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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 4h

Movie #6: ONSLAUGHT (2026), dir. Adam Wingard Viewing History: First time watch Where I'm Watching: PVOD

Adria Arjona holds a gun while protecting a child in ONSLAUGHT

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Important movie discussions happening in the @talkfilmsociety.com Discord

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zombies... back...
samshotfirst Yesterday at 9:35 PM
Warring factions. Kate Beckinsale.
That's Underworld bayyybe
Cooljma Yesterday at 10:48 PM
Went to look at Kate Beckinsale's filmography to see what else this logic applies to, and the first movie I saw was Pearl Harbor, so l guess that's an Underworld movie too, now.
samshotfirst Yesterday at 10:49 PM

too, now.
samshotfirst Yesterday at 10:49 PM
Everything can be an Underworld movie if you believe hard enough
Siobhan • DSMV Yesterday at 10:50 PM
robert eggers has one coming out soon
his second in a row
mschindler Yesterday at 10:57 PM
Oh damn. That's his endgame

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Genuinely thought this was Krysten Ritter until I noticed it was a poster for VERITY.

A poster for the movie Verity, on a movie theater mobile app

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Movie #2: PACIFIC HEIGHTS (1990), dir. John Schlesinger Viewing History: First time watch Where I'm Watching: Criterion Channel

Michael Keaton in 1990's Pacific Heights wearing a white button down and sporting the classic Keaton cut

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Taking recommendations for horror movies suitable for my brother's nephews (ages 8 and 10), with Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark being the limit of scariness. Here's what I've come up with so far:

Screenshot of a letterboxd list entitled Horror Movies for Impressionable Youths. Movies shown: Coraline, ParaNorman, Gremlins, Gremlins 2, The Monster Squad, Scooby Doo on Zombie Island, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Goosebumps

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feels like the timeline could use a cleanse. Here's Rocket being the cutest dog of all time.

An adorable smooth red mini dachshund laying on the foot of a bed on top of a blue blanket in sunlight

That same dachshund this time close-up looking directly into the camera

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What's your top 12 of the year so far? #filmsky

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

JOINT SECURITY AREA has become my favorite Park Chan-wook movie. I have not stopped thinking about it since I watched it over a year ago.

A still from JOINT SECURITY AREA (2000), dir. Park Chan-wook

Two soldiers, one from North Korea one from South, point guns at each other as two other look on with grave concern.

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Can't stop laughing at this. I wonder what's gonna happen??

Plot description of Mel Gibson's Resurrection of the Christ on IMDb reads: plot kept under wraps. Described as a sequel to The Passion of the Christ (2004)

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

QTP with four games that hold special meaning to you!

Star Wars Episode One: Jedi Power Battles On Dreamcast

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on Wii

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction on PS3

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Drop a movie you love that has a featured cast of 10 people or less

James Stewart, John Dall, and Farley Grainger in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope"

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My Top 10 of the year so far. I’m way behind even more than usual because of all the health stuff I’ve been dealing with but I’d be proud with this list regardless

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The films: Lone Wolf & Cub Paris, Texas The Rock Do The Right Thing {went with editions I don’t already own}

Polaroid from thecriterioncloset.com that shows the boxes of four criterion collection films.

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My guy Luke Goss sure can play the hell out of tortured estranged son with some good points about the world despite being the defacto villain

Luke Goss as Nuada in HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“You remind me of a poem I can’t remember, and a song that may never have existed, and a place I’m not sure I’ve ever been to.”

Grandpa Simpson and Grandma Bouvier sitting on a couch

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

That face when your Nazi collaboration files are about to leak

Christopher Plummer in Inside Man with an oh shit expression

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Max Casella is a very good actor, but no matter how many brutal gangsters and tough cops he plays he’ll always be Racetrack “that's my cigar!” Higgins to me.

Max Casella in The Newsies as Racetrack Higgins holding a cigar

Max Casella in The Sopranos as Benny Fabio wearing a nice black shirt and a shit eating grin

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Updated list for the night. Will definitely be obsessing over this and adding to it for days.

Predator: Badlands, Prey, The Northman, Sisu, John Wick Chapter 2, Pacific Rim, Riddick, War for the Planet of the Apes, The Transporter, Star Trek Beyond, Hero (2002), Shadow

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

New project. Suggestions appreciated.

Screenshot of a Letterboxd list titled Genndy Tartakovsky Coded Live-Action. Films listed are Predator: Badlands, Prey, and The Northman

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

To the people who take this to be supportive of the form of toxic masculinity it shows

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

“Will the gambit pay off? 20th Century Fox is betting… it will.”

Screen grab from THE SIMPSONS. A poster for Troy McClure in
The Contrabulus Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel.

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Should have done this ages ago. I come here for movies, friends, and nonsense. I get enough of his bullshit every where else

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Probably my favorite moment from the most recent season of TASKMASTER

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Hm… TRAIN DREAMS has heart but SKI GATE TO THE GROIN has a ski gate to the groin.

Homer Simpson sits contemplatively in an empty auditorium next to a film projector

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“Musk pivots to develop on the moon”

Brad Pitt in AD ASTRA in a lunar rover with a reflection of an Applebee’s sign in the window

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

“I’m rich! I’m wealthy! I’m comfortably well-off!”

Daffy Duck arms raised mouth open in a a massive pile of gold with an oversized diamond on his head

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’m biased as hell but dachshunds are my ride or die. Followed closely by border collies. Pictured: my beloved Rocket (left) and his “nephew” Benny (right)

A very brave and sweet little dachshund who exudes NYC confidence. Classic black and brown smooth coat

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No new pictures where are you mentally

An extreme closeup of Mario with a comically bewildered expression

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Is it just me, or do the robots in STARFLEET ACADEMY look remarkably like Alpha 5?

A small flying robot with an oversized head repairing a starship

A red and gold robot with a yellow lightning bolt on its chest

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This has been fun! Not super pumped about revisiting the next in the series though. Maybe it’s not as bad as I remember? #LastFourWatched

Recent Letterboxd log activity
From right to left:
Licence to Kill - 4 stars
GoldenEye - 4.5 stars
Tomorrow Never Dies - 3.5 stars
The World Is Not Enough - 3 stars

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Starting my first watch of THE SOPRANOS back up. Saving this line for later use.

Tony, Pussy, and Paulie in a hospital waiting room. Pussy says “he’s full of bad energies”

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

6. BANSHEE Didn’t finish quite as strong as it started but man those first those three seasons rule. You can practically feel the pulp when you watch this seedy hyperviolent delight. Plus, some of the best fight scenes ever to air on TV.

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Homer and Bart’s expressions are both kinds of conversations I have with normies about movies

Homer looks at Bart in irritated bewilderment, and Bart looks at Homer smiling excitedly

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

A young Sam’s introduction to the incomparable Delroy Lindo. He’s been one of my favorite actors since before I knew what made a great one.

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

One of the best bits in a show that’s all good bits

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My Favorite 20 Movies of 2025, in no particular order beyond the Top 5

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

FIRE & ASH on Tuesday/Wednesday. So this is happening now.

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Sam Van Helsing @samshotfirst.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The power of the One Ring is also what ultimately brings about its destruction. I like to think about this whenever some new nonsense from the fascists and the tech fucks pops up.

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