I originally watched this film as an introduction to Mia Goth's acting, which I must say is incredible this film. I was thrilled to see such a star studded cast including Jenna Ortega and Brittany Snow. That being said I think the writing did not live up to the casts potential. If you are looking for a nostalgic 70's/80's style slasher film, this might fit the bill. Motives of characters in this film left a lot to be explained and fell short in my eyes. That being said, this film serves as the introductory film to the prequel, "Pearl" which is far more better excecuted and "X" is totally worth the watch just to experience "Pearl" in all it's glory. Overall, his film was good but not great. However, I look forward to the character development in the partner films surrounding this plot line.

Zero expectations or knowledge about this movie when I turned this one on. I knew it was a horror movie and that was it. Watching it, I could feel the love that the creators had for the old age of horror movies, the era of slashers and all the things that Scream once dissected and made light of, an age of horror movie rules where you expect sex to equal death and the final girl to surmount all odds and take on the horrible entity terrorizing them.

The idea of this movie seems like something I should have really enjoyed. The reality of it was more underwhelming. I never found myself connecting to the characters, so when things start to go awry, I had no investment in their existence. They were just red shirts in a horror movie. I expected them to die and most of them met that expectation. It was fine. It never really tipped the scales into love, never into hate, it lingered in the realm of quiet acceptance of what was going on, a positive tolerance that never reached proper enjoyment.

One star each for casting Mia Goth and Brittany Snow, but zero stars for the underdeveloped screenplay and the rest of it. There was a semi-interesting idea here but the stated motivations of the "nearby enemy" (as they are identified in a spoiler-free way in the "storyline") are hard to believe.

So, there are some very mild scenes of adult entertainment here, but the supposed "horror" element fails miserably. There's a scene in a barn which ends absurdly -- what might have been a (pleasantly) nasty moment is just a damp squib.

While I appreciate that the victims are not meant to realise they are in danger, I really think the audience needs to feel their peril on their behalf. This just failed miserably in that respect because the motivations of the other characters were just so hard to believe.