just jump out the window and let the cube/square law take the wheel #monsterdon

"we should all meet death together", well that escalated quickly

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon tip: need to make a quick getaway? Pack only the essential dolls.

OMG KITTY IN THE MATCHBOX, KITTY IN THE MATCHBOX

#monsterdon

Phones really were that big in the 50s.

You could kill a person with one.

#Monsterdon

So when does Rick Moranis befriend a giant tiny ant? #Monsterdon

OMFG this song. they literally wrote the song hoping to make money out of it. am wondering if did they made actual dolls as a tie-in.

#monsterdon

Yes! She is

Singing!

Definitely!

...Absolutely!

#Monsterdon

The tiniest peer pressure ever

#Monsterdon
#AttackOfThePuppetPeople

So Hoyt is basically:

#Monsterdon

I don't think there's a size restriction on being able to officiate a wedding.

#monsterdon

it's such a huge waste to only make one tiny doll cake from a real sized cake. he should make dollifier 2.0 that splits the big object into lots of small objects so that he can keep the costs of maintaining the dolls lower than like "supporting an entire family of regular people" #monsterdon

That cop should not have left her alone with a man she just accused of...sorcery 🤨

#Monsterdon

if the cells of a dolled person were just shrunk in place, then you would expect them to be the same mass as their original form. so the process of dollification would probably cook them and let off most of the uncompressible water of the body in steam #monsterdon

He was turned into a doll? This is a prequel!
#Monsterdon #PuppetPeople1958

Bob is looking very FLAT as well as tiny!

#Monsterdon

Puppets and dolls are 2 totally different things. The Twilight Zone does a pretty good job of explaining it.....#monsterdon

I'm sure there have been creepier marriage proposals, but I can't think of any of them offhand

#monsterdon

she left me for a guy who is obsessed with giant guys, not a guyh that is obsessed with tiny guys like me #monsterdon

"She left me while I was playing my marionettes in Luxemburg"

I don't rate this Eurovision entry...

#Monsterdon

Who is creepier, the doll maker or the doll *clothes* salesman. The jury will decide. #Monsterdon

See, that's how you can tell he's a real villain, interfering with the mail. #Monsterdon

ol' ernie and his male sack ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

#monsterdon

"what line of work are you in?"

"oh, you know, I work in the sexual harrassment and browbeating factory"

#Monsterdon

@bstacey Could be worse. A couple of weeks ago my hashtag got spellchecked while I wasn't noticing half way through and I made mundane toots all evening tagged Mastodon instead of #Monsterdon. lol

@nazokiyoubinbou @Taweret I guess you had to be there? We didn't have any control over our emotional reactions as 5 year olds, and my parents were concerned, so they just blocked us from watching it, considering we were terrified.

#monsterdon

ok I'm back at keyboard. anyone else watching this vampire movie on miru.miyaku ?!

#monsterdon #WrongPuppets

@combatwombat #monsterdon

#monsterdon A classic 1950's ending. Yup, we're done. You can't stay here, you don't have to go home, just get out. YAAY! Thanks @Taweret for a cute little movie. LITTLE. ;)

"Come on, Sally, we'll call the police!"

"Don't leave me... please don't leave me... I'll be alone!"

That's the end?! Two escapees, but the rest of the puppet crew is just left offsccreen? Presumably the mad scientist offs himself per his plan as soon as he's left alone?? And nobody but nobody fucks off into the sea!

AND THAT'S A WRECK

Man, that was a weird one.

#monsterdon

EXCELSIOR!!

#Monsterdon

So... Attack of the Puppet People...

Did any puppet people attack anything?

#monsterdon

Well this was fun!

I'd like thank all the little people

And everyone else, and also @Taweret for hosting!

Night all! :D

#Monsterdon
#AttackOfThePuppetPeople

Someday this will be returned to a full-size movie with a full-size ending

#monsterdon

are we supposed to feel bad for the creepy man

#monsterdon

thank god that worked perfectly first try and the doll guy didn't have like a gun or anything #monsterdon

ONE MINUTE REMAINING AND THEY ARE STILL DOLLS #monsterdon

Want to meet the giant rat.

And the giant kitty.

Can someone plz shrink me

#monsterdon

I would like a giant cup of coffee.

#monsterdon

@trixter What is the ratio of monsterdon to coffee? Over 50%?
#Monsterdon #PuppetPeople1958

hell yes, tiny-large paper airplane

even though paper gives the scale game away, I respect the prop chutzpah

#Monsterdon

Miniature Chocolates...."by Larry"???

😂

#Monsterdon
#AttackOfThePuppetPeople

...I don't think I actually *need* to post the meme at this stage, right? #Monsterdon

I have a lot of questions about this dollmaking process.

#monsterdon

That Dolls Incorporated place sure does seem to go through secretaries, huh?

#Monsterdon

Ermagerd just get a room you two

#Monsterdon
#AttackOfThePuppetPeople

See, this is why we need to bring lassoing back to schools

#Monsterdon
#AttackOfThePuppetPeople

Wow yes, definitely a fetish

#Monsterdon

Attack! doll people, Attack!

