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Review: Horror Movie "X" is Some Good Old American Crazy

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 35 of 2022 (No. 1847) by Leroy Douresseaux

X (2022)
Running time:  106 minutes (1 hour, 46 minutes)
MPA – R for strong bloody violence and gore, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use, and language
WRITER/DIRECTOR:  Ti West
PRODUCERS:  Jacob Jaffke, Harrison Kreiss, and Kevin Turen
CINEMATOGRAPHER:  Eliot Rockett (D.o.P.)
EDITORS:  David Kashevaroff and Ti West
COMPOSERS:  Tyler Bates and Chelsea Wolfe

HORROR

Starring:  Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Kid Cudi, Martin Henderson, Owen Campbell, Stephen Ure, Simon Prast, and James Gaylyn

X is a 2022 horror film written and directed by Ti West.  The film focuses on six people who are filming a pornographic movie on an elderly couple's rural Texas property, unaware of the danger that is so near to them.

X opens in Texas, 1979.  Aspiring pornographic actress, Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), embarks on a road trip with five other people who plan to film a porno movie entitled, “The Farmer's Daughter.”  The other five are Maxine's boyfriend, the film's producer, Wayne Gilroy (Martin Henderson), and fellow actors, Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow), and the African-American lead, Jackson (Kid Cudi).  The film's director and cameraman is RJ Nichols (Owen Campbell), with his girlfriend, Lorraine (Jenna Ortega), tagging along to assist.  Wayne's plan is to shoot an adult film for the booming theatrical pornography market and for the burgeoning home video market.

The group arrives at a reclusive farm that belongs to an elderly couple, Howard (Stephen Ure), and his wife, Pearl (Mia Goth).  Wayne has rented the couple's guest house where he intends to shoot his pornographic movie.  When the elderly couple discovers what Wayne and his friends are doing in the guest house, the killing starts.

One thing that really surprises me about X is how good the acting is.  The cast really gives good performances, and each performer has at least a few chances to shine individually.  Martin Henderson basically makes his character, Wayne Gilroy, into a pastiche or parody of Oscar-winning actor and famous Texas citizen, Matthew McConaughey.  Mia Goth plays dual roles, Maxine and also Pearl (which I suspected before I saw the credits).  Goth is quite good as Maxine, creating subtle shades and textures for the character.  Although Pearl does have her moments, I don't like the old “psycho-biddy” as much as I like Maxine.

Anyone familiar with director Tobe Hooper's classic American film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), will see that it obviously influenced director Ti West's X.  The latter is not a copy of the former, however; X mainly has a similar physical setting (deep in rural Texas) and is set close to the same time as the earlier film (the 1970s).  At the center of the story of both films is a mysterious farmhouse that radiates unease.

I see elements of Alfred Hitchcock's legendary film, Psycho (1960), an obvious influence on Tobe Hooper's film, if for no other reason than having similar origin narratives.  Watching X, films like The Last House on the Left (1972) and Boogie Nights (1997) also come to mine.

That is where the similarities end, more or less.  The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was like a folk tale, a regional tale of terror handed down across generations.  It is also an allegory representing the state of an America coming out of the 1950s and 1960s – post-industrial and post-Vietnam.

X is specifically about the characters, what they want, and what they are willing to do it.  The characters are conniving and self-absorbed, as best exemplified by Wayne.  They are clueless and lack self-awareness, especially Bobby-Lynne.  They are willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want, best exemplified by Howard and Pearl, who ultimately kill for what they want.

At the heart of X is the battle of youth versus aging as a theme – Howard and Pearl against the pornographers.  That is not the only observation I made about the couple.  I don't know Ti West or  his politics, but I see Howard and Pearl as bigoted, bitter, resentful, and jealous.  Unfortunately, they have lived long enough to see their kind of people, their beliefs, their culture, and their society become irrelevant, if not outright forgotten.  If they lived today, Howard would be the angry old cracker, and Pearl would be the snarling old biddy at a Trump rally.  Howard and Pearl are MAGA, but their enemies aren't “Mexican rapists” and trans kids.  Their enemies are people still in the prime of their sexual power and prowess, who flaunt their bodies and their sex acts.  Howard hates men who can get an erection that won't kill them, and withered-old Pearl resents young women, with their firm bodies that attract horny men.  Yes, I do feel a little sorry for them … very little.

