I'd like a big old study like that, but full of my computer

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thinking my wife would look particularly good in the fine dresses of that time...

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@Newpa_Hasai perhaps the best bit of the whole movie, aside from the end #Monsterdon

Big thanks to @Taweret for this fine example of low-budget 70s film. Not quite horror, not quite sci-fi, Christopher Lee and the Six Nuns carried us through roughly an hour and a half of thin plot and much padding.

Much smoking, multiple coffee teases but I don't think anybody ever actually *drank* any coffee.

Secret government listening post in an abandoned zoo, just for fun.

Death count in the billions, which I guess is something.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

@paco that's his legal name, he's one of 'those'...

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@kshernandez @pineheap I think I would have preferred to see the movie that gets all the spots on your bingo card.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

opening credit font makes it look like I'm watching a Pink Panther movie...

#monsterdon #WrongEnd

@pngwen @TerryHancock there's a 108 minute cut?!?! i'm so sorry

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@pineheap Now, if somebody had big hair that I missed, I can call Bingo!

#Monsterdon #EndofTheWorld1977

I'm not angry about this like many monsterdons. Sure not like 2889.

★½☆☆☆ sorta worth watching for explosions & Chris Lee. Not really.

#monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

@nev I want to see the synth-pop-punk musical version of this with a full live cast. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

y'know, doctor traitor here's gonna have some pretty severe survivor's guilt

I HOPE

#monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

Oh hey, this was the same director as The Shaggy D.A.

#monsterdon

This concludes my #monsterdon thread for #EndOfTheWorld1977 in which we learned that you should just say "no" to evil space nuns led by Christopher Lee, even if they threaten to kill your wife, because they might or might not kill your wife anyway and also destroy the earth if you help them.

Thank you for another #Monsterdon movie!

@JoeWynne for the drink recommendations

@miru / @ryan for the streaming links. This was my first time getting everything to work and not being late

@CactuarJoe for helping us figure out if this is the worst Monsterdon this year

@cherizilla for links to bingo boards

And last but very much not least @Taweret for hosting the poll and keeping us on track

@kshernandez Posters on the Wall (a bit of a stretch, but the computer room had some shuttle diagrams and a photo from the Enterprise rollout in 1976(?))

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

earth is filthy, full of vermin and disease that will contaminate the rest of the universe except for my guy andrew and his wife sylvia they are good people

#Monsterdon

Everyone loves a happy ending????
#Monsterdon

@bunnyhero

When *real* priest (not clone) went looking for help, aliens used their minds powers to blow shit up to prevent him.

#Monsterdon

Because we're fucking out of ideas, Andrew and Sylvia decide to follow the priest in the triangle and teleport away. I think in their position I might try to break some of the weird glowy technology that might be causing earthquakes, but whatever, I guess they're going to space now.

Then the Earth explodes. RIP.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

best Earth explosion effect tho

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

#monsterdon Earth dies in glitter.

planet earth glitterbomb

#monsterdon

Finally, the glitter we've long kept trapped deep in the earth's core is free.

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lol, the Earth actually exploded!

fair play to them ending with that!

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@amyfou @Newpa_Hasai I double-checked as well, this is it

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"It had to happen"

ok ecofascist

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Are they recycling footage from some old kaiju film? #Monsterdon

did Christopher Lee leave himself logged in to the doomsday machine?

#Monsterdon

So we ... must watch every nun get zapped through?

#Monsterdon #EndofTheWorld1977

One of the screens should be showing this movie because my goodness

Talk about a disaster

#Monsterdon

@amyfou ~18.5%

>>> 200e6/3.6/299792458
0.18531338622119556

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I remember that dam break from the movie 'Earthquake'

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The crystal has been installed. Unfortunately we can't launch until it finishes doing a firmware update.
#monsterdon

told you Earth was a Galactic level problem.....

#Monsterdon

I love that little wooden desk lost in the middle of this factory floor
#Monsterdon #EndoftheWorld

That is the weakest-ass klaxxon I've ever heard. It's so depressed. #Monsterdon

It's difficult to sneak into a place when you're being followed by bad synth music #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

The cat that was walking on the sequencer sat down all the sudden. Bwaaaaaaaam. #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

Wait a minute how does any of this bullshit connect to the the earthquakes and other natural disasters that were seemingly the plot of this movie?

Was the nunnery just broadcasting about future natural disasters completely incidental to everything else?

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#monsterdon I think I've seen this exact facility in other low-budget movies.

They must be some kind of chemical plant just outside LA that rents themselves out to low-budget films.

