Hopefully the real monsters, er "scientists" fucked off back to their universities.

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

Oooh, Gill-Man has a sunken living room!

#Monsterdon

"Dracula, Prisoner of the Creature from the Black Lagoon"

#monsterdon

@Lazarou 3D bat scare

#monsterdon

YES! We have extended monster caring a woman scene! Soon to be redrawn and referenced by monster pinup artists for decades.
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromtheBlackLagoon

A bat? Did the mummy turn into a bat? This is a thing, right?

#monsterdon

@Taweret Right! Could be a whole gang. #monsterdon

my dude walks off a harpooning like it's nothing

#Monsterdon

Oh my god the creature is coming back for the victim’s dick!

#Monsterdon

Underwater fight scene is pretty good

#monsterdon

Let's science the shit out of this predicament!

#Monsterdon

Retrieving Mark's body, people normally just leave their friends behind in these movies.

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

You killed mark and blamed the merman

#Monsterdon

He got a floater. Someone grab the pool net.
#monsterdon

Bandage-face guy is waking up and going "WT actual F?"

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon I've seeing a ship here

Great scene: I'm the Capt., and here's my knife to prove it.

#Monsterdon

Pipe guy looks to be dead gringo #1

#monsterdon

You can tell this isn't Star Trek or we would have tried communicating with it like half an hour ago. #Monsterdon

"socially awkward person tries to join the conversation"

#Monsterdon

Eh, I'm under the impression that more animal calls are about being horny than hungry.

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

He looks like he's getting ready for a panty raid. #monsterdon

He just seems to be sighing at lot at humans....I can relate...

#Monsterdon

Waiting for fat Brando to show up and mutter some nonsense

#monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

  TRIVIA FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

The scenes filmed outdoors (not that many) were completed mostly at Wakulla Springs, Florida. Ironically, the water there is known for how clear it is.

The stuntman in the "land suit" and the second stuntman in the "underwater suit" never met each other. That is, until 20 years later at a convention.

#CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

there already are aquatic guys, they just end up looking like dolphins because looking like a guy underwater makes no sense #monsterdon

Does this help you "learn about the water and all its secrets" guy??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotenone

#Monsterdon

These days you wouldn't be able to pour poison powder in a lagoon without an environmental review. Which is exactly why we have environmental reviews. #monsterdon

Extra points for those coffee mugs.

#Monsterdon

Can we please kill a gringo?

#monsterdon

Do you think it's intelligent enough to seek revenge? I mean it fucking climbed on the boat so I wouldn't put calculus past it at this point. #Monsterdon

Single tear rolls down the creature's cheek

#Monsterdon

ugly, littering!

no wonder the creature is enraged, this is their home!

#Monsterdon

Our so-called ichthyologist slash financier with the spear gun just landed a direct hit on the kidney of our hero Creature, while it was swimming away from them and posing no threat.

Not cool. Justice for the Creature.

#monsterdon

We saw something! Let's kill it!

#monsterdon

@skatem got 99 problems but a fish ain't one

#Monsterdon

I think these underwater scenes are neat, because we get submerged logs, fish and seaweed and swimming. They do go on for a while.

#monsterdon

@diazona @rebeld new Markov corpus idea unlocked. Would be great fun to build a chain from the dialogue in #Monsterdon movies

#monsterdon The net is wrapped around the propeller. Sillypants.

Okay, so the girl gets back to the boat. Then the boat's net catches something, but then we find out that it didn't really catch anything. They still think there's a live monster there.

Back on the boat, the banker boy gets a harpoon and wants to shoot it to study it later. The main boy doesn't like this because he sounds like a big game hunter and not a scientist. The banker says "remember u work for me bitch!" but not in those exact words. Then they go scuba diving together.

#monsterdon

speargun dude will die prolly
#monsterdon

@plaidtron3000 damn that must have been hard to pull off those shots like a minute at a time #monsterdon

Creature is a great monster design. Definitely deserves to be one of the best known

#monsterdon

So does the dude in the suit have an aqualung in there or is he just holding his breath because either is impressive

#Monsterdon

@ramsey @YsengrinWolf yeah, this is how we identify ages of the oldest rocks on Earth. I think uranium is the slowest-decaying naturally occurring element, or close to it.

Fun and slightly related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9G_p-kasL4

#Monsterdon

MONSTER LURK

Our two rival scientists are unaware that a monster from the Devonian age stalks them in the deep water of this Amazonian lagoon that time forgot!

#monsterdon

We park our boat and two boys go scuba diving for about nine hours. There are a lot of unique characters in this movie, but my brain has sorted all the white people into "boys" and "the girl" and all the brown people into "shirtless" and "shirted".

Back on the boat, a science master (boy) explains that uranium lead tests can determine the ages of fossils. Then more swimming. Then we see a swimming monster. Then the scuba boys find a dead monster and take its hand off.

#monsterdon

@YsengrinWolf Seems legit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium–lead_dating

TIL

#Monsterdon

@jadebees "Marry us" she says to Monster, who is a priest in his culture #Monsterdon

Why did Kay put on her swimsuit?

#monsterdon

"Uranium-Lead Test"

#Monsterdon #CreatureBlackLagoon1954

Uranium-Lead test mentioned.

(but are these igneous rocks?)

