'The House of the Devil' director Ti West expands his porn-shoot slasher movie into a possible franchise by fleshing out the villain's backstory. Whereas “X” unspooled like a backwater ...

The arc of “Pearl” charts her progress up the food chain, from poultry to human prey. The bloodshed is at least as grisly as the slaughter in “X,” but “Pearl” occupies a different ...