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Pearl

Pearl

7.2/ 10

TMDB Rating

2,507

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2022

Release Year

102 min

Runtime

Horror
Thriller

Overview

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

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Keywords

farm
pornography
dance performance
confession
texas
alligator
barn
prequel
murder
serial killer
slasher
corpse
murderer
violent death
lust
religious fundamentalism
audition
mental illness
projectionist
nostalgic
isolated farmhouse
pandemic
1910s
mother daughter relationship
origin story
playful
aspiring actress
pastiche
whimsical
empathetic
sympathetic
tragic
vibrant
crocodilo

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Reviews(5)

5.8avg rating
Nathan

Nathan

@TitanGusang

October 14, 2022

8
8/10

_Pearl_ is a great character study that dives deeper in the stakes that an individual will go to attain success. It is unquestionable that the main question people will ask is, does it live up to X? While I do think it is a good film that I thoroughly enjoyed, it does not overtake its predecessor an

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Manuel São Bento

@msbreviews

November 22, 2022

7
7/10

MORE SPOILER-FREE MINI-REVIEWS @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/mini-reviews-2022-edition/ "Pearl may be a prequel to X, but Ti West turns this slasher into an incredibly complex character study represented - and co-written (!) - by Mia Goth. The new star of the horror genre deepens

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 23, 2023

6
6/10

Despite quite a characterful effort from Mia Goth as the title character here, I wasn't really very impressed with this film. She lives on a farm whilst her young husband is off fighting on the Somme. She shares her life with her Germanic, rather authoritarian, mother "Ruth" (Tandi Wright) and her p

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Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

@screenzealots

April 23, 2023

7
7/10

**By: Louisa Moore / www.ScreenZealots.com** The strange and unusual “Pearl,” a prequel to writer / director Ti West‘s “X”, is a different kind of slasher film. Creating an origin story for the title villain, the film tells the history of a farm girl dreamer with a serious mean streak. It’s a hor

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tmdb51616167

September 2, 2024

1
1/10

I will be doing a combined review for the two films, "X" and "Pearl." Upon seeing the high ratings given by both the general public and critics to these movies, I am left puzzled about what truly makes a good film. Let's start with "X," a movie that I found to be absolutely terrible. The film

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