Music is dangerously close to NES videogame level

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@xerozohar Hyperbolic Movie Chamber. We're gonna come out of the theater 50 years older @_@ #Monsterdon

She won't do anything to antagonize them, or protagonize the movie, or literally anything else #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

@skatem Hope it's not from concentrate, or the crystal deal is off!

#Monsterdon

Coffee and orange juice. Part of this balanced indoctrination.
#Monsterdon

When you have this many pregnant pauses, sooner or later you gotta bring the baby to term.

#monsterdon

"We have no deaths, no diseases, no wars......so that's why we come here to watch you lot."

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#monsterdon either the film is buzzing like crazy or the convent garden has TURBOBEES

The soundtrack is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in convincing me something might be happening in this movie

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

Psychic Pastor
Qu'est-ce que c'est?

#monsterdon

Coffee AND orange juice? This bed & breakfast is getting atleast 4 stars.
#Monsterdon #EndoftheWorld

At least they have quality coffee mugs. I'd stay for a couple of days anyway.

#Monsterdon

Coffee is served!!

#monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

And that is why you never stop for hitch hikers.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

And that's why you don't pick up hitchhikers!

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

i wish @blogdiva was here

to suffer with us

(but also to get in on the catholicism jokes)

#Monsterdon

@bstacey uh, I would guess its a special speed limit that ambulances and fire trucks can go at when there's a fire or medical emergency? But the context implies it's some kind of super space drive... but like... one that you only use for emergencies.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

Oh good, more running around the Nunnery in the dark....I hope they find some Underwater gear and escape via the sea /s

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@overholt
Well, he's a professor, so he has at least the credentials of an intelligent person.

#monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

@floatybirb All of that makes complete sense and I totally understand all of it.

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe #monsterdon

OK, let me try.

(looks at camera): "I'M BORED!"

"This motel's worse than the last one!"

#Monsterdon

"What is that?"

"It's just a jump to the left..."

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

"Emergency Speed"
Faster than Light obviously, and something NASA was capable of in the 70s, with this dude...and his hair...

#Monsterdon

So, uh, inertial navigation was already well-established technology in 1977.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

#monsterdon Negative velocity, so, that's slower than ... stop…

Alien sex tourists fucked up the Earth?

For once we're not the baddies!

#Monsterdon

It's a bold artistic choice to make a movie with no plot advancement. Very meditative. It makes you feel someth ---- YAWN --- something.
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lol, clones...like Peter Theil's kids...

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Dear God. I'm glad I didn't start the 110 min. version.... #monsterdon

"Look around you. What do you see here?"

Not much, thanks to your shitty ass lighting. #Monsterdon

"We need them now"
not on the first date, buster

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@dogwelder Just Christopher Lee, another Christopher Lee, and a bunch of Muppets

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I want a movie with every character played by Christopher Lee.
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#endoftheworld1977

Half the budget went to NASA, the rest to Lee (twice?)

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NGL the goofy as secret space nun command center is pretty neat. Not sure I get the logic of the user interfaces but it does have lots of beeping glowing gadgets.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

WHAT are the nuns doing with those pulsating wands?

#Monsterdon

There's a Linux joke hiding in this convent somewhere.

#EndOfTheWorld1977 #Monsterdon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ohiofi/116791083482725823

Close enough!

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This really, really looks like Terl's office from Battlefield Earth and I LOVE IT

#Monsterdon

Oh look, the nuns are playing SIMON-y

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@jeffron lol, maybe there's still hope for them
#Monsterdon

Must have run out of moisturizer at the convent.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

This is why I don't trust Nuns

#Monsterdon

Sylvia's got some other-worldly hair-care products. You don't get a gleam like that from terrestrial conditioner.

#Monsterdon

Ah, the Mernlight Sonaterb by Fleyhoven.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

@saucerlost #monsterdon Absolute fun fact, in Spain there was this Laboratory of Gravimetry and Earth Tides placed nearby Dictator General Franco's previous grave. Always wondered if it was just in casies

It’s not even green bar paper?!? What are the even doing?!? #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

Her paperwork is leaking

#Monsterdon

The walking-around-the-convent-music sounds like a ripoff of the score to Vertigo.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

You can't do real computing without wood paneling.
#monsterdon

Sorry we wandered around your convent with a beeping prop for no reason at all.
#monsterdon

I wonder if I just turned up to the Vatican and told them I was looking for space signals that came from there they would just let me roam around
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Quick, reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!

#monsterdon

Whatcha mecallit meter: Boop, boop, boopety boop.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

I often bring a random tricorder into a convent. Seems legit.
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#Monsterdon 🙏⛪️👰‍♀️🌍️🚀 👽️🌋 😱

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