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@goinfawr kinda looked more like a face-hugging leopard for a moment there

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Don’t let it kill him! Go get a ribbon and flip it around

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The secret of the room! It's the catification room. Get in here and get your cat on.

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You can just not pass on the family curse, Uncle Joe.

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Okay, so the castle has a secret room which Coat-girl (whose name is Lenora, and I will call her that because she doesn't have a coat) wasn't allowed to go into as a child, that Uncle Vampire shows her now. Turns out that it is full of stuffed great cats eating mannequins, which is pretty normal.

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would you like to touch my monkey

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The real monster is illiteracy
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@Zerofactorial the outrageous and now banned chemicals keeping that hair solid #Monsterdon

The horror of bad taxidermy. #Monsterdon #CatGirl

Sort of scandalous that she was sleeping topless

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Mom as the camera pans over the taxidermy: "somebody has a fetish" #monsterdon #thecatgirl

oh no

kitties

"ahhhh"

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#Monsterdon stuffed cats! you will be cursed to stuff cats forever!

@socketwench CATTIFICATION LEVEL 5 ACTIVATE

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The cheating couple kissing is interrupted by a leopard growl and then Uncle Vampire appears to do a cock block, then briskly introduces himself to the party and assigns people rooms for the night.

Later, Coat girl is sleeping in the nude, a good sign that she might be a secret lycanthrope, until she is woken up by the aunt lady who I thought was a servant and summoned to a secret meeting with Uncle Vampire who will presumably teach her witchcraft or how to turn into a werecat.

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I would say the cat curse might be because your family shot and killed all those cats.....

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“What is this?! A school for cats?!”
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#Monsterdon gramma is a pervert. I love it. Supple heaving breasts. Bountiful birthing hips…

Put on your flimsiest negligee and come talk to uncle Dracula! #Monsterdon

I mean, of course the husband and wife wouldn't share a room, this isn't _that_ kinda film come on #monsterdon

Please god, let her be sleeping topless....

YESSSS!!

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these are all founding members of the leopards eating their faces party

one hopes

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The housekeeper prepared a separate room for Leonora's husband, and he just accepted it! 🤣

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@gnomon@mastodon.social Oh yay, I've always wanted to pat a leopard!

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you disobeyed my hors'doeuvres

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I love how her response to "You were instructed to come alone" was "I asked them to come with me!"

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"I can't stand much more of this without a drink"

He speaks of his life in general

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Actually, I am JUDGING #BarbaraShelley's Leonora POORLY for marrying that douche-canoe #TheCatGirl 🐆 #Monsterdon
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The other pubgoers decide to lighten up the mood by playing piano and complaining about how spooky the hotel is and how rude their host is for not greeting them, which murder mysteries have taught me is standard procedure for anyone British who lives in a big house where someone gets murdered at.

The plot thickens, as the dancing wife and Suit Man, the husband of Coat girl, are having a secret affair, which they think Coat Girl will be mad at.

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speaking of school for ghouls, this is from scooby-doo and the ghoul school:

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"IF she could see us now she would kill us...."

Excellent temptation of fate there

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Don't mind me, dear, I'm just setting myself up to get eaten! #Monsterdon

"How 'bout a light in here?" Yes. Good idea. #Monsterdon

i can hardly tell the two men and the two women apart, so it's just as well i've started thinking of them as "the polycule"

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It's a hair raising experience. #monsterdon

It's the House of the Nearly Dead

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"Someone tell me what *I'm* doing here?"

Why you're Victim No. 2, an essential role! #Monsterdon

Her husband seems like a real prize. So does her uncle. No wonder she’s so …subdued? #monsterdon

I will note that the classic elements are checked off: creepy old dude, spooky castle, rainstorm

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blah blah family curse but the servant serves the devil man anyway #Monsterdon

After some credits that I missed by blinking and the Howl of a Jungle Cat, this movie starts with a scene in a British pub; we meet some exciting characters like Suit Man, his wife Coat Lady and his friend Leisure Suit Psychiatrist and also, the Dancing Couple.

From the depth of their conversations, I can tell this is going be one of those #monsterdon movies where the story depends on me catching lots of subtle backstory details each character, a thing I am fabulously bad at. Uh-oh.

#Monsterdon of course the family curse will be easily defeated by doorknobs and disappearing thumbs.

DUDE! Clearly you believe in the polygamous form of marriage, you cretin #TheCatGirl 🐈‍⬛ #Monsterdon

He has the morals of an alley cat!

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Checkov's Phycologist

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"British Sex Weekend"

They're drunk, nobody knows them here, let's gooo!

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My "stabilized" version has a few sea-sickness transitions. It tends to rock the frame left to right in fades. #monsterdon

My wife works on Harley Street! (Dentistry)

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That white jacket with the big dark collar is more of a 1970s vibe, he's ahead of his time.

