Daniel Robichaud
@danielrobichaud.bsky.social
Reader, scientist, essay writer, fictioneer, poet, movie watcher, hubby, fadda.
A woman drinks to excess and blacks out, but soon worries that her rendezvous with a handsy jerk might have ended in murder in #FritzLang’s THE BLUE GARDENIA. #NOIRVember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/b...
Venomous Newspaper Noir: The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) and her friend Crystal Carpenter (Ann Sothern) and Sally Ellis (Jeff Donnell) live together in a shared apartment and work together at the phone company. While her friend…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
A woman drinks to excess and blacks out, but soon worries that her rendezvous with a handsy jerk might have ended in murder in #FritzLang’s THE BLUE GARDENIA. #NOIRVember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/b...
A 3rd terror tale from noir master Cornell Woolrich is adapted in the Argentine noir, IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE. A child murderer is on the loose & only a child can find him. But will the pursuer save his friend or join the victims? #NOIRVember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/d...
The Final Door: If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
Third grade student Lucho Santana (Néstor Zavarce) is a terrible student, a class clown who prefers to draw angry pictures of his grade school teacher rather than take notes about grammar. He has a…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
A 3rd terror tale from noir master Cornell Woolrich is adapted in the Argentine noir, IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE. A child murderer is on the loose & only a child can find him. But will the pursuer save his friend or join the victims? #NOIRVember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/d...
Two tales of terror from noir master Cornell Woolrich exploring pain and anguish are adapted into an exemplary film noir in the Argentinian picture, NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR. #NOIRVember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/n...
Anguish and Pain: Never Open That Door (1951)
An Argentinian film from the post World War II era, which employs noir mood and stylistics to tell a tale of dark fate, chance, and crime also happens to use some splendid horror film elements as w…
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November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Two tales of terror from noir master Cornell Woolrich exploring pain and anguish are adapted into an exemplary film noir in the Argentinian picture, NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR. #NOIRVember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/n...
Roman returns home when his father is hospitalized and soon learns his little sister is taking care of the family crematory biz while youngest brother Dante has made deals with metaphoric devils in #SACosby’s epic crime novel, KING OF ASHES. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/k...
Everything Burns: S. A. Cosby’s King of Ashes
Roman Carruthers has made a good career for himself in Georgia, working as a financial whiz and consultant for high end celebrities, helping them turn their money into more money by (mostly) legal …
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November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Roman returns home when his father is hospitalized and soon learns his little sister is taking care of the family crematory biz while youngest brother Dante has made deals with metaphoric devils in #SACosby’s epic crime novel, KING OF ASHES. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/k...
The stranger appears with offers of protection from misfortune. Miss a payment and your prized possessions might disappear. Maybe a boat, maybe a dream, maybe a daughter ... OUT OF THE FOG. #NOIRVember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/o...
The Man Who Collects the Money Always Comes Back: Out of the Fog (1941)
A stranger has come to the small seaport, and his arrival is heralded by fire. A boat has been torched off the nearby pier. Not the small fishing boat belonging to tailor Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitc…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The stranger appears with offers of protection from misfortune. Miss a payment and your prized possessions might disappear. Maybe a boat, maybe a dream, maybe a daughter ... OUT OF THE FOG. #NOIRVember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/o...
Easy Rawlins swaggers into the 1970s. #WalterMosley’s moving FAREWELL AMETHYSTINE finds the PI in search of a missing ex-husband and getting up to his neck in trouble. #MulhollandBooks consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/f...
An Hours-Long Conversation Whittled Down to a Few Sentences: Walter Mosley’s Farewell, Amethystine
The 1960s are over, and Easy Rawlins is sliding into the 1970s as Walter Mosley’s sixteenth book in the long running series begins. Easy is recovered from the events of Blood Grove, moving on with …
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November 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Easy Rawlins swaggers into the 1970s. #WalterMosley’s moving FAREWELL AMETHYSTINE finds the PI in search of a missing ex-husband and getting up to his neck in trouble. #MulhollandBooks consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/f...
The stranger appears with offers of assistance, but what is his agenda? The supernatural did not often blend with noir sensibilities back in the day. ALIAS NICK BEAL is one example where they do and work beautifully. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...
