
2024
In a full-circle moment what started as recapturing the classic slasher as the X franchise ends with a self-referential inter-textual bookend. An era accurate crime thriller by an up-and-comer Ti West which is not just about tying up together what the previous two installments started or about Easter eggs and tributes to the sexploitation period but also a commentary about and hat-tip to the backdrop the movie was set in, sheer terror invoked by certain serial killers, Censorship, Sex Wars…