The X movie's ending builds to a bloody spectacle of a conclusion while also leaving its viewers with a number of unanswered questions. In the 2022 slasher X directed by Ti West, an idealistic fictional adult movie director RJ (Owen Campbell) leads a crew as they travel to a remote Texas farm to shoot a pornographic movie in the late 1970s. The young cast of the X movie appears to be blinded by their desire to profit from the growing home video porn market, as they appear to be unaware of the covetous presence in the farmhouse next door, which is Pearl (also played by Mia Goth), an elderly character from the film X. However, as night falls, Pearl's lustful intent turns violent, leaving Maxine (also Mia Goth), Lorraine, Wayne, Jackson, Bobby-Lynne, Brittany Snow of Pitch Perfect, and RJ to deal with the horrors of Pearl's resentment.
The franchise-starting X movie ending is just one of the many reasons that Ti West's X movie has horror fans all over the world hyped. But even though Ti West's X is a clear love letter to the slasher genre, its conclusion is anything but simple. X's final scenes are quite the rollercoaster because of a number of significant character deaths as well as buried clues that point to a vast canon that is left unexplored in the film. The X movie ending also gave rise to the prequel Pearl, which follows the killer from a young age and examines her origins, and the upcoming sequel MaXXXine. Here is a detailed explanation of the X movie, including what the movie's ending actually means and how it relates to Pearl and MaXXXine. This is because the movie has a greater significance now that the X/Pearl franchise was established.The bloody scenes from the first act of the X movie are revisited as part of the plot's narrative closure in the X movie ending. The porn crew is reduced to just two survivors in the X ending, with Maxine hiding under Howard (Stephen Ure from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Pearl's bed and Lorraine imprisoned in the farmhouse basement. Excited by the brutal killings they just committed, Pearl and Howard engage in sexual activity, allowing Maxine to stealthily flee and locate Lorraine.
However, Lorraine reacts hastily and unjustly blames her promiscuity for the horrors that have occurred throughout the course of X when Mia Goth's Maxine frees her from her basement prison. When Lorraine tries to flee the farmhouse on foot while panicked, lost, and hysterical, Howard shoots her. Next comes the climactic scene from the X-Men films, in which Howard experiences the long-feared heart attack after being startled by Lorraine's death rattle. Pearl (also Mia Goth), who is furious over the death of her husband and confidante, tries to shoot Maxine with Howard's shotgun, but the shotgun's blast knocks her back and breaks her hip. In a particularly sickening scene, Maxine reverses over the elderly Pearl's head in RJ's van before speeding away from the farm as Pearl lies helpless on the floor pleading for assistance. Maxine then decides to exact revenge for her killed friends.
Following Howard's earlier call to police, Sherriff Dentler and the remainder of his police force go to the house at the end of X the following morning to retrieve the crew's bodies, which they still consider to be intruders. However, the police quickly find RJ's film camera and make assumptions about what the footage shows, suggesting that the murderous deceit of the elderly Pearl and Howard will soon be exposed. The shocking revelation that Maxine is the offspring of a fundamentalist Christian, whose local televangelist-style sermons have been playing on Pearl and Howard's shaky television throughout the movie, concludes X 2022.As previously mentioned, the shocking X movie epilogue reveals Maxine's father to be the neighborhood televangelist yelling at his followers on Howard and Pearl's antique TV. The Christian preacher confesses that he is Maxine's father on camera and then asks God to help her find her way back to her family and him. The film's final girl frequently repeats the phrase "I will not accept a life I do not deserve," which is taken from the Bible's Mark 10:15 verses. This subtle reference to Maxine's less-than-pious life is carried throughout X.
Bible verses are of course a well-known horror trope that has been used in everything from classics like The Exorcist to contemporary shows like Servant, but the X movie uses them particularly well to hammer home its narrative themes (instead of simply adding a bit of Gothic horror flavor, as some movies and shows do). Maxine's mantra to herself, which she frequently repeats to herself, is confirmed by learning about her ancestry. Maxine now uses her father's prosperity gospel as her new motivation. Although Maxine's X ending leaves it open to interpretation as to whether she decides to seek out her family or not, it appears that Hollywood will be her most likely stop because, prior to the bloodshed at Howard's farmhouse, Maxine mentions "making it" in Los Angeles. This ambiguity will undoubtedly be resolved in the MaXXXine sequel, but as of right now, it's unclear how Maxine feels about her father after the events of X.While the X movie's resolution appears to be standard slasher fare—the last girl defeats the killers and escapes—Ti West's latest horror is interwoven with more symbolism than Maxine ramming a van into Pearl's head would suggest. The symmetry of Maxine killing Pearl (both played by Mia Goth of A Cure for Wellness) is symbolic of a natural life cycle, in which the new outlives the old. Pearl yearns for youth and beauty that she can no longer possess and, despite her best efforts, will never be able to obtain it. Maxine turns her down before outlasting Pearl in the play's climactic scene. Pearl is thus a stand-in for tradition, while Maxine is a stand-in for change. Although the two will inevitably clash, change will invariably triumph in both the real world and in X's ultimate analysis.The X 2022 film by Ti West has essentially established an entire film series, with the prequel Pearl and the X sequel MaXXXine currently in production. The X movie's conclusion gives Pearl's story a touch of closure, but it gives Maxine, the protagonist of the upcoming sequel, a complete world opening. The prequel movie Pearl, which came out six months after X, explores the life and motivations of the X killer. In these two movies, two key questions that the X ending raised are addressed. The first is: How did Pearl come to be a killer in the first place?
In 1918, Pearl is a young girl with big dreams, and Pearl is set at the same farmhouse. While Pearl waits for her husband Howard to return from World War I, she is forced to care for her ailing father because she shares a home with her overbearing and judgmental mother. Pearl also learns at this time that she has a propensity for mistreating and killing farm animals. The X movie killer Pearl had aspirations of becoming a chorus girl one day, and when she attends an audition, she is given the opportunity, which she regrettably does not receive. Her family members are murdered one by one, and Howard returns home to a big surprise. Pearl's graphic conclusion rivals that of X and provides significant insight into Pearl's bloodlust by the time RJ and Maxine arrive in the 1970s.
What will happen to Maxine now that she is free is the second unanswered question from the X movie ending, especially in light of the impending admission that she is the preacher's daughter. Ti West, a director and fan of horror films, will provide an answer with the upcoming X sequel MaXXXine. Although MaXXXine hasn't been given a release date yet, it will soon. MaXXXine, set in 1980s Los Angeles, will follow the exploits of Mia Goth's titular character as she tries anything (and everything) to advance her way to stardom. In the same way that X did with the '70s and Pearl's setting in early 1918, the teaser trailer suggests that there will be plenty of 1980s pop culture fun and flair in this film. Director of period horror Ti West brought his A-game for X, and as a result, this one movie launched a whole series full of fantastic horror Easter eggs.
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