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🎬 London-based film fiend chasing cult gems, dodging duds. Monthly Movie Challenges, hot takes & deep cuts. https://boxd.it/94Euv

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Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 3d

Noirvember 2025 🕵️‍♀️

30 nights. No alibis.

Grifters, femmes, and bad decisions photographed beautifully — seven strands of guilt, smoke, and moral decay.

Fugitive Shadows to Noir Beyond Hollywood… every story ends the same way: in the dark.

#Noirvember #MovieChallenge #FilmSky

Black-and-white poster for Noirvember 2025. A woman in a trench coat and fedora stands under a streetlamp, a cigarette between her lips and a pistol in her hand. Smoke curls in the fog. The text reads:

NOIRVEMBER 2025
Fugitive Shadows
Fatal Women & Doomed Desire
Crime & Consequence
Cops, Killers & City Streets
Women at the Helm
Women Behind Bars
Noir Beyond Hollywood
30 Nights — No Alibis.

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 52m

Appointment with Danger
⭐️⭐️½

Signed, Sealed… Slightly Sinister

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 4—🕵️ Fugitive Shadows

This one’s basically cops and robbers meet the Post Office. It opens like a recruitment reel for heroic postmen, then turns into a…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge

A ★★½ review of Appointment with Danger (1950)

This one’s basically cops and robbers meet the Post Office. It opens like a recruitment reel for heroic mailmen, then turns into a tidy little noir about a heist gone wrong. Alan Ladd plays the inspec...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 23h

He Ran All the Way
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cornered by Fear: Garfield’s Last Stand

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 3—🕵️ Fugitive Shadows

A tight, sweaty little noir that feels like a 1930s gangster movie dragged into the Cold War, He Ran All the Way traps everyone…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge

A ★★★★ review of He Ran All the Way (1951)

Noirvember 2025 Film No. 3 — 🕵️ Fugitive Shadows A tight, sweaty little noir that feels like a 1930s gangster movie dragged into the Cold War era, He Ran All the Way traps everyone in a rising panic. ...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 1d

Brute Force
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Noir Behind Bars

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 2—🕵️ Fugitive Shadows

Few prison films hit as hard or feel as tightly wound as Brute Force. It’s a sweaty, furious piece of postwar noir, all shadowed cells and pent-up rage. Jules…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge

A ★★★★ review of Brute Force (1947)

Noirvember 2025 Film No. 2 — 🕵️ Fugitive Shadows Few prison films hit as hard or feel as tightly wound as Brute Force. It’s a sweaty, furious piece of postwar noir, all shadowed cells and pent-up rage...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 2d

Railroaded!
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Noir on a Shoestring

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 1—🕵️ Fugitive Shadows

Compact, grimy, and straight to the point — Railroaded! is a tough little noir that doesn’t waste a frame. Anthony Mann takes a pulpy story about a framed…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge

A ★★★½ review of Railroaded! (1947)

Noirvember 2025 Film No. 1 — 🕵️ Fugitive Shadows Compact, grimy, and straight to the point — Railroaded! is a tough little noir that doesn’t waste a frame. Anthony Mann takes a pulpy story about a fra...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 3d

Noirvember 2025 🕵️‍♀️

30 nights. No alibis.

Grifters, femmes, and bad decisions photographed beautifully — seven strands of guilt, smoke, and moral decay.

Fugitive Shadows to Noir Beyond Hollywood… every story ends the same way: in the dark.

#Noirvember #MovieChallenge #FilmSky

Black-and-white poster for Noirvember 2025. A woman in a trench coat and fedora stands under a streetlamp, a cigarette between her lips and a pistol in her hand. Smoke curls in the fog. The text reads:

NOIRVEMBER 2025
Fugitive Shadows
Fatal Women & Doomed Desire
Crime & Consequence
Cops, Killers & City Streets
Women at the Helm
Women Behind Bars
Noir Beyond Hollywood
30 Nights — No Alibis.

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 3d

🎃 Shocktober 2025:

31 Nights, Seven Killer Strands, One Cursed VHS

Top of the tomb:
The Exorcist III, Angst, The Wailing, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Dracula.

