Same for indie filmmakers. It's not like we do it for the money.

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

This should be a stage musical. It’s a tale as old as time. You saw enchanted, sentient objects in Beauty and the Beast, right? Think Beauty and the Beast meets Evil Dead. And BOTH were made into musicals. So there. This new B horror classic is Haunted House of Pancakes (2025, Tubi).

Lovers of physical media and murderous possessed food take note. You could win a copy of HAUNTED HOUSE OF PANCAKES! Can you imagine enjoying the movie and all the special features for FREE? Dreams can come true, my friends!!!

Ethan Erwin and I are excited to announce our first feature out the gate from Beryllium Ent, "Jason Statham Stole My Bike!" Ethan hasn't been this excited since The Nice Guys. The action is great, and the comedy is amazing, written by Alison Flierl (Bojack, Conan), to be directed by David Leitch!

I'm gonna miss this furry little goofball.

Nr. 046 #Horror365Challenge 📼 @paulnewton.bsky.social and Matt Shapiro's insane short is so much fun ... and gluten free! "Leggo My Soul" (2022) 🧇🧇🧇🧇 youtu.be/hJKaP-O5_II #ShortFilmSky 📹 #MutantFam #FilmSky 📽

"Director @natedalton.bsky.social delivers a film that easily will make your day much better. Haunted House Of Pancakes should be on your watch list this year and proves why B movies are needed for a more positive future." Thanks for the review, Daniel! That is indeed a super sexy movie review.

God damn, GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE is a ridiculous amount of fun. Loved it so much. Perfect cinematic escape to turn around what was an otherwise rough day for me.

ANNOUNCEMENT THREAD: Check out the trailer for the first book in our interactive Navigating Nightmares series: Hare-Raising Summer! 🐇 At Bunny Buddies Estates, the rabbits are NOT all right...

Nr. 042 #Horror365Challenge 📼 That was silly and fun and well done! Self-aware with the clichés and tropes but a few surprises too! "Haunted House of Pancakes" (2025) 🥞🥞🥞½ #Tubi #MutantFam #FilmSky 📽

I fully endorse every one of these suggestions. Go find a new indie movie to love on Tubi this weekend!

Luke's out here still killing it with his fantastic short film, Vines!

Our first Your Fright to Know interview is now up on the Cat Eye Press website. This month, we're talking gastro horror with none other than @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social! Check out the interview here 👇 www.cateyepress.com/blog/your-fr...

ANNOUNCEMENT: we’re launching a new series of interactive horror books for adult readers called Navigating Nightmares! Read all about it here 👇 www.cateyepress.com/blog/cat-eye...

My desk has now reached standing height and it is time for me to commence a big script revision. Wish me luck and I'll see you on the other side.

Zach is very wise, and is absolutely correct here. Immigration is an objective good. His book "Open Borders" is *great*. You should read it. The basis of all this anti-immigration BS is blatant racism, and a fascist desire to use that to manipulate the population.

Thought we were more or less done with our script. Got another set of notes tonight from the director - good ones that are definitely moving the script in the right (and more affordable) direction. But now I need to almost completely restructure the first act. A screenwriter's work is never done.

Oh man, you guys are in for a treat with MOTHER OF FLIES! It's essential viewing this weekend. @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social out did themselves with this one.

Haunted House of Pancakes and Leggo My Soul are featured in the Double Trouble section of the recent Horrorverse Newsletter! horrorville.beehiiv.com/p/076 If you don't have the Blu-ray yet, you can also watch on YouTube or Tubi! Thanks so much to @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social for the shout-out!

If you'd like to help folks in Minnesota being terrorized and you'd also like to tell ICE to fuck off in a song, then I have just the thing for you. $3k so far and I'd love to see it get to 5! jeremymessersmith.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-t...

