Much has been made about how filmmaker Ti West has reinvented and refreshed the slasher genre by paying homage to the classics in his A24 trilogy X, Pearl and the upcoming MaXXXine. His leading ...

The Manor brings the gothic style into the modern age and makes it a more accessible gateway into the subgenre.

As Mia Goth and Ti West walked the red carpet for the premiere of “MaXXXine,” the final installment of the pair’s A24 horror trilogy that hits theaters July 5, a group of hired “protesters ...

In ‘The Gunfighters,’ author Bryan Burrough examines the myths and history of the Old West He says the gunslinger archetype was born in 1950s pop culture — not the post-Civil War frontier.

Mia Goth was director Ti West ’s leading lady, playing both Maxine Mink, the leading lady of the skinflick being made (The Farmer’s Daughters), and her crazy old nemesis, Pearl, who most ...

Pearl is another horror delicacy from Ti West, aptly elevated by a show-stopping performance from Mia Goth. It’s a prequel to the remarkably entertaining throwback slasher flick X, which joined ...

The character, introduced as a murderous old crone in this spring’s 1970’s-set “X,” gets her own origin story in Ti West’s “Pearl,” which just debuted in theaters with Mia Goth in ...

Instead, they chose to focus on one of Goth’s two roles in the movie: the crazy old lady Pearl. “We had been talking about her character’s backstory a lot,” said West, “because we don ...

Later that same year, West and Goth released the prequel film Pearl, taking place in 1918, telling the origin of the psychotic old woman. While it was a slasher film like X, it was also a loving ...

Writer-director Ti West (The House of the Devil) followed-up to his hit slasher movie X, with PEARL in 2022. Revisiting the unforgettable character Pearl, the film was about the obsessive old voyeur ...

Director Ti West and actress Mia Goth have returned just months after SXSW darling "X" with a Texas-set prequel, “Pearl,” ...