Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden

@tristanzelden.bsky.social

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Author of The Huntress and the Trickster and Unfold | Former entertainment journalist looking for a new career | Tattoo enthusiast, metalhead, gamer | tszelden@gmail.com | https://tristanzeldenauthor.my.canva.site/ (He/Him)

Last four watched on Letterboxd: Army of Darkness (3 stars), Evil Dead 2 (3 stars), The Evil Dead (3 stars), and Little Miss Sunshine (4 and a half stars)
Last four watched on Letterboxd: Tuner (3 and a half stars), Supergirl (3 stars), Leviticus (4 stars), The Death of Robin Hood (4 stars)
Last four watched on Letterboxd: The Furious (4 stars), Disclosure Day (4 stars), Alien (5 stars), Harakiri (2 and a half stars)
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Last four watched on Letterboxd: Backrooms (4 stars), Is God Is (4 stars), Dust Bunny (3 stars), and Redux Redux (4 stars)
Recent activity on Letterboxd: Is God Is (4 stars), Dust Bunny (3 stars), Redux Redux (4 stars), and Obsession (4 and a half stars)
Stephen Graham Jones wearing a Buffalo shirt, black jacket, cowboy hat, and sunglasses taking a picture with me wearing a black buttonup jacket, Tshirt, sunglases, and a hat
Recent activity on Letterboxd: Hamilton (4 and a half stars), The Drama (4 stars), Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (4 stars), and They Will Kill You (3 stars)
Last four watched on Letterboxd: Crime 101 (3 stars), Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (4 stars), The Mastermind (2 stars), and Wonder Man (4 and a half stars)
Happy birthday bear looking at a cake.
Last four watched on Letterboxd: 28 Years Later The Bone Temple (5 stars), Die Hard (three and a half stars), His & Hers (three and a half stars), and Primate (three and a half stars)
Letterboxd recent activity: Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (rewatch, 4 and a half stars), Krampus (3 stars), Oddity (rewatch, 4 stars), and Queens of the Dead (3 stars)
Steam Replay 2025: 27 games played (14 new, 1 demo, 1 playtest), 148 achivements unlocked (18 fewer than last year, 17 games, 20 rare achievements), 24 days longest streak (from Thur. January 9 to Sun, February 2. 1 day longer than last year. 9 games played). Helldivers 2 (17% time played and 66 sessions played), The Outlast Trials (13% of time played and 50 sessions played), and ARC Raiders (10% of play time and 37 sessions played).
Recent activity on Letterboxd: A Complete Unknown (3 stars), Little Shop of Horrors (3 and a half stars), Running Man (3 stars), and Predator Badlands (4 and a half stars)
Recent Letterboxd activity: Deliver Me From Nowhere with four stars, Rocky Horror Picture Show with two and a half stars, Shelby Oaks with two and a half stars, and Frankenstein (2025) with five stars.
A dark hallway with green lighting, a monster lurking in the dark, papers all over the floor, and blood on the left wall. The title "UNFOLD" is at the top and the author name, my name, "Tristan Zelden" is on the bottom.
Happy birthday bear staring at a bear-friendly cake
Four favorites on Letterboxd: Shaun of the Dead, John Carpenter's The Thing, Ex Machina, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Last four watched on Letterboxd: Caught Stealing (3 stars), Jaws (5 stars, rewatch), Freaky Tales (4 stars), and The Ugly Stepsister (3 and a half stars)
Last four watched on Letterboxd: The Last Stop in Yuma County (four stars), Dinner in America (four and a half stars), Fight Club (three and a half stars), Superman (rewatch, five stars)
Last four watched on Letterboxd. Jaws @50 with a 5-star rating, Superman (2025) with a 5-star rating, Ironheart with a three and a half-star rating, and 28 Weeks Later with a three and a half-star rating.
A John Carpenter's The Thing sleeveless shirt with a red alien dog with a UFO coming out of its eye.
Last four watched on Letterboxd: 28 Years Later (5 stars), Ash (3 and a half stars), Materialists (4 stars), and The Life of Chuck (5 stars)
My last four watched movies on Letterboxd: Dangerous Animals (four out of five stars with a review marker), Ballerina (four out of five stars with a review marker), Predator Killer of Killers (four out of five stars with a review marker), and John Wick Chapter 4 (five out of five stars with rewatch and review markers)
Last four watched on Letterboxd featuring Mission Impossible movies with stylized red, black, and white posters. Movies featured from left to right: Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning with a rewatch and review marker at a four and a half star rating, Mission Impossible Fallout with a rewatch and review marker at five stars, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation with a rewatch and review marker at four and a half stars, and Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol with a rewatch and review marker at four stars.
