She lived through what newspapers dubbed “The Texas Porn Star Massacre,” a long, dark, Type O-splattered night of the soul that left her fellow purveyors of quality adult entertainment outlined in chalk. Now Maxine Miller — better known by her stage name Maxine Minx — must endure an environment so horrific, so murderous that her chances of survival are likely less than zero: the world of big-time Hollywood moviemaking. MaXXXine is a lot of things: a tribute to ’80s slasher flicks, an affectionate recreation (and reclamation) of vintage sleaze, the end of...
- 7/5/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
This article contains massive spoilers for "MaXXXine."
If you want to know the real history of Hollywood in all of its dreamlike, terrible, grimy beauty, you would do well to study the horror film. It's the genre where many pillars of the film industry get their start and one that comments on the darkest aspects of human nature and filmmaking itself without fear of overstepping. Think of Wes Craven's "Scream" quartet: not only do all four films make blatant comments on the contemporary state of the industry, but "Scream 3" even features a character who, in hindsight, is a thinly-veiled version of serial assaulter Harvey Weinstein, an executive producer on the film. The calls were coming from inside the house.
Being a horror movie fan involves not just things like separations of art from the artist, but varying gradations of morality, with so many ethical questions constantly at the forefront of these films.
If you want to know the real history of Hollywood in all of its dreamlike, terrible, grimy beauty, you would do well to study the horror film. It's the genre where many pillars of the film industry get their start and one that comments on the darkest aspects of human nature and filmmaking itself without fear of overstepping. Think of Wes Craven's "Scream" quartet: not only do all four films make blatant comments on the contemporary state of the industry, but "Scream 3" even features a character who, in hindsight, is a thinly-veiled version of serial assaulter Harvey Weinstein, an executive producer on the film. The calls were coming from inside the house.
Being a horror movie fan involves not just things like separations of art from the artist, but varying gradations of morality, with so many ethical questions constantly at the forefront of these films.
- 7/4/2024
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
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