‘Maxxxine is very different from both of them’: Ti West on closing out his X horror trilogy

/ The director made a trio of slasher films that are deeply connected but with styles spanning Hollywood history — and there might still be more to come.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Maxxxine. Image: A24

For the last few years, Ti West hasn’t stopped thinking about the horror villains Pearl and Maxine. Since 2020, the writer and director has been fully immersed in the genre-spanning franchise that started with the ’70s slasher flick X and continued with the technicolor prequel Pearl, which were filmed back-to-back in New Zealand during

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