Blood and Cheap Thrills in ’80s Los Angeles
MaXXXine, the latest film in Ti West’s X trilogy, pays tribute to yesteryear’s slasher flicks. Is that enough?
When I saw Ti West’s in 2022, I felt refreshed. Yes, his lurid slasher—set in 1979 on a rural farm where an adult-film shoot goes very, very wrong—was hardly the most original movie ever made. West is a technician who specializes in , be it a VHS “video nasty” (his excellent ) or something more visceral and country-fried, such as . combined the latter aesthetic with vintage pornography—a stylish bit of sizzle
