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The Amytyville Horror

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Writer/director, Bloodlist alum. Probably watching an episode of Seinfeld right now. she/her 🎥 linktr.ee/walkncandyapple

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections
My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler $94.59 at 5.999/gal
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/09/2026
"I didn't think a full, 6-day-per-week, 14-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the 'generate' button, followed by the 'approve' button, thousands of times a day on SlurryHose. But experience has shown me that I was wrong." buff.ly/RbEQoJg
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Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Bumping this up now that we’re officially in the run up to Halloween 😈🔪🔪🔪🔪 #filmsky
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
August Filmmaking Update is out. Tons of news! aktaylor.substack.com/p/filmmaking... #filmsky #indiefilm
aktaylor.substack.com
Filmmaking Update: A Screening, Location Scouting, and More!
August 2026
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you were yearning to hear my voice, I did an interview on WYSO a couple weeks ago, about making movies! (Available until 8/26 - starts around 1:50:30) www.wyso.org/show/middaym...
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Midday Music - 8/12/26
Midday Music with Evan Miller from 8/12/26, from WYSO Music On Demand.
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
For me it’s Dan Stevens in The Guest and mathematically speaking it’s not even close
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
July filmmaking update! #supportindiefilm #filmsky aktaylor.substack.com/p/a-fundrais...
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My first feature, Hunter’s Weekend, is now streaming on #HorrorhoundTV! horrorhound.com/tv/hunters-w...
Poster for the film Hunter’s Weekend. Two men in park ranger uniforms carrying rifles stand next to each other in the woods. They look with concern at something offscreen. The text reads “Hunter’s Weekend Now Streaming on HorrorHoundTV. Who hunts the hunters?”
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
☹️☹️☹️ www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Sam Neill, Jurassic Park star, dies at 78
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for playing paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in dinosaur blockbuster "Jurassic Park" and whose career included more than 50 movies, has died at the age of 78.
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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oh the AI “actress”’is “starring” in a “movie”? Bffr
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Milastauffer Whatever
Alt: Milastauffer Whatever - a little girl rolls her eyes as she dismisses something with extreme contempt
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Harrison Ford
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In my day, $18 of Taco Bell was enough food to kill you.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I know they say money doesn’t solve problems but have you considered that rich people just suck at solving problems?
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
June filmmaking update is out over on my substack with a fun update about my first feature, Hunter’s Weekend! aktaylor.substack.com/p/filmmaking...
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
PHYSICAL MEDIA FOREVER!
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Felicia Day @felicia.day · 19/06/2026
JULY 20th! ITS HAPPENING! The Guild Reunion Movie Kickstarter goes LIVE! Please repost to help us reach all the Guildies who want to support! And sign up on the website! We're making a movie!!!!
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Flazlo @fleezlow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
get their asses
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨Best Friends Forever update! 🚨We got a mention in @variety.com with new cast announcements! #indiefilm #filmsky #supportindiefilm variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Horror Comedy ‘Best Friends Forever’ Expands Cast With ‘SNL’ Alum Aristotle Athari, ‘Game Changer’ Comedian Zac Oyama, ‘Dead Meat’ Hosts and More (EXCLUSIVE)
The horror comedy film 'Best Friends Forever' is adding several new cast members to the mix.
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
NOT NOW MUMMY YEAST ZOMBIES (I’m assuming that’s what will happen to anyone who eats the bread because that’s science) www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Scientists make sourdough bread using yeast found in 5,000-year-old mummy
Team now plans to see if they can use yeast strains harvested from Ötzi the Iceman to brew beer too
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/06/2026
To quit writing you actually have to be writing in the first place
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Adam Sandler Thumbs Down
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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
So I’m experiencing rather serious financial difficulties from medical bills and…capitalism and I would love to not have to declare bankruptcy or do a gofundme which seem like the only way out right now but maybe if everyone bought some shirts or signed up for Patreon? Signal boosts appreciated🖤🦷
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is monstrous.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21/05/2026
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Homer, noted travel writer for the tourism board of Ancient Greece - come to the Mediterranean! The gods are petty and may destroy you for the smallest slight, but the beaches, my god, the beaches!
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/05/2026
"At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/at-...
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At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks
“At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200.”
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Hey Covid cautious and movie loving friends! Someone just shared this resource in a group I’m in - a site that lists the least-sold showings at AMC theaters near your zip code. Great way to find a mostly empty theater to catch a film while staying as safe as possible! walzr.com/empty-screen...
walzr.com
Empty Screenings
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/04/2026
Goose: WHAT ALGORITHM Goose, pursuing: WHAT ALGORITHM, KENNEDY
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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.
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Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I'm not the first to note this but AI psychosis just seems to be "experience what it's like to have yes men" and shows what has happened to any billionaire who has any kind of public profile
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AL @jebushchrist.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ughhhhhhhhhhh
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format
a series of pictures of agent scully from the hit television series "the x-files" wearing glasses. each picture gradually has a slightly more serious expression and more dramatic lighting
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Long Covid isn’t just an illness. It is an ostracizing condition that puts you in discordance with society, with your friends, your family, and yourself. People want very much to not think about it, but it’s inescapable if you have it. Only a few illnesses make you a social pariah, this is one.
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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Wow. Literally had "Go to Chili's" on my 2026 wish list, go f yourself and your watery margaritas
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The Amytyville Horror @walkncandyapple.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
All photos of Hegseth are unflattering because his soul is ugly
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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.
Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot
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Lily Bart 📚 🎧 😽 @roguetime.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I think this is the best SNL promo I’ve ever seen. #connorstorie #heatedrivalry
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