Sam S-P
@sspthinksfilm.bsky.social
Writer and film fanatic fond of black comedies, sci-fi, animation and films about dysfunctional families. https://sspthinksfilm.com He/him
On the one hand, how dare you. On the other? Yeah that tracks…
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
On the one hand, how dare you. On the other? Yeah that tracks…
#Noirvember Film 10 - Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948). This UK-set, US-shot postwar blackmail thriller doesn’t have many surprises in store, but is entertainingly played, particularly by Robert Newton at his slimy best. #Filmsky
November 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#Noirvember Film 10 - Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948). This UK-set, US-shot postwar blackmail thriller doesn’t have many surprises in store, but is entertainingly played, particularly by Robert Newton at his slimy best. #Filmsky
#Noirvember Film 9 - The Big Heat (1953). The best of Fritz Lang’s final career phase by some distance, this is a tough and uncompromising cops and gangsters picture with operatic flourishes. #Filmsky
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
#Noirvember Film 9 - The Big Heat (1953). The best of Fritz Lang’s final career phase by some distance, this is a tough and uncompromising cops and gangsters picture with operatic flourishes. #Filmsky
#Noirvember Film 8 - Out of the Past (1947). A soaring romance punctured by extreme darkness and cynicism that gets a lot of mileage out of Robert Mitchum’s physicality. Jacques Tourneur forever a master of atmosphere. #Filmsky
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#Noirvember Film 8 - Out of the Past (1947). A soaring romance punctured by extreme darkness and cynicism that gets a lot of mileage out of Robert Mitchum’s physicality. Jacques Tourneur forever a master of atmosphere. #Filmsky
#Noirvember Film 7 - Naked Alibi (1954). A taut, dynamic and surprisingly brutal crime thriller with top-class work from Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame. As should be a given for everything I watch this month, it looks amazing too. #Filmsky
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
#Noirvember Film 7 - Naked Alibi (1954). A taut, dynamic and surprisingly brutal crime thriller with top-class work from Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame. As should be a given for everything I watch this month, it looks amazing too. #Filmsky
#Noirvember Film 6 - While the City Sleeps (1956). Visually and thematically referring to Fritz Lang’s earlier work, here the German expat’s direction remains tightly controlled, though the script does too much telling rather than showing. #Filmsky
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
#Noirvember Film 6 - While the City Sleeps (1956). Visually and thematically referring to Fritz Lang’s earlier work, here the German expat’s direction remains tightly controlled, though the script does too much telling rather than showing. #Filmsky
#Noirvember Film 5 - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). This knotty classic about murder, passion and the consequences of both is good-looking and well performed in an old-fashioned way (complimentary) that belies its twisted core. #Filmsky
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#Noirvember Film 5 - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). This knotty classic about murder, passion and the consequences of both is good-looking and well performed in an old-fashioned way (complimentary) that belies its twisted core. #Filmsky
Forgot to mention I hit the 500 films watched milestone for 2025 last week. I’d guess at least 30 of these are shorts so I’m not officially there yet, but still, go me!
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Forgot to mention I hit the 500 films watched milestone for 2025 last week. I’d guess at least 30 of these are shorts so I’m not officially there yet, but still, go me!
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#Noirvember Film 4 - The Breaking Point (1950). In the second, less famous but more faithful adaptation of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not, Michael Curtiz trades in romance for grit to largely good effect. #Filmsky
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
#Noirvember Film 4 - The Breaking Point (1950). In the second, less famous but more faithful adaptation of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not, Michael Curtiz trades in romance for grit to largely good effect. #Filmsky
#Noirvember Film 3 - Laura (1944). Otto Preminger’s mannered but intriguing murder-mystery looks and sounds great, with striking performances from Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and a young, sexy Vincent Price. #Filmsky
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
#Noirvember Film 3 - Laura (1944). Otto Preminger’s mannered but intriguing murder-mystery looks and sounds great, with striking performances from Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and a young, sexy Vincent Price. #Filmsky
#Noirvember Film 2 - Le Samouraï (1967). Jean-Pierre Melville’s endlessly influential hitman noir is morally murky, suspenseful and largely built around how great Alain Delon looked in a coat and hat. #Filmsky
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
#Noirvember Film 2 - Le Samouraï (1967). Jean-Pierre Melville’s endlessly influential hitman noir is morally murky, suspenseful and largely built around how great Alain Delon looked in a coat and hat. #Filmsky
#Noirvember Film 1 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956). Fritz Lang’s final American film is a clever story well told, though somewhat lacking the mastery of style from his early career. #Filmsky
November 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
#Noirvember Film 1 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956). Fritz Lang’s final American film is a clever story well told, though somewhat lacking the mastery of style from his early career. #Filmsky
#31DaysofHorror Day 31 - Fréwaka (2024). Aislinn Clarke’s caregiver folk horror film blends the contemporary concerns of trauma and mental health with ancient Irish lore to eerie effect, let down only slightly by a muddy denouement. #Horrorsky
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
#31DaysofHorror Day 31 - Fréwaka (2024). Aislinn Clarke’s caregiver folk horror film blends the contemporary concerns of trauma and mental health with ancient Irish lore to eerie effect, let down only slightly by a muddy denouement. #Horrorsky
Happy Halloween all!
