The Foxy Film Fan

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) In case you've forgotten, or like me have the habit of purposefully neglecting any and all films in the found-footage genre, in 2008 there was a film called Cloverfield . Cloverfield  was a mediocre found-footage film which focused on a party in New York city that is interrupted by an enormous monster destroying the city. It wasn't anything special, though it wasn't particularly bad either. Naturally, it fell victim to the traditional flaws that are inherent in the found-footage genre: shaky camera bad enough to cause nausea, sounds obviously added in post-production, awkward acting, and the implied spoiler that every character within the movie is probably going to die because that's why the footage was found  and not willingly released by the imagined filmmaker. It's been quite some time since I watched Cloverfield , because it isn't really the sort of movie that warrants a second watch due to the fact that its popularity stemm...

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...