And they fucked off into a Twilight Zone episode.

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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.

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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."

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Get me out, I am the Great Vorelli.
*immediately burns doll*
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look on my works ye mighty and despair, I guess!
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Who’s the dummy now, motherfucker?

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thank *GOD*

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They can staple his mouth shut, right?

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Annnnd they just ran out of film stock, huh?

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lol Mr English is going to let him get away with it...

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#Monsterdon All that for... an attempt at a twist.

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Negative-o-vision means they're on Mars, right?

OK this fight scene is HEKKIN AWESOME I'm dying here 🤣 #Monsterdon

Honestly, some of the best fight choreography I’ve seen. Up there with Rocky and the first episode of Daredevil.

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thrilling climax 🥱

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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

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wow, Hugo destroys the lady doll to get at Vorelli, that doll is fucked

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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.

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"When I call, you will come"

So, like sexting, then

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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.

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"the only woman I ever cared about"

Did you?

ffs

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i (or someone i follow, can't tell) is at least six minutes behind in federation traffic

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its weird that he has the power to steal people's souls and he uses for puppet shows

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Does the reflection of that ad in the bar say "wrestling midgets"?

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Eh feels a little cheap but I'll take this bingo!

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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.

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All I see are eyelashes

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@Sadsquatch I see. Of course. I understand.
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however they end up tying things up in this movie, 'devil doll' is clearly a misnomer

Is she about to meet Frankenstein in the garden, who will throw her down a well?

WHY DOES THIS SCENE EXIST, MOVE ON ALREADY #Monsterdon

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.

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the TARDIS is landing?

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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"
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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.

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ok he definitely looks better with the beard on

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#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?

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@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 $60–75,000 total production costs?

Famous horror executive producer Richard Gordon said the cost of the film was £20,000 plus $20,000 for expenses and salaries of American personnel. This included Gordon and Bryant Halliday

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So many times he felt nothingk.

I can relate.

#monsterdon what kind of freaks are going to see this act?

Hans just happened to always be WAITING IN THE CLOSET THERE

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Vorelli removes his fake beard to reveal... he is Avon from Blake's 7

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No joking, this guy comes off a lot more sinister and threatening without the beard. I think it was just covering up his emoting. #monsterdon

It could look like you, yes

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Okay, I can think of *several million* better things to do with soul transposition than becoming a vaudeville act, wtf

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.....it looks just like Hugo

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[racist drumming]

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"Yes, it could resemble me. If I looked nothing like myself. Like even remotely. I mean jesus christ doc, did you describe me with grunts and gestures?"

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Voreli's backstory is that he used to be a doctor then he studied... drumbeat... "The Mysteries of the East!" and learned how to separate souls from bodies from a lama or something. Anyway he used to have an assistant named Hugo whose soul is stuck in the doll now I guess.

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"...studied with the llamas"

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"Okay clearly you've never cut a throat before, ma'am."

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Oh, vee get to Germany und now ve have the German accent?
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Mark has flew to Berlin or somewhere to talk to the guy he told to research so he can get an exposition dump in a bus.

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Wait, there was a 1945 horror anthology called Dead of Night with a segment about a ventriloquist’s dummy named Hugo?

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The stock footage of an airplane flying is the most dynamic shot we have seen in this film.

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Voreli now has a new blonde dame to be his hypnotized assistant and is disguising his dummy (I think) but putting a wig on it.

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Okay yeah "Grace" has entered the chat. I'm POSITIVE Gene Roddenberry wrote this week's movie now.

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Marianne's sweat may be the breakout star of this movie

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Gigantic 60s needle...

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#monsterdon If a dummy murders you, is that murder most-dowel?

What class a drug did they just give her?

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It's like Fawlty Towers
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Mark then reads the paper article about the Voreli murder, where Voreli has an alibi and was gone when the dummy did a murder, so it was like a ventrilomurder.

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We have moved from staring to reading the newspaper.

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In the next morning the headlines say "Voreli Murder" so I guess Voreli's presumed plan to use a dummy to do his murder to keep his crimes secret may have have backfired.

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#Monsterdon Ah yes, the "reading from the paper to explain everything" move

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The lady's name is "Berlin Wall"

While the Blonde Dame Assistant takes a towel-clad nap in the goth bedroom, Voreli tells the Dummy that "she thinks ur ugly bro" and fondles a knife in front of him.

Then the dummy gets out of his cage and then stabs her with a knife.

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They call him "Mr English" but he ain't...

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Is Hugo also the cinematographer

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@apLundell With typing sounds in the background. WHO could be typing in that tiny place? #monsterdon

I call this piece "Hypno-triloquist's Assistant Framed in a Doorway"

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I get the feeling this coulda been a really awesome 30 minute Twilight Zone episode.

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Bingo!

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Typical 50's and 60's film. Women either need to be slapped, hypnotized, or roughly kissed.

tasteful side boob :o

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#monsterdon Doctor, your eyebrows are tangled up in your beard!!!

could have been a manage à 2.5
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Yeah but if you COULD force people to dance using your mental powers…

You WOULD make people dance all the time, right?

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@GeoffWozniak AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

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We now have a love triangle, or more accurately a love chevron, where the blonde person likes Voreli and is mad that he is telepathically seducing Marianne. She threatens to call the cops on him so he tells her she's beautiful and I guess uses hypnotism to um... re-enslave her I guess, and then they kiss while the caged dummy watches.

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#Monsterdon NEWS FLASH: THE MOVIE IS ONLY HALF OVER

that moiré pattern is going to mesmerize me more than the actual hypnotist #monsterdon

@ohiofi oh hai Mark

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dog WHY are we getting a "mid-gluing my beard on" scene #monsterdon

#monsterdon Mark make him stop, make him stop, make him stop having that facial hair

He did have her, but by modern standards it's a sex crime, so...

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The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a beard is a good guy with a beard.
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#monsterdon Doctors Eyebrows HAVE THEIR OWN ZIP CODE