EyesMalloy's Profile

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Growing up with medical issues, movies became my escape from the pain. The powerful images, thought-provoking dialogue, and endless variety of theme, content and characters allowed me to experience other worlds while making them a part of my own.

As a boy, my mother took me to a small independent video store near our home. Though horror films were off limits, she often caught me in the horror section, my eyes glued with morbid fascination to the scary pictures on the VHS covers. I was a paradigm of youthful impatience, my appetite for the grisly whetted but forced to wait. Thirty years later, my collection of over 800 titles includes many of those I used to drool over. Though I have a true love of all genres, horror is probably still my favorite.

As a serious collector, I still insist on buying physical media as opposed to digital copies that would remain stored on some corporate supercomputer and never really feel like mine. I always look for the best editions with the highest quality A/V and greatest array of special features which I keep bound in solid cases and sealed in plastic sleeves. I also have a large flatscreen television and a killer sound system to make the most of every viewing.

I’m always on the lookout for new films as well as classics using internet resources such as IMDb, streaming channels like Netflix and Tubi, and occasionally even file sharing sites like The Pirate Bay. Each has led me to discover hundreds of titles (including many foreign films) I otherwise may never have found.

Some of my favorite movies are Halloween (1978), Session 9, Vanilla Sky, Metropolis, Apocalypse Now, Carlito’s Way, True Romance, Zodiac, Rope, and The Princess Bride.

Some of my favorite TV shows are True Blood, Stranger Things, Supernatural, House M.D., Upstairs Downstairs, Law & Order SVU, Louie, Frasier, Roseanne, and Santa Clarita Diet.

Some of my favorite directors are David Fincher, Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Nolan, William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter, Oliver Stone, Luc Besson, and Mike Flanagan.