How do we know RFK JR isn't doing this right now in a bunker? He'd insert a gland into himself for immortality..

#monsterdon

"guinea pig for a mad scientist" or "The electric chair", such is the US Justice system

#Monsterdon #TheUnearthly

Can't you see, man! It's all about the glands!

#monsterdon

"They're climbing the building!"

#monsterdon #BestOfMonsterdon #GiantInsectsOfMonsterdon #GrasshoppersOfMonsterdon #MatteBackgroundsOfMonsterdon #CompositesOfMonsterdon

This concludes my #monsterdon thread for #BeginningOfTheEnd in which we learned that if you're a giant insect you should probably not fuck with Chicago and instead go devour a place that doesn't have a lake next to it.

#GrasshoppersVsPostcards

I give The Beginning of the End 4 out of 5 giant radioactive locusts. It was surprisingly watchable. Also, yay Chicago.

The best character was the stock footage battle sequences with giant bugs chattering at tanks and somehow defeating them. The worst character was the giant inedible tomato.

#monsterdon #GrasshoppersVsPostcards #BeginningOfTheEnd

@yatsu @CactuarJoe me too

although I'm pretty sure "liked" only applies because my standards have been lowered so much by other #Monsterdon movies

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

Man, loud music and a boat are going to save the world. Who knew that all those disco pontoon parties we had over the years were keeping America safe from giant ravenous grasshoppers?

#Monsterdon #beginningoftheend

He's just blowing them off the side of the building but the National guard couldn't kill them with tanks?

#monsterdon

We see some bugs crawling on a photograph of what I think is tribune tower, then the bug scientist and soldiers shoot them with small arms and they fall off.

It seems like guns in this movie get more powerful the closer they are to Chicago. Inside the loop, a tommy gun will easily kill a giant Locust. Outside the city limits, even tank cannons will not harm them.

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

Not the worst movie I watched this weekend. Thanks #monsterdon ers. Take care. See ya soon.

hahahaha that was EXACTLY what I wanted from a #Monsterdon movie

thanks everybody!

literally fucked off into the sea and drowned, classic Monsterdon!

#Monsterdon

"we've figured out how to annoy the grasshoppers"
~ the end ~

#monsterdon

Giant bugs: WHO RULE BARTERTOWN

#Monsterdon

2 minutes 30 seconds remaining and it's looking really bad so we are going to get a true #monsterdon crash landing here

Heh

That's

That's really great Bert.

Thank you. Nice effects.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon The grasshoppers are scissoring! I repeat! We have scissoring!

#monsterdon Suddenly I have a thought, why not just attack them with a push-style lawnmower like in Dead Alive? Just scream “I kick ass for the lord!" and just dive into the mess with the mower and a scream?

"The locusts are everywhere!"

Bert took photos ALL OVER CHICAGO!

#Monsterdon

The locusts are just doing some shopping, what's the problem? #Monsterdon

ooookay taking the headphones off now

#Monsterdon

thank you store-brand Mars the Bringer of War

#monsterdon

70 degrees? gosh what a dream

#monsterdon

#monsterdon I love how absolutely blasé they all are over flying a nuclear weapon to Chicago. Nobody cares about Chicago. They aren't upset, they aren't wrestling with the consequences. They're just gonna... take out the trash.

Use the B52s...

No it's not a rock lobster...

No that's a clever joke...

#monsterdon

The entomologist always whips out the machine gun.

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe *Jon Stewart voice* BLAGOIAVICH

#monsterdon

[woo woo woo woo woo woo continues]

#Monsterdon

It’s no use… we’ve tried 3 different synth frequencies and none of them worked

#monsterdon #beginningoftheend1957

This guy is really talking his character into a dramatic death

"I'm 37 years old and feel life is passing me by"

Show him the farm you bought with your new wife as well dude....

#Monsterdon

🎶I am 37 going on 57…

#Monsterdon

*sisko voice* LOCUSTS! IN CHICAGO!

#monsterdon

WHOA WHOA WHOA what’s with the peekaboo boobs little black dress?!?!?

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

@me practically a requirement for the whole event. A lot of #Monsterdon ends up unsatisfying if one pays obsessive attention to the tyranny of the square-cube law

@CactuarJoe something must have bugged them

#monsterdon

We've invited the grasshopper over for some banana-mayonnaise salad and some corned beef in aspic. When he turns to take his coat off, you grab him

#Monsterdon

"Well, they gotta be around here somewhere."

Yeah, never a grasshopper around when you need 'em. #Monsterdon

i could probably make a sound like that on my modular synthesizer but... i don't want to hear that sound

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Imagine being told you're performing the battle of the bulge or something and then you take your family to the theatre and see they composited you into this:

Settlers? Hm? Oh, no, I don't think trying to colonize the locusts would help. #Monsterdon

Mmm, delicious suburbanites. #Monsterdon

Love those weird 50s helicopters!

#Monsterdon

ORGANIZED LOCUSTRY

#monsterdon

The best thing about compositing gunfire with close-up crickets is that you can't actually show the crickets getting hit, this is great

#Monsterdon

I really like the compositing, this is fun

#Monsterdon

NEW PETITION AGAINST TAX!? AGAIN!?!

#Monsterdon

CHICAGO NEXT?

