@moira #monsterdon

Don't burst his bubble, he prolly believes in pro wrestling too.

@SnoopJ #Monsterdon

The best part of this film is how Vorelli and Hugo bicker spitefully like an old couple. It gets really awkward like when an old married couple are fighting in public.

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"You...are a dummy...Hugo"

[hesitant, polite applause]

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Really getting some screen-time out of Vorelli's bit here

"Yea just have 'em dance around a bit"

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many professional performers are extreme introverts, I don't think "being shy" is mutually exclusive with being a performer. #monsterdon

@combatwombat immortality until termites or have a little fire, scarecrow maybe

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I made it through Devil Doll a second time! Thanks as always to everyone here at #Monsterdon for being hilarious, and @Taweret for hosting!

Now gather around in a semicircle, I'm going to tell you what Lady Hampton has been up to 🥂

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Please blink twice if your soul has been switched with a dummy #Monsterdon

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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@paco Australian table wine #monsterdon

@bunnyhero The Bourne Supremacy it ain't

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Okay the poster cutaways are kinda brilliant

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The next ten minutes are just Mark drinking in a bar and crying. It's what we call a "downer ending"

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The writer’s barely disguised “what if you could just like hypnotize girls into loving you?”

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@jivens Joke's on him, I'm already forgetting the contents of this movie

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@moira and then you put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up

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get your stinking mesmer hands off marianne you creep!

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you are getting sleeeepy, join the audience #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh goody, a new character!

Plastic-packed dummy in 1948

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It'd be a nice touch if that box had air holes

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#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 poor hugo. forced both to be nice to audiences *and* to commit murders

#Monsterdon Every shot in this movie is a tight shot. The opposite property of the script.

OK camera man we get the idea, "Attractive girl"

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and now, the completely silent part of the film

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"Nothing we've done so far has helped."

"You mean pacing down here and smoking?"

"Yes, that."

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FACE HER WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO HER MARK

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limey broads

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lol, Hugo could get out at any time...

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Dun dun DDUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNN

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I'm starting to think The Great Vorelli gave himself the "Great" part of that name.

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"Ugh I gotta watch them do human stuff with their gross squishy parts god I wish I had wooden eyelids."

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"I"m so very glad you were able to come so quickly"

"Yes, it has always been a problem for me"

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Are... Americans the only ones who say "open mind"...?

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Real Terran Empire Steven Seagal look on that guy

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Mark, Mark, I'm trapped under this other guy's eyebrows. Help me Mark.

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Dummy sonar

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This movie should have been framed as a trash TV talk show with the episode headline "My wife was mind controlled into having sex with a ventriloquist who keeps a demon dummy in a cage."

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boo this man

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lol, love how much they hate each other, go for the knife you small evil bastards, go on!

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"Oh, auntie, it's your fourth drink."

"No dear, it's my fifth!"

Ah yes, that makes it better.

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Those Beehive hairdos were like the 'Rachel From Friends cut' for the 60s

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Okay apparently the drinking game for tonight's Monsterdon should have been "take a shot when you hear charity ball"

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Check this guy's hard drive

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Oh heck, that actor playing the reporter played Heywood Floyd in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 i am fascinated by the eyeliner of this era but i can't pull it off ;)

Holy crap this is where Lucas got the scene in Empire Strikes Back where Luke uses the Force to call Leia.

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I'll put on my formal beard

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It's an old ventriloquist's trick

Getting people to come to the show

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#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 this is the elaine dance

Did he name himself “The Great Vorelli” because he loves vore?

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lol, fucking evil thing to do to the suggestable, and everyone just watches....such are we British...

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That is a pretty effective visual effect for 1964 mesmerism

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"He said he couldn't stand to meet a journalist in the evening."

The horror!

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the fact that this is in black and white in 1964 already does not bode well

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@combatwombat does a little bit of the soul go with every lost splinter? every flake of paint?

3,000 years in you figure out oh wait, this _is_ the bad place

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Taking a break from the C.H.U.D franchise to catch Devil Doll before C.H.U.D. II.

I hear great things on this platform about the Great Vorelli.

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@sean agreed, and thank you for reminding me #Monsterdon

Devil Doll (1964) - 2/5

the doll was fine actually

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@CardboardRobot 1960s data transfer rates #Monsterdon

but... wait... why did it switch?

Was this something like that vampire thing where he drank his blood?

Was it because of aliens who were making the dummies come to life?

What if Vorepuppet starts singing the Mothra song?

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If you stab someone it takes about 3 months to transfer their soul into a doll.

The end.

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This concludes another #monsterdon thread. Remember kids, if you ever learn dark sorcery for a llama, remember to use it for something more interesting than a ventriloquism act.

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@amyfou [insert table saw joke] #monsterdon

I rate Devil Doll 1 out of 5 glasses of virgin blood because it was boring as fuck. Not even an epic chair melee could save it.

The best character was the eyebrows on the doctor. The worst character was the reporter guy, for also being boring.

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

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Dun dun DUUUUUUN!

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Directed by M Night Shyamalan?! WHAT A TWIST ENDING!

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AWWWW YEAH SCANNERS ENDING!

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Okay but that's a really creepy doll.

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@paco

Fortified wine of some sort? Port, brandy, sherry

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What is this man drinking in a British pub? It's too big to be vodka and to small to be ale.
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"The doctor took me off the drugs"

Begins necking her, again like a horny teenager

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Screenplay written by a part-time writer, full-time pickup artist

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This #monsterdon exudes strong "the script writer was paid by the word" energy.

@LingLass Things that would work better if this was set in the same era as Dracula instead of after half a century of dramatic scientific advancement.

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@paco

"Ain't no rule says you can't put a man's soul into a dummy."

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Please just summon a She-Creature already

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Okay, but why does Vorelli do this thing with moving souls into the doll?

Using hypnotism for abuse while gross makes sense for him. But the doll why?

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@apLundell #monsterdon

Was she supposed to be a prostitute? How could they make that fact so boring?

#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 "but then hugo changed" like literally or figuratively?

The one unexpected thing was that Voreli killed the original Hugo on stage as part of an act. He somehow avoided getting arrested.

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Lemme see if I understand this right. The Great Vorelli murdered a man live on stage, in front of a packed house. And then he just wandered over to London and kept performing.
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"Whoopsie"

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@trixter Oops, I *am* high and I was just thinking, yeah, I kinda see it 😆

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A horror anime would fit this entire story into a 20-minute episode.

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So if Hugo's soul is in the dummy, then who is walking around in Hugo's body?

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holy shit we have 20 minutes left and we're doing a full "visit the old country and discover the origin of the dummy" instead of getting 15 minutes of dummy carnage #monsterdon

I don't like how this backstory feels like it would be better set in 1907 than 1947.

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Funny that there's Hilton product placement, and I keep getting ads for Hilton #monsterdon

Gonna start drinking to "and all that jazz" #monsterdon

"How is she?"

"shrug, iunno"

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"He also spent a year working in a bowling alley in Cleveland, but we don't think that's relevant."

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How creepy can we make Grace’s introduction?

Very.

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Oh no, is putting his dead girlfriend's soul in a doll?

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