Second Sight Films are releasing, in both limited and standard 4K UHD editions, the final film in writer-director Ti West's 'X' trilogy. They're bringing out the second, PEARL, as well, but not X because of rights issues which are sadly denying collectors the opportunity of a gorgeous box set of the three.
MAXXXINE continues the adventures of porn star Maxine (Mia Goth) who we last saw in X. It's now 1985 and Maxine, having reached the peak of her adult film career, wants to move into more legitimate movies. She gets a part in 'The Puritan II', directed by Elizabeth Bender (Elizabeth Debicki). Meanwhile a giallo-like killer that has been labelled The Night Stalker by the media is slashing their way through victims that include workers in the adult entertainment industry and Maxine might just be next.
In one of the interviews on this disc Ti West talks about how he wanted the final film in the trilogy to be both as different from the previous two films as they were from each other, for it to be the most bombastic, and for each of the three films to be different in terms of cinematic style. He certainly succeeded on all three counts. MAXXXINE depicts the grungy side of 1985 Los Angeles (production designer Jason Kisvardy suggested a REPO MAN look and if you've seen that film you'll know what he means). It all goes quite crazy at the end but throughout this is a movie where restraint has gone firmly out of the window.
Second Sight's 4K transfer keeps the grainy look of the movie and comes with a number of new extras, including a commentary track from Bill Ackerman and Amanda Reyes and new interviews with West (16 minutes), producer Jacob Jaffke (30 minutes), DP Eliot Rockett (21 minutes), and designer Kisvardy (24 minutes, audio only), while Kat Hughes provides a 15 minute visual essay.
There are a bunch of archival 'making of' extras that consist of around 30 minutes of cast and crew interviews including Goth, Debicki, Kevin Bacon, Giancarlo Esposito, Halsey, Lily Collins and Michele Monaghan. Finally there's a Q&A with Ti West at one of the movie's first showings to which he has brought Molly his 'emotional support puppy' for horror film dog lovers everywhere. Second Sight's limited edition comes with a 120 page book with new writing on the film, six art cards and a rigid slipcase.
Ti West's MAXXXINE is being released by Second Sight on 4K UHD in both limited and standard editions on Monday 17th November 2025
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