Pearl
2022 · 102 min · Horror · TMDB 7.2
The short version:Origin story for X's killer, shot like a Technicolor musical. Animals die, a goose meets a pitchfork, and the finale is a long unbroken grin.
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Scare profile
Editorial baseline. Add your own report to refine it.
Scary2
Not scaryExtreme
Dread3
RelaxedSuffocating
Jump scares1
NoneConstant
Disturbing3
ForgettableHaunts you
Grim3
Fun ridePunishing
Synopsis
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.
What is in it
Intensity: brief means implied, off-screen or a single moment; heavy means graphic, prolonged or central. Items marked “inferred from keywords” come from TMDB tags and have not been confirmed by a person.
Violence & gore
- Graphic goreHeavyeditorial
Sexual content & violence
- Sex & nudityModerateeditorial
Animals
- Animal harmed or killedHeavyeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- A goose is killed with a pitchfork; bodies are fed to an alligator.
- Animals as the threatModerateinferred from keywords
Body & medical
- Disease & terminal illnessModerateeditorial
Details (may spoil)
- A paralysed father is cared for and then not.
Mental health & grief
- Mental illnessModerateeditorial
Abuse & bigotry
- Domestic abuseBriefeditorial
Religion & the occult
- Cults & religious extremismModerateinferred from keywords