X (2022)
At a secluded farmhouse in Texas, a film crew arrives to shoot an adult film. Their hosts, a reclusive elderly couple, take a special interest in their young guests. As night falls, the couple's leering interest turns violent.
Cast and Information
Directed By: Ti West
Written By: Ti West
Starring: Brittany Snow, Jenna Ortega, Kid Cudi, Mia Goth, Martin Henderson, Owen Campbell, James Gaylyn, Simon Prast, Stephen Ure, Geoff Dolan, Matthew J. Saville
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Franchise: X
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juntakinte99 | 50 9th |
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A completely irredeemable & utterly reprehensible movie. It wants to be hicksploitation--especially via the Hills Have Eyes meets Boogie Nights plot that shows similarities between horror and porn setups. But it doesn't go anywhere. The characters are too stupid to root for, let alone live. The scares lamely mistake gore for thrills. And the villains exist solely to be hillbilly killing machines. And by God, that Fleetwood Mac scene should go. Avoid. One of the worst films of the year.
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| 5 |  |
frederic_g54 | 7 57th |
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Far more than meets the eye, especially its comment about age as a source of insecurity and how people might consider themselves less attractive/undesirable as they become older. It’s also rather well made, builds tension efficiently and just plain fucked up, and Mia Goth, I mean, praise the Lord.
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| 5 |  |
Dakota99 | 7 77th |
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Surprisingly, X (2022) is lighter on horror than your typical slasher. Instead it feels like this little homage to 80’s horror with a little 70’s flare of society. It wants to say a lot through even it’s more egregious elements, and I think actually makes it more creepy than I would’ve thought. By no means is it perfect (I’d prefer to not stare at Kid Cudi’s ass all day lol) but I think it definitely carves out a little space for itself inside of this genre quite nicely.
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| 5 |  |
ienjoycinema | 79 63rd |
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X is a raunchy homage that's doused in tension and erotica. Pacing in the first 2 acts is terrific, as it undresses it's layers of gerascophobia. The cinematography is clever, it turns the audience into a helpless voyeur, edging them with each new feat of suspense. But it begins to unravel in the 3rd act, losing control and rushing it's climax. I was left feeling blue-balled, as it throws it's thoughtful overarching themes away and settles for grindhouse tropes. Overall, its a fun one-nite-stand
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| 4 |  |
terrymac | 70 58th |
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This was very entertaining. It managed to have a bit of a 70s Grindhouse feel (Goth really looked the part), and the setting and interplay between the characters set up the impending carnage nicely. There was a lot of homage to a variety of sources here, which was fun. If I was going to grumble, I'd suggest that the old antagonists weren't particularly well realised, and I'm not sure whether we were meant to feel some sympathy for them. Well made, if imperfect, and quite enjoyable.
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| 4 |  |
INDYATMN | 89 85th |
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I'm not religious but the decades-long cliche of painting religious types as repressively cruel & evil is as tired as they come & so West loses alot of points for doing it again here. Which is unfortunate because he's doing something genuinely new here in terms of theme & motivation in horror films. It's also unnecessary since the story works just as well if it were only about the understandable desire of any senior (religious or not) to feel desired. Still it's amazing to be original in genre.
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| 4 |  |
Leonardis | 88 59th |
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Overall, good. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t quite as unhinged as I had hoped. Maybe that’s for the best. While it leans more in to standard slasher territory than I had hoped, it does have some thought-provoking things to sort of say about the adult film industry and aging. The acting was also very good, and I found myself caring about the characters more than I thought I would. It’s actually pretty well made and even creepy at times. This is slasher territory done right.
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| 4 |  |
bof | 78 77th |
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There's the Ti West I've waited for since HotD; at once a visual 70s throwback and the sort of slasher we've been lacking the last few years - one with actual characters and some underlying and not TOO overworked and resolved themes, but without the need to be overly nice about it. Could it have used a little more actual tension in the third act? Probably. Could the whole prostetics thing be better? Maybe, but come on, it's Texas Chainsaw Boogie Nights, whaddyawant.
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Jasongirl67 | 100 94th |
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This is my second time I Have seen a Ti West movie and he’s quickly becoming one of my favorite directors I love the look the feel the music Ti certainly knows how to capture a bygone era As for the movie it’s great I definitely felt some Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibes Mia Goth steals the movie as Maxine and Pearl It’s hard for me to explain but there’s something very surreal about Pearl and she literally steals every in
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| 3 |  |
twincinema | 70 53rd |
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Finally, a horror film dares to scare its audience with the ravages of old age. Beyond the porno and blood & guts, there is a story about the power of love. All the prosthetics did start to feel like I was watching a Karl Havoc prank. In the end, this is a fun slasher, and those don't come around too often anymore, so I am just going to enjoy it.
