes becomes repetitive.
Especially when they’re tied together in the middle of scenes that become increasingly awkward and graphic. It’s never quite clear whether Ti West wants to recreate a scene within a scene. All for the sake of showing decadent Hollywood. Or, at the other extreme, tell a horror story straight out.
Nevertheless, MaXXXineHe is capable of being grotesque, fresh and surprising. This, without losing the feeling garbage work— quite intentionally — and that’s what sets it apart from many other films. It doesn’t completely close off the possibility of a sequel by its ending, even though it’s part of a trilogy. What Ti West really shows is that evil is part of culture and, as such, every person who enjoys it. A truly uplifting message for a film that’s just trying to be funny. Or pretending to be, at least.
Source: Hiper Textual
