“MaXXXine” is a horror movie written and directed by Ti West starring Mia Goth. With Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan and Kevin Bacon.
The adventures of this most psychopathic and unbalanced girl come to an end with a film full of tributes to cinema in a film that exudes love for the seventh art everywhere.
A film that you will enjoy more the more cinephile you are and, if you have lived the eighties, the better. A profound tribute to cinema and the deep conviction of its author, Ti West, in his own talent.
A new kind of Quentin Tarantino who pays homage to everything, who seems to have seen it all and who, like Wes Craven, allows himself to make a self-aware horror film that ultimately reflects on horror cinema itself and, beyond that, on the art of filmmaking itself.
Funny, terrifying and fast-paced, a film that knows from the first moment why it was born and where it is going despite its controlled air of uncontrollability.
Plot
Maxine is a girl with one purpose in life: to be a star. She was born to be a star and she will not let up. Now is the right time, the 80’s, and in the city of her dreams, Los Angeles, to fulfill it.
But she is not alone, because a Satanist psychopath is sowing terror in Los Angeles, murdering and leaving his mark, a five-pointed star.
About the movie
If you haven’t seen the first two parts, it will take you about three shots to realize the big truth: this guy, Ti West, knows a lot about cinema. Shot for shot, the film is a constant homage to cinema in which cinema is talked about, cinema is parodied, and there is a constant reference to some classic film in almost every shot.
Not surprisingly, it is a film about the art of filmmaking that begins with a quote from none other than Bette Davis.
“MaXXXine” is a film with an excellent setting that will let us tour some of the Hollywood sets and put us in the atmosphere of that time that mixed puritanism with avant-garde in an era marked by pop art and Hollywood iconography. A diffuse, explosive mixture full of color, video clubs and jackets with shoulder pads.
And, on the other hand, the eighties were a glorious time for B-movies like the film in which the leading actress is going to work. “MaXXXine” is a tribute to horror films, to B movies and those wonderful places that were the video stores.
Another aspect: the soundtrack and its catchy eighties rhythm, with some of the greatest hits of the time. Almost all of them will ring a bell.
And last but not least, the girl who carries the weight of this film and the previous ones, the fantastic Mia Goth, who thanks to these films has become, precisely, a star as Maxine in the movie. Perfect in the complicated role of heroine as well as villain, timid as well as ruthless and victim as well as executioner.
Our opinion
A tribute to Hollywood created from self-awareness, veneration, irony and sarcasm.
A great ending to this horror trilogy that will give much to talk about in the coming years.
