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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.
What critics thought
Ti West's slasher revival earned broad critical enthusiasm for doing more than just recreating the genre's 1970s golden age — critics found genuine ideas about aging, desire, and mortality threaded through the carnage. The main fault line was whether those ideas fully land or merely decorate what is ultimately a well-crafted but surface-level genre exercise, with audience reception running noticeably cooler than the critical embrace.
“a wily and entertaining slow-motion ride of terror that earns its shocks, along with its singular quease factor, which relates to the fact that the demons here are ancient specimens of humanity who actually have a touch of... humanity.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“the kind of movie that has you reeling in disgust at certain moments, then laughing at the blood-spattered absurdity of it all. It's a new twist on the period-piece slasher movie, smart and strange and fantastically depraved.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“X is plenty of fun; it also feels like a trifle that could easily have been much more.”
Abby Olcese·RogerEbert.com
“unlike Tobe Hooper's masterpiece, which has a point to make about economic desperation and cultural clash in 70s America, West just wants to punish everyone involved in gory ways played for laughs.”
Dmitry Samarov·Chicago Reader
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Cast & Crew
Ti WestDirector
Mia GothMaxine / Pearl
Jenna OrtegaLorraine
Brittany SnowBobby-Lynne
Kid CudiJackson
Martin HendersonWayne
Owen CampbellRJ
Stephen UreHoward
James GaylynSheriff Dentler
Simon PrastTelevangelist
Geoff DolanDeputy
Matthew J. SavilleOfficer Mitchell
Bryony SkillingtonStore Clerk
Tyler BatesComposer
Eliot RockettCinematographyFrom the studio
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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.
What critics thought
Ti West's slasher revival earned broad critical enthusiasm for doing more than just recreating the genre's 1970s golden age — critics found genuine ideas about aging, desire, and mortality threaded through the carnage. The main fault line was whether those ideas fully land or merely decorate what is ultimately a well-crafted but surface-level genre exercise, with audience reception running noticeably cooler than the critical embrace.
“a wily and entertaining slow-motion ride of terror that earns its shocks, along with its singular quease factor, which relates to the fact that the demons here are ancient specimens of humanity who actually have a touch of... humanity.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“the kind of movie that has you reeling in disgust at certain moments, then laughing at the blood-spattered absurdity of it all. It's a new twist on the period-piece slasher movie, smart and strange and fantastically depraved.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“X is plenty of fun; it also feels like a trifle that could easily have been much more.”
Abby Olcese·RogerEbert.com
“unlike Tobe Hooper's masterpiece, which has a point to make about economic desperation and cultural clash in 70s America, West just wants to punish everyone involved in gory ways played for laughs.”
Dmitry Samarov·Chicago Reader
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Cast & Crew
Ti WestDirectorMia GothMaxine / PearlJenna OrtegaLorraineBrittany SnowBobby-LynneKid CudiJacksonMartin HendersonWayneOwen CampbellRJStephen UreHowardJames GaylynSheriff DentlerSimon PrastTelevangelistGeoff DolanDeputyMatthew J. SavilleOfficer MitchellBryony SkillingtonStore ClerkTyler BatesComposerEliot RockettCinematographyFrom the studio
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