X

X (2022)

Timing: 1:46 (106 min)

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Release date

2022-03-17

Country

United States

Production

A24, Little Lamb Productions

Genre

Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Budget

$1 000 000

Revenue

$15 113 105

Website

https://a24films.com/films/x

Director

Ti West

Actors

Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Kid Cudi, Martin Henderson, Owen Campbell, Stephen Ure, James Gaylyn, Simon Prast, Geoff Dolan
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Scenario

Ti West

Producer

Kevin Turen, Sam Levinson, Ti West, Jacob Jaffke, Kid Cudi, Peter Phok, Harrison Kreiss, Ashley Levinson, Dennis Cummings, Karina Manashil

Operator

Eliot Rockett

Composer

Tyler Bates

Artist

John Lott

Audition

Jessica Kelly, Rebecca Dealy

Editing

Ti West, David Kashevaroff
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• The day after the premiere of the film 'X' at 'South by Southwest' (an event that includes a series of music, film, and media festivals and conferences held annually in mid-March in Austin, Texas), the film's director, Ti West, announced that during a two-week quarantine he had written the script for a prequel – 'Pearl' (2022). Filming of 'X' had already finished, all the sets were still in place, and he asked actress Mia Goth if she would like to stay in New Zealand for a little longer and shoot 'Pearl'. She agreed.
• The film's title references the 'X' rating of the American Film Association's rating system, which existed from 1968 to 1990, according to which this film was intended for viewers aged 16 and over. This rating was also assigned at the time to John Schlesinger's (1926-2003) 'Midnight Cowboy' (1969), Melvin Van Peebles' (1932-2021) 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song' (1971), Stanley Kubrick's (1928-1999) 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971), Ralph Bakshi's 'Fritz the Cat' (1972), and Bernardo Bertolucci's (1941-2018) 'Last Tango in Paris' (1972). In the 1970s, the 'X' rating began to be assigned primarily to pornographic films shown in theaters, and more and more theaters began to refuse to show films with an 'X' rating. In 1990, the American Film Association removed the 'X' rating from its classifier and replaced it with the 'NC-17' rating (persons 17 years of age and younger are not admitted to the film).
• Applying Mia Goth's makeup, including 30 separate prosthetics, took 6 hours, and she transformed into Pearl, who is approximately four times older than Maxxxine.