Seeing the background through the spider is why traveling mattes were invented. #monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider

American Potempkin, 50s style #Monsterdon

#monsterdon When evacuating, the thing to do is to tie your suitcase and your mattress to the roof of your car.

I've had it! I can stand the taxes going up, but giant mutant tarantulas is where I draw the line!
#monsterdon

@nev which probably means they were filming a real tarantula and did not treat it well, huh

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Did DDT sponsor this movie or something?

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@RachelThornSub #monsterdon

The spider changes size because it belongs to THE YETI !!!

Hello Hello

Can you hear me Joe

No, I cannot. A spider has cut the wire. Good-bye

#Monsterdon

woman getting her dress caught in the door and just screaming, people are dying for the stupidest reasons....

#Monsterdon

Time to channel your inner Tokyo citizen, people! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon So, how long does DDT take to dissipate after being hosed all over the inside of a cave?

Asking for a protagonist.

Bass player was too zoned out to notice all the screaming? High on that jazz lettuce obviously

#monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider1958

#monsterdon We have jazz hands! I repeat, JAZZ HANDS!

What kind of rock band needs a conductor

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider

I love seeing posters for the director’s other movies in the background. #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider

"why do I have so many friends?"

lol, that wasn't too bad. 50s ham, but, not bad.

#Monsterdon

At least two female characters… ✅️
who talk to each other… ✅️
about something other than a man. ❌️

#Monsterdon

ok quick poll: if Giant Spiders were actually real, would they qualify as "charismatic megafauna" (I think the answer is an obvious "yes"; but OTOH, spiders do freak some folks right the fuck out…)

#monsterdon

Mom is managing really well. Must be the massive doses of better living through chemistry.
#monsterdon

Spider just likes shoving nerds to the ground, its in its element in a high school. #Monsterdon

the spood is not okay and I am hoping this movie's production did not kill a tarantula for the sake of this and maybe just borrowed a specimen instead?

this is 1958 so it's easy to imagine they just killed a tarantula though.

#Monsterdon

Silly scientist, it's obvious the spider was bitten by a radioactive human

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider

🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ LEGGY TRIVIA 🌏🕷️
US Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson wrote to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and asked, "Why a spinster with no children was so concerned about genetics?" Benson's conclusion was that Rachel Carson was "probably a Communist"

Part 3 of 3

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@moira Remind me to make a funny face when I die so that it’s a fun gag when someone finds my body!

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Nonchalant stroll past the anatomical skeletons.
#monsterdon

cop sees a bat and immediately starts blasting

ACAB

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Oh, DDT, great. Let's all see how many different kinds of cancer we can get.

#Monsterdon

I'm sure the rifles will be adequate

#Monsterdon

The spider is constantly howling because it's from the 2020s

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eheheheh cute tarantula :blobfoxcute:

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[angry spider noises]

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there's that theremin spider jam

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Oh neat, they're in an early 90's platformer cave stage :D #Monsterdon

A cave that actually echoes. You don't get this kind of realism anymore.
#monsterdon

I hope the spider is in there and awake and Mike dies. #monsterdon

Yeah Jane, stay here and listen for my screams of terror! #Monsterdon

Danger: Cave may contain dead fathers.
#monsterdon

No seatbelt in that thing, is there?

#Monsterdon

Mike has an incredible talent for always saying the wrong thing.

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at least this is short. I have a feeling we will be grateful for that mercy in the end, based on the plodding so far. very 'zzz' first 10 min here.

#Monsterdon

Y'know, if Nancy Drew were here she'd have solved this case twenty minutes ago.

And we're ten minutes into the film. Just sayin'. #Monsterdon

Hrm, old timey safety glass?

#monsterdon #TheSpider1958 #EarthVsTheSpider

"He'd never meet anybody on this road."

Not if they use the same footage they're rear projecting you on, yeah.

#Monsterdon

"Dad blew his wage on whores again, lol"

#Monsterdon

@SnoopJ Please do not ionize the cats

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WOMP WOMP #Monsterdon

"American International"

always a sign of quality

#Monsterdon

"I shall stay for dinner if that's all right, I hope I'm not imposing?"

