MAXXXINE

Director: Ti West
Starring: Mia Goth, Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Debicki, Giancarlo Esposito, Halsey, Bobby Cannavale, Michele Monaghan, Moses Sumney

Writer/director Ti West and star Mia Goth shook up the horror genre with their one-two punch of X and Pearl which came out in 2022. Now they’re closing out their trilogy with MaXXXine. X ended with Mia Goth’s Maxine Minx surviving a blood bath at a Texas farmhouse where she had been filming an adult movie. MaXXXine picks up in 1985 with her living in Tinseltown trying to make the big transition from porn to legitimate Hollywood studio films. She gets cast in the horror film The Puritan 2 after director Elizabeth Bender takes a chance on her. She’s played to perfection by Elizabeth Debicki. Maxine declares “I always wanted to be famous” and will stop at nothing to make that happen. Just as she’s about to start filming, she receives a mysterious VHS tape delivered to her door revealing that someone knows her connection to the Texas massacre. Her new friends start dying off and police start to suspect Maxine may be connected to the Night Stalker who has been killing young women in Hollywood. Now in theaters

Here’s my review