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David F. Sandberg
@ponysmasher.social
Filmmaker. Directed Shazam 1 & 2, Lights Out, Annabelle Creation, Until Dawn, and things with @lottalosten.bsky.social
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Looking forward to do some haunted house horror! 👻
September 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Shot a 2 min short on Super8 with @lottalosten.bsky.social while we were in Sweden. Shot on Kodak Vision 3 50D with a Canon 814XL-S camera.
July 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
July 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
When you record a long YouTube video and don’t notice that the overhead mic is slowly sagging into frame so you have to reshoot it… 😞
July 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Many times I’ve gotten these on the first try but yesterday I didn’t… 😳

(You only see a little bit of the image at first and more is revealed with each guess)
July 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’m an OG YouTuber. My channel is almost as old as YouTube itself 😎
June 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I found what appears to be a production still where you can see there’s no background in the mirror, only black, so it was probably done because there was no set back there.
May 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Very puzzled by this bit in ”The Spiral Staircase”. She’s standing in front of a mirror but in the wide shots it’s clearly not a mirror but a flat picture (without her reflection). Very obvious when camera moves. What could be the reason for this?
May 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
You don’t have to shoot horror in actual low light
May 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
If you didn’t get that Bogart is evil in ”The Petrified Forest” the way they frame him against the background may give some subtle hints…
May 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Been watching some real bangers lately
May 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🤷‍♂️
April 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A little behind the scenes from Until Dawn and the practical effects by AAFX studio.
BTS video by @lottalosten.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The thing about mixing sound on a great stage is that you know you’ll never hear the movie sounding this good again.
March 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
January 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Lately I’ve tried to write down my dreams when I wake up in the middle of the night. I don’t want to forget any potentially brilliant ideas when I go back to sleep.
Here’s my note from last night:
October 13, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Wait, Andrew Keir turned 41 years old while shooting Quatermass and the Pit?! Professor Quatermass is a year YOUNGER than me? But he’s an old man. Oh no…
September 10, 2023 at 1:27 PM
When you’re used to just watching TikToks.
August 18, 2023 at 3:52 PM
She and the team were fantastic! I kept my ideas pretty loose and mostly just let them do their magic. Really loved Louise’s idea to take inspiration from ancient Greek theater masks for the minions. For Shazam I wanted to try and go a bit more modern this time since we went old school in the 1st.
August 11, 2023 at 8:48 PM
Today’s comics haul. My favorite thing is to take chances on some comics from the small indie/self published section. It’s nice to be surprised. Especially with really indie comics where you can get unfiltered and unique voices straight from the source. It gets weird sometimes.
July 26, 2023 at 11:39 PM
Watching older sci-fi movies that take place now is so disappointing. Sure, they got the dystopia right but where’s all the cool sci-fi stuff we were promised?
(No Escape, 1994)
May 30, 2023 at 7:57 PM