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

@klu9 a Bond Villain! #Monsterdon

This is where the first rave was invented

#Monsterdon

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

This is all just a Russian psy-ops operation that is distracting top NASA scientists from doing their job

#monsterdon #endoftheworld1977

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

*Bludgeons John to death with a rotary phone

#Monsterdon

#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

#monsterdon

@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

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

I'm sure this movie felt super rebellious in 1977

#Monsterdon

#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

It's not a bad breakfast but it's not the Full English ...

#Monsterdon

Because every JRPG needs a three person party, we find a guy in a car and try to recruit him to help us escape the nunnery and find a police factory. But after he agrees to drive them his car explodes, so they go back to the nunnery so the priest can stare at them more.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

Surely you can comment on the coffee that was served?

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

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

#Monsterdon

@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.
#Monsterdon

lol, clones...like Peter Theil's kids...

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

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

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

#monsterdon

The aliens are Catholic?
#Monsterdon #EndoftheWorld

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!

#monsterdon #endoftheworld1977

Oh look, the nuns are playing SIMON-y

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

@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
#monsterdon  

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.
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🙏⛪️👰‍♀️🌍️🚀 👽️🌋 😱

Lapels: wide
Bottoms: bell

No, not a transistor....a trans sister.

#Monsterdon

"So, you're a windmill, then. Any words for our listeners at home?"

#Monsterdon

Coffee is shown but not commented on (in front of the nuns)

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

Because we didn't find any clues at the space bunker we're going back to the convent to see if we missed anything. We find a nun in glasses and ask her who is in charge and she answers "father pegado" and takes them through the kitchen to her leader, because he always welcomes strangers.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977

Investigating the nunnery for science

#monsterdon #endoftheworld1977

Robert Picardo is in charge of the convent?? #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

I'd just like to note: 40 minutes in and barely a drop of Lee. Disappoint.

#monsterdon

I literally have NO idea what these two are looking for around the nunnery/zoo

Also, I’m way less interested in their love life than the movie wants me to be
#Monsterdon

70s interior design: I miss it
70s car design: omg fucking god my eyes burn
#Monsterdon #EndoftheWorld

Nun:" Ah, you've come back for more of my bush!" #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

There's a good science/space/mystery movie hiding in here, or would be with better writing.

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

Ugh, get a room you too.
Oh, you already have one? Ah yes, a quality motel room, well, carry on I guess.

#monsterdon

well, at least we're in daylight again, so there's that....

#Monsterdon

LESS LIGHT, LESS LIGHT

#Monsterdon

Oh thank god, actual lighting #Monsterdon

We're trying to film The Price is Right in here

#Monsterdon

well THAT was an escalation out of nowhere

#monsterdon

feels like they've accidentally broken into a White Nationalism compound

#Monsterdon

Let's turn that Foley up just a little more, shall we?

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld

@CactuarJoe is that what the kids call it

#monsterdon

I was expecting a quality Wilhelm scream

#monsterdon

@R0s3th0rnz We watch movies of questionable quality and livetoot them. This week's is End of the World (1977).

See also #monsterdonalert for voting on which one is which

#Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

#monsterdon Would like a word with the "movies are so dark nowadays" crowd

@bstacey At least his terminal seems to be a Singer Model 82, perhaps attached to a Singer System Ten, with some unknown machines in the background (Singer being the sewing machine company, which briefly made computers until 1976). Maybe someone can identify the rest. #monsterdon #retrocomputing #EndOfTheWorld1977

No screams in the movie yet. This seems like a prime opportunity.

#Monsterdon

Breaking into the zoo at night for science

#monsterdon #endoftheworld1977

I knew the 70s were poorly lit but this is taking the piss...what is even happening?!

#Monsterdon

Its a zoo! A zoo for what! And whats this "to serve man" book?
#monsterdon

a zoo for nuns??

#monsterdon

Catherine, the patron saint of nun bush #Monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977

@xerozohar :O :O :O :D #Monsterdon

Tying our weird plots together, we learned one of the signals was coming from what I guess is Saint Catherine's, which I guess is a hacienda looking convent on top of a mountain.

Sylvia disembarks and greets a gardening nun, who gives her a flower.

#monsterdon #endOfTheWorld1977