Goth delivers a jaw-dropping, powerhouse performance that skips fancifully between childlike delusion and psychopathic fury.

West sustains the queasy conflation of fantastical delirium and nauseating reality until the eponymous farm girl has relinquished her tenuous grasp on sanity. Director: Ti West.ĭirector Ti West's luxuriously overwrought prequel to his 2022 horror film X is a disorienting Technicolour fever dream that repeatedly refers to The Wizard Of Oz.Įxcept here his Dorothy is mentally unstable, wilfully duplicitous and would prefer to greet Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion with a blood-smeared axe than a wicker basket containing Toto.įittingly subtitled An X-traordinary Origin Story, Pearl cranks up the horror-saturated melodrama from its heavily stylised opening titles and initial deafening blasts of composers Tyler Bates and Tim Williams' score. Mia Goth, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, David Corenswet, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Alistair Sewell. PEARL (15, 94 mins) Horror/Thriller/Romance. This week: a teenager harnesses his powers as a spandex-clad superhero in the fantasy action adventure SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS… Jennifer Saunders, Judi Dench and Russell Tovey star in the film adaptation of Alan Bennett's stage play ALLELUJAH… and Mia Goth suffers most grievously in horror prequel PEARL.FILM OF THE WEEK Damon Smith reviews the latest new releases to watch in cinemas.

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