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#Monsterdon remember when people smoked in bars? yuck

Oh great. We're stuck in a British pub again. #Monsterdon #CatGirl

Watching #monsterdon tonight with Hobie

This cast is just a *conga line* of drunks. #Monsterdon

Pub time! #monsterdon #catgirl1957

This is how insufferable the British middle class are I'm afraid...

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Second scene and we're in a pub. That's British as you can get. #catgirl1957 #Monsterdon

It was a dark and stormy night...
A dog was on a roof typing a story...
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Nice fade to

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kitty! #monsterdon

A PUB!

First five minutes

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It was WWIII on a dark and stormy night

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Okay a 1957 flick tonight for #monsterdon. We're jumping in a few minutes late, but will give it a watch.

Apologies for the toots!

I have never actually watched a #monsterdon movie in real-time, but I still love #monsterdon.

Presented in SHAKEY-VISION! #monsterdon #catgirl1957

Hold that camera still #monsterdon

@kcarr2015 @srol #monsterdon

"Brian... what's this Meth I've heard so much about...?"

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Seriously thought this was going to be a #Monsterdon post.

@bunnyhero Oh this is good. If a mere leopard can be a #monsterdon monster, why not a house cat.

I think I have the perfect antidote to queue up afterward: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825683/

(I swear I just happened to be at this point in my watch-through of the Marvel movies anyway)

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I almost forgot my bingo card! I did a BINGO!

(I say it passed the bechdel test because Leonora and Dottie did talk about pre-planning their funeral needs.)

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"Touch it...! Command it!"
"I won't...!"

< Detective Stabler and Detective Benson get a phone call >

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@paco @amyfou i am very pleased to learn the IRL identity of the big kitty

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yay! instead of remembering monsterdon hours and hours or days later i now have managed to remember shortly after the film finished. i am getting closer to really watching it! 😅

@yatsu I'm hoping they're really impounding his car for evidence (just *telling* him they'll clean it up) and will charge him in the morning. #Monsterdon #CatGirl1957

@LingLass @Cherizilla I totally agree except for the part where very few people died and also the monster died #TeamMonster

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@Taweret She was joined in some cursed quantum way with the leopard so when the bad psychiatrist hit the leopard with his car, the impact carried through to her and killed her, too, and tore off some of her shiny black raincoat. #Monsterdon #CatGirl1957

That was just my cup of tea. A dark and rainy British setting. An uncle with a book-filled study. An unreliable psychiatrist. A full suite of deserving victims. A slippery ending. Great fun. Thanks, @Taweret and @Cherizilla. #Monsterdon

All in all, this certainly was a movie from 1957 that illustrates why I always vote for the 70s-80s ones

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a more interesting ending that would perhaps allow them to maintain their status quo: psych saves his wife by locking lenora back up, the authorities capture the leopard and release it into the wild far away, all three of them are miserable for the rest of their days but sometimes lenora closes her eyes and lives as her leopard doing leopard things in its home

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I'm gonna need a scholarly analysis of this... film? #monsterdon

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It turns out that missing the first 16mins isn't such a bad thing, but they should not have murdered the 🐆 !!

Thank you @Taweret @JoeWynne @Cherizilla and @flowerpot for catching me up on the action

most importantly, thanks #Monsterdonians for making it fun!

Thanks again for another great #Monsterdon!

Many thanks to @Taweret for hosting and to @Cherizilla for organizing #MonsteronBingo, and thanks to you all for making it fun!

Ciao!

#monsterdon So, the study in the castle.

Was there something special about that room? Was it linked to the curse? The old man said so, but it didn't seem to be.

He just had a weird statue in there that he smashed.

Did she get a weird statue?

Another delightful evening watching a bad movie with what I assume are great people. #Monsterdon is so much fun and I'm glad I finally joined the party.

Always a shame to see that little traffic cone on a Sunday night but all good things come to an end. Thank you to the entirety of the #monsterdon community for being by far one of the highlights of my week.

@blogdiva No, it's even scarier in the day. At night, you can't see their smiles. 😃 #monsterdon

@ricci @gnomon Narrator: It did not, in fact, have a strong ending.

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@blogdiva pretty accurate from what I've been told #Monsterdon

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I wonder if the "monster" was stuck onto a psychological thriller script before filming. I get the feeling that Leonora was meant to be a vengeful killer originally.

well, as my partner often says on our film podcast: we never have to see it again!

thanks for being part of the fun, #monsterdon and shoutout to @Taweret

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I really wanted Dr. Creepy to die.

I just realized I think Robert Ayres (who played Brian) was totally trying to be Humphrey Bogart in this film, but he didn't do a great job of it.

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@SordidAmok What if we built this wooden badger?! #thwack #Monsterdon

@bunnyhero @sealawyer Yes! Lock him up! #Monsterdon

Screeeech! And that the patent-pending abrupt ending we know and love.

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American International always manages to live down to expectations. #Monsterdon #CatGirl

@Lazarou That’s it in a nutshell #Monsterdon

@paco she should have given the bird as a gift specifically to the psych guy, who she actually likes

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