2016 · horror · mystery · thriller
Sam Was Here
Directed by Christophe Deroo1h 15m2016
California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.
Our read: Sam Was Here (2016) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal horror · mystery · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / mystery, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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