I like how it's frame like the anatomy model is part of the conversation #monsterdon

I like the reaction shot of the visible man

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The 17th gland... for invisibility juice

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@Lazarou @CardboardRobot I'd watch that movie! #monsterdon

@springdiesel Also true!

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Here comes the Horse

#Monsterdon #TheUnearthly

I wonder how much product that criminal uses to make his hair that shiny.
"Double Homocide" brand of hair oil?

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I may be biased towards black and white films set in Chicago, but I thought that was pretty decent. An underused reporter, but a good use of big menacing grasshoppers. Thanks, @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne for some good midwestern #Monsterdon fun.

"How do you like your room?" "It's nice, except for this yellow wallpaper". #monsterdon

And a big thank you to @Taweret for tonight's choice of feature. You couldn't go wrong with giant atomic insects in the 50s.

I wasn't watching this one as intently, but I believe we had no smoking and no coffee.

Death count of several thousand, mostly off-screen.

Annoying repetitive sound (the "Grasshopper Screech" for what seemed to be the entire last half of the film.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Thanks to @Taweret for a fine evening of #Monsterdon

I feel that filled the bill.

RE: https://retro.pizza/@CactuarJoe/116989524082937424

Was The Beginning of the End bad? Yes.
Was it bad bad? Eeeeh. It was kinda dull but not horrible. Mostly it was cheap and predictable. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Even the part where they were going to bomb chicago but decide not to at the last possible moment had no tension.

There's so many movies where that's a tense and dramatic moment. Here it was about as exciting as ordering a pizza. They just called the pilot and told him to go home, and he did.

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that was a silly one.

Thanks, everyone for the fun #Monstoparty! Excellent hosting by @Taweret and trivia by @JoeWynne and @cherizilla has a whole legacy of bingos for us...

hope to see you next week!

@Bluedepth Yabbut she doesn't flout ist! #monsterdon

At least I learned some trivia about locusts and grasshoppers.

As always, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for the bingo, @JoeWynne for the drink recipe and trivia, @ryan for the live stream, @paco for data analysis, @combatwombat for the replay, and all of you for making it awesome!

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#monsterdon Time for watch double feature #theUnearthly

I gotta run but thanks 'yall, great #monsterdon ing with you all. Thanks @Taweret for a great movie. Thanks Miru for the stream. ( I gotta find your real handle...)

@klu9

https://ohai.social/@klu9/116964501577056724

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They saved Chicago, but still can't have a night game at Wrigley.

They would have had a tough time getting through Racine, because S C Johnson and Co, the makers of Raid! are there.

Thank you, @Taweret.

#Monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie

In the sequel, Middle of the End

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My apologies, but:
On the poster John Carradine hates to see her go, but loves to watch her leave.

#miru
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#Monsterdon Well, that was a very by-the-numbers "Them!" rip-off with no real surprises or interesting moments at all.

The bug photography, and compositing was ok, but it never looked amazing.

And they never bothered to build a giant bug, not even for the one trapped in a cage! So we never actually saw the bugs do anything. All the carnage happened off screen. We just see them walking around.

Gotta say, the main feature of the poster for the next movie of the double feature is ......ass.

#Monsterdon

Whee! That was fun!

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Thanks @Taweret & the gang for the fun watch!

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So the bugs won, right? They turned Chicago into a public transportation superhub we all live happily ever after?

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So they all just effed off into the water? Someone else's problem, I guess.

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So they got big by eating radioactive vegetables. Now they'll get eaten by sharks, leading to radioactive mega sharks. #monsterdon

MONSTERDON FOREVEEEEERRRR!!!!

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Missed opportunity for the end credits to say "The End Of The Beginning Of The End" #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

That movie was good for people who don’t like surprises

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Thank God. Those f🤬king things sounded like they ate a radioactive copy of Bases Loaded 2

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and the bodies of all the giant grasshoppers displaced enough water to flood half of Chicago instead of nuking it. The End.

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There were only like 4 in the water

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and it just suddenly ends

that was a fun one

ty for joining, everyone!

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Well, the orchestra at least is satisfied with the end of this movie

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Now fuck.

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NO SMOOCH??????

