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.

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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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#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

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

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

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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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if the dummy don't fit
you must acquit

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this is what people did before the internet, get their sleazy mates around the world to find answers...

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@diazona I wish they all could be Piccadilly girls #monsterdon

So I am thinking we have at least two monsters here
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Cut to a Sino-Balinese-Indian-Hawaiian mask or some shit #monsterdon

why does the dummy ping like a submarine

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#Monsterdon Ooooo... is this a scene where something happens?

One can hope.

lol "hugo, she said you were ugly"

love the mind games between these two...

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@diazona #monsterdon

aaah.... I've been skipping the Mothra movies.... I'm no dummy....

@diazona @ohiofi You’re tearing me apart, Marianne!

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There has to be a solution that could fluff the runtime a little more

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Coffee and cigarettes. this man smells wonderful

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so this dummy has had to sit here and watch while Vorelli bangs all these hypno-roofied ladies? lord, i'd be wandering into random dudes' bedrooms begging for help too.

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Aaaggghhhhhh he's soooo groooossssss

Also he's SUCH A TERRIBLE KISSER it's like he's eating their faces

When do we get to watch the doll do something more terrible to him than using ESP to call for help

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"Bill and Melinda split"

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what nationality is Doctor Eyebrows supposed to be?

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She's only "mostly" comatose.

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What if the big fella with the eyebrows is a devil doll in a man suit, he's in the belly operating it all with strings....puppets within puppets!

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WE HAVE SPLIT DIOPTER SIGN

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Okay, which character is gonna be Van Helsing and actually believe this poor woman #monsterdon

Star Of David wallpaper in the bedroom?

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It's amazing he feels no responsibility whatsoever
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@cocaine_owlbear #monsterdon

because they practiced their kissing on ventriloquist's dummies.

lol, sexy dummy dreams....

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Ah the passionate awkward hug. Pretty sure she's pregnant now.

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Wouldn't a pager have been so much simpler?

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I wear my false eyelashes at night so i can so i can... #monsterdon

mfer shoulda tried talking to tha dummy.

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"And wherever you are, you will come"

This is the worst Dom ever

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At the charity ball, Voreli does another demo where the dummy says he's hungry when Voreli goes to the table, and Voreli asks him to get the food himself, so he grabs a knife and then someone in the audience screams and then Voreli tells him to put the knife down and apologize. Then everyone claps.

The scene works better than I am describing because tension.

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We're all hoping it's a Mechanical Turk situation and not a sentient and autonomous ventriloquist's doll

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At least they managed to make the dummy disturbing.

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I hope the doll decides to masturbate in front of the posh crowd, whole laughing manically.

It's how I would film it.

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I really like this scene. So awkward and creepy. I love how they’re arguing and Vorelli makes bad jokes and assumes the audience is on “his” side

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I'm guessing this is gonna be one of those movies that tries to be dramatically good but fails to first make me like the characters, making me bored instead.

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...technically that drink conversation was a Bechdel pass

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@fluffy

Their AI broke giving them so many wrong explanations.

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