"Make the frogs look more ominous"

"But boss, they're FROGS"

"Use up angles! Jesus, do I have to do everything around here!?"

#monsterdon

ah, nighttime, when the frogs attack! #monsterdon

We are go for Bechdel test tonight #monsterdon

Yep, the gardener was AWOL: Attacked while offscreen last night
#monsterdon

I so wanted one of the fish on the wall to start singing…
#Monsterdon

I like how this film isn't skirting around how weird and racial the White People's colonial plantation is, would this film now be banned?

#monsterdon

So quick informal poll, how many of these women do you think are gonna end up covered in amphibians and/or lizards? These films love that shit. #Monsterdon

* Angry synthesizer noises *

#monsterdon #frogs1972

The frogs are there, but it looks like the snakes did all the actual work in taking this guy out. #monsterdon

He's driving one of those old WWII jeeps, isn't he? how cute, I rarely see those things in colour

#monsterdon

frogs + snake + rotting corpse = icky

#monsterdon

oh wow he's breathing a lot for a corpse

#monsterdon

Finally, someone's dead.

#monsterdon

Looking forward to learning the secret of lethal frogs. This outta be good 🙄 #monsterdon

I can easily believe dead bodies are just lying around in the Deep South and nobody really cares...

#monsterdon

I feel bad for the sneks and owls

#frogs #monsterdon

*touches the ground* A battle was fought here. The frogs were victorious, but at what cost? #Monsterdon

Does the frog die dot com.

#monsterdon

The frogs are waiting for the arrival of Battletoads #monsterdon

Do people actually spell out AWOL?

#frogs #monsterdon

“I can’t sleep.”

*dumps a Valdez worth of oil

#Monsterdon

Ribbiting conversation .......

#Monsterdon #Frogs #🐸

you could get a white noise machine

#monsterdon

"Make my home smell like a refinery"

As I understand it, that's how Louisiana actually smells like right now

#monsterdon

Okay, he threw the frog.

Now all the frogs must have their revenge.

#Monsterdon

"Well sir, let me tell you 'bout frogs...."
*Cowboy music starts...

#monsterdon

YESSS FROG STATUE #monsterdon

They almost—almost—called attention to racism there. It was implied.

#Monsterdon

Ominous frog statue.

Maybe the frogs placed it?

#frogs #monsterdon

surprising amount of photography in this movie

#Monsterdon

I accidentally had two copies of the movie playing in different tabs and boy I thought these people talked over each other a lot

#monsterdon

"I know something else that will make us both feel good..."

Oh, come on, you know you were thinking it too

#monsterdon

Just a couple of bros, wet and half naked, talking about sports

#Monsterdon

When I was growing up in Alabama, I used to go outside at night and just pick up the frogs that were hanging around. Just scoop them right up. The scariest thing they'd do was pee on you.

#Monsterdon #Frogs1972

why is everyone so horny in crockettland!?!!?!? #monsterdon

So far I am rooting for:

1) the frogs

2) the camera

3) Karen’s headscarf
#Monsterdon

Oh, so the evil gay guy in white can talk. About frogs.

#monsterdon

the thing about frogs is they're one of the least scary animals in the world tho

#monsterdon

Sometimes the boat swamps you, sometimes the canoe swamps boat.
This is not a riveting script. #Monsterdon

I mean they're toads but that's close enough

#monsterdon

@ohiofi @davesdogmaggie * judgemental croaking *
#monsterdon

This island, and I say this as a white person, is disturbingly White

#monsterdon

somebody’s tripping #monsterdon

There they are. Frogs.

#monsterdon

hey, are those the frogs from the move Frogs?

#monsterdon

We have frogs!

(priate camp frogs?)

#frogs #monsterdon

@ricci the rest of us are #monsterdon

#Monsterdon found the guy I hope the frogs start with. The old white guy with the binoculars and the attitude.

I still can't read what's on her bandana.

#monsterdon

I would be wary of rich kids wanting to play 'games' with you on their own private island

Also, isn't that old guy the baddie from a lot of things?

#monsterdon

"Smith, Pickett Smith"

He already talks like a cowboy

#monsterdon

Oh it’s “Clint” ! #monsterdon

"I said IT'S THE 70S!"

"I can't hear you over my mustache!"

#Monsterdon

In case you're wondering, speedboat guy is the villain.

#monsterdon

Environmental destruction is when fast boat

#monsterdon

Hey! Pull-tab pop cans in the garbage the photographer is shooting.

Good 1970s authenticity.

#Monsterdon

I hope the guy in the canoe is focusing his camera better than the movie cameraman.

#Monsterdon #Frogs1972

Without the mustache he's just Sparkling Elliot. #Monsterdon #Frogs

Sam Elliott looks weird without the mustache.

