Octaman was my first #Monsterdon ❤️

You're so cool, Brewster!

thanks #monsterdon ! h/t to @Taweret and @ryan !

They say that if the wind is right you can still hear Evil say “you’re so cool, Brewster.”

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And the fucking amazing end theme song plays us out.

That was a lot of fun. I actually really like that movie! Plus, you know, great company 😁

Anyway, let's do it again in about a week, yeah?

Goodnight guys!

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okay, i 100% loved this movie. I'm adopting Peter, he can do whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Chris Sarandon can stay if he promises that he found the scenes with a supposedly teenage character as creepy as the rest of us, but honestly, Charley's mom can give the rest of the cast a valium and they can all go away. the FX guys get to stay tho.

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So we've done the "killing the sire undoes the vamps he made" thing? Has logical problems...

@CactuarJoe ahem ahem...there's a movie tie-in music video. #Monsterdon

Man, that's a GREAT tease to go out on.

And that's a wrap! Still a fun movie after all these years.

Thanks for the watch party, and to the whole #Monsterdon crew, too.

Cheers, and see y'all next time!

Why so many clocks and how was this not a plot point before? Every hour must be a cacophonous din
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"Let's have gentle vanilla sex!"

The End

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I dig the ending music :D #Monsterdon

I kinda wish they had brought back the compact mirror. That would been a nice bit of setup-and-payoff, like getting the vamp with a beam of reflected sunlight.

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Fortunately the writing is terrible. #monsterdon

I love how Amy is like, "Great, we're right back to this distracted-during-boinking boyfriend routine, does nothing change?"

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#Monsterdon #FrightNight1985 haha love the ending

evil wins

good night everybody <3 :D

We love you, Octaman! #monsterdon

#monsterdon THERE'S OUR BOY (Octaman went on to have a successful film career it seems)

Why is the fearless vampire hunter coming out of a coffin?

I've seen this movie a dozen times and never noticed that weirdness.

Also: OCTOMAN!

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Oh so it's aliens now

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making out with the tv on, Amy is definitely finding this deeply erotic

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She'll never be Sexy Vampire Willow though charlie, just a regular human girlfriend...with boundaries.

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OCTAMAN!?!?! #Monsterdon

Ok, as someone who grew up in a house built into the side of a (very little) mountain with half the basement having windows and a sliding glass door and half buried in the ground with no windows this isn't actually unreasonable architecture...

(well assuming you are weirdos like my parents who thought building into the side of a mountain was a good idea)

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Peak vampire movie tbh #Monsterdon

HOLY SHIT
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#monsterdon Just going to kissyface with the recently infected Charlie? Of course you are. My filthy little whore buddy.

I’m still hoping that there’s a twist ending…

He’s not actually a vampire… there was just a gas leak and all of this was a hallucination… the neighbors are actually just a gay couple

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Poor Amy, lost everything, including her new great hair and ancient lover.
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OCTAMAN!!! #monsterdon #frightnight1985

@moira IKR?! ... nuthin, nevermind #Monsterdon

@saucerlost wow it really is an undead-only style

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ugh, they gonna bone with Peter on TV aren't they 🥴
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and back to where we started

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Demonic Dandrige is set aflame by the purifying rays of daybreak! Amy's hair returns to normal! Peter Vincent discovers that a lifetime of portraying heroism did nothing to prepare him for the real thing, but he found it within himself and in his unlikely partnership with Charley!

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"Amy! Your hair's back!"

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the dramatic irony in the climactic scene is that the vampire was defeated by Charlie, who sucks

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@ManWithPez

Indubitably!

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He had a terrible sunlight accident!

Wow. Not even a bear-zooka, but what an explosion!

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the movie's faithfulness to vampires having supernatural corrupting abilities is undercut for the sake of a happy ending reuniting the lovers we don't really care about much

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Well she gets to keep the dress though

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“Come on, Mr. Vincent! Get in here!”

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#Monsterdon #FrightNight1985 sevreal minutes after dawn but whatever

Oh no

Amy's old haircut came back

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He fucked off into a ball of flaming goo. Nice.

