@jsadow @YsengrinWolf ahhh yes, he does look very 'mad scientist'

#Monsterdon #KlausKinski

@Lazarou @YsengrinWolf No, no, of course he is the mad scientist who makes robots.

#Monsterdon

TIL there actually was a sequel to Invasion of the Bee Girls (Beyond The Invasion of the Bee Girls) but it only made it to being a stage play in Seattle in the late 80s #Monsterdon

As @CactuarJoe pointed out, Critters is basically just the Hopkinsville Goblins. Only replace owls with hedgehogs. And there were no bounty hunters.
#Monsterdon #Critters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter

#monsterdon

This one I'm giving a #letterboxd rating the same as last week's, two and a half stars, for the same reason. It was a middle of the road movie that die a few things okay and nothing really offensive given its vintage https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/critters/ #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe @strangefour nah, it's light enough, it'd be okay

i mean, there's less to make fun of than usual so toot count might be down but

#monsterdon #critters

@moira @strangefour It is! It might actually be too good for #Monsterdon.

@hollie
There might be repercussions in the upcoming week.

#Monsterdon #Critters1986 #Critters

@wohali plenty of directors gave had worse things on their resume and gone on to direct more movies. Looking at you James Cameron and Piranha 2 :grimacing_face: #Monsterdon

@Taweret

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched CRITTERS (1986). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

@Taweret It was thus the perfect song for the movie.

#Monsterdon

anyway good work as always team, we definitely got into space today, and thanks as always to @Taweret for organising

and don't forget to vote

for YETI!

^_^

#monsterdon #critters

@Taweret I kinda felt they were derivative of Gremlins, but that's not the worst sin here #monsterdon

From the music video:

Worst. Rockstar. Jeans. Ever.

#monsterdon

YETI! YETI! YETI! YETI!
#Monsterdon #Critters

@Taweret @Cherizilla This "Power of the Night" song really slaps.

h/t @Terencio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zmcV0pIKKg

#Monsterdon

I fell behind because my headset would pause the movie every time I laughed. And I had to stop laughing before resuming watching ,or it would immediately pause it again. #Monsterdon

obligatory nostalgia brainrot replies #Monsterdon

@strangefour Mm, Tremors would be a fun group watch. I legitimately love that film :D #Monsterdon

The moral of the story is that aliens hate Kansas, to the extent that they don't even have them in their March Madness bracket probably #monsterdon

@yatsu same #Monsterdon

That was fun. #Monsterdon

@Cherizilla @Taweret @ramsey Yeah I'm not feeling an afterparty today, I have (relatively) high hopes for the sequels and it seems like it'd be nice to cover them in #Monsterdon proper

@Taweret @Cherizilla Well, then, I'll just hold onto it, in case it wins.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon

I'm gonna put the Critters 2 on the poll for next week

don't watch it yet

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

Thank you @Taweret for hosting this toothy trip to Chomptown! Now I need a snack.

and thanks @Cherizilla (the best Cheri) for the Bingo card! Had an alternate interpretation for "They got poked", but couldn't find it in the movie.

And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: Very entertaining tootstream tonight! You really sunk your teeth into this one.

🚨 Reminder: There is Monsterdon Gear here!:
https://thediremushrump.threadless.com/designs/monsterdon-doodles-color

[Edit: fixed links to peeps]

they made a whole music video (well, someone did)

"Johnny Steele" - Power of the Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zmcV0pIKKg

caption says "Rare awesome song"
#Monsterdon

I have to imagine they must have had fun destroying the house to be reversed into the reconstruction shot

#Monsterdon

@Taweret @Cherizilla I should be done downloading Critters 2 in about 10 minutes. Is anyone else doing #Monsterdon after party?

The imploding house ate Chewie!!?
#Monsterdon #Critters

No #MonsterdonBingo for me, but not far off from a blackout either.

#Monsterdon

How much of the effects budget was spent on this house!? They blow one version up spectacularly. Then they knock a second one down so that they can show it in reverse.

I like how there's no char or soot marks on the wood that reassembles into a house.

#monsterdon

Yeah, first person to romhack The Goonies II into Critters: The Movie: The Game gets a free pint of applesauce. #Monsterdon

@OliviaVespera 🎉

I do not specifically know of others but I believe there is a #WatchPartyCalendar

#Monsterdon

@ricci Ye-TI! Ye-TI! Ye-TI! Ye-TI!

#monsterdon #critters

#Monsterdon This closing theme music is not at all memorable.

It's just a drum loop while someone presses "DEMO" on a keyboard.

That was like if you took every 80s movie and mushed them together in order to make them worse.

#Monsterdon

Thank for everyone who posted on this week #monsterdon. In this shitty world we have to live lately, this is a fresh breeze of entertainment on my sundays.

I guess we can confirm if a critter bites you, you don't turn into one, you just lose a lot of blood. #monsterdon

Just FYI this reconstruction scene was CUTTING EDGE special effects at the time 😂

#Monsterdon

Oh there's still ten minutes of movie left...
Fuck your house! Ahahaha!
Uh oh...
#Monsterdon #Critters

@arrjay I love grungy space ships so much

#monsterdon #critters1986

critter voices Corey Burton. thank you sir. #monsterdon

@ohiofi Weirdly enough I would say some things happened in the last 15 minutes

There were explosions at least

#Monsterdon

@diazona @jonny Sometimes the movie itself is less reactionary though.

