(ESP-ENG) MaXXXine - Movie Review!
Hello friends, good vibes to all.
The horror genre in recent times I feel that it has had a major resurgence, since a couple of years ago we have seen that great film titles have come to light being many of them successes, obviously not all because this type of film is very difficult to achieve and above all to please. But if there is someone, if there is an actress who is always going to draw attention and is undoubtedly one of the best in horror is Mia Goth, a queen of this genre. The last movie I saw of her was Infinity Pool and as expected she was at the height; in this new film we would have to say the same, with its differences but in general terms she was very complete.
It should be remembered that this film is part of a trilogy of Ti West that comes to an end and is produced by A24 (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) which has been characterized by being a slasher yes, but with many psychological overtones. This movie is about Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) who is a porn star but has all the intentions in the world to be a Hollywood star now. To achieve that she will try to do whatever it takes to get where she wants to be. The thing is that one day she decides to go to an audition that may change her life since we are talking about the most important horror movie saga of the time. What happens? - Well, against all odds she gets the lead role and finally her chance ends up coming.
But not everything is happiness for her because inside that world appears a serial killer to change everything. This person is going after other women in the industry and it seems that he knows all of Maxine's dark past, because yes, she is not as innocent as she appears to be. From here begins a kind of hunt between her and this killer who can't wait to get his hands on her. Do you have to have seen the previous movies to understand this one? - No, but if you can see at least “X” it would be better. And when I say that it is not necessary is because throughout the film it gives us flashbacks to understand a little better the context of everything that is happening.
There are several things that I found very top and one of them is the setting, everything that has to do with the visual, it seems that we were watching a classic horror movie of the 80's, I think they nailed that aspect, the aesthetics is very good. Being set in 1985 there are many references to that year and one of the ones that caught my attention is to have helped the “night stalker” to give more depth to the plot. I don't know if you know that serial killer who terrorized the city of Los Angeles killing dozens of women. Well, as that was in its heyday what it does is to give a touch more of psychological thriller to everything making the story a little darker than it already is.
Another thing we see is the gore. As I was saying, these movies are not particularly graphic, they do have their scenes where the slasher is present, in fact there is one in particular that I remember and it hurts me, but I think it is not what stands out. The most striking scenes are usually those where blood abounds but they don't end up being very explicit. I'm not going to see this as a failure or a criticism but it is true that at least I like this element in horror movies. I think if I had to give a word to describe everything seen in this aspect would be “classic” and is that even in the construction of certain scenes go to the most mainstream cinema and that's fine, are winks to the most original genre.
The cast is very good, besides Mia Goth, who is spectacular, we have Kevin Bacon, Lily Collins, Michelle Monaghan, Giancarlo Esposito, Sophie Thatcher, etc. Maxine is a woman who knows deeply what she wants, she knows she has a past behind her back that she has to keep hidden and therefore she will not tremble her pulse to do what is necessary to get where she wants; in her character we see a progression of that personality which is obviously affected psychologically being this closure the one she longed for. Sincerely Mia Goth is one of the most solid actresses in horror cinema and although this film was not a 10 the work is still very good.
Highly recommended the film, perhaps for me it falls slightly short but that does not detract from the quality it has. 7/10. In the end it is a good psychological thriller with touches of gore and the typical slasher. Less than two hours long. I leave the trailer here.
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