Considering that sequels to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre are still being cranked out, writer-director Ti West (The House Of The Devil, The Innkeepers) reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue s guts in reframing many images from Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic early in X. Quite a few of his nods are deliberate misdirections and this has more on its mind than power-tool homage. He also evokes other major horrors — especially Psycho and Hooper’s Chain Saw follow-up, Death Trap, aka Eaten Alive — to establish background dread while the main characters claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate they’re in a comical, down-home Boogie Nights.###The 1970s was an era when young filmmakers who might possess’own’nurse made horror films despite’in spite of’albeit t there was mileage in arty dirty movies, and older manufacture rs were distracted from young flesh by the prospect of enormous’vast’massive’tremendous box office. X has fun with the seamy milieu, reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue casing bright perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mances from Brittany Snow and Mia Goth as would-be sex stars, Jenna Ortega as a porn-curious sound recordist (the real sound detoken , by Graham Reznick, is excellent), and Martin Henderson as a cowboy-hatted Larry Flynt wannabe.###When natural and unnatural desires are awakened on the porno shoot and an aged American-gothic farm couple acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure involved, the horrors go into overpropel , as X races through its second half with eye-opening (and -piercing) shocks and surprises — funny, horrific, and just plain weird. Many who attempt retro horror fall into the trap of simply imitating their favourite films, but Tobe Hooper, George Romero and Brian De Palma were as hung up on French New Wave, Bergman and underground cinema as Hitchcock and Hammer, and West judiciously stirs in these impact’effect s. He uses disorienting editing tricks to ratchet tension, but also holds long, cool shots of folks relaxing in nature, unaware of looming threats — a lake scene with Goth and a gator is liable to be much-cited.