Bottom of the pit:
Phantasm III, Black Sunday.

🔗 boxd.it/PatOu

#Shocktober #MovieChallenge #FilmSky #HorrorSky

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 3d

Zombie Flesh Eaters
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Eyeballs, Maggots and Mayhem!

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 31—☣️Apocalypse Now (With Zombies)

Italian horror never did subtle, and Zombie Flesh Eaters is no exception — but that’s exactly why it works. Lucio…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)

On the Caribbean island of Matul, white doctor David Menard is trying to stem the tide of cannibal zombies that are returning from the dead. Arriving on the island are Anne and reporter Peter West who...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 3d

#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #FilmSky

boxd.it/94Euv

1. Zombie Flesh Eaters - Eye-gouging, maggot-munching mayhem

2. Witchfinder General – Puritanical Vincent Price goes full sadist

3. Alucarda – Nuns, screams, and satanic teenage angst

4. House of Dark Shadows – Fangs out, curtains ruined

A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: Zombie Flesh Eaters (a decaying zombie face against a black background, rated 4 stars), Witchfinder General (Vincent Price in Puritan garb with flames and villagers, rated 4 stars), Alucarda (a woman with long dark hair and a red inverted cross, rated 3 stars), and House of Dark Shadows (a collage of gothic horror scenes with vampires and victims, rated 3 stars).

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 5d

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

This (Gory) Green and Pleasant Land

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 30—☣️Apocalypse Now (With Zombies)

Something strange was clearly in the water in 1970s Britain. Continental filmmakers flocked…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★½ review of The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 30 — ☣️ Apocalypse Now (With Zombies) Something strange was clearly in the water in 1970s Britain. Continental filmmakers flocked here, drawn to the post-swinging cities and h...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 6d

The Incredible Shrinking Man
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Honey, I Shrunk the Existential Crisis

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 29—🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent

A man exposed to radiation begins to shrink — a daft idea on paper, but The Incredible Shrinking Man…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★★ review of The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 29 — 🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent A man exposed to radiation begins to shrink — a daft idea on paper, but The Incredible Shrinking Man turns it into genuine horror. Under Jack A...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 7d

The Descent
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Claustrophobia by Design

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 28—🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent

During a high-adrenaline caving trip, six women find themselves trapped underground after a sudden rockfall seals their only escape. The Descent takes that simple…

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A ★★★½ review of The Descent (2005)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 28 — 🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent During a high-adrenaline caving trip, six women find themselves trapped underground after a sudden rockfall seals their only escape. The Descen...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 7d

Coming soon… #Noirvember

#FilmSky #MovieChallenge

A black-and-white poster for Noirvember 2025 shows a femme fatale standing in a foggy, rain-soaked city street at night. She wears a trench coat and fedora, cigarette between her lips, and holds a smoking revolver under the glow of a single streetlamp. The title “NOIRVEMBER 2025” appears at the top, the tagline “30 NIGHTS—NO ALIBIS” sits below, and a faintly glowing vertical list of strands runs along the right side: Fugitive Shadows; Fatal Women & Doomed Desire; Crime & Consequence; Cops, Killers & City Streets; Women at the Helm; Women Behind Bars; Noir Beyond Hollywood.

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow’s #Shocktober film

#FilmSky #HorrorSky

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 7d

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Beautiful Unease

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 27—🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent

There’s something dreamlike and quietly unnerving about Let’s Scare Jessica to Death. It’s a horror film that doesn’t shout…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★ review of Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 27 — 🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent There’s something dreamlike and quietly unnerving about Let’s Scare Jessica to Death. It’s a horror film that doesn’t shout or stab — it drifts...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 8d

#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky #Shocktober

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 8d

Angst
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Fear, Up Close

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 26—🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent

Angst drops you straight into a killer’s head and doesn’t let you out. The voice-over tracks his twisted thoughts while the camera glides behind…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★★½ review of Angst (1983)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 26 — 🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent Angst drops you straight into a killer’s head and doesn’t let you out. The voice-over tracks his twisted thoughts while the camera glides behin...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 9d