To recap: the two major parties refuse to rein in the reign of a demented sociopathic king who daily is marching us into both World War III and the next Civil War simultaneously because a Black president once made fun of him and also the Special Boy wasn't given the Shiny Golden Medal he covets

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Updates on some film and TV projects I've worked on. 1. Watch Nathan Dalton's HAUNTED HOUSE OF PANCAKES for FREE on Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10005... 2. ONLY THE BRAVE and LOVE & DEATH are on Netflix 3. EASY DIGGING Feb 11 & 15 at DCIFF 4. Michael McGlynn on SPOTLIGHT this week

If you’re reading this, I hope you get everything you need today to experience a little joy. I hope you catch the bus on time, or read a good book, or something good happens to you. And if it doesn’t, I hope you have the strength to make it to tomorrow to try again.

Dust Bunny came and went in the theater so quick it didn't get the chance to generate the audience it deserved. It's a strange movie for sure but @bryanfuller.bsky.social is a master of the dark fairytale. I got lost in the world and had a huge smile on my face the entire time. Seek it out!

Try getting a fish to give them up though. They’re irrational about the stuff.

I turn 50 this weekend and will be celebrating with a slew of @sfsketchfest.bsky.social shows starting tonight with @pftompkins.bsky.social's Varietopia! I expect a good time will be had.

No elected official should even be able to say this in jest without being hurled from office.

Live your life in such a way that people won't smile when they read the news of your passing. If the worst people on the planet feel the need to explain to others that they should be humane and respectful when you finally kick, you've done fucked up.

I know that the state-sanctioned murder of a smiling mom in a minivan is shocking, sickening, unsettling and disurbing, but don’t worry. This is America! Soon it will be as everyday and unsurprising as children getting slaughtered in their classroom.

So when an ICE officer tells you to get out of the car, you’re supposed to get out of the car, what are you supposed to do when a judge tells you to release the Epstein files?

News aggregates like Google News are increasingly including Whitehouse. Gov, the IRS, and even the UN as direct sources. The public statements if these entities were always available, but they're not news sources. We need fact checking, we need journalism.

Just a PSA to start your week. Haunted House of Pancakes is now on #Tubi for all your viewing pleasure. Written by @paulnewton.bsky.social and directed by @natedalton.bsky.social. This movie is an absolute blast! #horrorsky tubitv.com/movies/10005...

Dana also knows the difference between using language to inspire and mobilize and the mewlings of a castrated technocrat.

This man speaks the truth! Patrick is incredibly good in this movie and Nate and I are indeed peddlers of "insane ideas."

Mmm! Just like that cartoon spider, I like pancakes too. Haunted House of Pancakes is now available to watch on Tubi. So for all you Tubi-heads out there, it's time for the feast! tubitv.com/movies/10005...

Gonna play the proud dad card here as my son was the construction chair on the Cal Poly Rose Parade float this year and I just heard they won the top prize! Parade starts in just a few minutes! Check out out!

A reminder that the key to writing is getting the very best out of your brain, but in order to get the best out of it you have to take care of your mental health. Stress, concern, and depression will take a toll on your work. So always make sure to take care of YOU and you'll get your best work.

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

The sequel to A Bug's Life that I didn't know I needed.

I'm a little partial to his work on the Haunted House of Pancakes poster, but no question @creepyduckart.bsky.social knows how to make badass movie art.

If you can, see @bryanfuller.bsky.social’s DUST BUNNY in the theater so you can tell your kids you were one of the cool kids who were first to discover this modern miracle of a movie. Completely experiential cinematic experience I wont soon forget and neither should you. I needed this. Bravo.

I'm pleased to report that my eyes were not eaten for jujubes! As for the movie, it has a lot of the same script problems that the last one had and maybe even a few new ones, but it's propulsive and eventful enough that I enjoyed it a lot more than that one. Definitely no shortage of spectacle.

It's time for me to return to Pandora. Wish me luck.

The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible. I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.

Imagine how good a film list has to be for When Harry Met Sally to be number 6. #RIP editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/rob-re...

Sometimes I wonder if it's even possible to dislike Trump any more that I already do. Turns out yes. Yes I can.

Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...