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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is Pearl (2022), the prequel to X (2022), which we watched last week. It tells the origin story of the eponymous deranged serial-killing old lady Pearl (played by Mia Goth), who grew up in a strict, religious, rural-Texan household with an abusive father. She gradually becomes more jokerfied as her living conditions push her to the edge and eventually kills a bunch of people. Most reviewers consider this to be better than X, so let’s give it a whirl.

After that is Leonor Will Never Die (2022), a Philippine comedy about an aging lady who slips into a coma after a TV falls on her head, and finds herself transported into the world of schlocky 80s Philippine action movies. To escape her dream, she has to inhabit the lead role of her final, unfinished film, and thus become an action hero herself. Chicks are gonna rock. This is the only feature to date of director Martika Ramirez Escobar. We have never watched a Philippine movie on Hextube before; time to cross another country off the list.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Pearl: https://letterboxd.com/film/pearl-2022/
• Leonor Will Never Die: https://letterboxd.com/film/leonor-will-never-die/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Pearl: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1069233
• Leonor Will Never Die: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16377714/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Pearl:

• Abusive parents.
• Domestic violence.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Gaslighting.
• Drug use.
• Death of animal.
• Animal cruelty.
• Animal corpses.
• Death of pet.
• Alligators.
• Bugs.
• Slapping of woman.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Decapitation.
• Choking.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Body horror.
• Amputation.
• Asphyxiation.
• Torture.
• Someone falls down stairs.
• Stabbing.
• Blood and gore.
• Able-bodied actors plays disabled person.
• Death of family member.
• Death of parent.
• Cheating.
• Jump scares.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Someone soils themselves.
• Corpses fed to animals.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Mental illness.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Dissociation.
• Unstable reality.
• Meltdown.
• Misophonia.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Flashing lights.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Miscarriage.
• Ableism.
• Discussion of religion.
• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Sex.
• Terminal illness.
• Chronic illness.
• Car crash.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Leonor Will Never Die:

• Gun violence.
• Unstable reality.
• Dissociation.
• Blood and gore.
• Implied sex.
• Explosions.
• Profanity.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.

Links to movies:

• Pearl: https://tankie.tube/w/miFoLLetF9uMVFv5cff5gP
• Leonor Will Never Die: https://tankie.tube/w/kxyoZQoAnkpxJECEZrNL6Q