@JoeyBoughtACola we all did 😞
Cat Girl was denied her glory!

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Just like the 1942 one, this is a very sad tale about misogyny and horrible men. The 1942 film is much better, though. I still want a version where the Cat Women get revenge.

Thanks everyone for joining and @Taweret for organizing! #monsterdon

The police were in on it the whole time!
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This is not the ending I was hoping for #monsterdon

I award the Cat Girl (1957) 1 out of 5 angry lycanthropes. For a movie with cats and lycanthropy it was very boring. Most of the characters sucked. The main character fretting about her ancient curse sometimes approached being interesting, but the people she was fretting around made this less interesting.

The high point was the spooky gothic castle with the weird secret werewolf library, which is a nice feature. The low point was almost everything else.

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@paco thanks for the stabilised version! #Monsterdon

Cat girl can have a little canary, as a treat

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getting away with vehicular homocide by being like "if i told you why it looks like i hit that person you'd have to lock me up," incredible 1957 maneuver #monsterdon

#monsterdon Next time I'm accused of a hit-and-run, I'll just say "Let's just say it was a matter of mind over matter." and walk away mysteriously.

Cops love that.

Totally on the side of Cat Girl with that one, the bastards

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The police are being suspicious in honestly a rather reasonable way

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love how they’re setting up the “is she crazy or is she cursed” situation.

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Wait, that better not be the end of Cat Girl.

Weak!

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@jadebees Leopard on the street, kitty in the sheets? #iAmBeingAskedToLeave #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Family curse undone by roadkill incident. Film at 11.

#Monsterdon the canary is just an amuse bouche.

#monsterdon *Leonora stands at the curtains while Dorothy leaves the room*

she's trying to resist climbing them

Never call a catwoman "pet"

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OOh back in the day they would give you a pot for hot water AND a pot of tea!

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Psychiatrist: My prescription is shopping

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"Tomorrow, I suggest you spend time with my wife, she's doesn't know of course, she'll be fine with all this though, absolutely fine...."

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Psychiatrist: There’s no such thing as cats

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Oh the leopard followed her here?

Who's a good girl? Well done!

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#monsterdon "Then will the leopard to appear." "...It only comes at night."

They mostly come at night. Mostly.

This movie has a 1957 low-level sexy vibe going. All very understated of course.

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#monsterdon That hilarious "leopard" "growling" is just so out of place. It sounds like a dyspeptic hippopotamus or something.

The leopard transformation sequence was so far the most interesting part of this movie.

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OMG he slapped her? Brian gonna get jungle pussied, ain’t he?

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#Monsterdon Sit in the back together. Get to know each other. Scissor and scream like howling banshees. Discovering a life without men. A life of sweet lesbianism. A lifetime supply of D cells and lots of soundproofing.

Cat Girl's dress is giving me John Singer Sargent vibes. #Monsterdon #CatGirl

Better crate her before the car ride
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Okay, we're a little behind, but finally the lecherous hubby is getting the full leopar-eats-face treatment.

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@SesameSquirrel #monsterdon
He was definitely my selection for first to meet the leopard up close.

#monsterdon CAT FIGHT CAT FIGHT CAT FIGHT

Cat Fight!

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Wait, was one of the adulterers Wilhelm?

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It was so sad when Stanley Kamel passed. on Monk They brought in Hector Elizando as his replacement, and he was fine, but it was just different. #Monsterdon

actually laughing at richard being eaten by a leopard, this is what 2025 has done to us!

"Chew on that! lol!"

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"attacking the symptom of the trouble and not the cause"

Please eat his face

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So the Leisure Suit Psychologist showed up and started puttering about. Lenora politely shows him her uncle's cool library about werewolves and explains that her uncle was also a cool werewolf, or rather werecat. But because Leisure Suit Psychologist sits on a Florida school board and decided that lycanthropy is too woke, he starts ripping them up and tries to burn them.

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Is this American destroying an old book?

JFC!

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Her old boyfriend is the local psychiatrist. What a coinky-dink.

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@plaidtron3000 I think this is how the film is going to show us she's in control of the leopard, with her eyebrows

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Dr. Feelgood in Da House! 💉

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so, if she is part of some leopard curse, that just means the family are closet Africans right?

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Leopards HATE when people break ceramics

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#Monsterdon Killer gas. That’s another family curse. Dont pull the tigers tail no matter how hard she asks you to!

he was barfed on
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@sean I hope this is the Thundercats origin story #Monsterdon

The hideous ruffles on Leonora's robe makes me feel like #BarbaraShelley is wearing a really unfortunate sofa cover from the 80s... whether the 1880s or the 1980s, who can say? #TheCatGirl 🐆 #Monsterdon

#monsterdon oh noooooo, Leonora is cursed to inherit a taxidermy collection

the poor innocent woman

"The intellect of a man but the savage cunning of an animal"

We call them Billionaires now.

