{"id":2331,"date":"2023-02-08T13:39:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2023-02-08T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:39:42","slug":"pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"Pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pearl-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pearl-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pearl-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pearl-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pearl.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>review by Paul J Baio<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pearl is the standalone prequel to Ti West&#8217;s X, which is the origin of the trilogies main antagonist. Where X plays like a gritty &#8217;70s grindhouse slasher, Pearl is more of a retro stylistic &#8217;40s Psycho. Although there&#8217;s really nothing new here, I did like it. However, if not for the X trilogy, I&#8217;m not sure how invested I would have been. With that, I&#8217;m eager to see the final installment, MaXXXine which takes place in the &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearl is the standalone prequel to Ti West&#8217;s X, which is the origin of the trilogies main antagonist. Where X plays like a gritty &#8217;70s grindhouse slasher, Pearl is more of a retro stylistic &#8217;40s Psycho. Although there&#8217;s really nothing new here, I did like it. However, if not for the X trilogy, I&#8217;m not&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=2331\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pearl<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviewz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}