2024 · horror · thriller
MaXXXine
Directed by Ti West1h 43m2024
In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.
Our read: MaXXXine (2024) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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