Film critic Jonathan Sim's review of MaXXXine, a new horror movie directed by Ti West and starring Mia Goth.
She’s a star. Mia Goth stars in the third installment of Ti West’s series of horror movies that started in 2022. We had X, a slasher that pays tribute to the horror, pornography, and exploitation films of the 1970s. West followed this up with Pearl, a prequel set in the 1930s that took its inspiration from the whimsical Technicolor films of the era.is West’s new installment that follows Goth as Maxine Minks, a porn star trying to make it in Hollywood while dealing with the traumatic events of X.
The Night Stalker is a peculiar choice for the antagonist of this film. Not only was he a real-life serial killer who stalked and killed numerous people during this period, but he has never been introduced in this series yet. This movie is where we feel Pearl’s absence. She was a fascinating antagonist in X and an even more exciting protagonist in Pearl. But now that she’s out of the picture, the movie needs to follow a different protagonist and antagonist.
We have a few story threads going on at once. The first is Maxine dealing with the trauma of what happened in X. The second is the Night Stalker. The third surrounds a few detectives. None of them are as impactful as they should be. They feel like a bunch of pedestrian plot beats. As for horror, MaXXXine is the least effective horror movie in this trilogy. It does not inspire any dread or fear.
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