inside of Pearl. So, what turns her into a psycho? Maybe it’s being cooped up and confined, like the cow and the goat in their pens, inside a quarantined house with an overbearing mother and an ...

Both films begin with a shot of the country house where much of ... the 16mm film that much of the movie's porno film will be shown in. While Pearl starts off inside the same barn, the doors ...

The projectionist drives Pearl home the next morning. She invites him inside for more ... last scene of the movie, Howard returns home from war. He walks into the farm house, and sees the rotting ...

Dipping into her father’s morphine sulphate to ease her frustrations, Pearl escapes when she can to the local movie house ... she perceives the darkness inside her daughter.

The House of the Devil' director Ti ... who’ll do anything to become a star. In short, “Pearl” is the prequel no one asked for to a movie not many people saw. And yet, despite being ...

Pearl’s desperation to escape her abusive mother and unresponsive father provokes sympathy from the audience. Goth carries much of the movie on her shoulders, as she not only plays the protagonist but ...

She is by turns childlike, seductive and terrifying. Pearl falls into an affair with the local movie-house projectionist (David Corenswet), who introduces her to French pornography and dazzles her ...

As a result, the film’s script, which West and Goth co-wrote together, doesn’t take on the same slasher movie structure as X. Instead, Pearl frequently feels like a kind of twisted coming-of ...

We initially see a brief conflict between Pearl and her mother Ruth (Tandi Wright). Pearl soon goes outside and there’s vibrant music reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz. As the movie progresses ...