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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@Binder theres an evil ventriloquist who keeps a dummy in a cage and used the dummy to murder someone and also the ventriloquist put a reporter's girlfriend into a not-coma by telepathically seducing her.

also there was a dude with big eyebrows.

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@bstacey #monsterdon

We are all in a semi-comatose state...

Late for #Monsterdon. No idea what is going on.

@paco #monsterdon

ikr I wish he'd flipped to the comics and started reading them.

#monsterdon So the American is Mr. English and all the English are sleepy.

Since we're now 50 minutes into this movie, Mark is finally doing research by calling a guy in Berlin and telling him to research Voreli, who I guess used to work in Berlin.

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#monsterdon Even with an alibi, having your wooden dummy commit a murder in your dressing room is not actually that brilliant of a plan.

#monsterdon All we really need now is the Zuni Fetish Doll from Trilogy of Terror to just bust open and make high pitched yeah-yeah sounds as he chases the dummy around the room.

"The typewriter is what I call my wife's vagina, Mark!"

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what is the point of putting the doll on a cage if you are not keeping it locked.
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That is one fucked up doll

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#Monsterdon I can't believe it. Something happened.

#monsterdon The directors thinly veiled fetish, of course.

It's never said but Mark English's middle name is "My"

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Coffee is requested

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Hugo likes to watch.

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That bra could blind children....

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I also want to make him stop (torturing us with this movie)

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Seriously those eyebrows, I can't take my eyes off them, they're magnificent

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"A very strange case"

An enTRANCING case, you might say

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"She seems to be repeating "Yes yes yes" while writhing in bed. I've had to sneak off to the restroom nine times since I got here."

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Centauri level eyebrows from the dude there...

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I just realized the American newspaper man’s last name is “English.” He’s the only one without the very, very Received Pronunciation British accent.

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Find me! In Berlin, 1948! Get a time machine, because this is that kind of movie! #monsterdon

Berlin, 194…8

Cuttin it real close there on some nazi doll hijinks, pal.

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"Penetrated your mind"

Men are filth

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So who is the villain of this movie, the ventriloquist or the dummy? They both seem pretty awful, especially to each other. #monsterdon

I mean, it can't REALLY be a Dracula story without a real estate deal. But the charity gala is definitely getting close to real estate territory.

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@hollie all the better to hear you with, my dear

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@steggy "You are getting sleepy... you will pull my finger..."
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Vorelli is speaking German now. Okay.

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Is this house owned by the Grandma that's been stealing the show

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@Taweret #monsterdon

"I'm an EXTRAORDINARY puppet!" #UnexpectedDieHard

[audience looks on blankly]

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Auntie sure is lucid for someone who's drank five glasses of wine. #monsterdon

"Does this smell like ROOFIES to you?"

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...guess I wouldn't have had a chance

Wikipedia also says that by 1960, Haliday was rich enough that acting was basically a hobby, so he was in this purely for love of the game. I respect that.

#Monsterdon #DevilDoll

urrrghhh, it walks!

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I was not expecting whatever kind of music this is.

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...as opposed to vintage dancing

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Step right up and be traumatized #monsterdon

#Monsterdon time :)

https://boxd.it/1nKi

priorities

#monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 #SuperBowl

Launching my #monsterdon thread for Devil Doll, a movie where I guess there's an evil doll or something.

Monsterdon is the thing where we watch an old monster movie every week and provide commentary. Mute the hash tag if that's not your thing. If that is your thing, @Taweret does the poll every week to decide what monster movie to watch next, so follow them!

Anyway on with the doll.

@AlexLloyd I don't know if "enjoyed" is the right word, exactly 😂 but yeah the experience was fun as always! Thanks!

I bet there would be some interest in a European #Monsterdon! I don't think you're the first one I've seen suggest it.

We also have this replay site https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/ which allows you to follow along with the toot stream at a later time, if you want.

@moira Or instead you hop bodies every few years. Just need someone to smack you against a wall apparently. #monsterdon

Who is mesmerizing who in this movie?