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BillyShears | 70 53rd |
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Ti West is a wizard at recapturing the feeling of horror films from another time - spooky settings, gross characters, some wild shocks and best of all - its never really that good
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panzerwolf | 80 84th |
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I was aware that this movie was (mostly) highly appreciated among horror movie fans as I started watching it. And sure, it had some good, interesting moods and a 70's setting is always welcome. I wasn't getting what the big deal with it was, though, but then it progressed and turned weirder and weirder... and I did really love it. That soundtrack is banging, the plot is all screwed up and twisted and it's certainly something you haven't seen before.
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| 3 | The_Rveal | 35 56th |
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X pays explicit homage to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (and director Tobe Hooper’s lesser-known follow-up, Eaten Alive) while drawing from a deep well of low-budget horror killfests (and offering at least one nod to Boogie Nights). That knowingness can, in the early stretches, make X feel like a horror movie in quotation marks, but West’s technical skills eventually make them disappear.
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schnofel | 24 8th |
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Ti West is quite a master of editing and framing but his use of technique is academic, so that this becomes a feature-length mock-up à la Tarantino's Grindhouse trailers. The subtext of many a horror film is brought to the front in that the sorrows of death and decay become the literal antagonists, packed in Harmony Korine/Jackass old person make up and send to kill a haphazard bunch of sexual offenders. It's icky, contrived, and smug; just depressing fucking cinema.
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Moribunny | 38 23rd |
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This is the most formulaic thing Ti West has done to date. I guess it's a savvy popcorn retro-horror that hits all the right notes if you're uninitiated or nostalgic, and has some grotesque humor and jump-scary gruesomeness. I can see why some might enjoy it. I guess I've just seen too many of these, and for me, even taking something this tacky and doing it well doesn't quite salvage it.
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MadMan | 93 79th |
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Great cast, some minor issues aside this was a blast. A nice love letter to 1970s cinema.
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nutcrackr | 64 21st |
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Not particularly great. Falters the most in the back half when the killin' takes place. Chief problem is everybody going off on their own, and a couple of other dumb moments. Sure there are some boobs to see, if that tickles your fancy, but it's not really worth seeing for that. Super predictable and the old people are weird, not scary.
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amerigo | 73 32nd |
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So there are some interesting ideas here, but, goddamn, it feels less like a movie and more like some film studies textbook. Yeah, okay, cool that's nice you're paying this cavalcade of homages to all these horror classics, but there's really little else here. Certainly not any tension, certainly not any character development, or, for that matter, any real entertainment. Ti West is technically savvy and it shows often in this film's very competent cinematography, but besides that? Ehhh
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| 2 |  |
KasperL | 75 77th |
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A patient and effective slasher.
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moraesfelipe | 55 43rd |
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Some cool bits in the first hour -- lake scene, of course, and the slow-burning sense of dread --, but then it seems to fall too easily on some A24 typical, calculated frequence of over-studied genre experiment and oh-so-philosophical stuff that simply wasn't there in the first place. Killings are way less cool then they should, maybe because everything else seems undercooked and too gourmet -- moral panic, the grindhouse and the porn, the aging and the arrogant young. Mia Goth is a blast.
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Hadleyreis | 83 82nd |
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Incredibly unnerving. What made it more uncomfortable was when my mother reached over to grab the popcorn and I had to explain that we didn't buy any.
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WWallce4prez | 74 56th |
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At this point, you have to know what you are going to get with a Ti West film: a methodic and well framed horror movie that is very subtle until it suddenly isn't. X looks great and the grindhouse aesthetic/homage is well done.
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Mirelurk | 69 44th |
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Very gross, disturbing and a bit clever but not really scary. Ti makes a super entertaining movie as usual though with lots of cool but not too distracting cinema tricks and some great cinematography. Also best sideboob in the game.
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guy piranha | 55 30th |
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3 insights i gained keep me from calling this pointless: 1: not everyone knows how to cross cut. 2: ti west's definition of horror is old people fucking. 3: more movies need mia goth in nothing but short overalls and cowboy boots. 4: less movies need mia goth in geriatric prosthetics. 5: i don't know how to count. oh and 6: robert palmer rules!
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feritdgn | 81 88th |
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X is definitely Ti West's best movie. It's unique, provocative, annoying, tempting, gory, gross, and exceedingly funny. The perfect example of a modern slasher.
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maxmode | 45 15th |
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Mediocre at best
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PianoSama | 75 96th |
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I thoroughly enjoyed You're Next, but wasn't so hot on House of the Devil, so my expectations going into this were tempered- not just for that reason, but also because I had no idea how shit was gonna hit the fan given what I knew going in. But damn, I loved this. Spectacular performances, Brittany Snow killing it in a role I never saw coming for her, the continued rise of Jenna Ortega, Mia Goth being Mia Goth, amazing 70's atmosphere, clever writing. Props to Kid Cudi, too, guy can act.
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| 2 | doyler29 | 90 86th |
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It promises skin and gore, and it delivers them insanely well. It promises to be a retro grindhouse outing, and it does it well with deliberate references to Tobe Hooper (and not just the Hooper film you expect), Lucio Fulci and hardcore pornography. It promises to be a slasher film, and it's one of the better ones I have seen in decades, managing to be mildly surprising.