Alexander Skarsgard standing shirtless and covered in blood in a village in The Northman
Four most recent activity on Letterboxd with Sinners with a review and four and a half star rating, The Amateur with a review and two and a half star rating, Drop with a review and three star rating, and Hell of a Summer with a review and three and a half star rating.
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier on a wood table. "Play Nice" is written in icey blue with a handaxe through the "E," cracking it slightly.
Midnight Meeting, a horror novel by Kaelyn Rodriguez. The cover has red text with shadowy figures of a man and woman by a tree. The edge of a gothic victorian house is seen on the far left. A gothic grandfather clock is on the far right. A crow stands on a branch about the "g" in Meeting.
The cover for The Rotting Room by Viggy Parr Hampton featuring a green-skinned woman in black clothing. On the side is written A Historical Horror Novel
Last four watched on Letterboxd featuring Dream Scenario rated four stars with a review, First Reformed rated four and a half stars with a review, Villains rated three and a half stars with a review, and Mickey 17 rated four stars with a review.
A bear with a happy birthday crown looking at a cake.
A happy birthday crown on a bear looking at a cake.
Last four watctched on Letterboxd: Conclave with a review and 4 and a half stars, The Monkey with a review and 3 and a half stars, The Gorge with a review and 3 and a half stars, and Paddington in Peru with a review and 3 and a half stars.
Cover Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates featuring a cabin in a snowy valley.
Last watched on Letterboxd: The Monkey (3 and a half stars), The Gorge (3 and a half stars), Paddington in Peru (3 and a half stars), and Captain America Brave New World (3 stars)
The cover for Tastes Like Candy by Ivy Tholen featuring a skull in some cotton candy.
The sci-fi horror novel Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes standing on a wooden desk
Book cover of The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Last four watched on Letterboxd. Movies included: Enemy (three and a half stars), Freaky (rewatch, three and a half stars), Arrival (rewatch, five stars), Martha Marcy May Marlene (two and a half stars)
A birthday crowned bear looking at a cake.
A happy birthday crowned bear looking down at a cake
A pink Ghostface popsocket. Ghostface is answering a pink cord phone with the words "No you hang up" floating around with pink hearts.
An Agent's guide to Unfold. One section covers tropes and themes: Workplace drama meets creature feature, mean and moody, unpredictable characters, diverse representation, original monsters, dual POVs. The other section covers premise: Blake Buckley and her colleagues lose a lawsuit against their employer, the research company Unfold. They go for Plan B, Plan C, and all the way to Plan Z but everything fails. After a brutal retaliation from Unfold, Blake hits a breaking point and comes up with a plan to unleash the company's most prized possession on the executives: the biology-defying monsters they call the "whintossers."
Last four watched on Letterboxd: Scream (rewatch and rated five stars), Red Rooms (three and a half stars), Wolf Man (three and a half stars), and Alien Romulus (reqatch and rares five stars)
The Troop by Nick Cutter standing straight up on a dark wood desk.
Brother by Ania Ahlborn stood up on a wooden table with a bookmark in it.
Goodreads stats 2024: 8,676 pages read and 27 books read.
Letterboxd stats 2024: 157 diary entries, 141 reviews, 6 lists, 531 likes, 14 comments, and 314.5 hours watched.
Letterboxd stats of first film of 2024 (Sisu, watched on January 7) and last film (The Banshees of Inisherin, watched on December 27)
Birthday bear looking at its cake.
The cover for the urban fantasy novel The Huntress and the Trickster by Tristan Zelden
Samara Weaving from Ready or Not with the game's card.
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
Last watched on Letterboxd with The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (4 and a half stars), Nosferatu (5 stars), Anora (3 and a half stars), and Challengers (4 stars).
Marvel tumbler, bottles, and mugs. Featuring a standard Marvel mug and tumbler. Bottles represent Thor, Captain Marvel, and Deadpool. A Spider-Man mug to top it off.
Rage Against the Machine performing live with a sign that reads, "Nazi Lives Don't Matter."
Steam Replay 2024: 35 games played (6 more than last year). 14 new games, 1 demo. 166 achievements unlocked (29 fewer than last year) across 20 games and 33 rare achievements.
A birthday bear with its cake
Happy birthday bear with a cake