when the spider was doing the home invasion:
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How come it is darker outside than it is in the cave?

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"at least the town's safe"

yea, great. wouldn't want there to be any excitement or stakes in this paint-by-numbers monster movie.

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Basically this movie is trying to sell us on the idea that two of the most docile and popular beginner pet tarantulas are menaces to society.

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@diazona It's possible it kicked hairs long before filming (the hairs don't grow back naturally), or it happened in transit instead of on set, etc. We've seen worse spider mistreatment in #Monsterdon!

Crap I don't think our insurance covers insect damage #Monsterdon

yeah but wat about old Mr Higgins, of Higgins road?!?!

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meanwhile, that baby grew up to really hate broom bristles and could never quite figure out why.

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Compositing looks like it’s based on something more like green screen than rotoscoping. #monsterdon

Meanwhile, what’s up with materialistic Carol?

Gah, messed up the thread.

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Me, too, kid. Me, too. #Monsterdon #EarthvsTheSpider

Spider did a little snooping around inside the living room?

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you know I kinda wanna watch eight legged freaks again after this.

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#monsterdon when I see horror movie stuff from the 50s, like a blood-covered street toddler, I always wonder how much of the audience remembers front line WWII shit

YES, EAT THE CHILD! THE CHILD IS TASTY FOOD FOR SPIDER!

(Movie never shows victims being eaten, just scream. Very sad.)

Jake did a good job packing his house & mattress in a few minutes.

… why did you get out of your car to "hide"? Spider should still see the car?

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Given all the steel and protuberances on the cars, have you considered just ramming it? That abdomen is mighty squishy.

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Spider screams are far less terrifying than 50s housewife screams TBH #Monsterdon

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there seem to be at least 2 tarantula actors

(In another shot, the tarantula doesn't have a bare butt—so they are either using multiple T's, or filmed stuff out of order)

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@davesdogmaggie
Totally ignored!

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The spider is going to kill the wife as revenge?
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@davesdogmaggie Yes, there was a baby in the road all by itself.

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I need closure.

Carol is risking multiple lives for a $1 bracelet from Woolworth's. #Monsterdon

I like how the spider leg is very obviously not from the spider they show moving #Monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie The baby got totally ignored

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Quick, get some flares! it's vision is based on movement!

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#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider1958 I like how the spider is now bigger than a house

Wait, wasn’t there just a baby in the road all by itself?

Was I typing and missed it, or did that baby just get totally ignored?

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women, right? never knowing how to feed their kids without attracting a giant tarantula #monsterdon

#monsterdon The little tiny model tree helping frame this process shot shaking when the spider bumps it :3

#monsterdon sometimes it's more fun when I don't even know what the movie is :P

The monster is due on maple street #monsterdon

Now that the spider is the size of a house it makes kind of a cool lawn ornament

Some people have flower gardens....

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@jivens He’ll start going by the name Maynard.

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Good thing she stayed home!

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i scream you scream we all scream for tarantula hair

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Same child? Different child?

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oh c'mon, the little baby crying was a dirty trick!
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@trixter They had it for the day, Bert said we might as well use it. #Monsterdon

Was that a mattress? Was it gay?

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#monsterdon I know it's hard to make monster sounds, slowing down lion roars and reversing sheet metal cutting noises and whatnot, but I really cannot respect "have someone do kind of a breathless screech over and over" for a spider

@athena_rising they teach us to tie a tie in the military. They don’t teach you to accommodate for later in life when your belly is larger and hangs lower, so you keep tying your tie the same length as you did when you were fitted for your service dress at 18.

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Spider smells a baby. #Monsterdon

Ooops. Wrong baby. Right baby is being threatened now.

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Did… did the sheriff say 'whirly birds?"

… oh my gods, that's so quaint!

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No Whirlybirds was an entirely different series #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider Spider1958

Randomly revealed that hot teacher is doing really well in the wife dept. 👀

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"hey, isn't that jake?" "no, that's the fat man. easy mistake."

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Was that distressed toddler just there for the pathos?

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#monsterdon Whirly birds. MY GOD... you rubes!

NO MOVIE!!! YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO PUT KIDS IN DANGER!!! #Monsterdon

Okay, but that was a legit good scene of destruction

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Forget it Jake - it's Chinatown

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Man, mailboxes were everywhere. #Monsterdon

Oh no, not the tumbled mailbox #Monsterdon

"hmmm, you know, I think the GIANT FUCKING TARANTULA isn't scary enough. we need to make it scream."

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"DDT?"
"No good, that stuff just stunned it."
"A constant stream of DDT and half-a-dozen guys with jackhammers and crow-bars getting paid time-and-a-half?"

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"Maybe an hour maybe less" maybe more, an entirely useless answer either way #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider Spider1958

... a big bird spider...
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Music so bad, it wakes the dead. It's that damn new wave junk!

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They also serve, those who stand at the doorway of the sheriff's office and scream "GET OFF THE STREETS!"

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"Operator I've been cut off" If only.

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Full skirts can be deadly!

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Why is his tie so short? #Monsterdon #EarthvsTheSpider

Oh no! Did you see the bald patch on the back of that tarantula's abdomen? That means it's already "kicked hairs", shed its defensive urticating hairs, and won't get them back till its next molt. That is a stressed tarantula.

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The spider just keeps getting bigger.

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#monsterdon “We want action here!” - Okay, a XXX gay parody spreads out in town then?

“Get inside! Take cover!” #Monsterdon

Sheriff Kegel?

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That series of warning shouts from the doorway weren’t the most heroic

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"Hurry it up we want action here" speaking for the audience #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider Spider1958

Leave the Bronx...Leave the Bronx....

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Folks, when an air raid siren is going off, you’re not supposed to run out into the streets. Didn’t you have drills for this sort of thing?

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"...Sheriff Kegel speaking ... why is everyone laughing?"

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Can the tarantula please stay the same size fore like a minute? I'm getting dizzy.

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Anyone notice that the spider's size changes wildly from cut to cut? I suppose calculating the scale would be pretty tricky. #Monsterdon

Ok finally a mountain, even if it is a picture #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider Spider1958

indeterminately sized spider is now two stories tall after feeding on the screams of the innocent #monsterdon

"Maybe somebody held up the bank."
"Or giant spider."
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Superb use of scale and layers throughout so far #monsterdon

Happy Pride, I guess.

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The Noisiest Ambush Predator #Monsterdon

I feel like tarantulas are much less intimidating when you realize their eyes are in that little tiny tuft in the middle of their head.

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City bakery. Which city, though?

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The spider makes that sound like if you hiccup during a burp
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Everybody in town thinks ICBMs are incoming #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider Spider1958

Thankfully the spider moves very slowly.

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Get that tarantula off my picture of 50s Americana!

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KLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

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indeterminately sized spider has expanded to be a full story tall after escaping the gymnasium. high school was only holding it back #monsterdon

anybody get a screenshot of Gay Mattress Company? what a great sign
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AIR RAID? THE SPIDERS GOT BOMBERS NOW?! WHAT?!

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@LingLass Good eye!

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Stupid security guard. You don't need your bullets to penetrate the giant chitin-armoured spider.

You just need it to penetrate the appetising guy next to you.

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Nice set. Factory across from town hall across from a barely upgraded "old west" facade

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@jivens We are all eagerly awaiting the publication

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Fins on every car! #Monsterdon

My mom was just about to take the baby for his check up and then do the shopping for dinner while studying spiders in the Amazon #Monsterdon

"But I was just going to take the baby to the giant spider petting zoo" #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider Spider1958

The "Plant." The "Gay Mattress Company."

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