Rob Tiemstra

Flash sale - we have no integrity! We just want money!

The Washington Post should face legal consequences for sending this email the morning after axing one-third of their staff

Intrusive thought: Peter Jackson and the Olympians.

This is nothing. ICE and DHS need to be outright abolished. Call Schumer's offices and make it known.

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HHR 493: We talk with (No Slasher Here & The Sangria Murders) Filmmaker Robert Tiemstra (Pt. 1) HHR 493: We talk the creative process and impact with (No Slasher Here & The Sangria Murders) Filmmaker Robert Tiemstra. In part 1, we talk the inspiration, dedication to the film craft, why submit

After FilmQuest, I was interviewed on Horror Happens Radio about writing, filmmaking, and the genre in general!

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Heard someone on a podcast describe the state of the internet by saying "the truth is paywalled by the lies are free" and I think that saying is living rent free in my head now

It’s an awards season sandwich, with a random documentary I watched for work in the middle!

low angle black & white photo of Jack Lemmon in profile with a cigarette in his mouth, smoke curling upward, his coat collar is popped and he's wearing a hat. Lemmon's in the bottom right corner of the photo looking up at three windows of an apartment in the upper left corner, and the rest of the photo is dominated by black.

Jack Lemmon photographed by Gjon Mili on the set of The Apartment

Celebrating the end of 2025 with a $6.95 royalty check from an indie film I helped cut almost 2 years ago

Every holiday season for the last half-decade, I’ve been on a quest to convince my friends who don’t regularly watch movies to watch TOKYO GODFATHERS

They love PAPRIKA, so this should be a slam dunk

And yet

Make a Bond Film Casual

The Man with the Golden Gum

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go

Rob Reiner is so much more than just a director, but I am struck at his ability to be so versatile during that great span of movies he made. Rather than dwell on the constant, horrible conversations, I want to celebrate someone who I hope will be remembered as an artist for real human emotions 🧵

a couple schnabelperchten havin' a gossip and a cig

Season's Greasons

I was gonna argue for the Prestige, but I could see it

I promise to confine my anachronism complaints entirely to how much gayer it should be

While writing a list of Christmas specials, I wound up abbreviating "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as "Charlie B Christ"

No I will not be changing it

Before seeing the film, I was theoretically in the camp of “this is an early to mid-November movie”, and I’m very surprised that my mind changed on this.

I honestly didn’t know how much of the film was a riff on The Grinch. But like, if the Grinch was a friendly goth instead of a cranky neighbor.

Obviously, not trying to say it’s *wrong* to watch the film in October, but the film uses Halloween for its setting / characters, and Christmas for Skelington’s character arc / the overall story structure.

The latter is what the movie is “about” imo.

Is A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS a Halloween Movie or a Christmas Movie?

As someone who didn’t grow up with the movie, I was familiar with this question from afar, but now having seen it, I’m a little surprised with my answer.

… it’s a Christmas movie, y’all.

As an independent filmmaker, there’s no greater compliment than hearing via word of mouth that a queer punk venue is doing a screening of your short film from 5 years ago WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE

No Other Choice
No Other Choice
No Other Choice
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William Peter Blatty’s just spinning in his grave

an author holding copies of a fiction collection they contributed to. Clearly delighted.

It’s raining in LA and my author copies for DRACULA BEYOND STOKER #7 have arrived!

Seeing your words in print is a wonderful feeling. 10/10 would recommend.

For me that slot was taken up by the moment I went “Oh hey, Matthew Lillard is in this! I bet he’s the twist villain…”

My GOD I completely memory-holed this scene…

Go celebrate Zohran’s win by watching Mississippi Masala on @criterion.bsky.social

“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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