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Anyway they fight and they fight and they fight and the basement is full of furniture and junk everywhere. Eventually the human boys get smart and start breaking open windows so that there's sunlight everywhere. Which is a good idea.

Eventually the last window is revealed and Sweater Vampire decides his Death Move is to burst into green flames and also turn into a bat and then a skeleton bat.

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didn't realize Chris Sarandon contained the Arc of the Covenant.

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@diazona Mebbie he's Vulcan? #Monsterdon

*vwoop*

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I had no idea vampires were so asplodey

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okay this is a pretty cool death scene holy crap
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BAT!

Bats come in there flavors: Tiny Screm, Fuzzyboi, and KILL IT WITH FIRE.

We all know what this one was, eh? lol

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My goodness sir, that is an awful lot of goo coming out of you
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#monsterdon Absolutely no melanin at all. I understand how that feels as a very white person. ;)

one last stunt and visual effect to send us off, hell yea

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and this is why you don't listen to amy grant, kids

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I didn't think getting turned would give you better hair, but here'm we are. #monsterdon

The Head Vampire always gets the Dawn death

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that's right

ARE YOU MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SUN?!

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@wohali I chair-ish this movie? #Monsterdon

curse this anomalously well-lit basement!

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MY WINDOWS

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH PERIOD CORRECT REPLACEMENT GLASS COSTS?

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Chekovs black painted glass

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IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE FRAME IT DOESN'T EXIST

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AGAIN...THAT IS HIS SHOULDER #Monsterdon

nice callback with the straight stand-up out of the coffin there.

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"You pushed Amy around once too often, now you get ANGRY AMY"

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Pretty sure that's not where the heart is

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They only had one window to break, so of course you have to see it happen three times!

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eyyyy there's the chocolate coffin #monsterdon

“And that, Charlie, is for how sucky a boyfriend you were for the TWELVE MONTHS we were together!!”

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Hurry, Peter! I'm...so...horny!!! #Monsterdon

dang that MOUTH

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"Hurry Peter, her nips are pointing at me...."

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#monsterdon That entire basement is full of potential wooden stakes…

Did the sun just made the ghostbusters proton pack charging sound? #Monsterdon

@allanb i know. please stop being condescending #monsterdon

Charlie...Charlie bit my finger! #monsterdon #frightnight1985

This is like 'Sexy Vampire Willow" isn't it?

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"Don't be frightened, Charlie."

They're falsies. #Monsterdon

How did Amy grow 14 inches of hair overnight?

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@bunnyhero @allanb @Newpa_Hasai "No true Scotsvampire"

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hey, how come Evil didn't get like 10x hotter when he got vamped?
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"Who are you, and how do you know what time it is?"

"I'm a clocksmith, and I'm a clocksmith."

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MONSTER CHOMP

Charley gets gnawed right on the forearm by a writhing, slimy, squealing bat-Dandrige! Who then flies off to fight crime and avenge his parents or something

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wut

Okay so the cross starts hurting Sweater Vampire as the sun rises, then all the clocks go off. Then the sun blasts sweater vampire with a laser, motivating him to turn into a bat that lunges after Peter Vincent and tries to bite him. Charlie distracts him and instead gets bitten in the arm, then the sun starts burning the bat who flies away. They chase him to the basement.

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Now that was the first half of a death scene befitting a master vampire

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@allanb @Newpa_Hasai "actual" lol let's not get into vampire purity tests now #monsterdon

While fending off Jerry in his bat form with a bone for the climax of the film, Roddy McDowall accidentally cracked the puppet's skull. The crew scrambled to fix the bat so they could continue shooting, but such extensive damage occurred that it took two days to properly reassemble, so they had to temporarily delay filming further close-ups of the creature.

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Aww widdy baby bat monster.
Does the bat... ?
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maybe should have spent a little more time coming up with creature SFX for the bat-form that aren't just a 2-sec loop, though

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This is not the cute bat that I was promised. :(

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LASER SUN! GO!

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#monsterdon is this thing quoting scarface?

So yeah Pete's basically the main character for the last half hour of the film, huh. #Monsterdon

BAT! #monsterdon

"You've got to have faith for that to work!" ... And that's how Peter Vincent got religion. #Monsterdon #FrightNight1985

You're OUTATIME!

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