Quick: Name five stars who got their start in horror movies.
This is such an easy question, even for much of todays modern crop of Gen-Z talent.
So posing it in the 1980s is hardly fair.
And yet, that is what Mia Goths eternally striving dreamer does at the top of the newMaXXXinetrailer fromA24.
Jamie Lee Curtis, John Travolta, Demi Moore, and Maxines video store clerk buddy rattles off.
She cuts him off before what surely must have beenKevin Bacon.
Once upon a time, Bacon mightve said the same thing about Sean S. Cunningham.
After all, Bacon got his start in Cunninghams 80s schlock classic,Friday the 13th(1980).
It would seemTi WestsMaXXXinewill be awash in such backward-looking wistfulness as gleaned in the above sizzle reel.
MaXXXinewill likely unpack (and perhaps incorporate?)
Either way,Psychowas a landmark film in the horror genre and Hollywood history at large.
By setting a major scene (and perhaps a death?)
MaXXXine released on July 5, 2024.
