I have a HUGE obsession with movies. I can watch a movie a dozen times and never be bored of it,well, it depends on the movie. I get in the mood for certain movies and most of the time I want to watch something "light" like a romance or comedy, very rarely do I wanna watch something very scary or perceived as scary like a thriller. No I don't mean like hack 'em slash 'em movies or gory gross movies; I mean like psychological thrillers. The ones that are even more scary because you begin to think it could happen to you. Like the murder mysteries. I like those. I like to see them get the bad guy. I want to good guy to win or to figure it out in time to save people. I have been in one of the those moods.
My creepy need started with the remake of "Psycho". I have seen the original Hitchcock "Psycho". It amazes me. It is truly remarkable. Like on the documentary of the remake, the director compared Hitchcock's "Psycho" to a work of art. It is. The angles used, the music, the writing, it is mesmerizing to someone like me, a movie fanatic not an actual "psycho". The remake is also incredible. But the reason it is incredible isn't why you would think. It is great because they didn't change hardly anything. They kept the legendary and inventive angles orignally used. The writing was close to the same only slightly modernized. Perfect remake to a work of art.
Larisa rating for "Psycho" (the remake): A+ for respect for the late Alfred Hitchcock, thriller genius
Next, and this may surprise those who know me, was the Hannibal Lecter series. Yes I said it. I watched "The Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", and "Red Dragon". These are great movies. Creepy but great. The way Hannibal is portrayed is so amazing to me. Here is this really messed up crazy lunatic cannibal and the writers make you like him. You (as a viewer) don't want anything bad to happen to him. That takes awesome writing and acting talent (Hannibal Lecter is portrayed by Anthony Hopkins).
Larisa rating of "Silence of the Lambs": A+ for being my favorite of the series
Larisa rating of "Hannibal": B- for not involving the last victim enough to make you care, the plot is loose, lot of blood that was unnecessary, my least favorite of the series
Larisa rating of "Red Dragon": A- for being mediocre but relevant and a good movie because you find out more about Hannibal
Creeped out but needed it,
Larisa
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