Thesis
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Curiosity Killed the Viewer

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 25—🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent

Alejandro Amenábar’s debut feels like the work of someone who already knows exactly how to mess with your nerves. Tesis follows a…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★½ review of Thesis (1996)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 25 — 🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent Alejandro Amenábar’s debut feels like the work of someone who already knows exactly how to mess with your nerves. Tesis follows a university st...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 10d

Check out my full review boxd.it/bsJ0M5

A ★★★ review of Went the Day Well? (1942)

What starts as a pleasant wartime curiosity soon turns rather wicked. Beneath the bunting and vicarage manners, Went the Day Well? hides a sharp edge — daring to imagine the English countryside under ...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 10d

Check out my full review boxd.it/btbSEZ

A ★★★★ review of The Shout (1978)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 24 — 🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent The Shout begins, improbably, with a cricket match at a rural asylum — leather on willow masking something far stranger beneath. The cast drew ...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 10d

#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #FilmSky

boxd.it/94Euv

1. The Shout – Cricket, insanity, and the deadliest lungs in Devon
2. At Close Range – Walken’s moustache terrorises rural America
3. Anything Else – When Allen met American Pie
4. Went the Day Well? – Blitz spirit meets home invasion

A screenshot of the “Recent Activity” section on Letterboxd showing four film posters with ratings underneath. From left to right: The Shout (a man standing in sand dunes with a face looming in the clouds above, rated 4 stars), At Close Range (faces of two men in black and white with a gun sight graphic, rated 3 stars), Anything Else (a woman’s face inside a heart shape with a man leaning against it, rated 3 stars), and Went the Day Well? (two women operating a machine gun in a wartime setting, rated 3 stars).

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 10d

The Shout
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

When Folk Horror Found Its Voice

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 24—🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent

The Shout begins, improbably, with a cricket match at a rural asylum — leather on willow masking something far stranger…

Continues at boxd.it/btbSEZ

#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★★ review of The Shout (1978)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 24 — 🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent The Shout begins, improbably, with a cricket match at a rural asylum — leather on willow masking something far stranger beneath. The cast drew ...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 11d

Pulse
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Ghosts in the Machine

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 23—🌍Horrors Without Borders

Few horror films make loneliness feel this creepy. Pulse takes the cursed technology idea made famous by Ring and gives it a millennial twist…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★½ review of Pulse (2001)

Shocktober 2025 FIlm No. 23 — 🌍 Horrors Without Borders Few horror films make loneliness feel this creepy. Pulse takes the cursed technology idea made famous by Ring and gives it a millennial twist — ...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 13d

I Saw the Devil
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Better the Devil You Know

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 22—🌍Horrors Without Borders

Revenge rarely looks this slick or feels this bleak. I Saw the Devil turns the cat-and-mouse thriller into something far more…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★★ review of I Saw the Devil (2010)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 22 — 🌍Horrors Without Borders Revenge rarely looks this slick or feels this bleak. I Saw the Devil turns the cat-and-mouse thriller into something far more vicious — a looping...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 13d

Tigers Are Not Afraid
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Where Fear Prowls and Courage Roar

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 21—🌍Horrors Without Borders

Haunting, suspenseful, and heartbreakingly tender, this is the rare fantasy that makes reality look scarier…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★½ review of Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 21– 🌍Horrors Without Borders Haunting, suspenseful, and heartbreakingly tender, this is the rare fantasy that makes reality look scarier. Tigers Are Not Afraid blends the grit...

Sam @griggs79.bsky.social · 14d

Noroi: The Curse
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Keep the Camera Rolling

#Shocktober 2025 Film No. 20—🌍Horrors Without Borders

There’s a special thrill when a mockumentary horror earns its format, and Noroi: The Curse does — at least for a while. It starts…

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#filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky

A ★★★½ review of Noroi: The Curse (2005)

Shocktober 2025 Film No. 20–🌍Horrors Without Borders There’s a special thrill when a mockumentary horror earns its format, and Noroi: The Curse does — at least for a while. It starts like standard sha...