The Only Recap You Need Before MaXXXine
Lorraine Day (Jenna Ortega) had her hand obliterated before being shot with a shotgun, Bobby-Lynne Parker (Brittany Snow) was fed to an alligator, Jackson Hole (Scott Mescudi) was shot in the chest, RJ Nichols (Owen Campbell) was stabbed to death, and Maxine’s ex-boyfriend Wayne Gilroy (Martin Henderson) was stabbed with a pitchfork. Pearl’s loving husband Howard (Stephen Ure) died from a heart attack, and Pearl (Mia Goth) broke her hip from the recoil of a shotgun throwing her off the porch, putting her in the perfect position for Maxine to run her over with the truck and escape to freedom. This makes Maxine the sole survivor of what is now being called “The Texas Porn Star Murders” from “X” (per a newspaper article shown in the trailer).
The only person Maxine actually killed was Pearl and it was in obvious self-defense, but what police force in the country is going to believe two old psycho-biddies were responsible for annihilating a young, healthy, physically capable group of people? At the end of “X,” the police find the camera RJ had filmed the porn on, which includes the barn scene of Maxine and Jackson. There’s physical proof that she was there. Even if the cops do believe her story that it was self-defense, she’s still going to catch heat for having not called them earlier.
Goth played both Maxine and the elderly Pearl in “X,” and it was shown that Maxine greatly resembled Pearl in her youth (further confirmed by Goth’s performance in “Pearl”). The two women are a lot alike despite being decades apart. Perhaps “MaXXXine” will give Miss Minx her chance for her own “Pearl” story, with “X” serving as more of a bridge to connect these two character studies. Nothing brings people together like a massacre, huh?