#Monsterdon

Critters (1986)📽️ 😱 👍 ❣️ 🖤

#monsterdon #critters

And the day is saved. Thanks to town drunk always having a whiskey on him.
#Monsterdon #Critters

#Monsterdon #critters went by really quickly how long was this?

That was a pretty good one! Thanks folks!

#Monsterdon

At the end of the film the writers couldn't think of anything left for the actors to say

#Monsterdon

@jsadow @jonny To be fair here at #Monsterdon we have always had, shall we say, "special insight" into who the good guys and bad guys are #TeamMonster

wait that's where the gif of something rushing into the toilet was from #Monsterdon

"Welp, I'm outta here, holler if you need anything" - Cop

#Monsterdon

and that's the end of #monsterdon for today! an amazingly, uh, encapsulated movie? who went and got writers for this?

Stupid house-wind-reconstruction-remote control button can't even put the shingles on straight

#Monsterdon

...Oh yeah, didn't her boyfriend get eaten? #Monsterdon

@Louisa I feel like someone very pro-metal was involved in casting.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon OR IS IT?????? haha

ok that started slow but it came out real good in the last half!

thanks everybody for joining in and special thanks to our kind host @Taweret for organizing this lil bit o' fun <3 <3 <3

well they could have fit that movie into about 35 minutes, but i liked the goopy effects #Monsterdon

No Bingo.

#Monsterdon

OK, that qualifies as a fun fim

Thanks @Taweret and everyone's great comments in
#monsterdon !

@Taweret the only way this movie would make sense is if it was trying to be the first in a series... but also i can't imagine funding a second movie after that lol #monsterdon

And the eggs set up the sequel - maybe a future watch?

Thanks for comin' along everyone, that was a great #monsterdon ! Be sure to thank our host @Taweret and all the fun folks participating and making it better like @JoeWynne and @Cherizilla !

#Monsterdon "Crites, uh, a, find a way"

Do you all smell something?

Yeah, my dead boyfriend is there in the barn. He died like 18 hours ago.
#monsterdon

and so the alien bounty hunters fucked off into space I guess

also there are 3 more critters movies. just saying

ty for joining, everyone!!!

#monsterdon

Oh no, the Crites left behind butt nuggets.

#Monsterdon

I love the critters, love the design
#monsterdon

Spontaneously reconstructing house!

Gotta love alien tech sometimes even if it makes zero sense whatsoever

#Monsterdon

I for one am glad the cat survived.

#Monsterdon

I'm glad the kitty made it! #monsterdon

Oh wait not a hostage. She's like a sandwich from a road side truck stop you get for the ride home.
#Monsterdon #Critters

Unwilling cat sucked into reverse explosion, film at 11.

#monsterdon #Critters1986

did you order a cat? #monsterdon

shit, i could use one of those. my house is a disaster area. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon At least mom's mason jar survived. All was not lost.

#monsterdon Checkov's alcoholic in for the win!

the house VFX people must have had so much fun with these sequences

#Monsterdon

@jonny Yeah that is weak since the opening portrays them as cruel imperialists.

#Monsterdon

@gnomon and #SplendaDaddy thinks the hill they keep showing is the same one from Invaders. #Monsterdon

Aw c'mon guys, it's not like you've never had a tornado here before. Chin up! #Monsterdon

I feel like insurance would call that an act of god...

And, considering how they're as powerful as those who believe in god believe he is, they wouldn't be that far off, now would they?

#Monsterdon

The Crites come from a world where cats developed spaceflight, not apes

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon April and Brad escape the Critter ship, the bounty hunters stand around still doing nothing in particular, but the real question is whether Chewie the Cat is OK

Charlie's Teeth, my new '80s retro band

#Monsterdon

Whoops, first cell phone ever, won't be functional for another decade or two but still #Monsterdon

It's a music player, a phone, and a space communicator ... are you getting it yet?

#Monsterdon #Critters

cell phones, ten years before they became popular. #monsterdon

Also, they shot a toilet. #monsterdon

is the movie actually just gonna go with "the bounty hunters are the good guys and the critters are the bad guys????" #monsterdon

#monsterdon

@moira They were a useful distraction at times! #monsterdon

like a good neighbor, STAY OVER THERE #monsterdon

What is the relation of the giant Crite to the little hairballs? Was that explained? #monsterdon

LOL the crites blowing up the house as a final 'fuck you' on the way to fuck off into space

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon seeing how easily spaceX starships rupture, i'd say this is a realistic depiction that it'll tkae one dynamite to blow it up.

...So whaddya figure the homeowner insurance claim is gonna look like? #Monsterdon

before the temperance movement, everyone was basically drunk all the time, and it was very common for people in the US to go around with a bottle moonshine or cider strapped to their belt. imagining the spontaneous molotov cocktail hazard of a bunch of drunk guys with bottles of liquor in that era #monsterdon

Wow those explosions are clearly above average!

#monsterdon