Rob Tiemstra

“The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.”

Happy Halloween, Bluesky folk.

In an attempt to sell tickets to gamers, the musical Hadestown will rebrand itself Hades2n

To celebrate this Halloween season, I wrote a piece for the Horror Writers Association about the one time I spent a fall working at Halloween Horror Nights! Read at the link below!

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For work I'm reading about a New York Socialite who disappeared forever after two of her short stories were rejected for publication, and y'know what? Not to make light of an over 100 year old tragedy, but that's kind of a mood.

“May be”

Messing with the heads of my LA friends by calling it “blunch” instead of “brunch”

My (so far) yearly "did an immersive horror show + low key could've handled it being scarier" post, @timestar.bsky.social is a true pal for having the "oh shit I just remembered I'm SCARED" moment in perfect unison with me about 10 minutes before we went to hell or whatever

Whichever marketing person came up with the tagline “Only Monsters play God” for the GDT Frankenstein movie *really* isn’t getting paid enough, cuz godDAMN.

Dracula Beyond Stoker Issue 7: Mina Harker — DBS Press Dracula Beyond Stoker Issue 7: Mina Harker explores the legacy of the heart and soul of the greatest vampire novel of all time. This issue features chilling new tales, classic reprints, poems, and art...

This fall, a short story I wrote will be appearing in DRACULA BEYOND STOKER, Issue 7: MINA HARKER!

I’m honored to be included alongside 12 other authors in continuing the legacy of Bram Stoker. Pre-order below:

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Lowkey starting to think he’s this generation’s Christopher Lee. Gravitas for days, voice that sounds like an earthquake, frequently squandered.

The Truman Show

HOME | Night Frights LA Horror Film Festival Night Frights LA is a Los Angeles horror film festival showcasing bold, independent horror films.

Attention LA! This weekend, we have a pair of encore screenings on Saturday for NO SLASHER HERE, a short film I wrote & directed.

10 AM -- Night Frights LA @ LA Convention Center
1:30 PM -- Hollywood Horrorfest @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center

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Whoever came up with the DIES IRAE music gag in Silksong deserves a hearty pat on the back. Makes me smile every time.

This knowledge really makes me feel for his ADs…

This 8-episode TV miniseries could have been an email

Today in 'unexpectedly confusing scenarios': Being a film nerd and trying to schedule a flight to Wilmington, NC.

"What do you mean I'm flying to ILM? I didn't know Industrial Light & Magic HAD an airport!"

I have no way of testing this, but I strongly suspect that if you gave a cursed Japanese videotape to the Beatles back in the day, you'd create Ringu Starr

*You open Disney Plus, put on the new season of The Mandalorian...*

*Suddenly you notice that the main character is regularly questioning the existence of God*

I call this scenario "Pedro Pascal's Wager"

The picture book ‘MISTER BABADOOK’ among less sinister picture books and comics

On my bookshelf it’s a close second

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

At a queer wedding last weekend, I encountered a worrying number of transmasc folks who don’t know how to tie a bow tie or even a standard tie.

AMAB folks clearly haven’t been doing a good enough job demonstrating that ties can be fun and expressive.

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Apropos of nothing, a friend and I were talking about the film HUGO, and how under-appreciated it is in Scorsese’s body of work.

I was in high school when it came out and even non-cinephile adults were talking about how it’s the best cinematography they’d ever seen, 3D *or* 2D. And they were RIGHT

Shocked you hadn’t seen it! An all-timer for me

I wonder if they’re hiring writers, cuz I know some folks I could recommend, heh.

Articles written about what tech bros say ai will do are not reporting, they are advertising.

All other issues aside, I wonder what kind of person looks at the painstakingly painted backdrops of the original Wizard of Oz and thinks “what if we made it look like unimpressive cloud photography you took on an iPhone?”

THE LADY EVE - A peerless screwball rom com. Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda are an outrageously good pairing.

HERO - Chinese state propaganda told Rashomon/Hara-kiri style with some of the best color design I’ve ever seen in a film. Saw it earlier this year on 35mm, had to share with my partner.

No real through line to this week’s viewing, besides it being a series of bangers!

STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT - I may have liked this more than the first one, though for wildly different reasons.
POISON - A Rosetta Stone for the entire Todd Haynes oeuvre. Not my favorite of his, but essential.

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We need to start calling federal agents “spooks” again.

If for no other reason than it’s more amusing to imagine a bedsheet ghost listening into your phone calls rather than some overworked NSA office schmuck

Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the ’50s and ’60s, Dies at 97 Tom Lehrer, an influential musical satirist who came to fame with songs addressing topical events in the '50s and '60s, has died at age 97.

Rest in Peace, Tom Lehrer. A brilliant satirist whose music is still a delight to listen to even more than a half-century later.

Also, he may or may not have invented the Jello shot.

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