Sam Beddoes

Sam Beddoes

Favorite films

  • The Fifth Element
  • Road House
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Deadstream

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  • Idle Hands

    ★★★

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★½

  • The Substance

    ★★★

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  • Idle Hands

    Idle Hands

    ★★★

    A mid teen stoner comedy from the [American Sex Trip: Weed Edition] era which borrows a lot from Evil Dead 2, American Werewolf and a couple of other films I'd rather be watching, which I'd admittedly have probably been enamoured with if I had seen it when I was 16.

    Jessica Alba is worth an extra half star, holy moly...

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

    What if Candle Cove was Buffy The Vampire Slayer (and a little bit of Charmed, even Ghost Writer), even down to the exact font?

    Amber Benson cameo to boot.

    It was already a winner in my book at that point.

    It’s a vibes film with some really liminal feeling sets and locations, vague story leaning on the psychological. Good shit.

    I did not care much for We’re All Going To The Worlds Fair but this had me hooked and interested…

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  • Speak No Evil

    Speak No Evil

    ★★

    What a miserable experience. A frustrating, tiring, exhausting experience… And ultimately one which, once the credits rolled, felt completely pointless.

    I’m fine with “bad endings” in horror but everything that happened here I saw coming a mile off and I just had to watch the pathetic characters derp their way through it and put up no kind of fight, then it resorted to one of the worst taboos in film for shock factor, and long before the credits hit I found…

  • Jigsaw

    Jigsaw

    ★½

    No. Stop it.

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