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Mia Goth MaXXXine A24 Nightstalker
April 8, 2024
MaXXXine trailer from Ti West starring Mia Goth involves the real-life American serial killer Richard Ramirez, also known as the…
From Pearl to Babylon to NOPE to Blonde, 2022 Is the Year of Movies About Movies
December 30, 2022
From Pearl to The Fabelmans to Babylon, 2022 is the year of movies about movies and moviemaking. The results have…
Ti West: Things I've Learned as a Moviemaker
December 29, 2022
Ti West released Pearl and X, two of the best horror films in years, just months apart. Here's how he…
Mia Goth Says That Creepy Smile Scene in Pearl Wasn't Scripted
December 21, 2022
Mia Goth says Ti West asked her to improve the creepy smile scene in Pearl at the last minute, and…
Ti West Almost Shot Pearl in Black and White, Then Did the Opposite
November 15, 2022
The color in Pearl, the latest from Ti West, is striking — but West almost shot the Mia Goth horror…
Influencer Horror; Tastefully Psychosexual
November 2, 2022
A new Avatar trailer; Influencer gets the influencer horror genre just right; how to make a modern-day psychosexual thriller; R.I.P. Julie…
Ti West asked Mia Goth and every actor on X: Why the hell do you want to be in this movie?
November 1, 2022
Ti West, director of X and Pearl, knew X had potential drawbacks for his actors. So he asked them all:…
No, Pearl Did Not Cost a Mere $1 Million, Executive Producer Peter Phok Says
October 5, 2022
Pearl, the Mia Goth and Ti West collaboration, has been widely reported to have a very low $1 million budget.…
Defending de Armas; Ti West on Pearl; What a Colorist Does
September 15, 2022
Ana de Armas and the director of Blonde tell us why her Marilyn Monroe voice is just right; a Ti…
R.I.P. Jean-Luc Godard, Babylon Trailer; Meet MaXXXine
September 13, 2022
R.I.P. Jean-Luc Godard; Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt raise hell in Damien Chazelle's Babylon trailer; Ti West goes triple X…
MaXXXine
September 13, 2022
MaXXXine will be the third film in the Ti West and Mia Goth X horror franchise, after Pearl, which arrives…
Mia Goth Says That Creepy Smile Scene in Pearl Wasn't Scripted
July 27, 2022
Brendan Frasier as The Whale; Mia Goth plays Pearl in a quick-turnaround prequel to Ti West's X, Ethan Hawke looks…
X Ti West
March 24, 2022
X writer-director Ti West has a knack for nailing period details and he explains to MovieMaker his two rules that…
October 31, 2016
Take a break from crafting that last-second DIY costume to revisit the best articles of October 2016 on moviemaker.com, collected…
October 21, 2016
MovieMaker Magazine's 2017 Guide to Making Horror Movies is the second in our annual series, starting with last year's inaugural…
October 20, 2016
For our second edition of MovieMaker's Guide to Making Horror Movies, we asked indie auteur Ti West to be our…
October 23, 2015
Successfully franchising a horror film is to achieve some level of film industry transcendence. Something you made is granted longevity,…
April 25, 2012
With The House of the Devil and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, writer-director Ti West reinvigorated the horror genre with…
February 2, 2010
Ti West's The House of the Devil is the latest buzzy horror film. But—like Eli Roth's Cabin Fever before it—this…