210 | Pearl

• Directed by Ti West

• Written by Ti West and Mia Goth

• Stars Mia Goth, David Corenswet and Emma Jenkins-Purro

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 43min

• Released September 16, 2022

• RT: 89% critics, 82% audience (X was 94%/75%)

  Synopsis 

The story of Pearl, a young married woman living on her parents’ farm during WWI while her husband is away at war. Pearl feels stifled by her chores and her stern mother, and dreams of becoming a star. When she learns that auditions are being held for a dance troupe she thinks her big break might finally have come.

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Next up, we’ll be checking out My Best Friend's Exorcism, currently streaming on Amazon Prime, and based on the novel by Grady Hendrix. Check out the book, check out the movie, and then check out our next episode.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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197 | X

• Written & Directed by Ti West

• Stars Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega and Brittany Snow

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 45min

• Premiered at South By Southwest March 13, 2022

• Released in theaters March 18, 2022

• RT: 96% critics, 74% audience

Synopsis 

The year: 1979. Wayne, his future fiance Maxine, and their group of young go-getters have a dream to cash in on the burgeoning field of amateur pornography, so they head out to rural texas to make their film on location on the property of an unsuspecting old man and his ill wife. But once the couple finds out what the group is really doing on their property we discover that they aren’t quite as old and helpless as we previously thought.

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Next up, another theatrical release. Get thyself to the movies to see You Won’t Be Alone, then join us in two weeks to discuss it.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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89 | The House of the Devil

Writer/Director: Ti West

Synopsis: Samantha is a college sophomore anxious to move out of the dorms & escape her nightmare roommate. She finds her dream apartment, but needs to make a few hundie real quick in order to pay first month’s rent.  Desperate for an under the table gig, she responds to a flyer asking for a babysitter that night, which also happens to be the night of a full lunar eclipse which their town is in the perfect position to witness.  When she arrives at the house out in the middle of nowhere she finds that circumstances are a bit different than she had been led to believe.  Against the wishes of the friend who drops her off, Samantha decides to take the job anyway.  It’s just for a couple hours, after all.  How much could possibly go wrong? Dun dun DUN!

Intro/Outro music courtesy Peter Perfect. Check him out on Instagram | Soundcloud

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It's time to go more further into the further than we've ever gone before. That's right, it's time for the next installation in the Insidious franchise, Insidious 4: The Last Key. I don't know what's happening in the thumbnail image below, but it looks intriguing.