Pearl

Year: 2022

Director: Ti West

Rotten Tomatoes: 93%

Plot: Trapped on her family's isolated farm during the Spanish flu pandemic, Pearl dreams of escaping her oppressive life and becoming a movie star. Her ambition, isolation, and increasingly violent impulses collide as she becomes the woman we later encounter in X.

Marcela Notes: God forbid a girl have passions?! Fave fave fave fave I sometimes perform under the name Pearl I loved it so much. This is a movie for cinema lovers! The colors are gorgeous, the set designs and costumes, chef's kiss. The show stealer- Mia Goth's performance. If horror were regarded with more intellect and actresses in roles like these were encouraged to submit for awards, I think she should have won best actress for her monologue alone. I cannot believe she memorized the whole thing and did it in one take. Amazing gore, absolutely iconic ending that our queen improvised because she was waiting for West to yell "cut" (so autistic coded ugh I lover her)