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I would pay for that guy's eyebrows

Okay I'm loving this intro music.

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Typical 1960s tense, dramatic music while absolutely nothing is happening.
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wasn't there a season of the old Dr who where the master had an evil doll or something?

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these credits are in the beverly hillbillies font?

Honestly he's just an Okay Varelli.

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Devil time!

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wow this music goes hard #monsterdon

Delicious Coca-Cola refreshes you best!

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ROLL FILM

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Devil Doll (1964) #monsterdon now playing on https://miru.miyaku.media :miyaku:

5..4..3..2..1... TOUCHDOWN!

.. I mean .. errr

GO GO GO!

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A small boy and an even smaller cocktail toothpick sword are the last hope to save the world.
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This is funny but I really don't have it in me to watch this movie twice in one night. #monsterdon

Oh no, is Hugo humping the girl doll already?

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Mothra doesn't understand Japanese so the fairy has to translate for her.
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There's only one sure fire way to kill King Ghidorah! Time travel! Wait what? I guess I wasn't off base with my Lavos quip earlier.
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"When I call, you will come."

"Does the phone just have to ring? Or do I have to pick up the phone and KNOW that it's you? What if someone, like, disguises their voice as yours? What counts as KNOWING?"

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Sisterly sword fight is a little slow but decent wire work.
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Belvera has massive eldest child syndrome.
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I'm confused, what does King Ghidorah have to do with the child-stealing meteorite?

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A space dragon's favorite snack food is moth meat.
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@tankgrrl I'm sorry I didn't

(not really, but it was that kind of movie)

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Oh right! I wasn't paying attention much #monsterdonbingo
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Those bright wing colors mean Mothra is poisonous, right? Like butterflies?

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@paco @starkraving666 lol yeah too much thinking for sure

I like where you're going with this though

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@diazona Yes. Needlessly complicated. But if you look at his face in the beardless flashback, he has signs of cystic acne or some other skin condition. It's entirely possible the actor couldn't grow a decent beard. If you're more set on the actors than the plot (and who wouldn't be?), this is an easy adjustment.

That's entirely too much thinking for this film.

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@starkraving666

@davesdogmaggie
Yvonne Romaine is kind of magnificent. And that fake beard is Grey Warden Commander Duncan awesome!
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AH, because he wasn't in school he didn't get abducted and can save the day.

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Pied Piper of Hamelin, only with kaiju?

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Tokyo Tower collapse would definitely bee on the Kaija bingo card.

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Mothra vs an extinction level event meteor.
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Please flee in terror in an orderly manner!

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@paco @starkraving666 IMO it seems like a much more complicated story than that he simply grew a beard

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What a weird knife.

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FOUND THE EDIT

Guess maybe there was a nipslip when post-coital blond assistant turned over?

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Ahhhhh, there's the edit :bta:​ #monsterdon #devildoll1964

"I am the great Vorelli."

Completely redeemed by the twist at the end! 👍

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IS MISTER ENGLISH WEARING A TERRIBLE HAIRPIECE? IS IT DIAGETIC TOO?

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@starkraving666 Yes! You missed this plot point, too! Now I don't feel so bad for missing it.

The whole idea was that a year earlier he was in Germany with no beard and that's when his assistant somehow tragically died and had his soul stuck in the dummy.

The reason no one in London recognizes him, is because of his crafty disguise!

But I had to have that explained to me tonight. So I am glad to have some company in the head-scratching club.
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Why is Mr English the only one without an English accent?

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Mom, watching hypnotist making out with the blonde assistant: "Now she's going to have the beard on?"

LOLOL

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@ramsey @jonny They were just flirty not married

or that's how i remembered it

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I'm just going to assume all these kids are getting isekai'd into the worlds where they are the Chosen One.

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@jonny Was he Marianne’s husband? I didn’t get that impression at all. Maybe I missed something.

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Omg the fake beard is literally falling off WHY IS IT THERE #monsterdon #devildoll1964

This movie was released just 4 years before 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Shows the difference that 4 years, a good director and several truckloads of money can make.

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RE: https://toot.wales/@AlexLloyd/116038555557341086

Hey. Just wondered if anyone out there in Europe wants to do something like monsterdon over here, maybe at 9pm CET? 👇

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@jonny ran out of negative, had to go with what they had

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Did Lavos just crash into the local forest? Meteorite is awfully suspicious.
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School Refusal?

