The first film in the trilogy, set in 1979 and inspired by slasher horror classics of the time (like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), X is about a young adult film actress, Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), who aspires to the pinnacle of fame. She and a film crew travel to a remote farm in rural Texas to make a movie. However, what should have been another weekend of work turns into a massacre when a mysterious killer attacks them. Goth plays a dual role in X, also portraying the elderly antagonist, Pearl, who feels a perverse attraction to the actress's youth.
Co-written by Ti West and Mia Goth, and filmed in parallel (and secretly) with the first movie, Pearl is a prequel, chronologically the first part of the X Trilogy (although we recommend watching it second). Goth reprises the titular role, now as a young woman in Texas in 1918, with her husband away in World War I, and trapped on the family farm with her sick father and a repressive and resentful mother who prevents her from following her dream of being a star. A story where precariousness, marginalization, abuse, and frustrated aspirations form a cocktail that inevitably explodes in a wave of violence.
