“Pearl” was reviewed by TheWrap out of the 2022 Venice Film Festival. Ti West’s “Pearl” is an oddity amongst horror sequels and prequels. The fact of its existence is not the remarkable ...

Pearl slices at his throat as the strains of “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult rises on the soundtrack. The lead-up to the kill led some viewers to read X as agist and sexist ...

Pearl’s sexual desires, scarcely diminished by age, were a defining aspect of “X,” which tried to make audiences squirm by implying that old people still crave physical intimacy. Here ...

Warning: spoilers for the Pearl ending are about to be projected across your screen. If you haven’t experienced this movie magic, as well as the wonder of Ti West’s X for yourself, you’ve ...

The creaky farmstead where horror craftsman Ti West staged his own Texas massacre “X,” released earlier this year, is now also the location for the director’s prequel, “Pearl,” the title ...

Ti West is returning to the gory world of “X” with “Pearl,” a prequel to his 2022 slasher from A24. The upcoming horror film, once again directed and written by West, is set to follow Mia ...

We should welcome movies like Pearl, a companion/prequel to X which came out earlier this year. Did it need to be as good, as weird, and as surprising as it is? Absolutely not. But it is ...

Brittany Snow wearing a blanket in a field at night in X 2023's Pearl is a prequel to X set in 1918, exploring the backstory of the farmer's wife, Pearl, played by Goth. It focuses on Pearl's ...

West essentially conjured a franchise out of thin air this year with March’s excellent sexed-up slasher, X, and its follow-up, Pearl, premiering September 16. And now—before Pearl has even hit ...