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@neia @wohali YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION

CALL 1-800*gunshot*

#Monsterdon

i think i posted about this when i saw this the first time fairly recently (for shame) but i was surprised at how competent this movie is compared to all the derivatives of it i've seen over the years #Monsterdon

Jaguar like, "STOP TALKING HER TO DEATH AND KISS HER" #Monsterdon

Checkovs Gas Harpoon

#Monsterdon

@xerozohar "Nazi fish. I *hate* Nazi fish." #Monsterdon

*monster claw reaches for the ankle of the distracted lady scientist*

*she is called away by the rest of the group*

*monster flipper snaps fingers in frustration, retreats back into the boggy water of the Amazon*

#monsterdon

So... What, the Creature is mad they're digging up his grandma? #Monsterdon

We're having some boat conversations. I think the banker guy is expecting results. Then the girl is like "wow this river is bigger than the Mississippi", which is correct, but the footage in the background is showing a river smaller than the Mississippi.

The boy is like "yeah, and even the animals here are like animals in the Devonian! There's giant centipedes and shit!" which I'm pretty sure is wrong. Maybe big centipedes, but not like, Devonian big.

#monsterdon

CATFISH FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, I'd watch it. #Monsterdon

MONSTER FLIPPER ONCE AGAIN

Exactly the same shot as before, in fact. A callback, or a second emergence..?

MONSTER FLIPPER HAS ENTERED THE CHAT er TENT

*monster flipper palms the entire face of one of the hapless research assistance, roars horribly as the tent shakes*

#monsterdon

Oh @nev Oh, that title. swoons
The author should be on here...

#Monsterdon

@forestine yes, definitely, for science

and by that I mean being able to do proper science without the men getting in the way

#Monsterdon

kinda cool seeing the Amazon back in the day, I guess that's all cattle fields now or something....

#Monsterdon

Humanity threw the first punch, remember that

#Monsterdon

Nature failed with lungfish, but succeeded with me

#monsterdon

I like how in movies archaeologists take it for granted that there will be a "rest of the skeleton."

#monsterdon

#monsterdon I also picked up on IMDB, that you can tell the actors apart by counting their air-tanks. There's one guy with two tanks, and one guy with just one tank.

@ottaross Friend Chicken sounds very sinister and I love it #Monsterdon

@socketwench do i want to be with them (the creature) or be them? (the creature)

always the question #Monsterdon

Is that colonel Sanders? This might be the backstory where he decides if it's friend chicken or fried fish he'll run with.

#Monsterdon

"Oh, sorry, I thought this was the nail place." #Monsterdon

well at least they got actual people from the Amazon for this and didn't do 'brownface'

#Monsterdon

That's standard paleontology, a couple of whacks then rip the thing out of the ground.

#Monsterdon

IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID

*gasoline explosions*

THIS IS THE PLANET EARTH - NEWLY BORN AND COOLING RAPIDLY

so extremely cool

#monsterdon

"Here, life begins"

...Hot. #Monsterdon

wait... isn't he a fresh-water Gill-man?

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

Awww.... I was thinking the Critter was gonna cut off its foot but it'd be OK bc it would just grow back.

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

Wiggle, Clete! Wiggle like the WIND!

#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@diazona same, actually. The highlights of my week are:

#Monsterdon
#SethMeyersCorrections
New #VLDL videos

@_L1vY_ @Taweret

@ancient_catbus tagging this toot with #monsterdon because we're supposed to drink now every time we see the word "Devonian".

@paco @klu9 I did briefly notice them being rather pointy for a real person, but that poster is on another level IMO

#Monsterdon

@gnomon @Bluedepth #monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

thank goodness. they might decide to close up shop and just go out of business.

@klu9 I stand corrected. So do her boobs.
#monsterdon

Creature from the Black Lagoon has always been one of my favorites. It's been made all the better by poking fun at it along with everyone here. Thank you so much #Monsterdon. These watch parties really keep me going. I look forward to next week!

Typical end to a #monsterdon film.

It kinda works as a statement about Western Imperialism
#monsterdon

Okay, I'll admit it: when I was a kid I felt bad for the Gill-man at the end.

#monsterdon

If only Kay had brought more clothes....

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Now over to @miru for the sequel, already in progress

#Monsterdon

As a guy with a coffee-mug avatar, I give tonight's feature four mugs out of a possible five for the big "Fire King" coffee mugs scene.

☕ ☕ ☕ ☕

#monsterdon

@LingLass just because he's an Amazon steam boat captain doesn't mean he can't be FABULOUS #Monsterdon

So.... that's it. They killed it. Good job, white people

#monsterdon

And that’s a wrap!

Another #monsterdon comes to an end. This one was full of danger horns, homoerotic fisticuffs, an amazing rubber suit that works underwater, AQUA-LUNG, and an infinite number of outfit changes for the immaculately clean and quaffed leading lady. This was a hoot.

Thank you everyone for your tootledge, and thank you to @Taweret for organizing.

That's a much better movie than I was expecting, though.

#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

All he ever wanted was a nice blouse

#monsterdon

And my internet had a bit of a fit so I couldn't keep summarizing, but some events happened. They involved an underwater wrestling match, a water poisoning squirt gun, a Girl Kidnapping, and also a Conveniently placed Mating Rock in the monster's secret cavern lair.

In the end, the monster fucks off into the river and the humans decline to shoot it, but it is sad anyway, because it didn't get the girl.

Also, the monster had a roommate who was a bat, which was cool.

#monsterdon

I'm trying to envision what seeing it in a theater would feel like in 2025 and I think I'd mainly get overstimulated from that film score being blasted through a modern theater's sound system. #monsterdon

The most fucking off into the sea of all fuckings off into the sea.

#monsterdon

Lizard, mummy and bat, but this movie was short on vampires. Just wanna lodge a complaint about that here before we wrap up.

#monsterdon