The Coineater!

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@moira @CactuarJoe TIL Robert Moses was a real public figure

I only knew him as the evil sorcerer villain from Dimension 20

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Val fell #Monsterdon

man ben stiller didn't even stand a chance, got taken out by an unmoving door #monsterdon

@wohali It makes me think about high-end kitchen appliances #monsterdon

@nev but there might be "etchings" (That's the attic) #Monsterdon

The radiation is a solid reason here so kind of a twist on Far Below. And this has alot more characters and plot. But the basics are really similar.
#Monsterdon #CHUD

Would you like C.H.U.D.dar on that C.H.U.D.burger?

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Run, wet bandit, run! #Monsterdon

I think it's a great plan to make everything in Manhattan blow up. #monsterdon

@SRLevine @brooke don't worry: the baby will fix the relationship! 😜

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@amyfou Yeah, he was out of bent carrots! #TooSoon? by a few decades #Monsterdon

Are all these old white dudes wearing eye shadow, cause them circles are daaaaaaark #Monsterdon

C.H.U.D.tastic

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Oh yeah, no one in Soho matters. Just Andy Warhol.

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...Is he making carrot and pickle soup? #Monsterdon

"the only way to find out is to go down there"
"you wanna go down there?"
actually, you know what, nah.
*facepalm*
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@moira @Louisa i will back that kickstarter #monsterdon

The fact that this movie plot set up the couple as temporarily subletting, to make their living situation clear when they talked about selling the inherited suburban house (or not), is like water in the desert to me, a #Monsterdon watcher

Pretty sure that is the BMT Chambers St station
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We should buy @Louisa a flamethrower

#monsterdon #CHUD

#monsterdon C.H.U.D. is a 1984 movie and Marianne Jean-Baptiste's film debut was in 1991, so unlike the Oscars, there's no way she could have been snubbed

@brooke Well they managed the conceived bit ok...

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Whoever made John Heard's blue shirt really made some poor choices: world's tiniest collar, cut so it's short and kinda weirdly a-lines down over what appears to be a beer belly...I'm just happy they're not shooting it from lower angles.

@ricci I made a burrito and came back.
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NYCs paint budget must have been so much less back then. So glad surge pricing is saving from this chipping paint :)

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What percent of this movie is people talking on the phone?

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Aliens was 1986, all. Two years after this film.

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The sets/buildings here are FANTASTIC.

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@akamran aha!

It varied by state. Texas was 1979, New York was 1984, Indiana was 1988. The last four states to go to a quarter were Arkansas, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, which all went in 1997.

Don't know the years for all the other states (California was before 1987), but Canada was around 1981.

So this was released in 1984, so it could have been either, depending on when it was filmed!

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While nothing is going on, I'm going to make up some words

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"There's no cause to be insolent here..."

"EAT IT!"

Shepherd's the best.

#Monsterdon #CHUD1984

Probably there really is nothing going on when he goes down there.

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Hey humanoid monsters living in the tunnels under NYC? That sounds familiar.
https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Far_Below
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@srol After.
Aliens (1979)
C.H.U.D.S. (1984)
Seems kind of pathetic.
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@FirstFish @riedlr McNary hall! (checks statute of limitations) #Monsterdon

I think there’s going to be screaming shortly. #Monsterdon

This is, what. Six monitors all displaying the same feed?? 😂

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Heard to be hired as the next flamethrower team camera guy in 3...2...1.... #monsterdon

Okay, that seems bad for the surface dwellers

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Wilson == dissipated Martin Mull <-- the dude

@Ayyyydrew Just ready to go whenever.

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#monsterdon C.H.U.D = me studying how to continue existing in the USA while the fascist machine rages on.

Flamethrowers sound like a horrific way to go, though.

