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!

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“Where you going?”

He’s gonna jam with Jack White, obviously.

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Getting jiggy with it

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lol, love the little troll party, they should have some Crites too!

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He is REALLY dressed like the Joker though...

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@CactuarJoe He's gonna go in style. #Monsterdon #Communion 👽🛸

is Walken going into The Field of Dreams?

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Through family, I was acquainted with a NASA engineer who worked on the moon rover and Skylab. They believed there were aliens at Groom Lake in Nevada. They were particularly convinced of the 'alien interrogation' video, aka the 'Victor' interview.

https://youtu.be/devj5cNlLhM

While this is a fake, I will say it's a pretty good fake. It's subtle, which makes it more effective.

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I thought I could survive. But I was too close to the fire. Too close to the heat.

UFO STREETS

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that's what this truck suffered from. INSUFFICIENT LIGHTING.

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Fun Fact: The parents of the actor who played the son accidentally read the entire script and then took their kid and fled the country.

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MF just eyeballed the camera. Again!

#Monsterdon #Communion1989

Whitley's hat keeps getting taller.

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Communion? She said the thing!

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#monsterdon #EinaPlobe #Communion_1989

I preferred this guy when he was less happy and had stopped wearing that goddam porkpie hat..

@CactuarJoe maybe he never existeeeed woooooo

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Too many probes not ONE cowbell *that's* the problem here #Monsterdon

Christopher Walken got bored with that scene his leaving was not scripted #Thanks #Monsterdon

The psychiatrist has assembled a support group of other people who report being abducted by monsters. One of them is mad that a writer is in their group, but gets over it.

The group people seem to have an established lore where the kobolds are aliens and they abduct people, giving them scars and sticking things up their butt, as aliens are reputed to do I guess.

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What if you had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy AND you were getting probed by aliens?

#Monsterdon #Communion

can I please be abducted out of watching this movie

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

That out-of-focus statue in the background is stealing the scene
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"Nobody wants it, nobody asks for it."

Sommmmebody didn't go to college.

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#monsterdon #EinaPlobe #Communion_1989

Keep in mind that this recovered memory bullshit is bullshit.

"If it's any consolation, I'm a shitty writer. Nobody will read it anyway."

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We finally see a bug alien doing a jumpscare, then we get a surreal scene where writer guy is surrounded by masks of the various aliens he saw and reading a newspaper.

Then another surreal scene where human children are playing with earth toys on the floor of a spaceship while aliens do wavy dances and blow air at the children while looking suspicious. Then writer guy puts on an alien mask that doesn't quite fit him.

#monsterdon

For some reason the greys are pink and also just dangly marionettes. #monsterdon

I was abducted and they made me take the survey in Cosmo magazine. It turns out I’m “a Samantha”

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@cd0 this was better in the book. He was screaming and the alien asked “what can we do to stop your screaming” and he said “let me smell you” and then she brought her neck closer so he could smell her neck.

He wrote that she smelled kind of fungal or like aged cheese. #Monsterdon

They travelled thousands of light years to probe Walkens butt but they can't clean the damn walls. #monsterdon

This is looking like he’s blackout drunk into being dominated, and I ain’t judging.

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Oh, I'd forgotten Walken breaks out the tap dancing and "Puttin' On The Ritz" #monsterdon

This is my body, which is given for you. Probe it in remembrance of me.

Communion

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I hope they at least took some biopsies of his polyps to send to pathology. I mean, my GI charges me $800 for this.

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okay so now it's an alien sex club with attached daycare

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

Are the aliens running an off-books daycare?

#Monsterdon #Communion1998

What. What. Why did he kiss the alien. What the f---- #monsterdon

Jeez I hope they at least wipe that thing down between customers.

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They made him look like Ziggy Stardust?

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Unfortunately I think I saw this movie when I was much too young to watch this shit. #monsterdon

😬 #monsterdon

Buy me a drink first! #monsterdon #communion

He got the Kate McKinnon character's experience

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What the hell was that robot toy. That's the scariest part of this movie. #Monsterdon

I don't like to look at kissy lips

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They're gonna establish a safeword, right?