Send in a plane and covering the building.... #monsterdon

Those grasshoppers are all over that photo of the building.

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"I suppose we could have gotten a bigger boat, but why waste the money. This one is just fine if we don't sit down."
#monsterdon

All we need now are some giant largemouth bass and bing bang boom problem solved.

#Monsterdon

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Peter Graves: "The locusts are fucking off into the sea, sir!"

update: locusts are fucking off into the sea #monsterdon

So how come machine guns work now but not the first 15 times they tried them?
#monsterdon

Sadly, the General was permanently deaf after this. And we've seen what happens to deaf people in this movie.

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I gotta say the visual effects work pretty well, all things considered

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This noise is loud enough to attract giant bugs from miles away, but not loud enough that we need ear protection #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

OK, that is rapidly becoming the most annoying sound in the world.

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At least my tinnitus is gone for now. #monsterdon

Did they find the smallest boat they could on the lake?

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The locusts sound like Santa’s sleigh.

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make that four

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#monsterdon I love how the grasshoppers are just walking across a picture of a building. AHEM. Not, gonna try. No model work, just that matte painting and the bugs and someone just puffing them off the picture…

@Terencio "They had it coming, they had it coming" #monsterdon

#monsterdon Mars, Bringer of Grasshoppers

Get those locusts off my favorite building photograph #Monsterdon

this is easily the most watchable Bert I Gordon movie I've seen

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These would be the dull machinations I spoke of earlier.
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They just shot one off the “Having a wonderful time in Chicago” postcard

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#Monsterdon "Boat to helicopter"

Sure. That sounds like something soldiers might say. They only have one of each.

We're ready as soon as the smoke machine gets running.

*laser beams blinking in rhythm with the grasshopper noise*

#monsterdon

I'm calling that bingo!

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

He doesn't hear that? 5 feet behind him? #monsterdon

Those are some nightly flat buildings they are walking across while being filmed overhead. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

#Monsterdon

coxwain: Bro, whut?

yeoman: "Uhh bruh sez: 'head, fer sher!'

coxwain: 'awesum!'

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Did the locusts forget they could fly?

@klu9 #KungFuSat invades #Monsterdon!

@CactuarJoe career military, duh

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Is that Lower Wacker Driver or Upper Wacker Drive?

#BeginningOfTheEnd #monsterdon

heads up, soldier!

oop

heads off, soldier!

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Some good shots of mid century Chicago...

#Monsterdon

Why was this scene necessary?
Is there a test later?
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“They’re right on top of us man, I’m tellin ya!”

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"Observation post three: the locusts are queuing up at the taxi stands, but there aren't enough cabs to take all the fares."

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"lets get a sound system up, drop some phat choons..."

#Monsterdon

My partner downstairs:

> What is that terrible noise?!?!?

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Michigan is an avenue, not a boulevard. Fucking movies.
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This is actually what Chicago sounds like to me IRL. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon "We're not ready yet, the signalman they sent with me is a pinhead.”

He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl.
- Tragically Hip

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Every time Rupert Graves says "Over" I think of that bit in Airplane!

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The South Side’s getting some action.

Classic South Side

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"It's 70 degrees, they're probably starting to move."

Because giant locusts have the same thermal mass and surface to volume ratio as tiny locusts.

NO THEY DON'T WHAT THE FUCK

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amazed that temperature is only coming up here at the end of the movie???

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@diazona Right? Stop with the pistols already. #Monsterdon

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What if the grasshoppers wear earmuffs?

(not actually a B-52)

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I'M DOING MY PART!
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#monsterdon Gregory Peck in Moby Dick! As MST3K once said, never reference a good movie in the middle of your bad movie

May the sound effects engineer on this film suffer jock itch for 100 years.

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did they really just shoot the giant locust after a whole movie of shooting giant locusts being ineffective

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From now on, every lab I work in is gonna be called "Emergency Lab"

#Monsterdon

Dr StrangBug #Monsterdon

Wait, guns actually worked? The special frequency makes them vulnerable to guns?!?!

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Maybe the soldier should have had the machine gun instead of Peter Graves, whose body count just keeps going up #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Just send in a fleet of UFOs

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Good news, you made it horny enough to escape. #Monsterdon