Just over two years ago, Ti West was a filmmaker admired by horror fans but unknown to most mainstream viewers. They'd not had the pleasure of such genre-savvy festival favourites as The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers, let alone his killer-bat debut The Roost. Then, in March 2022, esteemed production company A24 released X, followed just months later by prequel Pearl. These films debuted not at horror fests but at South By South West and Venice, and made a combined total of more than $25m at the worldwide box office from budgets of one million apiece. Since then, X and Pearl have only grown in stature on the home-media markets, meaning the anticipation for MaXXXine, the third part in what West describes as a ‘weird trilogy’, is huge. Not that the writer-director has had a moment to enjoy his success…
‘I'm still so in it,’ he tells , pointing to the screen he sits before. ‘I'm talking to you in front of the computer I'm editing on. I have three days of sound mixing left, a