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Happy Halloween all!
#31DaysofHorror Day 30 - The Driller Killer (1979). This probably isn’t exactly the film you think it is. It’s a very arthouse look at pretentious bohemians colliding with the dispossessed, but with gore. It’s a bit up itself, but it’s undeniably striking as well. #Horrorsky
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
#31DaysofHorror Day 30 - The Driller Killer (1979). This probably isn’t exactly the film you think it is. It’s a very arthouse look at pretentious bohemians colliding with the dispossessed, but with gore. It’s a bit up itself, but it’s undeniably striking as well. #Horrorsky
#31DaysofHorror Day 29 - Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025). Linus O’Brien, son of Richard, takes a hardly revelatory but undeniably moving look at his father’s cult classic, the subculture it spawned and its devoted fanbase. #Horrorsky
October 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
#31DaysofHorror Day 29 - Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025). Linus O’Brien, son of Richard, takes a hardly revelatory but undeniably moving look at his father’s cult classic, the subculture it spawned and its devoted fanbase. #Horrorsky
#31DaysofHorror Day 28 - The Long Walk (2025). This top-tier Stephen King adaptation is just as bleak and harrowing as many outright horror films. Giving you so much time to know the ensemble and balancing emotional and physical viscerality throughout pays dividends. #Horrorsky
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
#31DaysofHorror Day 28 - The Long Walk (2025). This top-tier Stephen King adaptation is just as bleak and harrowing as many outright horror films. Giving you so much time to know the ensemble and balancing emotional and physical viscerality throughout pays dividends. #Horrorsky
#31DaysofHorror Day 27 - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006). With a camera crew following a charismatic aspiring slasher villain preparing for a massacre, this couldn’t be more meta. Witty, playful and creative with its budget, this is a low-key must-see. #Horrorsky
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
#31DaysofHorror Day 27 - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006). With a camera crew following a charismatic aspiring slasher villain preparing for a massacre, this couldn’t be more meta. Witty, playful and creative with its budget, this is a low-key must-see. #Horrorsky
#31DaysofHorror Day 26 - Cemetery Man (1994). Is this Italian horror inexplicably starring Rupert Everett as a zombie-killing graveyard keeper good? Mileage may vary, and your enjoyment will largely depend on being able tune into its bizarre tone and twisted, horny sense of humour. #Horrorsky
October 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
#31DaysofHorror Day 26 - Cemetery Man (1994). Is this Italian horror inexplicably starring Rupert Everett as a zombie-killing graveyard keeper good? Mileage may vary, and your enjoyment will largely depend on being able tune into its bizarre tone and twisted, horny sense of humour. #Horrorsky
#31DaysofHorror Day 25 - Kwaidan (1964). In Masaki Kobayashi’s imposing, highly theatrical anthology of Japanese folk tales, the scares creep up on you, but they’re all the more effective for it. #Horrorsky
October 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
#31DaysofHorror Day 25 - Kwaidan (1964). In Masaki Kobayashi’s imposing, highly theatrical anthology of Japanese folk tales, the scares creep up on you, but they’re all the more effective for it. #Horrorsky
#31DaysofHorror Day 24 - Stopmotion (2023). Robert Morgan’s seriously disturbing debut sees Aisling Franciosi’s animator rapidly losing her grip on reality. Some unique skin-crawling imagery and interrogation of the creative process makes this one of the sharpest recent British horrors. #Horrorsky
October 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
#31DaysofHorror Day 24 - Stopmotion (2023). Robert Morgan’s seriously disturbing debut sees Aisling Franciosi’s animator rapidly losing her grip on reality. Some unique skin-crawling imagery and interrogation of the creative process makes this one of the sharpest recent British horrors. #Horrorsky
#31DaysofHorror Day 23 - Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971). Dario Argento’s groovy giallo is technically dazzling and boasts a a hypnotic Morricone score but goes off the boil in the final act even by the standards of the credulity-stretching Italian pulp genre. #Horrorsky
October 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
#31DaysofHorror Day 23 - Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971). Dario Argento’s groovy giallo is technically dazzling and boasts a a hypnotic Morricone score but goes off the boil in the final act even by the standards of the credulity-stretching Italian pulp genre. #Horrorsky