#323: Tex-Mess, Pt. 2 — X (2022)

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ti West’s new X is very much inspired by Tobe Hooper’s 1974 shocker THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (and to an extent, Hooper’s lesser-known EATEN ALIVE), following another bunch of ill-fated van passengers, this one a group filming a low-budget porno, who wind up on the wrong side of the owners of a remote Texas farmhouse. The film’s late-’70s setting invites all sorts of analysis and interpretation about sex, death, and their intersection with cultural and religious conservatism at the dawn of the 1980s, which we dig into, once again with the help of film writer and horror aficionado Katie Rife, before turning our focus to some of the specific echoes between X and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, X, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to [email protected]. We may respond to it on our Patreon (patreon.com/NextPictureShow), where you can also find bonus episodes, a weekly newsletter, recommendations, and more. Outro music: Blue Oyster Cult, “Don’t Fear the Reaper” Next pairing: The Daniels’ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s BLIND CHANCE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:34.6	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:41.9	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:49.7	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie that we've podcast about it to a classic film
0:54.2	and the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:57.3	I'm Keith Phipps here again with Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias.
1:01.3	And for this horrifying double feature, we have once again subbed in Katie Rife for
1:05.8	Jenny Vukoski. Hi, Katie.
1:07.7	Hi, so happy to be back.
1:10.3	You survived last week, but will you survive this week?
1:13.6	This is a slow burn, uh, horror murder podcast.
1:19.5	We spend a lot of time introducing these characters.
1:22.0	We've been around for, for years now introducing our other selves as characters, but we all die by the end of this episode. Spoiler.
1:29.2	So speaking of last week's episode, we talked about the Texas chainsaw massacre, Toby Hooper's
1:33.6	1974 shocker, about a massacre in Texas with a chainsaw. This week, we're turning our attention
1:39.7	to X, a Thai West horror film very much inspired by Texas Chainshall Massacre, and with its killer
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