#monsterdon

So. Taking all bets, how much y'wanna bet he's got his wife in a tube somewhere? #Monsterdon

Ah yes, cats _famously_ are fine with standing still in front of weird things making weird noises.

#monsterdon

AGAIN with the EXPERIMENTING ON CATS

>:(

#Monsterdon

Like is no one going to ask why he has slides of babes for his visual aids

#Monsterdon
#AttackOfThePuppetPeople

it must have been very fun to do the effect where someone threw really tiny objects at him

#Monsterdon

Think of what they'll save on rent and car insurance

#Monsterdon
#AttackOfThePuppetPeople

Shoutout to the stagehand throwing doll furniture at Hoyt. #Monsterdon

"he made Bob into a doll"

"look, ma'am, your fiance's sex life is none of our business"

#Monsterdon

Beyond The Cabinet Of The Dolls

#monsterdon #attackofthepuppetpeople

Yeah, that paper cutout is super accurate. #Monsterdon

Emma? Emma? Oh right, under the floorboards. #Monsterdon

I LOVE the smell of burning plastic in the morning!

#attackofthepuppetpeople #monsterdon

"An old friend out of the past"

That's how I'm describing everyone now

#Monsterdon

The men in this movie are awful, I hope she stabs them all and runs

#Monsterdon

I guess they are not only shrankened but also put in some kind of stasis 🤔

#Monsterdon

lol, this guy is not helping the 'creepy dollmaker' reputation

#Monsterdon

@Taweret This whole movie is an extended Twilight Zone

#monsterdon

Sorry, kid, those are the ADULT collectibles.

#monsterdon

💡 TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS 💡

(where applicable)

#Monsterdon

GOGOGOGOGOGOGO #Monsterdon

@ohiofi #monsterdon #WrongPuppets

I'm digging the harpsichord tho...

Attack of the Puppet People was good in concept, but terrible in delivering on that concept, making it good #Monsterdon fodder. It could have done better with some writers/directors from the Twilight Zone.

As always, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, @JoeWynne for #MonsterdonDrink, and @ryan for #MonsterdonStream!

Until next time, keep donning your monster!

@allanb @nazokiyoubinbou @Taweret the stuff that terrified me as a child is laughable now, but back then it was the end of the universe!

#Monsterdon

Marlene Willis, who sang “You’re My Living Doll” in the movie, later recorded a song called “Sticking Pins in a Dolly.”

#Monsterdon #AttackOfThePuppetPeople

they really couldn't make a genuinely dark movie in the 50s could they, like the ending that they were setting up was actually that the doll guy just kills himself in the theater and all the dolls have to reckon with their lives after imprisonment. him surviving and presumably facing justice in the courts is a huge cop-out #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Yes. The woooooorst.
Not objectionable or utterly horrible. But it is the worst thing we have seen in a while. Slow, dull, bad, no damn ending, not punishment, no clue what happened to half the characters.
Puppet people are the worst.
#Monsterdon #PuppetPeople1958

@jonny "fuck off to the police station" is probably not a good idea

#monsterdon

i suppose according to "fuck off into the something" theory they fucked off into the outside of the doll prison #monsterdon

This movie featured far too little comeuppance

#monsterdon

oh okay

#monsterdon

wow, that movie sure did end.

#monsterdon

Why does a little girl show up at Dr. Franz’s doll shop at 6am?

#Monsterdon

this girl is giving real Kid From Finding Nemo energy rn.

#monsterdon

Child snitch

#Monsterdon

Congratulations you've escaped into prison

#monsterdon

"Oh I've heard bettern' that."

Yeah, me too. #Monsterdon

"Can I have it?"
"No!"
"Why not?"

What kind of rejoinder is that 😂

#Monsterdon

Eeeeeee!! Tiny kitty!

Being mauled by a careless child giantess 😩

#Monsterdon

@strangefour #monsterdon

"Doll Suicide Cult" - excellent band name

Oh, he's gonna commit suicide rather than run or give up his toys? Yeah, there's a slave owner for you. #Monsterdon

Kind of running out of time to make more people into dolls

#monsterdon

#monsterdon fucking greedy kid. a little gringa in the making. teach your kids right, so they don't grow up to be entitled karens.

Such a Boomer child

"MINE, THE NEW THING IS MINE"

#Monsterdon

i think you could probably get pretty far with jumping out the window with like a piece of paper as a parasail #monsterdon

Living dolls but puppets 🤨

#Monsterdon

i can feel the burns on my hands after he slipped down the rope

#monsterdon

I certainly had enough of that music!

#Monsterdon

This feels less like "Attack of the Puppet People" and more like "Desperate Attempt to Survive Horrifying Circumstances of the Puppet People"

#monsterdon

They had to know the number for the police department. Fun Fact: The standardization of "911" in the united states did not reach 50% until 1987. #monsterdon

@hollie Lassoing and civics. Agreed.

#Monsterdon

I will say this is by far the wackiest Bert I. Gordon film I've seen by far. #Monsterdon