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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · Dec 31

My Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2024:

Dune: Part Two
The Substance
Rebel Ridge
The Wild Robot
Furiosa
Hometown Prison
A Different Man
Challengers
A Quiet Place: Day One
Love Lies Bleeding

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 4m

It’s that good shit. Direction, writing, performances all dialed in.

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 14m

Episode 105 also has a terrific guest spot performance from Peter Dinklage.

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 17m

Macon Blair directed the hell out of last night’s THE LOWDOWN. Ends with an excellent and harrowing oner.

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 17m

Macon Blair directed the hell out of last night’s THE LOWDOWN. Ends with an excellent and harrowing oner.

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1h

“The horror was for love.”

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1h

Same. I’m salty about it.

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 2h

CANDYMAN
EVIL DEAD 2
THE THING
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 5h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 2h

I lived on that stuff as a preteen

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 5h

unsolicited Dick pic

Dick Grayson as Nightwing, art by Jim Lee

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 6h

If you need another reason to watch, Sam Fisher has a border collie with heterochromia named Kaiju.

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1d

First episode of SPLINTER CELL: DEATHWATCH is real fucking good. Absolutely nails the tone and feel of the series. It’s in very good hands with my friend Derek Kolstad.

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 8h

Friend who manages a theater says that they do. There are exceptions with Netflix of movies like their Hallmark style romcoms, but for the most part it’s straightforward. And Amazon uses a third party distributor but it’s doable.

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 8h

They’re a damn good apple but they must have TSwift level of publicity/marketing to have become so dominant in the hand fruit space.

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 9h

You get it. Knew there was a reason we’ve been mutuals so long. My latest:

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1d

They should have rebranded Apple TV+ as Honeycrisp

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 9h

I have so many tweets and Bluesky posts that are just the dumbest jokes that I needed to get out of my head. Respect.

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 22h

This song is so good I almost love it more than the movie it comes from.

The Hell Of It

YouTube video by Paul Williams - Topic

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 23h

Seeing this in person when I walked through the Kerner Optical door during my visit to ILM is a core memory. Didn’t realize until later it was a Struzan but of course it was. Magic.

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 23h

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 23h

Hard to fully say after just one episode but I think as an action junkie you’ll find plenty to vibe with. It’s a follow-up to the games, but it’s doing a good job reading the views in so far. Players will just have that extra layer.

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1d

First episode of SPLINTER CELL: DEATHWATCH is real fucking good. Absolutely nails the tone and feel of the series. It’s in very good hands with my friend Derek Kolstad.

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh, a gay raccoon can’t have babies?”

“I guess he could adopt… or get a surrogate.”

“Of course he could.”

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1d

It sort of feels like Gunn filtered all his most nihilistic tendencies into CC. I think I like it overall more than most but I definitely have serious issues with it. Justice for Nina.

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1d

Drew Struzan must have had a direct line to the art gods. His work was unmatched.

Poster for Del Toro’s HELLBOY, art by the late master Drew Struzan

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1d

The master has been cooking

Send Help | Official Trailer | In Theaters Jan 30

YouTube video by 20th Century Studios

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The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1d

Drew Struzan helped shape the way generations thought about movies. RIP

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 1d

They should have rebranded Apple TV+ as Honeycrisp

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve known this to be a universal truth since 10th grade.

The Haunting of Sam Van Haren @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 2d

So many limited series these days feel painfully stretched for no other reason than to milk subscriptions. Really appreciate that this rewarded patience.

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