Knox Gray

Knox Gray

Film Grad who happens to like just about everything. I host the podcast Shills for Shlock.

Favorite films

  • Paris, Texas
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • The Devil's Backbone
  • The Chaser

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  • Eyes of Fire

    ★★★★★

  • Conan the Barbarian

    ★★★★★

  • Waterworld

    ★★★★★

  • Sudden Death

    ★★★★★

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  • Eyes of Fire

    Eyes of Fire

    ★★★★★

    The evil is in the land, the devils in our nature are one with the world around us. A wonderfully evocative dark fairy tale. The production design and writing are leagues above most horror films from the era. 

    The movie exists in a historical liminality, like a folk horror Stalker on a Canadian T.V films budget.

  • Conan the Barbarian

    Conan the Barbarian

    ★★★★★

    Rewatching this, I was really taken aback at how lavish the production design and cinematography is. Duke Callaghan handsomely photographs the dusty windswept steppes of Spain. Arnie is perfect in the stoicism required, yet James Earl Jones’ Thulsa Doom really steals the show.

    It’s such an iconic performance, channeling the fears that leaders like Manson and Jim Jones gave the American public. 

    John Milius directs the crap out of this movie, giving the violence a gory graduate in its staging. Plus, Arnie knocking out a camel IRL is classic.

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  • Cheburashka

    Cheburashka

    ★★★★★

    THIS IS THE CUTEST FUCKING MOVIE IN GODDAMNED EXISTANCE!!! LIKE OH MA GAWD I WAS CRYING IT WAS SO FUCKING CUTE! GOD FUCKING DAMNIT I SHOULDN'T BE FEELING THIS WAY!

  • Sanky Panky

    Sanky Panky

    ★★★★★

    Once a white woman gets the Bo Derek braids there ain’t no going back!