Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden

@tristanzelden

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

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Last four watched on Letterboxd: Influencers (3 and a half stars), Influencer (2 and a half stars), Hairspray 2007 (4 stars), and The Odyssey (4 and a half stars)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jul 10

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jul 3

Last four watched on Letterboxd: Tuner (3 and a half stars), Supergirl (3 stars), Leviticus (4 stars), The Death of Robin Hood (4 stars)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jun 19

Last four watched on Letterboxd: The Furious (4 stars), Disclosure Day (4 stars), Alien (5 stars), Harakiri (2 and a half stars)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jun 16

Introduce yourself with four video games

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jun 5

Last four watched on Letterboxd: Backrooms (4 stars), Is God Is (4 stars), Dust Bunny (3 stars), and Redux Redux (4 stars)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· May 23

Recent activity on Letterboxd: Is God Is (4 stars), Dust Bunny (3 stars), Redux Redux (4 stars), and Obsession (4 and a half stars)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Apr 18

At the LATFOB and met @stephengrahamjones.com

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

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Apr 17

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Feb 20

Some highs and lows lately.

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Feb 18

Happy birthday, Greg!

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jan 17

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Dec 26

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Dec 17

Outlast Trials was the biggest surprise of the year. Game rocks.

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).

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Nov 22

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Oct 31

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.

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Oct 1

Cover reveal: Unfold is coming this Dec. This is a workplace drama meets creature feature. I am so excited to finally be able to show everyone this. I am so proud of this book. Sign up for an ARC: forms.gle/KBiSDG2M21Ci...

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.

Blurb for my book Unfold, which reads: Blake Buckley and her colleagues continue to hit roadblocks in trying to improve the environment of Unfold, the leading research company that employs them. After a devastating loss of a lawsuit against the company, the employees try to rally but continue to struggle. They work together while continuing their passionate studies on the company's most prized asset: the whintossers, three biology-defying beasts that have become potentially the most important discovery in zoology.

When Blake gets pushed lower in her personal and professional lives, she starts to hit a breaking point. It seems like nothing can be done to make her dream job into the joy that she hoped it would be. After getting pushed to her breaking point, she starts to think of a way to get back at the leaders of Unfold. She just doesn't know that her plan will come at a deadly cost.

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Sep 6

Four favorites on Letterboxd: Shaun of the Dead, John Carpenter's The Thing, Ex Machina, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Sep 5

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Aug 9

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jul 18

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.

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jul 9

New shirt to celebrate my favorite movie and an ironic hat because apparently that is who I am now.

A John Carpenter's The Thing sleeveless shirt with a red alien dog with a UFO coming out of its eye.

My hand with a mushroom tattoo on my wrist holding a hat with "Tattoos are stupid" written on it.

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jun 27

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Jun 13

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)

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· May 23

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.

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· May 4

What are your favorite films of the decade so far? Films shown: The Northman, Nosferatu, The Batman, and Dune 2

Alexander Skarsgard standing shirtless and covered in blood in a village in The Northman

Lily Rose-Depp standing in horror with the shadow from Count Orlok's hand covering her face in Nosferatu.

Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Robert Pattinson as Batman, him holding her arm as they are standing with Gotham as a backdrop.

Timothy Chalamet as Paul Atreides standing over a massive crowd of people holding a blade over his head.

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Apr 25

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.

Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden@tristanzelden· Apr 12

FINALLY got through my physical TBR enough to reach the latest book by @jasonschreier.bsky.social. I love his first two, and he is the GOAT games reporter. Excited to dive in.