In the end, however, I do want to recommend X as a horror movie.  Ti West has made the kind of wet, hot, American slaughter-fest of a film that American filmmakers make best.  I will say that although it feels a bit longish, X's story also feels a bit underdeveloped.  I think a horror movie about a group of people making a porno movie on a farm belonging to possible serial killers could have been more … or maybe I expected more or something different.  Still, I like X just because, for all its obvious influences, it seems so crazy and so different.

7 of 10
B+
★★★½ out of 4 stars

Wednesday, June 1, 2022


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Comics Review: "RED SITHA #2" is Superb

RED SITHA #2
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT

STORY: Mirka Andolfo and Luca Blengino
ART: Valentina Pinti
COLORS: Chiara Di Francia
LETTERS: Jeff Eckleberry
EDITOR: Nate Cosby
COVER: Junggeun Yoon
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Mirka Andolfo; Paulina Ganucheau; Valentina Pinti; Lesley “Leirix” Li; Gracie the Cosplay Lass and Jim Donnelly (cosplay)
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (June 2022)

Rated Teen+

Sitha is a female character that debuted in Red Sonja Volume 6 #1, and she was created by comic book superstar Mirka Andolfo.  Red Sonja accepted a bounty to bring a girl named “Sitha” to a broker who would send her home to her father.  The girl, however, became attached to Sonja and called her “Mother” and their adventures began.

Now, Sitha is “Sitha the Red,” and she is the star of her own comic book series, Red Sitha.  It is written by Andolfo and Luca Blengino; drawn by Valentina Pinti; colored by Chiara Di Francia; and lettered by Jeff Eckleberry.  The series focuses on Sitha the Red, the adopted daughter of Red Sonja, now a decade older and a bounty hunter in the Kingdom of Aquilonia.  That is until someone from her past involves her in a suicide mission.

Red Sitha #2 opens in the Eastern Desert.  Sitha had met Kildrick, the priest who is apparently her brother, and he says that their parents have been kidnapped.  Now, the two have entered the magical oasis kingdom of “Azul-Amon.”  The kingdom is in a state of jubilation, but it is also the place where they may learn the whereabouts of the “Living Necropolis.”  This is where Shefru-Sobek, the man who kidnapped their parents, are holding them.

Sitha and Kildrick must find “the Sand Astrolabe,” a magical artifact that will show the way to where their parents are being held.  Finding it, however, turns out to be a bit more complicated than they thought – comical – but complicated.

THE LOWDOWN:   In July 2021, Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department began providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles.  One of them is Red Sitha #2.

After two issues, I must say that Red Sitha is a really good comic book – a freaking good comic book.  Writers Mirka Andolfo and Luca Blengino have created a Red Sonja-like comic book series, but without the “mythology” (baggage) of Sonja.  Thus, the series and the title character feel fresh, although she and her adventures are set in the world of Sonja.

Artist Valentina Pinti is delivering some killer art and the result is rich storytelling of shifting moods and attitudes.  Pinti makes Red Sitha feel more like a swashbuckling adventure with Persian flourishes instead of being more sword and sorcery.  Colorist Chiara Di Francia's bright colors strike the right mood, even making the story feel like a sexy romp.  Jeff Eckleberry's letters gently carry the story along on its surreal path.

I am pleasantly surprised by Red Sitha, and I hope it is around for awhile.  Dear readers, I highly recommend that you get in on this series now.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Red Sonja and of Mirka Andolfo will want to try Red Sitha.

[This comic book includes “Dynamite Dispatch” May 2022, which features an interview with writer Jordan Clark.]

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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