The Incorruptible Enemy of the Legions of Evil: Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell) is spearheading a do-gooder cause, prosecuting a wicked hoodlum when he finds himself up against the wall. Although he made no mention of ledgers implicating the hoo…
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November 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The stranger appears with offers of assistance, but what is his agenda? The supernatural did not often blend with noir sensibilities back in the day. ALIAS NICK BEAL is one example where they do and work beautifully. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...
A man who sees the future finds himself besieged by visions of trauma and terror. When they hit home, he disappears for a while. He is then compelled to return. Is he really psychic or a homicidal maniac? THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES @kinolorber.com consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/n...
It’s All Right Now: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Jean Courtland (Gail Russell) is so terrified of the night, that she’s willing to destroy herself instead of face it. Her attempt to throw herself in front of a moving train is flummoxed however, w…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A man who sees the future finds himself besieged by visions of trauma and terror. When they hit home, he disappears for a while. He is then compelled to return. Is he really psychic or a homicidal maniac? THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES @kinolorber.com consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/n...
Ray Milland plays a man trying to solve a crime he did not commit but has been nicely framed for, all before the guys trying to frame him finish their work. THE BIG CLOCK is a taut (and sometimes humorous) noir flick. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/b...
The System of Irrelevant Clues: The Big Clock (1948)
The editor of the Crimesways magazine, George Stroud (Ray Milland), is an expert at tracking down missing persons thanks to what he calls “The System of Irrelevant Clues,” a large chalk board where…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Ray Milland plays a man trying to solve a crime he did not commit but has been nicely framed for, all before the guys trying to frame him finish their work. THE BIG CLOCK is a taut (and sometimes humorous) noir flick. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/b...
When a man saves a woman on a rainy night, he is charmed by her attentions. However her boyfriend has an angle for her to play. Will the hapless fellow realize the situation before they bleed him dry? SCARLET STREET @kinolorber.com consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/s...
For Cat’s Sake, I Didn’t Do It! Scarlet Street (1945)
Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a reliable cashier with dreams of painting, but he has no faith in his own talents. After an appreciation dinner with his coworkers and their boss J. J. Ho…
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November 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
When a man saves a woman on a rainy night, he is charmed by her attentions. However her boyfriend has an angle for her to play. Will the hapless fellow realize the situation before they bleed him dry? SCARLET STREET @kinolorber.com consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/s...
An American dancer working in London winds up targeted by a creep with a love for murder in the gothic noir, LURED. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/l...
The Flowers of Evil: Lured (1947)
When dance hall girl Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) learns that her best friend Lucy Barnard (Tanis Chandler) is about to be married to a mysterious lover called John, she is overjoyed. Unfortunat…
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November 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An American dancer working in London winds up targeted by a creep with a love for murder in the gothic noir, LURED. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/l...
The adaptation of Faulkner’s novel brings some truly incredible performances to screen for a story about a wrong man accused and the few outsiders who believe him and are willing to fight to find the truth: INTRUDER IN THE DUST. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/i...
Withholding the Biscuits: Intruder in the Dust (1949)
When the white lumberman Vinson Gowrie (David Clarke) was found dead, and a Black man was standing over him with a recently fired pistol, everyone knew who’d done it. Sheriff Hampton (Will Geer) ma…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The adaptation of Faulkner’s novel brings some truly incredible performances to screen for a story about a wrong man accused and the few outsiders who believe him and are willing to fight to find the truth: INTRUDER IN THE DUST. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/i...
A man is wrongfully accused of murder, but only teens and an elderly woman believe him in William Faulkner’s stream of consciousness murder mystery, INTRUDER IN THE DUST. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/i...
Women and Children Listen, While Men Get Bound Up In What They Believe to be Facts: William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust
When Lucas Beauchamp was found next to a dead man who’d been shot in the back, he was holding his still warm .41 caliber revolver. Everyone knew what happened. A black man had shot a white man dead…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A man is wrongfully accused of murder, but only teens and an elderly woman believe him in William Faulkner’s stream of consciousness murder mystery, INTRUDER IN THE DUST. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/i...
