few know this scene was the inspiration for Steamed Hams.

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6664! The number of the devil! And... 4.

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#Communion1989

What's worse is that the smoke is coming out of the fridge.

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#Communion1989

This is like the beginning to Pink Floyd's "Time"

#monsterdon

On tonight's episode of Communion the part of Billy Crystal will be played by Christopher Walken

#Monsterdon

RE: https://retro.pizza/@trixter/116434343508173346

I shall have to write one now #MOnsterdon

He ran out of ChatGPT tokens

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#Communion1989

This is me when my PC crashes

#MOnsterdon

This PAINting... of a WOLF... is CROOKed

#monsterdon
#Communion1989

Launching my #monsterdon thread for Communion, a movie that I assume has a monster in it. And also Christopher Walken. and Andreas Katsula.

Monsterdon is the thing where we watch a monster movie every week and make fun of it. Mute the hash tag if you don't want to see thousands of posts by me and other people about this movie.

If you do want to see thousands of monsterdon posts and would like to pick the next movie, follow @Taweret the void chicken for the weekly poll.

@CactuarJoe scully you're not gonna believe this

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#Monsterdon 🌌👽 🛸🫣 ⁉️ 👨‍⚕️ 😱

it's a good wolf picture

Allan Zavod is an alien name if I've ever heard one

#Monsterdon

Andreas Katsulas?

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

@davesdogmaggie gota have sax too #Monsterdon

G'Kar!

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Helicopter footage wasn't sped up or anything, we just really like fast blinking beacon lights. #monsterdon

@neia #monsterdon

ikr. you have to be a great writer to write something that bad.

If I had a nickle for every time Jeff Goldblum came out of a glowing tube looking sexy...
#Monsterdon #EarthGirlsAreEasy

Narrator: They didn't stay inside.

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TIL they have low-cal Pop Tarts. This could be life-changing.

#monsterdon

they catnip-sprayed the cat

#monsterdon

when they were repeating everything she did, she shoulda taught them some dances.

#monsterdon #WrongCommunion

Please abduct Nancy Reagan.
#Monsterdon #EarthGirlsAreEasy

Val it's obviously a drug smuggling blimp.

#monsterdon #WrongCommunion

this reminds me of when Star Trek guys came across this group of alien dumbasses

#monsterdon #WrongCommunion

It's not the number of moons, it's their mass. And baby, Luna's hard to beat!

#Monsterdon #EarthGirlsAreEasy

According to my bingo card, almost NOTHING happened in this #movie, and I cannot disagree! 😆

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo #Communion

NO! not the sushi!

#monsterdon #WrongCommunion

I assume the first thing in the "How To Drive A Man Crazy" book is "Make him watch Communion" #Monsterdon

@mxchara it was a definite mixed bag

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oh shit, COMMUNION was directed by the same director as HOWLING II: YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF

#monsterdon

i need at least the first few minutes of #earthgirlsareeasy after watching #communion to rekindle a little hope in humanity
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So according to TV Tropes, the real Whitley Strieber criticized Christopher Walken for playing him too over the top crazy.

Walken just responded "If the shoe fits..."

#Monsterdon

@mxchara muddled yes. hackneyed, no. it was at least different from a normal movie-shaped object.

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aw I missed the first couple minutes of Earth Girls are Easy on miru miyaku media #monsterdon #WrongCommunion

(also i came into this one with a LOT more context than most of the rest of the #monsterdon crew--I'm certain there's bits of this movie that only made (limited) sense due to external knowledge about strieber's accounts--but I HAD imagined they put more of a fictional sci-fi or even horror twist on the whole thing.)

#Monsterdon #Communion
I suppose it's a matter of audience interpretation, but I feel like this movie reads best as supporting the notion that this whole alien encounter experience really is recurring psychotic episodes. There are no real aliens.

I felt like that was kind of a bold choice for the director, honestly.

How many colors has Jim Carry been colored while covered in full body fur suits?
#Monsterdon #EarthGirlsAreEasy

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Why does this ending play like a PSA?

@JoeWynne I thought the addidas track suits for the aliens was pretty brilliant. #Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

Reaching hard for anything on this, and probably the fewest items I've ever checked off #monsterdon

anyway i think i may have been the only person here who enjoyed themself at all. it was a bad movie but ufology is fascinating

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That was so bad I may have to skip next week. Remember to use promo code COMMUNION for 10% off any anul adult toy in our shop. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Communion, or how I learned to stop worrying and love sex with little blue alien Ed Asners.

@srol @flophousepodcast only #monsterdon can get us to enjoying such movies! Love you all for it!

@nomadfarmer that's a good point, honestly. i'll count it.

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

That wasn't even "So bad it's good." It was just a wet turd of a movie.

