“Dying to show you a good time.”
Set in rural Texas in 1979, X follows a small film crew that arrives to shoot an adult movie on an isolated farmhouse property. Their plans for a quick production are interrupted when the elderly couple who owns the land becomes aware of what is happening. What begins as a bold, low-budget shoot turns into a desperate struggle as the visitors are forced to confront the dangers around them.
Ti West directs the film, shaping its period setting into a tense and carefully controlled descent into chaos. Mia Goth leads the cast as one of the young filmmakers, with Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Scott Mescudi, Martin Henderson, and Owen Campbell among the performers caught up in the production. Their characters are tied together by the work itself, so the film’s conflicts grow out of the set, the house, and the uneasy relationships between those staying there.
The film uses its 1970s setting to create a harsh, sunbaked atmosphere that feels both isolated and oppressive. Its mix of drama, thriller, horror, and mystery gives the story a grim, uneasy tone, with sexuality, ambition, and fear colliding in the same space. The result is a bleak and volatile portrait of people trapped far from help, where the setting becomes part of the threat.
Ti West directs the film, shaping its period setting into a tense and carefully controlled descent into chaos. Mia Goth leads the cast as one of the young filmmakers, with Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Scott Mescudi, Martin Henderson, and Owen Campbell among the performers caught up in the production. Their characters are tied together by the work itself, so the film’s conflicts grow out of the set, the house, and the uneasy relationships between those staying there.
The film uses its 1970s setting to create a harsh, sunbaked atmosphere that feels both isolated and oppressive. Its mix of drama, thriller, horror, and mystery gives the story a grim, uneasy tone, with sexuality, ambition, and fear colliding in the same space. The result is a bleak and volatile portrait of people trapped far from help, where the setting becomes part of the threat.
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6.7 / 10