X Movie Ending Explained (In Detail)

The X movie ending crescendos to a bloody spectacle of a finale that throws up several lingering questions. Director Ti West’s 2022 slasher X follows a film crew as they arrive at a secluded Texas farm to shoot a pornographic film in the late 1970s, which idealistic fictional adult movie director RJ (Owen Campbell) believes will be “a piece of cinema.” Seemingly blinded by their ambitions to capitalize on a burgeoning home video porn industry, the young group of X movie characters remains largely unaware of the covetous presence in the farmhouse next door — the old woman in X, Pearl (played by Mia Goth).