Get Outta da House Cinema 2023 - Pearl (An X-traordinary Origin Story)

Pearl (subtitled An X-traordinary Origin Story) comes from Ti West which was co-written by West and Pearl herself, Mia Goth.

Alongside Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, and Emma Jenkins-Purro star in the blood filled Pearl.

A prequel to X (2022) and the second instalment in the X film series, it serves as an origin story for the title villain, whose fervent aspiration to become a movie star led her to committing violent acts on her family's Texas homestead in 1918.

Pearl played at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in September, 2022. The same month it started playing in the USA. So Australia got a delayed release date. AGAIN!

Pearl has received positive reviews from critics who lauded Goth's performance, West's screenplay & direction and its homages to the films of the Golden Age of Hollywood, particularly The Wizard of Oz (1939) & Mary Poppins (1964). 

A third film in the X series, a sequel to X titled MaXXXine, is currently in development. So it feels like a TV franchise.

Look it did take a while for Pearl to go full bat shit crazy with her pet alligator. However once it wound up, it really served up some terror along with a side of rage.

I enjoyed most of Pearl, the love letter to Hollywood, the origins of the pyscho killer in X.

I am interested to see what MaXXXine brings to the big (or small) screen. For now Pearl has limited sessions around the place after landing six months later than in the USA.

Filmed in NZ this could also be a COVID filmed movie with references back to the 1918 Spanish flu. Pearl is one bad bitch, 3 Stars.