The Foxy Film Fan

Stephen King movie adaptations and I have had a tumultuous relationship at best. I like  many of them -  Misery  gave Kathy Bates the opportunity to demonstrate her incredible acting skills (but muddled the creeping terror of the book by introducing a friendly bumbling cop for us to keep up with), Thinner  was terrible, the 2019  Pet Sematary  remake was painful to sit through, It Chapter Two  tricked the audience into watching the same sequence of events over and over again, nobody watched (or liked) The Dark Tower , and Netflix's In the Tall Grass tried its best. Of course there are the classics like Stand By Me , The Green Mile , Shawshank Redemption , and 1408  (I'm kidding, I just have a soft spot for that one in particular). Then there's The Shining . I want to acknowledge something briefly, before I delve into praising this work of art. Stanley Kubrick abused Shelley Duvall horrifically to force her into a deteriorating mental state...

As a film reviewer I believe that it is only fair that I provide a concise list of my top five favorite movies, so that you might better understand what sort of standard I'm holding the movies I review to and so that you can also see how similar your tastes are to mine. That being said, in order from my fifth favorite to my first, here are my five favorite films of all time. 5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Once upon a time, I was fascinated with forensic psychology and romanticized the notion of working in forensics for a living, until I discovered the amount of heartache and emotional toil which goes into working in such a dark field. It was performances such as Jodie Foster's in The Silence of the Lambs  which inspired me in the first place, I idolized her heroism and complete unflinching demeanor in the face of evil, and her ability to work alongside a monster as horrific as Dr. Hannibal Lecter without fear. The Silence of the Lambs  is a phenomenal film whi...

Mia Farrow in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby Oftentimes I find that the horror genre is greatly misunderstood by those who know little about it outside of its gorier and less meaningful films (of which there are many, unfortunately). So often is the genre deemed disgusting and trashy, dismissed as snuff or even referred to with such vulgar phrases as torture porn , a phrase which is offensive in the fact that it connotes a sort of sick and sadistic pleasure the viewer must receive from watching a film such as Saw . Horror is a genre which I hold near and dear to my heart in all its forms, and it is because of this fact that I humbly offer a defense of the genre. Horror is a poignant and moving medium of film in the way that it communicates one of humanity's most primal emotions: fear. Not only that, but many horror films are layered in the way that they demonstrate the true deepest fears of the audience as being something tangible, typically a monster or enemy of so...