So. There's a moon. That's good.

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Anyway, good job team, another movie successfully launched into space

and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting

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@brennen Heavens, I had NO IDEA of the Menendez murders connection! I did see Fright Night Part 2, btw (rented the video tape, back in the day), and it was not great, though it did have some cool artistic rollerblading? vampires. #FrightNight1985 #Monsterdon

Before you can date our daughter you must first go though us, her seven tiny dads.
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@brennen oh wow that is unfortunate

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And another #monsterdon comes to an (explosive) end.

I didn't have a lot to snark about for this one. Might be the same for the rest of October. The calibre of the flicks on the roster are all kinda high.

Regardless, a fun time watching with y'all.

Thanks for the toots, and as always a huge thanks to @Taweret for hosting.

Fright Night: asymptotically approaching a good movie. That was fun!

Thanks @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Until next week... (unless you're sticking around for the double feature)

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@otheorange_tag The movie's conceit is that all the rules the other vampire movies made up are all true. So who knows?
@jsadow
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@diazona If you killed the original vampire then there would be no vampires.

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As I said earlier, "Evil Ed" actor Stephen Geoffreys was also in 976-EVIL (1988) which seems to have a similar level of "whoa" VFX going on based on this still

https://tubitv.com/movies/100007196/976-evil

cc @Taweret if it's not already on the list

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well that was enjoyably dumb
Thanks #Monsterdon

Weird. This movie didn't have "stuntpeople" it had "stuntpersons". I guess they were still working out gender neutral titles back then. #monsterdon

Surprise Octaman! And Octaman’s RV!

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@jsadow

According to science (OK, The Lost Boys), you don't go full vampire until you yourself have fed on a human

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yes, an end credits song that reviews the events of the movie, YES

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That was a great start to the season! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting. I hope Octaman was at least able to make rent for the cameo. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! #Monsterdon #FrightNight

I always got the impression that the thing about faith wasn’t about faith in GOD, but faith in the power of the item of power to repel evil. Faith that the evil is true, is real.

So when Peter faltered in his belief that the vampire was real, the object of power had no effect. You see a cross worked when he first was attacked by Ed, but then when he had doubt because Jerry looked normal… his faith faltered.

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Fast Times at Transylvania High

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Yeah, they could've trimmed about twenty minutes from the first hour or so of the movie and it would've flowed much better, but the third act was *AWESOME* #Monsterdon

Okay that was a riot, I think that was my favorite Monsterdon ever! :)

Thanks everyone for such a fun time, I love Sunday nights!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

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the last act definitely makes up for the sins of the earlier parts. lots of fun, too bad i got distracted by a stupid pedantic discussion about wolves and vampires. my mistake #monsterdon

awww, well that was fun! 😁

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But then... oh no the window is open! is something wrong?

No, they decide to make out more. Then some spooky glowing eyes glare at them through the window.

Then credits. The closing music is very 80s and I like it.

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Having theoretically de-vampired Amy, the next night we are back to full circle and Charlie and Amy are making out on the bed.

Then Fright Night appears on the TV as Peter Vincent announces that he's back on the TV and introducing an alien invasion show, which they decide to turn off to make out more.

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These effects are way too good for #monsterdon

HOLY SHIT IT'S OCTAMAN :D

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Oh wait and then the skeleton bat explodes and then is sucked away to an alternate universe. Presumably where it will menace other teenagers as... Skeleton Bat.

The other teenagers will be like humanoid slug people though, with little eyestalk ears. And also robots.

Dear Venture Capitalists of Monsterdon, please give me 100 million dollars to make this movie...

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Count Dracula, from Explodesylvania.

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@saucerlost *groan* 😂

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WHY IS THERE A GODDAMN FRENCH HORN IN THE BASEMENT?!

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Man, does EVERY newborn vampire have to visit the Orthodontist?
Dr. Acula must be raking it in $$$$

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What will happen when the police find the dead naked kid in their house.

And latches on coffins. Why hadn't anyone else thought of that.

@bunnyhero @Newpa_Hasai @allanb Yes, he does. That's how Dracula gets off the Exeter? the boat that comes to the English shore -- the news clipping has a thing about the dead ship and the big black dog (wolf) jumping off it in the port city. #Monsterdon #FrightNight1985

Careful, Amy, you're surrounded by a vampire's natural enemy: broken chair legs.

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Charlie Charlie why you buggin' ?

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Why is there a wooden birdcage in EVERY CREEPY BASEMENT EVER

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fruit bat has some teef
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Cool bat though!

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Yep, that's a ridiculously fast sunrise.

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you'd think with all those clocks.....

