Review | Third time's the charmless for 'MaXXXine' and Ti West's horror trilogy
Briefly

The backstory of the first film's elderly psycho killer, it takes place in 1918, at the dawn of Hollywood and our culture's delusional dreams of stardom - of being seen...
Both films raised actress Mia Goth - who co-wrote 'Pearl' with West and co-produced 'Pearl' and 'MaXXXine' - to a new level of pop visibility. She's the body, brains, and subversive soul of the series...
Goth begins 'MaXXXine' in 1985 Hollywood, where Maxine has become an established player in the booming adult video industry. She's eager to go legit, though, and early in the film aces an audition to play the lead in a horror movie being directed by the fearsome British auteur Liz Bender...
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