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December 26th, the day after christmas, yes thank you for clarifying, I would have been confused since christmas falls on a different day each year. #monsterdon

And bees.

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it's "further" not "farther" in the way the psych was using it, but anyway
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I am you and you are me and we are here and we are all together, also I'm the walrus #monsterdon #communion

"Why do I have a gun? What are you, some sort of commie pinko?"

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Abducted by Jawas

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#monsterdon One single kettle drum going down the stairs and hitting... thump.

I'm sorry everyone hoping for some kind of interesting story. The real story is just that a guy had an alien abduction experience and wrote some books about it. He has a podcast now.

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She graduated Cum Laude in overacting school

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I think we've ALL got to go at this point.

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Ugh. Less Clapton and more of somebody that doesn't love the shit out of listening to himself play. #Monsterdon #Communion1989

@apLundell Yes! This film does have many hats indeed

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"Anne, let's go back in time."
"I don't have a time machine."

Hypnotist 0, pedant 1!

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oh, it's THE OTHER KIND of mass hypnosis!

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So in the visions we several types of aliens.

there's like the stereotypical alien with big eyes that I'm calling a sectoid because xcom and I guess it's in charge.

there's like a stout little goblin thing.

then there's the insectoid aliens who I don't think we saw in the cabin but the main character keeps hallucinating them everywhere.

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why do the aliens only show up on holidays?

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oily 80s guitar music usually reserved for people making love on the beach

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#Monsterdon Another amazing hat.

Were hats briefly fashionable in 1989? #monsterdon #communion

Nice hat! #Monsterdon #communion1989

The lighting crew on this production got most of the budget. #Monsterdon

Clapt-ON. Clapt-OFF. The Clapter!

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Ah I see she's reading the junior novelization of Star Trek: First Contact

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that is a TEENY TINY mug

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I want Walken to read me haiku and other forms of poetry.
#Monsterdon #Communion

if that kid sees skulls in his head, he needs to listen to SLAYER

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"This is gonna be a little bit unpleasant. We're gonna cut your head open, pull out your brain, and throw it super hard against a chain link fence."

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This reminds me of Total Recall, a far better movie.

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"Just a little bit unpleasant" – more or less unpleasent than these tubes in my nose? #monsterdon #communion

Blue fuckers? Wow they're getting personal now. #monsterdon

yeah i sure can see why strieber hated this movie. and they used their real names. it's not a kind treatment of a real person

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80s medicine looks invasive

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A DOZEN patients? Is this lady an alien magnet?

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Btw did I mention the hats in this movie?

There’s hats.

Lots.

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"Oh, don't worry about it. We knew the best thing for you was to wander out in public unsupervised."

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The man boards a bus and a sad lady is asking for directions. He sees them as all insect headed people and starts ranting at them, but fortunately he doesn't have a shotgun.

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@CactuarJoe Prideful windcatcher!

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That is a fine hat back on Narn

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Writer guy also recalls that his son was saying "why did I have to die?" while being overly lit. Then writer guy starts yelling and leave. The wife almost tries to stop him but the psychiatrist is like "let him go and work things out."

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Streiber's friend is wearing a dead raccoon on his head? Is he R.F.K. Jr. faking a Russian accent?

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#monsterdon The stairway camera angle always gets me…

Everyone on the bus is definitely an alien

#Monsterdon #Communion #EinaPlobe

walken is extremely good at the self-directed/other-directed dialogue you gotta give him credit #monsterdon

Was that Grimmace from McDonalds?

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Why is there a dummy of a four foot tall guy in a business suit in this hypnosis lab?

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LOL, what the fuck is that hat G'Kar is wearing?

It's like that Seinfeld episode with the fur hats

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The psychiatrist suggests that he investigate what the other couple saw, which angers writer guy. Then she suggests that we explore this memory via hypnosis, which I'm pretty sure is a good way to make up weird stories about being abducted by space demons.

The writer and his wife have another argument, she wants him to do the hypnosis, because it's at least a thing you can do, and he doesn't want to because he's grouchy and misogynistic. She threatens him with divorce.

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@kcarr2015 oh noe ⚰️

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