I was very pleasantly surprised by X. It's a nice throwback to the slashers of old but it's made with much more care and quality than most of those movies. X only starts going as a slasher an hour into it and I did not mind at all. The first hour is sort of a hang out movie with dark undertones and the thing is, it works very well. If it continued down this path I would've been completely fine with that but the carnage was just an addition to everything that preceded it. The kills were very good and the tension was there because I didn't want any of the characters to die. The pitfall of most slashers or maybe a feature is that the characters are bland/annoying to a point where you are rooting for the killer to murder them. In X the characters are well-established, well-acted and most of all believable. On top of that, the late 70s atmosphere really adds to it and the music choices are great. Additionally, the cinematography is pretty great. It looks almost like it was shot on film despite being shot on digital. In the end the film is still limited by its genre and tropes and you know where it's going to go but as en example of said genre it's definitely above most of them.
Review of X
