Director Ti West knows the red meat horror fans want, and serves it up with panache.
Traipsing into danger is the essential playbook of horror, a path well-trodden.
But that fondness for details arrives with a sly sense of interrogation.
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You wouldn’t call it “elevated horror” God forbid so much as exfoliated.
(Pay no attention to thatofficial sequelthat came and went a few weeks ago.)
In the van are six porn makers porn starsis definitely pushing it.
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As for R.J.’s girlfriend, Lorraine (former Disney kid Jenna Ortega), holding the boom pole?
She’s a little undecided about what side of the lens she wants to be on.
For its whole running time,Xhas ideas on its mind.
