Few contemporary filmmakers have so much room for manoeuvre to make horror films. With Ari Aster, Ti West is certainly one of the most popular independent directors in the USA. Far from reducing horror to the same and unique hemoglobin cocktail, Ti West likes to blend flavours with a mix of baroque genres and a reflection of the classics of genre cinema. Ti West systematically flirts with the real. Let it be this Puritan America facing the Beat Generation wishing to overthrow the X or these media reporters Vice invited to report on a cult not like the others in The SacramentThe director always knows how to surprise. A guest of honour at the Gérardmer Festival, Ti West has kindly answered our heretical questions...
Interview with Ti West at the Gérardmer Festival
« I have the impression that everything about horror comes to defy religion. These are the two sides of the same medal. »
Ti West, director and producer
Born in 1980 in Wilmington, USA, Ti West graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He began his career as a screenwriter and director in 2005 with the feature film The RoostFour years later, he confirmed his talent with The House of the Devil, tribute to the horror films of the 1980s to retro aesthetics. In 2022, his career accelerated with the first two films X and Pearl of her trilogy around her psychotic heroine embodied by Mia Goth. His psychosexual trailer MaXXXine results in a resounding success at the box office with over 22 million profits worldwide, becoming Ti West's biggest commercial success.
Filmography
- 2024 : MaXXXine
- 2022 : Pearl
- 2022 : X
- 2016 : In a Valley of Violence
- 2013 : The Sacrament
- 2011 : The Innkeepers
- 2009 : Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
- 2007 : Trigger Man
- 2005 : The Roost
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