The next chapter in Ti West’s X trilogy, MaXXXine will transport fans to yet another decade, the ‘80s. But it’s not just all spandex and big hair in the threequel, as the director has taken influence straight from some of the era’s most risque and action-packed movies. "It’s a very rich movie," West tells out on Thursday May 23, which features Twisters on the cover.
The director goes on to explain how MaXXXine boasts everything from "a Terminator-like aesthetic to a Paul Schrader Hardcore thing to Vice Squad to Giallo," in terms of influence. For those not familiar with '80s cinema, Hardcore is a racy neo-noir thriller following a father desperately searching for his daughter in the Californian porn industry, whilst crime drama Vice Squad follows a prostitute forced to work undercover for the police. On the other hand, Giallo is an Italian movie genre that explores murder, sexual exploitation, and sometimes supernatural elements.
These all seem perfectly on brand for the upcoming movie which follows Mia Goth's ex-adult film star Maxine Minx as she lands in Hollywood in 1985, where she finally gets her big break. The comparison to 1984 action movie The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg assassin from the future, is meanwhile more perplexing. However, West is no stranger to taking influence from movies of different eras and often putting a bloody and brutal spin on them, just as he did with the first two movies in the X trilogy.
Set in 1979, X take.