#Monsterdon

okay I guess escalation has occurred entirely off-screen and is only being alluded to with dialogue, but we have refugees and a food crisis now, so

#Monsterdon

"This just off the wire, what do you make of it?"

"Well, I could make a hat, or a brooch…"

#Monsterdon

@xerozohar WE DIDN'T START THE FIIIIIIRE #Monsterdon

"California. Colorado, Texas."

Florida, Iowa, Munchowsen, Dinotopia... #Monsterdon

"Could be the complete annihilation of man!"

"Annihilation?"

"Yes, it's where everyone gets wiped out."

"I knew that, I was just saying it for emphasis"

"Oh, I thought you needed a definition."

"I don't think so, I'm a reporter"

"So you keep saying."

#Monsterdon

MASSACHUSETTS BAY MENTIONED

#Monsterdon

Not one person has taken a photo of the giant insect to send to the world for proof...

#Monsterdon

mmm, frank flavored wheat

#monsterdon

It’s THEM!

#monsterdon #beginningoftheend1957

As a Utahn, I know that the only cure for a plague of giant locusts is a swarm of even larger seagulls :gull_scream:

#Monsterdon

Okay, big bug. Well done aside from that awful sound

#Monsterdon

"I've got your explanation, Fred."

IT'S BIG BUGS #Monsterdon

Peter Graves: doya wanna look at mah tomaters?

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

@CactuarJoe gonna be a somber farm report tomorrow morning :(

#monsterdon

Was that actual ASL? And if so has the "dialect" changed since then? Does he have old ASL accent?

(I have virtually no ASL knowledge, he could have been making any gesture as far as I know.)
#monsterdon

This is a real progressive gentleman, he's letting the woman drive

#Monsterdon

Today Ludlow has over 300 residents 😌

#Monsterdon

i need to make myself a white shirt like Miz National Wire Service’s but without the ridiculously popped collar. she does have that Dior New Look pat down, so 9/10 to the wardrobe department.

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

"Don't you see a possible tie-up?"
"not on the first date, ma'am"

#monsterdon

"Remember the [thing not previously mentioned in the movie]?"

"Sure"

"Allow me to explain what that was, for the audience"

#Monsterdon

"We keep all our highly radioactive material in this little cupboard"

#Monsterdon

Oh my god, giant styrofoam tomatoes! #Monsterdon

@jivens she's had a lot more agency than most Monsterdon starring ladies of the 50s!

#Monsterdon

Colonel Sturgeon, fishing for the truth. #Monsterdon

"Check Washington."

Make sure it's still there. #Monsterdon

Oh wow, an actual car phone from the 50s!

#Monsterdon

Edna is also from central casting. They got a quantity discount.
#monsterdon

Did you notice anything wrong?

No sir, my family had the same glowing eyes and dead stare as always.

#monsterdon

"ive seen a lot of your photographs."
"which was your favorite? :)"
"the March pinup" *rimshot*

#monsterdon

Old man Stereotype gives his recollections.
#monsterdon

Was there a switchboard operator in the 1950s whose name was NOT Edna?

#monsterdon

This is most fantastical part: The military giving an off-the-record story.
#monsterdon

The situation must have escalated off screen because we saw a cop screaming into his car phone "OMG the whole town has been destroyed!" and in the next scene the army is setting up a road block and a Pretty 50s Girl (TM) is driving up to it.

We learn she is a reporter and, like the audience, wants to see whatever is going on in this movie but the army corporal running the roadblock won't let her through. She drives away and sneaks in.

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

"We're not trying to suppress the story, Ms. Aims"

The fuck you aren't, pig. #Monsterdon

"Towns disappear all the time lady, get used to it"

#Monsterdon

"i ran into a roadblock."
"well why'd you do that? gotta cost a bundle to fix your car"

#monsterdon

where we're going we don't need roads! (it's Ludlow, IL) #monsterdon

"It's about a mile south."

Now if you'll excuse me, my telepathy tells me there's something needing my attention back there. #Monsterdon

"Alright lady, did you destroy the town of Ludlow?"

"Yes, officer"

"Well, don't let it happen again."

#monsterdon

"We'll get a team of our finest hatted white men to investigate"

#Monsterdon

My gawd! Ludlow's been Laid Low!

#monsterdon

No, they did not survive the cold open, apparently

#Monsterdon

ah yes the days before crumple zones and roll cages #monsterdon

It begins to end!

#monsterdon #beginningoftheend1957

Now I've seen the gland this is reminding me of that David Cronenberg movie with the body horror and the Canadians....I know that's not narrowing it down, but....

#Monsterdon

Apparently Bert did make a couple movies later in his career that didn't include forced-perspective critters. I almost wanna watch one, just to see how it is. #Monsterdon

"What's the matter, don't you want to talk to me" said the killer

Bet she's wishing for the bear right now...

#Monsterdon

Old Age should be conquered, bring on the 17th glands!

#Monsterdon #TheUnearthly

The 18th Gland is the secret to a good pasta sauce

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe In comparison to several previous 2026 #Monsterdon movies, this was downright enjoyable.

RE: https://mstdn.plus/@JoeWynne/116989523951142372

I feel seen...

#Monsterdon

@patioboater too much exposition for a minor character in a Monsterdon movie is a death sentence

#Monsterdon