The third part of the American film-maker’s X trilogy catches up with Mia Goth’s protagonist in 1980s New York
At a moment when the studios are expensively rebooting and revisiting such genre warhorses as The Omen and The Exorcist, Ti West has reinvented the horror franchise for the Letterbox generation with the X trilogy.
A week in Center Parcs in Longford: Standing in the forest, you feel the money draining gently out of your bank account “Every movie is two years of trauma,” says West, who built a replica of a small Texan town in Manawatū. “I’m working on it all the time. You have to really want to be doing this. I didn’t have any ideas I felt would be worth doing. I took a break. I was happy doing television. And then I started to think that horror movies had got soft. There was room for a slasher movie like X.
“The idea for X was to make a movie that would put craft on display,” says West. “Any period movie is very exciting for me. You can’t just show up some place and film. You have to decide every single thing that’s going to go in the frame, from props to clothes to signage, to the lenses you use. So everything becomes a big collaborative, creative, aesthetic process. We wrote that into Pearl but in a completely different way. And then we wrote it into MaXXXine in a different way.
“The mid-’80s was such a crazy time for censorship, whether it had to do with music or movies,” says the writer-director. “Whether that’s the ‘moral majority’, the PMR, or the banning of video nasties in the UK, it’s something that was very much in the news and made it all the way up to the government. It’s strange to think that someone who’s in a band would have to go on trial to testify about how there’s not actually Satanic lyrics in their music. That felt like a ripe backdrop for MaXXXine.
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