10 Horror Movies Where You Know Nearly Everyone Will Die

Ti West's Pearl came hot on the heels of X, with both films released in the same year and forming the first two-thirds of the X trilogy. Serving as a prequel to the first film, Pearl puts Mia Goth in the titular role once more, but this time inhabiting the younger Pearl, whom she had played the older version of in the previous X, opposite herself as Maxine Minx (just go with it). And because X was super fresh in our minds, we all knew exactly what to expect: death, and plenty of it.

Pearl is a young woman with dreams of dancing and stardom, but whose overbearing mother and rural farmyard life don’t exactly provide a platform to leave the proverbial Kansas (here, Texas) behind and embark on her magical, Technicolor adventure. As a result, our already unstable heroine begins to unwind further, committing ever-greater acts of violence that inevitably lead back towards her own parents.

As the Pearl character is the violent and murderous old crone in X - still living on the selfsame farm as in Pearl - we go in knowing she must fail at her dreams, dispatch her family, and take up her mantle as the ol’ axe murderer. And boy does she ever.