XX

2017
R
1h 20m

IMDb RATING

4.6/10

13K

YOUR RATING

An all-female horror anthology featuring new work from Karyn Kusama, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin and Jovanka Vuckovic.

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This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.

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Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
The segment "The Box" is the only one of the four segments that is not actually an original story by the women but is instead an adaptation of the Jack Ketchum story.

Goofs
In The Box all three characters die of starvation in a hospital after refusing to eat for long periods of time, but even when they've gone comatose the hospital never inserts a feeding tube, which would surely have reversed their condition.

Quotes
Susan Jacobs (segment "The Box"): You love spaghetti.
Susan Jacobs (segment "The Box"): It... It's been three days.

Connections
Featured in Starfilm (2017)

Soundtracks
XX Theme
Written by Fesway
Performed by Sofia Orozco, Fernando Arias and Yolihuani Curiel

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Review

Featured review

6/10

A short review of "XX" (2017)

I'm sorry to report that this year's "XX" doesn't quite live up to the great horror anthology that its trailer promises. This quarter of female-directed horror shorts is actually quite average, when considered together, and I'd give it a 6 out of 10.

Only the first segment is truly memorable — "The Box," adapted from a short story by Jack Ketchum. The directing and scoring is superb. (Seriously, the music is quite good.) The acting is also good throughout this segment, most especially by "The Strain's" Natalie Brown. She's a good actress and she's starting to grow on me. (And her memorable last lines here, which I assume come from the text of Ketchum's story, are weird and haunting.) This quarter of "XX" gets under your skin.

Despite "The Box" being capably developed and unnerving, however, there were no conventional scares at all. It hardly felt like a horror short; it was more like a particularly macabre and ambiguous parable. Nor is the story's mystery solved — it's left open-ended.

The second segment is largely a waste of time, despite being stylishly shot and scored. (Hint: it's got the same story device as "Weekend at Bernie's.")

The remaining two tales are more standard horror stories. I'd suggest they are somewhat fair at best.

I think I would recommend this only to the most well rounded horror fans who are in the mood for something different. And, even then, it might only be for the peculiar elements of "The Box."