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It's 1979 in Houston. Six people pile into a van and head out to the rural outskirts where they've rented a bunkhouse on a farm. An elderly couple owns the property, and, unbeknownst to them, the group's goal is to shoot an adult film called The Farmer's Daughters.
By daybreak, there's a trail of bloody carnage.
The new slasher film X is directed by horror veteran Ti West, and it has received extremely positive reaction from audiences and critics. Currently, it holds a 96% score on the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
The film's production and distribution company, A24, was so confident the film would be a success that it greenlit a prequel film, called Pearl, which has already been shot and edited.
Like the recent Netflix sequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which was filmed in Bulgaria, X was also shot in a faraway country.
In the audio above, Houston Matters producer Troy Schulze (in his extended conversation with West) finds out why a movie based in Texas was shot thousands of miles away. They also discuss the film itself and how West came to filmmaking — and especially the horror genre.
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