31 Horror Movies You Must Watch This October 2022
27. Pearl
Ti West's slasher throwback X is one of the year's most pleasant surprises so far - a film that was quietly shot during the pandemic and released basically outta nowhere to rave reviews and modest box office success.
West did one better, then, by revealing that he also shot a prequel to X at the same time, Pearl, focused around X's elderly antagonist of the same name.
Mia Goth, who donned old-lady prosthetics to play Pearl in X, plays a young version of the character in the prequel, which has similarly earned rave reviews from critics and fans alike.
Some have even cited Goth's performance as Oscar-worthy despite the Academy's notorious aversion to horror, and West recently revealed that a third film - a sequel to X called MaXXXine - is imminently due to start production.
Pearl is out now in US cinemas, and should hit streaming in October.