10 Amazing Horror Movie Performances That Should've Won Oscars

Mia Goth cemented herself as one of horror's most daring and exciting performers with her sublime turn in the middle entry into Ti West's X trilogy, Pearl. This origin story for Pearl - one of the two geriatric serial killers featured in X - would be decidedly less compelling without Goth's utterly magnetic, even hypnotic work front and center.

Goth impressively sidesteps cliches while making Pearl a fully well-rounded character, with a performance that asks her to pinball between basically every possible human emotion. This culminates, of course, in an unforgettable nine-minute single-take monologue sequence that remains one of the finest acting showcases of the decade - not merely for horror, but film, period.

In Pearl, Mia Goth manages to leave us with a character who is terrifying but sympathetic to a point, mining every morsel of humanity from this fascinating psychopath. In fact, it's a brilliant enough performance that many were left deflated by how comparatively little the X series' third and apparently final film, MaXXXine, gave Goth to do.