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.
...technically that drink conversation was a Bechdel pass
#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 this guy's rooms are what quagmire's apartment are based on in family guy
"I should be delighted! ... But I'm not." #monsterdon
This scene should be a public information film to young people in the 60s
Hey did you guys hear that her aunt is having a charity ball? It's just a rumor going around.
Do not accept this man's drink.
OMG, this is not a safe space for Marianne...
#monsterdon "I think he's a phony"
Well, yeah. He's a stage performer.
Wait until you learn about stage magicians!
Holy moly we get it her aunt is having a charity ball.
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Walking is the value add of this movie escalating the creepiness of the ventriloquist dummy.
How does the doll walk? It's 4'2" tall Sadie Corre in the costume.
Can't help feeling his blonde lady helper is somebody young that I know as somebody old on TV
That last bit wouldn't have been a bad act if the human lead had ANY CHARISMA WHATEVER
but he doesn't
alas
#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 20 bucks says the dummy used to be a human
Why, Hugo couldn't possibly be literally any 4 year-old in a mask! The Great Vorelli wouldn't play us like that!
Yay! He has naked disgust for his dummy! *claps* #Monsterdon
Who you callin' a dummy, dummy?! #monsterdon
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wow this girl is impressionable
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[audience looks on with confusion]
omg, cleavage! Scandalous! #monsterdon
I do the jitterbug and wild turkey and the flail
#monsterdon
lol, who is going to volunteer after that?!
"I was in the War, let me relive that, again and again! yayy!2
Finishing the fried rice for dinner. Two meals worth. Perfectly done and not shortage of egg or veggies. Get some in every bite. $11. #monsterdon
"hey let me take my date to the show where people get hypnotized into thinking they're being killed and then insist that she volunteer" #monsterdon
"I should like another volunteer."
Yeah, who wants to pretend to have their head blown off? It's good fun!
This guy does not die (in mind-craft) with a bang, but with a whimper
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are london audiences always this bloodthirsty
Jeff Dunham's early work was a lot less racist but it still makes me uncomfortable
Next scene we get our journalist POV character, Clark Kent... I mean um... "Mark". He is in an office talking to a different Blonde Dame whose name I did not catch. Anyway he's grumpy that he's been asked to cover the Great Voreli for a story and not cover the Cuban Missile Crisis or Beatlemania or the space race or whatever else was happening in 1964 when this movie was made.
"Afraid of being cast in this movie."
We watched a terrible one about mannequins last night with Chuck Connors. Tourist Trap. Avoid. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon Remember the good old days when watching someone dial a phone was considered compelling cinema?
For my first trick⦠I shall make the audience disappear
Hugo is a sell out
"GABBO IS COMING!!!"
Okay yeah, it's starting to come back to me.
@kcarr2015 Who was the *actual* baddie?
#monsterdon I wonder what lingering effects this will have on Hugo. Unable to sleep unless sitting in a cage? An awkward urge to get into fisting?
Why am I picturing Devil Doll in Team America World Police singing America, Fuck Yeah!
I can believe 1960s Patriarchy would let a murderer go free though...it would also be a tough case to prove...what with puppets and soul transfers and such. #Monsterdon
Belvera is even more of a hot goth this time. But she has a giant zipper on the back of her dress?
#Monsterdon #SuperbMothra
So would it be a better TV anthology episode? Yes. But still, a satisfying twist to a creepy dummy and his creepier human. I expected something a lot worse. Thanks, @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne for tonightβs #Monsterdon.
Got it, this asshole is handsy with EVERYTHING even the dummies
#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 body-swap comedy!
I think we've all learned the important moral..
Anyway, @Taweret , @Cherizilla , @JoeWynne , and other helpful souls, thank you.
If you ever get trapped in a dummy and whisper for my help in my room at 2AM I swear I'll help you.
More Mothra. More Ghidorah. More Gorath? Dinosaurs what?
#Monsterdon #SuperbMothra
Because why not? Sure, Vorelli studied for decades with eastern mystics to learn soul transfer, and this Hugo character just does a swap with no training. #Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964
Iβm so relived that the soul of the person who
[checks notes]
killed the blond woman 30 minutes ago
Is now the one walking around free in a human body #Monsterdon
Ok, wooden babies would've been a better ending. #Monsterdon #DevilDoll πͺπ΅πΎββοΈπ₯πΏ
And they fucked off into a Twilight Zone episode.