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Frankly green goo is a bit of a letdown after the killer wolf regression sequence. #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai @bunnyhero The Bram Stoker thing had some wolves in the arrival of the narrator, but that's Bram Stoker style myth, which came long after the actual ones

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@saucerlost New fanfic in the making: Amy Adams is actually a vampire

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A-a-and there it is, finally someone jumps through that enormous Chekhov's stained glass window. I thought it would be jumping out rather than in though, nicely played!

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Who wore it better?

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lol, knew that stained glass would get smashed

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chekhov's big stained-glass window

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High school boys should beware the dangers of masturbation.
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the vamp has gone all douchebro now he had Amy is his coffin
Typical
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I'd love it if there were actual consistent lore for what happened to that Renfield.

Cool effects.

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Why is he bleeding ectoplasm?

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That scene with Vincent dealing with the reality of actually killing an undead creature exactly when the audience is being asked to stretch its suspension of disbelief the most was really well structured.

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@ManWithPez It was $3.99 at Pennys

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THERE'S your goo shot!

...yeah, I typed it! I meant it!

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Look what you did to Billy's SHIRT!

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Peter Vincent grabs the improvised stake from the dead vampire nerd, then walks outside to discover that the vampire house is now emitting spooky green smoke, because vibes. He grabs his box of vampire hunting crap and wanders inside, finding Charlie crying over a vampirized Amy.

Charlie makes some noise as a distraction while Peter Vincent breaks the door down.

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House being drowned by smoke machine, quick call the smoke department

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"The bad news? You got termites. The good news? The flood of dry ice from the roof killed them all."

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@CactuarJoe and dog transformations #Monsterdon

Chew that scenery, Ed! Get it! Tear it up! Yeah!!

Evil Ed gone actually evil is a joy. XD

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They're fumigating at the Dandridge house.

Bedbugs.

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I like that this has become Peter's movie at the end #monsterdon

Dry ice budget: maximum

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#monsterdon Bad time to talk about post-werewolf-vampire naked boy rigor mortis knotwork... yes?

If nobody else is gonna by Crowe T Robot:
PUPPY !!
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@trixter #Monsterdon

No fair giving goblin kid an actually good death scene :/ #Monsterdon

I too don't understand the werewolf situation in this movie. Wut?

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Gollum? Is that you?

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Werewolf, vampire, same difference

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Congrats Peter Vincent, you're a real vampire killer now.

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On behalf of dog lovers everywhere, thank you for making that stabbed dog look so fake

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Charlie wields a cross and it deters sweater vampire, but then vampire sidekick hits him with something. The actor runs next door in panic to try to call the police but the phone is cut, so he searches for Charlie's mom, but finds the vampire nerd hiding in her bed with a wig on. Vampire nerd says that the mom is away and then... um... transforms into a wolf to attack the actor.

But the actor grabs an improvised steak from a damaged railing and stabs the vampire wolf.

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oh fuck me, nice doggy VFX too

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lmfao the Raggedy Ann hair

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HE SAID THE NAME OF THE MOVIE!

(for the third time now)

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Okay, scraping the railing with your fingernail is dramatic and all, but think of the resale value!

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pretty much the only part of this movie i remember even a little is when they go into the house #monsterdon

okay the fingernail on the railing is awful and really effective

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@apLundell Do you have any idea how many books with vampires sort of use that as a premise? It does not really become less creepy...

(and yes, that means I'm admitting have read said books)

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He doesn't want to kill Charlie but he's happy to murder a couple of huge bouncers?

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Again, eww, eww, eww, eww…

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*chomp!*

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#monsterdon Messy eater. Playing with your food like that. Messy, dribbly, poor wet seal, tsk.

Dude. She is in HIGH SCHOOL.
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@xerozohar Fucking winner comment of the night as far as I'm concerned.

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I'm guessing Sweater Vampire took the risk of revealing his vampire nature in the nightclub because he really wanted the girl who was a lookalike to his ex-girlfriend, and that desire made him stupid.

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Roddy's performance is so great here. It moves this from like a 6.8(quite good) to 7.4(borderline classic). #monsterdon

@trixter Wool is everywhere in this movie
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This vampire seduction scene is entirely too long.

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"Grab this!"
"No, it's got sticky vampire shit on it."

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Evil's laughter is actually evil laughter

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publicly vampire killing guys is how you get the whole order van helsing'd, you absolute buffoon #monsterdon

yikes, "crush at a nightclub"

that happened a lot back then, didn't it?

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And just think, all this could have been avoided if the snack bar served garlic knots

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I mean he is like a century older than her, but she's not yours either Charlie...

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Can stop thinking that vamp actor is store brand Billy Zane

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The 80s were disgusting. Sure the hair and clothes were bad, but mainly its the dancing with teenagers that's bothering me. #monsterdon

In 20 years this is the nightclub from Blade

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@Lazarou the magic of 80s hair!

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