And another #Monsterdon in the can. That was fun!
It's a classic movie for a reason. Thrills, frills, deliberate chemical spills, all the goodies.
Cheers!
Whatβs with the captainβs very silky shirt? #Monsterdon
Okay, that movie actually wasn't terrible.
They keep shooting him, he's only going in for a hug! #Monsterdon
@SordidAmok Yeah that was like Chekov's diving fact and it didn't pay off. #Monsterdon
Creature fucks off to freshwater. Nothing is wrapped up. Nothing is explained.
Go fuck yourself, audience.
Well, we've disrupted an entire ecosystem and killed an extremely rare creature. Our work here is done! #Monsterdon
Another #Monsterdon is in the can!
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
Tonight's feature, #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon, from 1954, brought us face to face with the legendary Gill-Man! Apart from that, we also had,
Claw fossilDiving for rocks!Creature swimming!Lots of Devonian! Fishing via ..... poison?Secret cave!ttImpassible twigberg!Gill-Man gives up and decides to take a nap at the bottom of the lagoon!
Thank you for watching, NO MORAL THEATER!
Scientists shoot a creature in the back and don't bother to preserve the specimen.
Go figure.
The End.
Didn't get a bingo either.
Creature leads them to his wife and lil' children who are weeping...
So ends another #Monsterdon with the masterpiece, #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and for everyone lurking and posting. And remember #Monsterdoners: We didn't come here to fight with monsters. ... We came here to find fossils.
Okay y'all so, our lead? He's been in two other prior Monsterdon entries: The Magnetic Monster, and It Came From Outer Space.
Are there stone pillars and ruins in that cave? or is the lighting just making me confuse stalactites for patterns?
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromtheBlackLagoon
Awww, poor mer dude, this is his lagoon....
#Monsterdon Woman gets captured: Don't shoot, you might hit her!
Dude attacked five minutes later: OPEN FIRE!
There really is something Buscemi-esque about his face #monsterdon
I dont get it did they all dive underwater to get to this cave? #monsterdon
David and the crew winch the tree trunk and debris out of the mouth of the lagoon, clearing their escape route. But the noise of the work gives cover and distraction for the Creature to climb aboard for the nineteenth or twentieth time completely undetected. It grabs Kay and leaps overboard! Lucas and co dare not use their rifles for fear of perforating Kay. The Creature drags her away to its lair, with David and his speargun in hot pursuit!
Gillman had a little throne ready for her <3 #Monsterdon
They actually somehow gave the creature a tongue.
"The princess is in another cavern!"
Random vampire in bat form.
lol, "BAT!"
#Monsterdon The world's loneliest bat
Mostly I'm appreciating how well the Gillman suit holds up to close inspection. So often you get suits that they try to film in closeup and you're like, ah, there's a seam, there's the zipper, there's the fasteners. But no, Gillman looks good! It's impressive! #Monsterdon
Whoa, that was one weird looking bat!
What is the source of light down in that cave? #Monsterdon
Creature's all "mate is strangely shaped? but will find out sooner or later how she lays her eggs!"
C'mon, Creature, you had revenge within your grasp, and you go for the girl instead? Priorities! #monsterdon
"leap"
#Monsterdon
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he got a GF now
#monsterdon
#monsterdon it's always the woman who notices him. the men are useless
She takes so long to work up to a scream!
Yoink! #Monsterdon
Monster is all like "Why TF doesn't anyone NOTICE ME!?" #Monsterdon
I love the monster design so much. the mouth and gills moving is awesome
#monsterdon why isn't anyone checking the perimeter all the time
"Hey baby"
gillman has the mother of all headaches now, and he knows who's fault it is.
Two martyrs? Kay doesn't even acknowledge the non-whites who died
maybe the monster can lay some eggs inside mark carcass, like in aliens franchise
#monsterdon
@Terencio "What's a guy with social anxiety gotta do around here?" #monsterdon
@Lazarou Well it's been a while since the last time he shot poison into the water. It builds up, you know. #Monsterdon
the tickle monster makes an appearance
The movie is just realistic enough that scientists punching each other can't knock them out.
Oh no, not that winch again.
gillman keeps coming back for more drugs. "gimme another hit!" #monsterdon
yayy, more winching!
