Trouble rarely announces itself in Sam Toor’s films. It arrives like a private joke — unsettling, wry, and quietly furious.
A self-taught filmmaker, Sam began experimenting with cameras at 17, inspired by the quiet menace of Spielberg’s early work — Duel — and later shaped by the moral ambiguity and dry irony of the Coen Brothers. His earliest experiments became a through-line: an appetite for character-first stories where humor undercuts danger and fate composes the score.
Sam makes films for the architecture of story — not trend or checklist. He believes tension is an atmosphere you build from silence, micro-expressions and sound; that humor should appear only when it complicates the moment; and that characters should always be the engine of surprise. He chooses projects selectively: each film must fit the mood he seeks to excavate and the moral questions he wants to hold up to the light.
Sam serves as director and co-producer on Town Glitch. The project challenged him as a storyteller, pushing both visual strategy and tonal range: a thin line between dread and dark humor, a play of perspectives that demands careful directorial choices.
Four friends discover a crashed car in an abandoned town. Each of them begins to see a different version of the same event — and as realities diverge, the truth begins to look dangerously personal.
As the production of “Town Glitch” unfolds, Sam Toor invites audiences behind the scenes to catch glimpses of the creative process.
Sam works with a selective global creative unit, drawing on editorial, musical and post-production collaborators who elevate his cinematic language:
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