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We all know how 50s ladies wake up with makeup already done.....

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Big cats don’t growl while hunting. They are silent 🤫

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Is the standing man ABNORMALLY tall? #TheCatGirl 🐈‍⬛ #Monsterdon

oh goodness, i was looking at Barbara Shelley's filmography, and she starred in another killer cat movie! the trailer is wild

https://youtu.be/EtXdg3d8j6M

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"The zoo owner was always on hand to make sure the leopard behaved, a gun at his hip in case things went wrong."

"My beloved leopard, but I will kill you without hesitation if you scratch the actress lady."

I'd take a shitty cgi leopard over that situation thanks

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@apLundell ah he was so wasted there's no way he made it back home alive #Monsterdon

The end was kind of like An American Werewolf In London. Too bad the rest of the movie wasn't.

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@Configures @yatsu that's what I was hoping but then I remembered it's The Met and they absolutely would cover for a murder if they just like the guy's swagger. #Monsterdon

Thank you, Monsterdonians, for such a fun first #Monsterdon! I hope to be back next week!

I wish somebody had stuck a pistol in their pants, so there would've been a chance of something interesting happening.

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@paco @blogdiva lol, I never really got the tooth thing until I learned that all those American 'perfect teeth' are just caps, and the reality underneath is horrifying.

(cough)

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I've complained about some of the horny #monsterdon films in the past, but this one I think could've been a little hornier.

Remember, if the police ever say "hey maybe you hit [this corpse] with your car, her raincoat was in your grill, which is suspicious" you can say "I could explain but it's too complicated, let's just say it's mind over matter" and they'll drop the investigation, drive you home, and have your car washed for you

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this concludes today's #monsterdon thread; as always, thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

@LingLass@vmst.io Scotland Yard giving him a hand with the body there too 😬

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filmmakers are cowards

make it lesbian and give us our catgirl murder spree

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Next up: The Snake Woman. Literally the same movie, but with a snake.

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Literally, anyone else, but especially her husband.

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Dorothy is doing lots of pointless running around. I'm expecting a quality scream any moment now.

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She's going to kill the blond. Of all the people in this that I want to see killed, the blond is the least

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Thanks for the company #Monsterdon pals. Tomorrow at 8 P ET #MondayActionMovie closes out March with one of the greatest films of the 1990's......Take care. See ya soon.

And they fucked off into THE WORST ENDING EVER!!! #Monsterdon

'twas bumper killed the beast

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Doing a police coverup for hitting a cat with a car. #monsterdon

Quoth the raven, "Nevermora"

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#monsterdon OH NO, leopard got doored!

#Monsterdon Catholic School Girls In Trouble. I mean, it’s just screaming Sapphic subtext. Meow.

Just assuming that as he's American, he should have a gun....

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Leonora grinning like the cat who got the...

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this is how people lived before mobile phones, it's agonising

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Dorothy walks down the street, passes two Draculas, Blacula, an H-Man... #Monsterdon

rough neighborhood, what with the large cats and all #monsterdon

black rubber
sexay

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All these docks are high rise apartments and commercial towers now....'Docklands'

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"Hi hunni, meet me at the darkest, dankest old man pub in the docks, thanks bye"

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Oh finally, an hour in and she does something cat-like

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@SRLevine this doctor is playing games with people..... #Monsterdon

Bad puddy-tat!
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My friend Dewey would love this....#Monsterdon

she should embrace the things that that make her different tbh

like being a were-leopard

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"Call it to the window, Leonora"
"Okay - kill, kill kill!"

"Whoa, how did you get from 'window' to 'kill'?"

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yes

YES

the lesbian is out!

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Leisure Suit Psychiatrist assigns his wife to scope out Lenora and observe her reactions, so they go to a tea cafe, where the wife makes very normal conversation by saying things like "I love velvet!" and "When I die I want to be buried in velvet!", which is a thing that normal people do.

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The musical cues made it seem like her preparing to stay at the hotel was the end of the movie and for a hot second there, I almost believed it.

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"When I die I want to be wrapped in velvet"

So goth

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Okay, so Leisure Suit Psychiatrist guess we're trying to gaslight and/or un-gaslight Lenora by proving that she's not a lycanthrope and asking her to call her cat friend (which is currently being distracted by a flash light, which diminishes its hunter powers I guess).

He then jostles her around uncomfortably and screams "look at your hands!" to prove she doesn't have leopard hands or something.

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Roll credits! A successful psychiatric treatment!

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