🎙️CWT780: 'X' (2022) Smut Flick(?!) Review #1: Sex, Slaughter, and the Fear of Growing Old

from Critical Wade Theory · host Wade Wainio

When "X" hit theaters in March 2022, many horror fans expected little more than another throwback slasher — a bloody love letter to the grindhouse films of the 1970s. After all, the marketing promised a group of young people isolated on a rural Texas farm, an unsettling elderly couple, and plenty of gruesome kills.Instead, audiences got something far stranger, smarter, and far more emotionally unsettling.

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