"FART gun?! I said DART gun! Why must you be so old?!"
#monsterdon He needs the aqualung, and the other guy wants to watchβ¦
#Monsterdon shoot your jizz at him David! More jizz! MORE JIZZ!
@CactuarJoe Just like Piranha
@Newpa_Hasai π
"I just wanted a high-five!"
@MatthewTitus88 reminds me of drugs
"Hey everybody. Remember me? I'm still in the film."
The nice thing is that it's a man who became furniture, not a woman.
#monsterdon
#monsterdon another outfit change??!
David grabs a speargun and follows Mark into the water, intent on pursuing his speargun plan despite having been bested in the ring of reasoned debate *checks notes* I mean punched in the face.
David continues working the winch plan while Mark tries to speargun the Creature; meanwhile the Creature pulls him down into the depths! Speargun bolts fly, claws grab, breath runs short.
A wounded man floats to the surface of the deadly lagoon. Mark's vicious plan was his last.
π¦#MONSTERDON ποΈ
TRIVIA FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
Julie Adams (playing Kay Lawrence) enjoyed making the film and did most of her own stunts. There was a rumor that she was knocked unconscious during the required 'creature holding the damsel in its arms' scene.
But she said she only scraped her head against the plaster cave wall. Not surprising, because she had her eyes closed and the stuntman could barely see out of the creature mask.
Is this really the best time to be making lemonade? And that's a lot of sugar..... #Monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954
yay more drugs
#monsterdon
Suddenly it's McGyver
#monsterdon it's not a war crime if you're not in a war
why don't you just take the boat apart and rebuild it on the other side of the tree?
Rotenone works on the creature as if it were a mosquito?
#NoSale I ain't buiyin' that.
11 minutes left and I ain't seen a bazooka. How they going to do it?
#monsterdon
Hey, a tenure track line just opened up in the department!
Welp, looks like your romantic complications just saw a net decrease, ma'am. #Monsterdon
@Lazarou π€
#Monsterdon
Not with THREE barrels on him!
this is actually a super ambitious sequence for that era
Not...THE AQUA-LUNG!
This score is doing a LOT of work here.
That's some quality underwater tussle.
David and Mark trade blows about a difference of opinion about plan priorities: fix the winch to try to clear the barricade and escape the lagoon and the Creature it holds, or have one man play bait while the other takes aim at the Creature with the speargun? They trade blows! Truly the real monster is man's blind ambition and willingness to endanger others in pursuit of etc etc
There's eye candy for everyone who likes eye candy! Even the scalies! #Monsterdon
Where are the vital organs of a merman distributed? Has he been hit in the kidney or was that just grazing his third stomache?
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromtheBlackLagoon
Dude just tried to scissor the creature.
Oh that's interesting. They are literally at each other's throats. π¬
The Creature really captures the glassy stare of a fish in a bowl.
And now you know what that fish would do if it could get out.
"My liver! My liver!" - The Monster
πΆ "Sitting on a park bench..."πΆ
the poor guy in bandages is just laying there like "Do you two mind?"
#Monsterdon #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon
wait, why didn't the other guy go along to watch his back while he worked?
#monsterdon just to be clear, we all agree gillman is naked right?
I have to say it, this is a pretty good movie.
#monsterdon
Richard Carlson uses Aqualung.
Thank god Scuba is the preferred term now.
#monsterdon
Has a few samurai swords and human ears in his den from his time in the Pacific
@SnoopJ ooh thanks for putting more thought into this than the movie itself now I get it
#monsterdon
"I'll have to use the Aqualung"
Whoa Whoa Wait a minute- don't start away uneasy...
#CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon1954
Somebody slap the easy button for that fist fight. #monsterdon
Mark is a murderer at home, right? Let's be real
I can confirm that you cannot be a research scientist if you have a glass jaw. #Monsterdon
oh I guess Mark is kind of a dick huh didn't see that coming
Mark, just a thought, but "punching the guy you want to convince to let you come with him" is not the argument you think it is.
"I'm going to sit on a park bench!"
π¦#MONSTERDON ποΈ
TRIVIA FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
The water stuntman in costume had to take an emergency bathroom break and swam underwater to a remote spot. When he came up, there was a mother and daughter on shore.
He recalled, "they took off, and that's the last I saw of 'em!"