Okay, okay, stop eating my necklace I'll kiss you

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Just run marianne, run!

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That is some really terrible kissing

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TostitosTM presents The Super Vorelli Halftime Show featuring Bad Dummy

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@bryanhowell possibly? But maybe not? I would imagine someone else had probably done the remote suggestion before. #monsterdon

YES. He's a PHONY. Stage musicians are professional liars! And we LIKE IT because it's FUN. Do you not know how performance works?

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After the performance, Voreli puts the dummy back in the cage, and Voreli realizes the girl that he was "seducing mentally" as the Blonde Dame described it is the daughter of a rich guy, so he's going to try to perform for the rich relative.

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#monsterdon Sure the dummy has powers, Hold Monster, Feather Fall, and Magic Missile just for starters... ;)

#monsterdon Oh sure. The best, most entertaining, hypnotism acts are the ones where they hypnotize someone into thinking they're being executed.

Voreli then does a demo with his dummy, Hugo, where he has Hugo drink wine and then... um... walk up to the stage to thank the audience and then walk back.

Nowadays we would say the dummy is a robot but I think back then they might assume there were hidden wires somewhere?

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Keeping a dummy in a cage like a normal person do.

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the twist
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Better not feed that dummy after midnight.

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Have they got a little fella in there? The walking doll is so creepy! kill it!

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Well, that just escalated. Hugo is more than he seems.

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Can we get a remake of this where Hugo is just Rich Fulcher

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He oughta hypnotize tha dummy.

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Oh nuts someone check the warp core again.

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This guy sounds like a boring version of David from Prometheus

"I will do anything for love, great Vorelli, but I won't do that."

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Is this movie about a dude who uses dark sorcery to be a stage musician?

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OMG, that thing is 100 times creepier when speaking!

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You know what? I think he's hot. The Great Vorelli is hot.
Bryant Haliday was hot. There. I said it.

And, gosh, I wish I had the patience to figure out how to do that swingin' 1964 eye makeup.

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ugh, smoking in the audience, fucking savages....and the fire hazard as well!

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Oooh! Is Fake Abe gonna hypnotize the dummy, now?

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@arrjay Tiananmen was in the 80s. The poor dude probably saw a guy being shot in the Chinese civil war or some kind of Maoist purge. #monsterdon

(edit: or kuomintang purge, since they also executed people)

#Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964 type of guy who brings his fucking smoking pipe to a live performance

it was literally just the twist

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He's just a mesmerist who makes people think he's a ventriloquist. The ultimate con.
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Uh oh. I don't like Marianne's chances. She's pretty but not final-girl pretty #monsterdon

Hmmm... she doesn't dance like that for me...
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Mark is in the audience with a girl named Marianne, possibly his girlfriend, possibly his hot sister. He pressures her into volunteering because he's a jerk.

Voreli interviews her on the stage and then hypnotizes her into dancing a thing she doesn't know how to do very well when she's not hypnotized.

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I like her 60s makeup

2026 people know exactly what this dude's game is..

...ooo White People dancing!

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Everyone dances? What a world this was

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At his next performance, the Great Voreli is hypnotizing a young Ronald Reagan um... I mean... "Mr Harrison" to imagine himself being executed by a soldier like he saw a guy being executed. Poor Mr. Harrison starts crying until the Great Voreli snaps him out of it, then everyone claps.

He then asks for another volunteer, and unsurprisingly no one volunteers.

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Who wants to volunteer to experience the terror only possible when you are going to die in moments?

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The hypnotism is impressive but my biggest question is where he got the warp core SFX from the USS Enterprise.

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"Tonight folks, let's relive some war crimes, lol!"

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#monsterdon This is rubbish PTSD hypnotherapy. ;)

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@JoeWynne Thank you! Did not know!
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@moira #monsterdon

niiiice basket! I'd be doing three-pointers with crumpled stationary from across the room. #priorities

After the performance, Voreli is hanging out backstage with a Blonde Dame who is literally smoking. He tells him dummy that "you never win, you always lose" and then puts him in a cage and then tells the Blonde Dame "and you sympathize..." to tell the audience that something ominous is happening. possibly involving an evil doll or something.

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So, which one's the doll? #Monsterdon #DevilDoll 🪆🕵🏾‍♀️🎥🍿

loving how he talks to the thing like it's his enemy, as every Ventriloquist does...

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Appropriately for a movie titled "Devil Doll" this movie starts with a weird guy in the back of a car riding somewhere with a creepy looking doll next to him. We learn he is "The Great Vorelli" who is going to a performance as a ventriloquist. We see the end of the performance and everyone is clapping, so he must have been good at the ventriloquey thing.

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At 2:55 we finally have some dialogue.

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It's the 20th century so everyone start SMOKING!

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You know the doll is evil because it doesn't bother wearing a seatbelt.

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Y'know technically it just says "[Chase music]" on the bingo card, it doesn't say there has to be an actual chase....

