Ti West is the director and co-writer of the 2022 American horror film Pearl, which also stars Mia Goth as the title character. David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, and Emma Jenkins-Purro make up the supporting cast. The film, a collaboration between A24 and Little Lamb Productions, is a prequel to X (2022) and tells the history of the antagonist.
On September 3, 2022, Pearl made its international premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. On September 16, 2022, Pearl was released by A24 in theaters all around the country. The opening weekend in the US pulls in $3.1M for the film “PEARL.”
The Pearl movie focuses on Pearl’s life in 1918 when she was still a young and lovely woman while fighting in World War I. It goes deeper into the causes of her homicidal actions in X. The farmhouse where the X massacre took place, which was transformed into a boarding house during the war, was also featured in the new movie.
Nothing will stop Pearl from leaving her little town and rising to fame as a beloved movie star. The younger version of the elderly killer in X in the A24 film, as she learns to confront some of the darker feelings she confronts while living in the American South during the concluding phases of World War I. From top to bottom, Pearl is nasty, taking inspiration from films like The Wizard of Oz and turning the renowned brilliant and sparkling Technicolor into the stuff of nightmares. Pearl is little, but it’s still larger than life.
Pearl’s tone is without a doubt its most distinguishing characteristic. Infusing a texture of fabrication into the very identity of the plot, a movie that feels made gives off the sense of a pastel color grade, creamy lens work, and thoroughly well-groomed production design. Similar to the staged sets of The Wizard of Oz with their false-colored foliage and painted backdrops, Pearl’s visual worldbuilding has a certain charm that covers the wicked core of this story.
Perhaps the pinnacle of an A24 horror film is Pearl. It has some strange mind-parasite horror moments and is adorable, eccentric, and offbeat. Director Ti West and heroine Mia Goth have a lot more to offer in terms of character and tragic feeling, even though it’s not quite the balls-to-the-walls blood-at-every-turn kind of slasher.
