Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
Acting
Mia Goth's 8-minute one-take monologue is Oscar-worthy insanity.
Direction
Ti West fakes a 1918 musical then pivots to slasher carnage.
Cinematography
Saturated technicolor horror that shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Director
Ti West
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ti West shot this secretly back-to-back with 'X' during COVID, using the same New Zealand farm set redressed as 1918.
The film deliberately mirrors 'The Wizard of Oz' — Pearl even wears ruby-adjacent shoes and sings 'Over the Rainbow' to escape rural hell.
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