Feel Bad Fall has arrived! Fire up the buggy and roast your finest pig, this week the Brides are recapping the 2022 instant classic, Pearl. Ti West's prequel, famously shot concurrently (and in secret!) to X, is a brilliant examination of slowly creeping psychosis as well as a loving tribute to the melodramatic, Technicolor extravaganzas of the 1930s and 40s. We chat about Mia Goth's absolutely bravura performance, the 1:1 comparisons between this film and The Wizard of Oz, and how this is a film about isolation shot in the middle of Covid. This movie is beautiful and horrifying, particularly in how it examines the way you can be scared of your own mind. Also, the accent work? Chef's kiss.

TW: Pearl contains discussion of a lost pregnancy.

Pearl, 2022. Directed by Ti West. Written by Ti West and Mia Goth. Starring Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, and Emma Jenkins-Purro.