That was bat shit.
Thanks for making it almost watchable #Monsterdon and thanks for the stream @Taweret @ryan
@Crazypedia coherent and quick! No sea! #Monsterdon
I guess we didn't really need any of the other characters. Hugo had the whole situation in hand. Even his request for assistance had no effect on anything or anyone in the end.
To reward the audience for staying awake, we get an epic bout of chair melee between Hugo and Voreli. Then Mark walks in to do a citizen's arrest and an Voreli has an eastern european accent and informs Mark that he is now Hugo and that he flipped the souls so Voreli is now stuck in the Dummy. Then the movie ends with the dummy speaking in Voreli's voice saying "let me out of here."
Get me out, I am the Great Vorelli.
*immediately burns doll*
#Monsterdon
look on my works ye mighty and despair, I guess!
#Monsterdon
Whoβs the dummy now, motherfucker?
They can staple his mouth shut, right?
lol Mr English is going to let him get away with it...
#Monsterdon All that for... an attempt at a twist.
Negative-o-vision means they're on Mars, right?
OK this fight scene is HEKKIN AWESOME I'm dying here π€£ #Monsterdon
Honestly, some of the best fight choreography Iβve seen. Up there with Rocky and the first episode of Daredevil.
I come back to the movie for a moment to discover that the husband has just totally accepted it as normal that his wife is running away with the hypnotist and is just moving on with his life???? or did i mistake what happened in that scene i half watched #monsterdon
LMAOOO this fight
wow, Hugo destroys the lady doll to get at Vorelli, that doll is fucked
MAN VS DUMMY, NO HOLDS BARRED! #Monsterdon
@paco a fuckton of whiskey #monsterdon
#monsterdon I'm not sure I really understand the advantage of stealing a soul and putting it in a dummy.
I think I'd be okay with soul transference if I could be in a Muppet.
Voreli gives his evil speech to the caged Hugo, explaining how we will flee to Spain with his new wife Marianne, who will then die and then Hugo will have a second girl dummy as a companion (probably with her soul in it).
In the next scene, Mark is drinking heavily, convinced Voreli is now a phony, while before he was insisting he was a devil magician.
i (or someone i follow, can't tell) is at least six minutes behind in federation traffic
its weird that he has the power to steal people's souls and he uses for puppet shows
Does the reflection of that ad in the bar say "wrestling midgets"?
Eh feels a little cheap but I'll take this bingo!
Marianne says that she's "going away with Voreli" and that she's "in love with him", a thing she is confused by because of all the mind control.
All I see are eyelashes
@Sadsquatch I see. Of course. I understand.
#monsterdon
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however they end up tying things up in this movie, 'devil doll' is clearly a misnomer
He's no mere vaudeville magician. He also does close-up street magic! And he can force a card like nobody's business! #Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964
The Svengali bit would work better if the ends of your mustache matched, dude.
the TARDIS is landing?
You're tired, overworked, she's high-strung, hysterical, a victim of interrupted hypnosis, catalepsy... I think that's every diagnosis in the DSM of the time #monsterdon
"So what's your act? Juggling? Stand-up?"
"I think murder"
#monsterdon
I'm thinking of putting a man's soul in a refrigerator. HUGO. HUGO, I AM YOUR MASTER. HUGO, TELL ME IF THE MAYONNAISE IS STILL GOOD, HUGO. WHAT ABOUT THE LUNCHMEAT, HUGO.
ok he definitely looks better with the beard on
#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 this scary music sounds like the bloops of a 70s video game
"He probably told him he would die. Or all but die."
Yeah I'm sure he leaned in and said "You will all but die" that makes a ton of sense Mark do you even HEAR yourself?
@arrjay Sure. Let him be some other country's problem. #monsterdon
Yeah, my stage act is I kill a guy, up where everyone can see it. People love it. Just watching me murder someone. #Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964
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What was in the estimated $60β75,000 total production costs?
Famous horror executive producer Richard Gordon said the cost of the film was Β£20,000 plus $20,000 for expenses and salaries of American personnel. This included Gordon and Bryant Halliday
#monsterdon what kind of freaks are going to see this act?
Hans just happened to always be WAITING IN THE CLOSET THERE