Pearl (2022)
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide. farm, pornography, dance performance, world war i, confession, texas, alligator, barn, prequel, murder, serial killer, slasher, corpse, murderer, lust, religious fundamentalism, audition, mental illness, projectionist, isolated farmhouse, pandemic, 1910s, mother daughter relationship, origin story, aspiring actress, pastiche, callous