#monsterdon

that is maybe - MAYBE - a 50mm lens. on a film camera. not ONE of those shots has an identifiable animal.

#monsterdon #TheFrogs

#Monsterdon and we’re off… a bayou. Could be Frogs, could be Deliverance.

This guy... he looks so familiar.... I'm SURE I've seen him in something else... #monsterdon

American International. We're already in trouble. #Frogs #Monsterdon

i am now extremely paranoid about doing a wrong frogs. i believe there is only one frogs in 1972 but i cannot be sure #monsterdon

Opening credits as a photo safari.

#frogs #monsterdon

we have ribbit sign #monsterdon

#monsterdon #frogs #frogs1972

crushed by boxes of pr0n. #monsterdon #wrongFrog

I was thinking John Cusack @starkraving666 #monsterdon #wrongFrog

@helianthropy
@Cherizilla
Wikipedia says he shot himself. #monsterdon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_J._Frog #monsterdon #wrongFrog

My #Monsterdon instance is back up. 🎉

I had prepared some animal details for everyone.

Many of the creatures seen killing in #Frogs1972 are *not* native to Florida nor even associated with that many crimes.

There are lizards from Argentina, a cool looking gecko from Central America and even the Cane Toads, which may have been present in FL at the time, are from Central America.

Ironically, the lizards and geckos are *now* seen in Florida due to being escaped pets.

All right that guy looking for butterfly lady, just missing that alligator as he walks past makes her look hyper observant in hindsight.

#monsterdon

One of those students was a costar in "The Stoned Age"' #monsterdon

I love how #Monsterdon gives new life to terrible, terrible old movies. 🥰

@ApostateEnglishman @ramsey @SordidAmok Makes sense, I think I'm just bummed we didn't get to see it

#Monsterdon

That lady trying to catch a butterfly Oh my goodness. Lol if that butterfly were a snake it would have, ... Uh, oops.

PS maybe this should have been called Frogs and Friends
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@Louisa That one wrestled the shotgun away from the youngest child, forced them all to get out, and drove away. They were then all killed by caterpillars, with the exception of Sam Elliott in his impenetrable denim armor. #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai No, they DROP out of trees onto people! ;-) #Monsterdon #Frogs1972

@ohiofi Also featuring not-frogs, I note

#Monsterdon

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/19481/frogmore-stew/

#frogs1972 #monsterdon

@Rozzychan Did you catch that the snapping turtle had some of Bad Mommy''s dress in its mouth, like a trophy? #Monsterdon #Frogs1972

From Wikipedia: "In pre-release prints, Iris (Holly Irving) died by being pulled into quicksand by a giant butterfly, rather than by snakebite"

WHY DID YOU CUT THIS, THAT WOULD'VE BEEN AMAZING #Monsterdon

@ottaross also, if I see broken glass on the ground with suspicious off-gassing I run towards it instead of away #monsterdon

Shelly Duvall, Elliott Gould??? This can't be the WRONG Frogs!? #monsterdon

@roque The luggage was ambiguous. But if the whole point was that everyone dies due to white colonialism, we didn't need frog witnesses to tell us that. #Monsterdon

I'm traumatized already just seeing thos frogs again! #Monsterdon#WrongFrogs

#monsterdon Well, I think that *could* have been a decent movie if they'd leaned into a sort of Yellow Wallpaper thing, with the frog croaking slowly driving people mad.

@roque I think consensus is no, but it was not clear

#Monsterdon

I am still unclear on whether the black people survived #monsterdon

#monsterdon Honestly kind of liked it. Really leaned into revenge of nature and didn't try to explain too much.

Oooh good deal only 17 Euros for Food of the Gods and Frogs 1972 soundtrack, but yeah... nevermind. I really just wanted the single for "21. Fourth Of July March 3:01"

https://quartetrecords.com/product/the-food-of-the-gods-frogs/#:~:text=FROGS%2C%20directed%20by%20George%20McCowan,notes%20by%20author%20Jeff%20Bond.
#Monsterdon

So frogs really hate July 4th birthdays. Is that it? #Monsterdon

So ur with ur whiskey and yur getting drunk wen the phone rigns. U anser it n the vioce is "?" U tell ur dog n she say "the phone is ded". THEN WHO WAS FROG?

#Monsterdon

@Lazarou More dignity than this cast deserved, tbh #Monsterdon

That's another #Monsterdon in the can! Thanks @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for organizing bingo, and everyone else for making it fun!

#monsterdon The frogs messing with his record player: a clever form of torture.

my biggest question is how the editor stayed awake long enough to make a complete print

#monsterdon #TheFrogs

A single star rating on #letterboxd from me https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/frogs/ #monsterdon

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