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Fucking evil homunculus of spite...

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Already the Doll as co-passenger is cracking me up.

We start our chilling tale as all chilling tales must start, with a long, boring Uber ride...

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One of the fake beards of history

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This is very dramatic music for a taxi ride.

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I want this dude's look but not that .....thing on the back seat with him!

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THE END.

I guess.

Ugh.

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X-wing Mothra has returned. Going warp speed back to the past by slingshotting around the sun ???
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Cut to Mothra flying around the Earth really fast backwards like Superman.
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@ohiofi Jesus is a metaphor for Mothra. When he's on the cross that's like Mothra spreading her wings.
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Hypnosis Interruptus.

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Obligatory naughty tentacles.
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Evil Sister had outlived her usefulness?

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It's 90s CG Rapture Day.
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Just absolutely rotten to the core.
You're a mean one Mr Ghidorah.
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Sorry I missed Haunted Doll Watch: The Movie #Monsterdon

This might be the most evil looking version of King Ghidorah. To balance out the fluffiest looking Mothra.
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Answer: not that I saw, although I did spot a pipe in the show audience #monsterdon

@heathen_cat likely just weird compression artifacts in my copy

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@paco @jonny

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@moira
They burned a lot of film on people standing still and staring.
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@jonny

ok i'm watching back and the last 5 minutes are just a trainwreck. they spent most of the movie on the marianne subplot and they literally wrapped it up with three scenes:

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@Anima not to mention

endless wood

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She's got early onset syphillis, because the hypnotist doesn't wear condoms. Ever.

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aaaaanyway, great job as always, team, another movie successfully launched into space

and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^

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@kcarr2015

Good lord, look at her.

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@unixjunk1e On behalf of #Monsterdon I flatly deny saying any of these great things 😂

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They have a TriForce now?
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#monsterdon That was fine. I don't really care who is in who's body really...

Big thanks to @Taweret for this truly superb owl ... ah film.

Smoking, coffee, and a pretty meaningless murder keeping us watching through the middle. A lot of closeups (far too many closeups). Sawdust was spilled. Justice was served, kinda. Two ugly dummies, creep of a hypnotist, an amazing set of eyebrows that was taken away too soon, and the usual abrupt ending.

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@CardboardRobot Cat6 cables hadn't been invented yet. Not even single-shield coax. They had to do it wirelessly. #Monsterdon #DevilDoll1964

@Newpa_Hasai @SnoopJ I'm sure there are a bunch of ways to go about it, but I think the angle of a power-hungry illusionist capturing people's souls in dolls to bind them to do his bidding has some potential

It'd be like transferring the soul of this movie into another one

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See: never mess with the puppet people.

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#monsterdon Chairs work on lions, idiot! Not dummies!

So his big plan is to make a wife for Hugo while getting rich from inheriting her fortune? He's got a thing for "ugly little dolls". There's a lot to unpack. Maybe the luggage will get lost.

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#monsterdon There's ugly, then there is knocking a buzzard off a shit-wagon, bucko... you're on that level.

@Terencio I think it was the TARDIS vwarp vwarps

the doctor did it

as a gag

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@Terencio needs more birds #monsterdon

I'm almost certain at some point I watched the MST3k version of this, but I don't remember it at all. I think i may put it on for a bit right now, after I get a bite to eat.

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I survived tonight’s #Monsterdon movie and the correct team won the Super Bowl, so I suppose this Sunday is a moderate success!

Well, ummm, thanks? That was fun chatting about the bad movie, at least.

See y'all next time

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Welp, that could've been an email.

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Wow, that was a movie.

Another #monsterdon in the can.

Creepy facial hair
Creepy ventriloquist
Creepy dummy
Creepy meaningless blood wine

And other things too, I think.

Anyway, thanks for all the toots, and thanks to @Taweret for hosting.

Till the next time.

Yes! That was more satisfying than I feared. Exceeded #Monsterdon expectations.

Whew! That’s over and Hugo came out on top, which makes me happy.

Thanks, as always, to @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon, @cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo (I didn’t get a bingo 😞), @JoeWynne for #MonsterdonDrink, @ryan for #MonsterdonStream, and to all of you for making it awesome!

HOLY SOUL SWAP :blobastonished:

THE END

Appropriately abrupt #Monsterdon ending FANTASTIC

Don't knock heads with your possessed doll lest you induce a Freaky Friday incident y'all!

Thanks for this delightfully wooden selection @Taweret !

Well that was awful. And Bad Bunny won the Super Bowl while we were watching #Monsterdon

So that could've been a half hour Twilight Zone episode.

Anyway, thanks for making this boring-ass movie fun tonight fam! You folks have managed to make some pretty terrible movies a great experience, and the Owlbear loves you.

Take care of each other. Be kind, spread love, play indie games.

Goodnight!

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@bunnyhero Yeah, edit it down to be a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode and it improves a lot.

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