Refugees gather at a convent … and a team transporting a murderer end up there as well. Has trouble come to the door, or can a yearning nun help exonerate an innocent woman from the stain of crime? THUNDER ON THE HILL consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/t...
Heeding a Higher Authority: Thunder on the Hill (1951)
As the countryside is flooded, the good folk of Norfolk are fleeing to higher ground. Many of them are winding up at the local convent and hospital, where the good sisters are making as much room a…
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November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Refugees gather at a convent … and a team transporting a murderer end up there as well. Has trouble come to the door, or can a yearning nun help exonerate an innocent woman from the stain of crime? THUNDER ON THE HILL consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/t...
A pickpocket grabs the wrong wallet and finds himself caught in international espionage in Samuel Fuller’s love letter to the outsiders, the hoods, and the working class crooks, PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET. @criterion.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/p...
Stop Using Your Hands, Skip, and Start Using Your Head: Pickup on South Street (1953)
When Candy (Jean Peters) was riding the cross town train, her mind was on a delivery she was supposed to make. That made her easy pickings for the pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark), who nabbe…
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November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A pickpocket grabs the wrong wallet and finds himself caught in international espionage in Samuel Fuller’s love letter to the outsiders, the hoods, and the working class crooks, PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET. @criterion.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/p...
Samuel Fuller’s lost novel BRAINQUAKE finds a bagman with a condition breaks the cardinal rule of his profession, falling for a dangerous woman with an agenda of her own. Who will survive this dangerous game? @hardcasecrime.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/b...
Paul Page Has a Condition: Samuel Fuller’s Brainquake
Laconic Paul Page drives a cab, and he seems like an up-and-up Joe, but that’s not the truth. In fact, the cab is a cover, his real job is carrying bags of money for the Boss, and this requires he …
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November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Samuel Fuller’s lost novel BRAINQUAKE finds a bagman with a condition breaks the cardinal rule of his profession, falling for a dangerous woman with an agenda of her own. Who will survive this dangerous game? @hardcasecrime.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/b...
A woman fresh out of the klink has a chance to make a new life. But she wants some of the old one, particularly the bad boyfriend. She soon discovers a growing crush on her PO as well. Can a tiger really change its stripes? SHOCKPROOF #NOIRvember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/s...
Breaking the Rules: Shockproof (1949)
When Jenny Marsh (Patricia Knight) gets released from prison, she’s not a free woman. In fact, she’s on life parole, meaning she has to initially check in with her parole officer, Griff Marat (Corn…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A woman fresh out of the klink has a chance to make a new life. But she wants some of the old one, particularly the bad boyfriend. She soon discovers a growing crush on her PO as well. Can a tiger really change its stripes? SHOCKPROOF #NOIRvember consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/s...
Cops stalking a killer. A mix of Caucasian and Japanese American suspects. A romance that pushes two partners apart. Samuel Fuller was no stranger to controversial storytelling, and it’s hard hitting in THE CRIMSON KIMONO. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/c...
Love Does Much … but Bourbon Does Everything: The Crimson Kimono (1959)
When famed burlesque dancer Sugar Torch (Gloria Pall) is attacked in her changing room by a mysterious individual, who then chases her into the street and guns her down in the middle of traffic, it…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Cops stalking a killer. A mix of Caucasian and Japanese American suspects. A romance that pushes two partners apart. Samuel Fuller was no stranger to controversial storytelling, and it’s hard hitting in THE CRIMSON KIMONO. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/c...
When a young man watches his father take a beating, he gets incensed enough to want to kill the guy responsible. Will he go through with it, or will he cool down and back off first? THE BIG NIGHT is an unusual mashup of coming of age and noir picture. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/b...
Well, I Guess This Is Growing Up: The Big Night (1951)
George La Main (John Drew Barrymore) is having a birthday, but he still feels like a kid. A gang on the street teases him, their gal tells him he still smells like milk, and dad Andy La Main (Prest…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
When a young man watches his father take a beating, he gets incensed enough to want to kill the guy responsible. Will he go through with it, or will he cool down and back off first? THE BIG NIGHT is an unusual mashup of coming of age and noir picture. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/b...
A drifter (#NicolasCage) is coerced into an overnight cleaning gig at the most dangerous children’s themed restaurant in the world in the bloody, brutal, and entertaining as hell flick, WILLY’S WONDERLAND. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/w...