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| 2 | matthagen | 65 80th |
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A smart reinvention of the standard slasher movie, elevated to an art form, with some strong characterization, surprising gross-outs, and humor sprinkled in. I've never been impressed with Ti West, until now.
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| 2 | salman | 45 3rd |
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Too slow, dialogue is empty Plot is bland, twist is annoying, typical slasher movie but left me bored
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driscarpin | 80 65th |
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Eu assisti çaporra durante a apuração, deu várias questões como psicóloga sobre sexo na terceira idade que gostaria de discutir. PORÉM, O FASCISMO FOI PRO SACO, É PENTA! HAHAHAHAHAHA
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muutanet | 81 85th |
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Well done homage for 80s horror flicks. Great cast. Some points off because of easy to follow script. If you are going to shoot a dirty movie on a remote farm do not forget to check milk carton. X
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Obdurate | 60 22nd |
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Expected more from this, given the response. Ortega's character was the highlight (she's really come into her own this year!), even if she wasn't in a lot. Had the best arc. The tension before all the killing was pretty good, but then the movie flips and... these old people are not remotely scary. It was kind of ridiculous, honestly. It couldn't tank the movie but it seriously hurt it. Film was shot well, but it did come across like it was trying too hard at times.
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TheRealJ-Ro | 85 84th |
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(Reviewing in full in conjunction with Pearl) Ti West bursts back onto my radar with a pair of splendidly-put-together thrillers - and I'm actually happy that I watched these in timeline order rather than by release. West is really talented, aptly juxtaposing Pearl's beautiful delusions with the real world she's living in, and setting an immaculate tone. More so in Pearl than in X, I love the use of the continuous shot gimmick. The characters could be more compelling, but Mia Goth is excellent.
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Neonman | 84 77th |
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An immensely satisfying and creative film, taking cues from the classics in the genre, but still remaining its own unique slasher. Not exactly scary, the jump-scares are pathetic, but it plays out more like a brooding drama, establishing each character within this specific time period and their relation to changing cinema and sexuality. But once the bloody horror hits in the last third, it hits hard, and is a joy to watch.
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Honest_Thief | 3 31st |
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throwback to slasher flicks post-texas chainsaw massacre. It threw me off by almost having something evocative about youth and decay, only to fallback into campyness where the terror is a grotesquely old and horny lady.it's a pretty stupid and mean movie but can't say i didnt had fun with it and its meanness
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Darren | 81 78th |
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Ti west is back folks! Just a real treat of a horror flick in the way only he can. Just a squirm inducing violent movie that takes the looooong road to get there but when it pays off every mark starts hitting. The intersects of violence in film and pornography and what viewers themselves REALLY want. Life ends in regrets or getting got by an alligator.
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| 1 | ericambler | 69 42nd |
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Does right by its antecedents.
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sproost | 40 15th |
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Dull, predictable horror that, for a mysterious reason, is this year's critic's horror darling.
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eCitizen | 65 62nd |
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I laughed hard a few times at this horror movie. The premise is straight up stupid, but there were a few unexpected turns. I really liked the late 1970's porno feel to it, and the source of the horror was unexpected. Worth watching, but keep the little ones away from this, as there is a lot of murder, blood and gore. I enjoyed it too much, I must have been in the mood for some blood and gore.
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| 1 | donquixotic | 1 3rd |
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X? More like errrr . . . unexciting. I don't know, X not gonna give it ya. Boring as hell
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JSchlansky | 71 62nd |
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It's like if The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was a porno. Except The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is already a porno, if you're freaky enough. I hadn't seen this much old man ass since Thanksgiving
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anilscn | 20 7th |
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who gave this fuckin metascore 78 to this garbage. fuckin idiot critickers fucked all cinema world. "new age horror movie wow good atmosphere wow we must give min 70 to this." you must be proud of your piece fuckin bastards
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| 1 | law | 55 47th |
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I love the cast of victims, I love their dialogue and dynamics, but I hate pretty much everything about the antagonists, who never convince as characters or threats. The story takes a bit too long to get to the inciting act and first kill. It's too slow and too unreal to be a good horror movie but I really enjoyed the character drama half of this flick!
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teemukesk | 73 22nd |
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It's nothing revolutionary, just a new take on an iconic genre. But it does have a nice twist with the whole adult film shoot. The atmosphere is perfect and it has multiple nice camera shots. I guess it captures the era very well, which makes it stand out over the countless similar horror flicks.
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| 1 | radiosuicide | 73 26th |
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Goth is amazing
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| 1 | grilled | 77 38th |
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More slasher than horror, with plenty of sex appeal for everyone. Excellent pacing and great visuals, the twists present also definitely caught me off guard. While the discussion it has on sexuality is very well done and the surreal elements of the horror are pretty great, I think the film overall has a bit of big head. Take it with a pinch of salt and enjoy!
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| Average Percentile 46.29% from 703 Ratings |  |