Enrest Miller is a minor character in X and the main antagonist in MaXXXine.
Biography[]
Ernest had his daughter Maxine but his wife died in childbirth, so when Maxxxine turned 6 years old she clung to the gospel which made Ernest very happy since he was an evangelical preacher too, and Maxxxine said that when she grew up she would become an evangelical person and preacher too, thus making her father proud.
But when Maxxine grew up she didn't become an evangelical but rather a proxy, making porn films with her friends, which Ernest found out about and got angry because she was committing a sin that he ended up spreading on television and for the cult that Maxxine is living a life of proxy and sins.
So in 1985 Ernest began murdering women who were friends of Maxine who he thought were sinners and was brainwashing Maxine. With this Ernest could not find his daughter Maxine to exorcise her from the devil that was inside her, so he hired a private detective named John Labat to find her and bring her to him
Maxine visits the address Labat gave her, which leads her to a house in the Hollywood Hills. She finds Molly's dismembered body inside a suitcase and learns the murders have been committed by her estranged father, a televangelist named Ernest Miller, with the assistance of the fundamentalist members of his ministry. Miller reveals he and his followers have been filming the murders to create a snuff film intended to expose Hollywood for what he sees as its sinful and corrupting nature. Thinking he can still "save" his daughter, Miller has his followers tie Maxine to a tree for an impromptu exorcism, which he also films.
Death[]
Ernest's head exploding
Detectives Torres and Williams interrupt the ceremony and cause a shootout, killing Miller's cohorts, injuring Miller, and giving Maxine time to free herself before the detectives are fatally wounded while pursuing Miller. Armed with a shotgun, Maxine eventually confronts her father at the Hollywood sign but is interrupted by a police helicopter. Maxine envisions herself as a celebrity credited for helping stop her father, attending the premiere of The Puritan II and revealing in an interview that the film's director, Elizabeth Bender, will be directing a biographical film about her. Returning to reality, she shoots her father, telling him he gave her what she needed – divine intervention.