While waiting for the trailer to arrive tomorrow, A24 has released, online, the official poster of Pearl, the top-secret prequel to the horror slasher X - A Sexy Horror Story (2022).
Shot in great secrecy in New Zealand shortly after X, Pearl again features Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), who co-directed the script with Mia Goth (Marrowbone, Suspiria).
The latter, we recall, plays a dual role in X - A Sexy Horror Story: in fact, the actress is both the ambitious young Maxine and Pearl, the villain who, along with her husband, harbors the troupe of success-hungry boys who decide to shoot an adult film in rural Texas in 1979.
In the prequel, however, Mia Goth plays a young Pearl. alongside her are also David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland and Emma Jenkins-Purro.
Set during World War I in 1918, Ti West's new film explores the origins of Pearl. The events take place before X - A Sexy Horror Story and explore how the chalet, the site of the massacre, was once used as a boarding house during the war.
Ti West himself stated. Pearl is stylistically very different from X and which is influenced by other cult films of the past. Last March, the director revealed that he is working on the script for a third installment that will be set chronologically after the events of X, thus realizing a true trilogy.