#Monsterdon #CHUD1984

they're trying to flamethower test tube satan to death and i think we all know why that's not gonna work

#monsterdon #CHUD

Was this before or after Aliens? #monsterdon

flamethrower is maybe the worst choice you could make in a sewer, those mfs have no oxygen anymore #monsterdon

@flowerpot I feel without "bums" we wouldn't have this movie #Monsterdon

Zed's dead, baby.

#Monsterdon #CHUD

The only thing standing between order and anarchy is a cop with a flame thrower
~Old NYPD saying
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Their weird angular facemasks are kinda cool

Worst.Camera.Man.EVER! #monsterdon

These cops are equipped with C.H.U.D.throwers

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Flame throwers in a sewer seems like a particularly bad idea...

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"A freak accident! It could never happen again!"

We know what that means.

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if they removed every time someone repeated the other person's words or asked "what?" this movie would be only half as long. #monsterdon

@ricci The dude was a total bro.

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Boy howdy g-man you gotta be a Royal First Class Bastard to out-bastard a New York cop #Monsterdon

I think the suburbs are scarier than the urban center, frankly.

#Monsterdon #CHUD1984

we only get to see the reflection on his helmet #monsterdon

Who brings a camera to a flamethrower fight?

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#C.H.U.D.

#monsterdon Okay I kinda like Bosch too lol.

How I expect them to show up when I call an exterminator. #monsterdon

@akamran I lived through it! It was definitely a quarter in the 80s, at least in Chicago, and at least by 1981.

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Cops with flamethrowers'd be a lot more believable after 9/11. #Monsterdon

I can't wait until the monitor shows there's something down there
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@nantucketebooks hahaha that's fantastic

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@Cherizilla Have you considered going into the lucrative field of being a spooky semi-governmental tail?

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@ramsey well to be fair someone said quarterpounder but he was too hungry to listen to the whole word! #Monsterdon

Man it's a freaking CHUD Smörgåsbord. Soup's on fellas! #Monsterdon #CHUD

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Terrible monitors by Sony(tm)

ewww he ate a quarter #monsterdon

Cooper the photographer is no longer part of the movie. He's getting ready to move to the suburbs #Monsterdon

they're gonna go too fast in the sewers and hit an unexpected fatburg

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I have a schedule conflict that prevents me from participating in #monsterdon

But I absolutely love watching all these folks relive my youth. :flan_hearts: I have such fond memories of CHUD!

#monsterdon he did it MYYYYYYYYYYYYT WAYYYYYYYYYYY! *Frank Sinatra

@gortbrown For a couple hours every Sunday these are basically the same thing 😂

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Protective ski boots! #monsterdon #monsterdon

Bowery bums should not be confused with Chelsea bums.
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Maybe the Flukeman from X-files can join with the C.H.U.D #monsterdon

"It couldn't happen again."

Should this be on future bingo cards?

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@SRLevine that's basically what my entire Mastodon account is. #Monsterdon

Hanging chud, maybe don't eat tinsel!? #Monsterdon

"Chud?"

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I appreciate that the NRC guy looks like he hasn't gotten a full nights sleep in 20 years
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uh, is this a pickup? why did they stare at each other like that? didn't know phone booths were cruising spots in the 80s... #monsterdon

Oh hey, it's the Leechman from The X-Files. #Monsterdon

Are they going to kiss at the phone booth.

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We need these face masks for covid era

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Oh it's dead? So we're all good now? Movie ends? Gas company saved the day. #monsterdon

I feel like we could have so much fascinating political discussion around this whole eco-horror/progressive-horror genre #monsterdon #chud1984

Phone BASTARDS #monsterdon

Alligator polo! It's definitely the 80's

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did he just swallow a quarter‽

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@wohali ...I think so?

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C'mon we've seen lots of things that would bite a man's leg, they're not all tunnel monsters #monsterdon

"...you know eating coins is bad for your digestion."

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I love how everyone's like so non-reactive after learninga bout CHUDs. #monsterdon

#monsterdon okay, they kept denying some things I suppose!

NO WAY IT'S THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE!!!
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