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In today's stupidest IMDB trivia, we have:

"Hugo the Dummy was performed by Sadie Corre, a 4'2" tall woman even though Hugo is a male dummy."

OMG AN ACTOR OR ACTRESS PLAYED A ROLE NOT MATCHING THEIR GENDER?!

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@brooke a.k.a. All Of Me (1984)

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@floatybirb can i transfer my soul into a llama #monsterdon

#monsterdon You hear that princess? The shrieking eels!

Devil Doll shoulda summoned Devil Girl (from Mars.) Then the movie woulda been a lot better.

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@SnoopJ I keep on going back and forth on what the "good" version of this movie would be like because it's in that awkward place where all of its problems are bad writing. Like drop the doll part or have him get something more out of it?

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oh my how the turntables have

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@log there's probably some clever Infosec way of doing that with soul transfers... #Monsterdon

@LingLass same, better than average I'd say #monsterdon

#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?

They really took their time to make a twist and a sudden end, huh? I'll be waiting for devil doll 2000, now it's electric bugaloo!
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oh thank GLOB it's over

Thanks to @Taweret for the film selection process, @JoeWynne for the trivia, @cherizilla for the bingo and everyone else for keeping me sane during this snooze-fest!

time for some cheese...

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cmon movie you have 60 seconds, don't drag this out

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@bryanhowell far too many to be healthy. he has a problem. he won't admit it, though

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First rule of about dummy fight club, you don't talk about dummy fight club. #monsterdon

Mark's gonna wake up and Bobby Ewing will be safe and sound in the shower.

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@Taweret some seek the world, others seek puppet shows #Monsterdon

"Hugo now that I have Marianne I won't need your stiff, sawdusty handjobs any more. What do you say to that? Hmmm?"

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usually masculine paranoia is a scourge but i admit i would find it awfully fishy if my wife told me she was running away with a hypnotist #monsterdon

we are ten minutes until the end of this film so we have to have a scene where Marc and Marianne slowly walk through a garden.

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OK this calls for desparate measures. I'ma start playing AC/DC over this movie.

#monsterdon #MaximumDevilDoll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-fR2rrmw3I

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The line was:
"I see. Of course. I understand." Who the fuck writes dialog like that?
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I feel like I'm getting spirit gum on me from all these Vorelli close-ups

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AND EVEN MORE SPLIT DIOPTER

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@moira put Edwina backinbool! #monsterdon

@jonny rooting for Last Minute Doc to be the real villain

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more like a BORE-elli, amirite?

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At least there's more split diopter

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“It’s a great trick, but I can only do it once”

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"I'm telling you he's robbed this man's soul!"

Welcome to Capitalism dude

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[stabs man on stage]

Vorelli: *takes a bow* “The Aristocrats!”

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Catalepsy - fear of cats
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This looks like Rumbold's office at Grace Bros

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"He did not move for three months. Only laid there and looked at the ceiling. Eventually we realized he'd been dead that whole time. As you Americans say, "Whoopsie doopsie."

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okay, so Vorelli was allowed free international travel after the crimes.

huh.

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@paco post war Europe was wild #Monsterdon

@cocaine_owlbear Sank you, Doctor #monsterdon

we get a flashback scene to laboriously go through the story everyone has already figured out. we know its in the past because Voreli is missing his beard.

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i'm sure there is at least one doll on fedi who considers itself a devil

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@fluffy #monsterdon

is it an entertaining ad? I'm kinda thinking of turning off my ad-blocker to help stay awake....

#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 oh is he gonna make a doll of her now to replace hugo?

Spellcheck changed semicoma to semicolon

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@YsengrinWolf Dr. Strange/Ras al-Ghul #monsterdon

Make us do things. Offstage. With a WWI munition.

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Nazi Doctor!

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This music really elevates the tension of the "disembarking a plane" scene.

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I want to go to berlin, it sounds so cool these days...

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@Taweret I definitely saw a nip. #Monsterdon #DevilDoll 🪆🕵🏾‍♀️🎥🍿

Wait, I'm confused ... what happened to Doc Eyebrows?

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@bryanhowell 😂
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