"No, it's fine, I'll just kill a local cat and you'll have something to eat"

*Nervous laugh

#Monsterdon

yep, it's the cat

#Monsterdon

I think a short, rotund man choosing a hitler 'tache in the late 60s has made some choices...

#Monsterdon

She’s got a Meryl Streep quality

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#SpiderBaby

Of course there is more family in the basement, where else would you keep them?

#Monsterdon

This is how rich families are, isn't it?

#Monsterdon

"Oh shit, my crazy daughter-wives have murdered another Postman"

#Monsterdon

Well that's white people for you 😬

#Monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow Carol could definitely have upgraded from Mike 😜

#monsterdon

@Taweret cheers! #Monsterdon

Oh it's one of those sexy spider movies....

#Monsterdon #Miru

#monsterdon Thank you, @Taweret and @miru!!!

I'm gonna stick around on the #miru stream for the double feature, i likea spider #monsterdon

THE END

or is it?

#monsterdon

@gblues was hoping that spider at the end would twitch... #Monsterdon

"thanks for everything, nobody is getting paid, bye!"

#Monsterdon

The denouement is just them saying goodinght to each other?

#monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider1958

Once again I wish the Monster had lived and the town had died....

#Monsterdon

@SnoopJ "big wand of high-voltage death" is a hell of a euphemism

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Now he's killed the giant spider with electricity the Science Dude's life has peaked

#Monsterdon

Love the electro wand, get one for the fetish club....

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@CactuarJoe HOLD IT

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Chekov's anodes! The first scene wasn't a complete waste..

OH it's the magic pencil experiment again

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@jonny The other guys were probably nearby staring into a car engine saying, "yep"

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@xerozohar Chief! McCloud! #Monsterdon

Mike needed the older men's help with Carol, he just didn't have a clue...

#Monsterdon

This had better work gentlemen, we don't have anything else mentioned in the movie to fight it with.

#Monsterdon

@JoeWynne Clearly the earth that is vs the Spider is the grounding wire to fry it.

The earth that was dumped onto it with explosives was just a red herring.

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augh ugh all this heavy foam

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@jonny #monsterdon

I'm taking my shirt off in solidarity.

#monsterdon The guy in a construction helmet is not exactly bringing passion to his role.

Now the positive terminal is called what, class?

AAANNOOODDEEE
#monsterdon

"Here's where we go to work."

Work it, work it #Monsterdon

Did police have two-way radios in 1958? Did Bert I. Gordon know that?

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider

What do you call two teenagers sealed in a cave?

A good start.
#monsterdon

I guess...spiders aren't really known for making noises....what is a spider's 'roar?'

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Just FLOOP right onto the desk with their colleague's corpse

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...'K apparently Carol's mom is only in the film to underline dramatic irony. #Monsterdon

Look I can believe the giant spider, but a giant unmapped cave this close to town is much harder to believe.
#monsterdon

@gblues "nobody left alive on the Surface now Carol, you know it makes sense"

#Monsterdon

Worst. Spelunkers. Ever.

#Monsterdon

Honestly, these two could get eaten by the spider and I would not care

#Monsterdon

"I guess we can go home!" --world-famous last words.

#Monsterdon

"There's gotta be another way out!"

Sure, you've still got about 15 minutes. #Monsterdon

@Lazarou @apLundell “I just threw out my back filming that scene!”

#Monsterdon

@MatthewTitus88

54:32 Spider: 4, Humans: 1

#monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider1958

@apLundell "My back can't lie in this position too long!" #Monsterdon

DRAMATIC PHONE CALL MUSIC

#monsterdon

oh hey I has a bingo

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider

Unpopular opinion maybe but I think it would be creepier if the spider *wasn't* constantly vocalizing.

#monsterdon #EarthVsTheSpider

Guess nobody thought the Spider might want to go back to it's cave home then?

#Monsterdon

Ah, the long-distance lines. How I miss them!

#Monsterdon