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@JoeWynne You have a head injury as an excuse for watching this. What about the rest of us? 😃

Get well soon!
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@combatwombat And they had their own weekly TV special 😛

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The King of Terror is a great title for a Kaiju. Almost a shame they are just using it for Ghidorah again. I love that --is that a Miles Tails Prowler plushie?-- giant golden dfragon, but Toho falls back on Ghidorah too much.
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So.. rape. This is rape. Nice. Can we not?

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@jivens Yeah that checks out

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finished watching Devil Doll 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.

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Yankee Melon!

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My sock remains unshocked.

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#monsterdon Well. That wrapped up...abruptly. Yay!

So, they are magical girls?

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#monsterdon You hear that princess? The shrieking eels!

BITE 'IM HUGO

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Thanks @Taweret & the #Monsterdon gang

Remember, if a ventrilohypnoquist asks for a sleepover, just say no!

Shoulder-pads!

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Devil Doll (1964) - 2/5

the doll was fine actually

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Couldn't they find a puppeteer who knew how to make the mouth move in reasonable sync with the speech? It feels like no effort was made at all.

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Well, that was certainly a movie. With an ending. Sort of. #Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964

Lets get ready to Wrong Frooooogs!
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#monsterdon I still don't understand The Great Vareli's motivation.

Was he just a sick freak?

What's the advantage of having a dummy that wants to kill you? How does that help?

You just have to admire Hugo's endgame there,...#Monsterdon

This film really drives home the famous Nietzsche maxim:

Take care when fighting dummies, that you do not become the dummy.

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Ok, ok! #Monsterdon #KungFuSat #MondayActionMovie folks chime in.

Devil Doll vs Chucky

Ok, see if you believe he's this good of a ventriloquist, you lock him up anyway because it's all an act. #Monsterdon

So uh the dummy just uh popped that other doll (?)'s head and then was able to mind swap with the hypnotist because uh... .. and then the entire plot with the wife just sort of evaporated and was... unrelated... #monsterdon

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That was not a good one it had no animals in it at all. I did admire Aunt Eva though.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for bingo and @JoeWynne for the trivia; and of course thanks to all you great #Monsterdonians who kept it from being horrible! Huzzah!

@sean I was just searching for a pic of her.

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@Gulleko You're on the right side of HIStory har har har

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@jivens such an improvement in quality

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Yeah no that movie was

Dum.

Thanks to the crew and @Taweret as usual and have a good night!

And 20 seconds of twist right at the end! It's over! Got you! Bye! #Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964

I think we are all the dummy for subjecting ourselves to that movie

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! On to Rebirth of Mothra III, or see you next week!

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Nice hair hat lady #monsterdon #devildoll1964

so... um... yeah 'k that ended

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Wouldn't it be a more appropriate dramatic reversal if Hugo, I'unno, stabbed Vorelli?

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Does Ms Pirelli's new hair snap on like lego?

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And now, five hours of hypno-toad!

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

❤️ Thank you @Taweret for hosting this dastardly doll dramedy!

🅱️ and thanks @cherizilla for the Bingo card! My favorite: "Sneak attack"

🎞️ and more thanks to @paco for data analysis and @combatwombat for the replays.

🦖And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: You put the devil in Devil Doll! (Someone had to) I'm recovering from a mild concussion and saved up all my screentime today FOR THIS. And it was WORTH IT!!

New exercise craze in the making, right there. Dummycise. #Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964

Hmmm #rebirthofmothra3. I think I'm mothera'd out 🦋 #Monsterdon #Monsterdon2

I need y’all to know I practically never log a #Monsterdon movie on Letterboxed because I’m terrified of how that would make me look 😂

That was actually a good movie!? I enjoyed it. Perfect ending. #Monsterdon

(I was legit hoping that the doll would just kill him. Or he'd kill/break the doll, but the police would find something)

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Oh, that's the end I guess.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

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I have no idea what happened in that movie because I kept getting distracted, which maybe makes it the most average of monsterdon for me?

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I finally came when the movie ended.

So ends another #Monsterdon with the classic, #DevilDoll1964. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and for everyone lurking and posting. And remember #Monsterdoners: Find me in Berlin ... 1948.

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If only my bingo card woulda had SWITCHEROO!

OK sure, hypotism means you can just arbitrarily rearrange souls

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