He’s Not Trapped in There with Them; They Are Locked in with Him! Willy’s Wonderland (2021)
When his muscle car meets up with some randomly discarded tire shredders, a laconic drifter (Nicolas Cage) swigs some of his Punch soda (“A fistful of caffeine to the face!” the can announces) whil…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
A drifter (#NicolasCage) is coerced into an overnight cleaning gig at the most dangerous children’s themed restaurant in the world in the bloody, brutal, and entertaining as hell flick, WILLY’S WONDERLAND. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/w...
A small California town gets invaded by strangeness when a meteor comes down … which is more than a meteor. Can anyone figure out what’s going on and stop the madness? IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/i...
What Do They Want? It Came from Outer Space (1953)
While John Putnam (Richard Carlson) is wooing his girlfriend Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) with his charms and telescope, the two witness something that interrupts romance: a hurtling meteor penetrat…
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October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A small California town gets invaded by strangeness when a meteor comes down … which is more than a meteor. Can anyone figure out what’s going on and stop the madness? IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/i...
“Well, well, well. Devil’s Night is upon us again. Say we throw a party, start a few fires, make a little profit ...” Death is not the end for Eric Draven in the ultimate supernatural revenge movie set on Devil’s Night: THE CROW. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/c...
What You All Painted Up For, Crackhead? Halloween Ain’t Until Mañana: The Crow (1994)
Devil’s Night is a time of flame and pain, particularly for Shelly Webster (Sofia Shinas) and Eric Draven (Brandon Lee), who are the victims of horrific violence. Only one year later, the two are g…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Well, well, well. Devil’s Night is upon us again. Say we throw a party, start a few fires, make a little profit ...” Death is not the end for Eric Draven in the ultimate supernatural revenge movie set on Devil’s Night: THE CROW. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/c...
When Hester Lane comes to London, she is penniless. However, she soon learns she is the inheritor of a distant relation’s fortune. But her inheritance also comes with a peculiar mystery and terror in #RobertBloch and #AndreNorton’s THE JEKYLL LEGACY. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/j...
Stranger in a Sinister Land: Robert Bloch & Andre Norton’s The Jekyll Legacy
When Hester Lane lost her father, she was left penniless and without prospects. Lucking into the job of governess for an ex-pat British man, she escorted his child back to Victorian era London with…
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October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
When Hester Lane comes to London, she is penniless. However, she soon learns she is the inheritor of a distant relation’s fortune. But her inheritance also comes with a peculiar mystery and terror in #RobertBloch and #AndreNorton’s THE JEKYLL LEGACY. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/j...
A talk show host shifts gigs to co-hosting a Halloween night show about Aliens. If ETs exist, are they peaceful or warlike? The scoop's on the OUT THERE HALLOWEEN MEGA TAPE. @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social @chrislamartina.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/o...
Aliens, Vamps, and Spectral Tramps: Out There Halloween Mega Tape (2022)
When Ivy Sparks (Melissa LaMartina) put together her Halloween episode in 1994, she had no way of knowing that her piece on “Aliens, Vamps, and Spectral Tramps” would be one of the final episodes s…
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October 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A talk show host shifts gigs to co-hosting a Halloween night show about Aliens. If ETs exist, are they peaceful or warlike? The scoop's on the OUT THERE HALLOWEEN MEGA TAPE. @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social @chrislamartina.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Leaving the job I've done for the last 15 years, and the company I built, because of this "AI" bollocks. It was past time
So, if you fancy buying any of my books for Halloween - individually, or in the kind of industrial quantifies that might keep the wolf from the door -
Now's the time!
So, if you fancy buying any of my books for Halloween - individually, or in the kind of industrial quantifies that might keep the wolf from the door -
Now's the time!
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October 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Leaving the job I've done for the last 15 years, and the company I built, because of this "AI" bollocks. It was past time
So, if you fancy buying any of my books for Halloween - individually, or in the kind of industrial quantifies that might keep the wolf from the door -
Now's the time!
So, if you fancy buying any of my books for Halloween - individually, or in the kind of industrial quantifies that might keep the wolf from the door -
Now's the time!