#monsterdon
#Communion1989

Thanks everyone for joining and surviving until the end. Thanks @Taweret for organizing

This was a great watch before bed because now I’m going to sleep like a rock lol

#monsterdon #communion1989

@moira Anal probes as parting gifts. #Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

the most reasonable thing in this movie was the static on his TV in that last scene. F in chat for Monsterdon, folks.

#monsterdon #Communion1989

I have to mute Clapton's droning, it's too much after all that #monsterdon

We learn the thing writer guy was writing is about the aliens who kidnapped him and his alien kidnapping experience.

He then is sitting in his study and has a vision of a glowing alien head/mask appearing so he can fondle its face. Then we see the family standing outside in the city at night for unclear reasons, and then... credits.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon It has a lovely Valium note in it… doesn’t it?

and they all fucked off into the airport paperback rack THE END #Monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon with the masterpiece, #Communion1989. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and for everyone lurking and posting. And remember #Monsterdoners: Goin' for a pack of cigarettes.

And they fucked off onto the roof.

#Monsterdon

https://youtu.be/LOmZMycN0Gg?si=2R0FdPpFBa9mM7qZ

He's starting his "Why I'm Leaving New York" essay for Intelligencer.

#monsterdon

Mime Alien

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And now 20 minutes of fucking about instead of ending the movie on a high note.

Yes, go to the art gallery to discuss the entire movie, which you know you were in, exposit how aliens know us.

Anne just bullshits "masks of god", because she can't think outside a narrow shaft. Is this how Strieber saw his wife?

False ending after false ending. Cut all of this!

Script adaptation from book just fails.
#monsterdon #communion

I wonder what the abstract concept of actually ending is up to

because it's clearly not having anything to do with this movie

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

this fucking movie has more endings than the Lord of the Rings trilogy

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

Devil Girl's like: "Yes, those were the aliens I was protecting you from."

#monsterdon

Yeah, seeing the bright lights and taking your son out to them unfortunately fits with the implied bit about aliens being interested in people and their children and grandchildren...

(...not that there were any aliens this time)

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

"Mom, what are we doing?"

"Nothing."

ACCURATE

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#Communion1989

I cannot believe this movie is still going.

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#Communion1989

How many fake out endings…

#monsterdon #communion1989

if you re-released this as just a HARD CUT ROLL CREDITS after the dancing alien brain face this movie would jump from a 2/10 to a 10/10 delayed release masterpiece #monsterdon

"i'm gonna write about what i know."

oh my god, guys, i don't know. if this movie doesn't end soon...

#monsterdon #Communion1989

It's not stopping
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I can't with the soundtrack. I just can't any more. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

Is it the gift of making this movie be over?

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#Communion1989

This is so "chariot of the gods" bullshit
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#communion1989

I'm gonna write about THIS MOVIE

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

when's Jonathan Frakes gonna roll in the art gallery with "We Made It Up"?

#monsterdon

"I think they gave you something"

"I'm not surprised. they didn't use a condom."

#monsterdon

HOW IS THIS MOVIE STILL GOING?!

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

Pollock scene.

#monsterdon

Father Knows Best first showed in 1954, so if this is 1985 (when Strieber's events happened), they're 31 lightyears away. 35 if it's in 1989.

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

"It's just God"

movie, just, I mean, c'mon, movie

#Monsterdon

So you're saying God's into butt stuff

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

no greys were harmed in the making of this movie.

but every audience subjected to it since—well, yes.

#monsterdon #communion

oh gods now he's philosophizing...

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ok, "the aliens are real and they definitely probed me but they are fine and pretty chill so life can go on" is the only remaining option, fine, but please go back to more of the aliens being fine and pretty chill for the love of god #monsterdon

@arrjay Ziggy Stardust was a better alien. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

aaaaand now for a lecture

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@lytta Nowhere near hot enough for a fever.
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"I have to be awake"

But given just how dreamlike that sequence was, well...

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

oh and just like that they fucking waste the only thing they had going for them by returning to reality. boooooo bullshit you had magic in the palm of your hand with the inexplicable talking elephant brain face #monsterdon

That's not a Chinese box, it's called a Matryoshka, it's Russian

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This is such a bad trip. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe #Communion_1989

Chinese box. You can't see them. So they picked the most bizarre interface faces that they could find.

if this movie ended 5 minutes ago I would have been like "okay, I gotta admit that was an okay ending"

Unfortunately, it didn't

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That cheesy special FX shot of the skyline is so completely unnecessary. #monsterdon

The real communion was the friends we made along the waylien

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and then Christopher Walken high fived the aliens and they had a dance party

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Squignax, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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On the other hand, it's nice that we're finally getting some cultural context for Jawa society. #Monsterdon

the aliens REFUSE TO ACCOMMODATE THE HAT #monsterdon

Aliens: Guys! He's back! Get the probe warmed up!

#monsterdon
#Communion1989