It won’t offend me one bit if you skip my review of writer-director Zach Cregger’s “Barbarian” (20th Century Studio—Regency Enterprises—New Regency—Almost Never Films—Hammerstone Studios—Vertical Entertainment—-Boulderlight Pictures, 2022, 107 min.), as
"Pearl," a prequel to "X," explores how that earlier film's killer crone came to embrace her psychotic destiny. Film critic Katie Rife reviews Ti West's latest and explains what you'll need to know if you haven't seen "X."