"I said IT'S THE 70S!"

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

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

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Environmental destruction is when fast boat

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

Good 1970s authenticity.

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

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

Sam Elliott looks weird without the mustache.

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

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#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.

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we have ribbit sign #monsterdon

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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.

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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

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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

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

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@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

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

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

#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

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

also, i really did put literally every piece of action in this whole movie into that THIS WEEK ON MONSTERDON animation I made

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Move every frog, for great justice.

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@kevinbowrin some of Ralph Bakshi’s best work! #monsterdon

@Violinknitter People didn't watch movies in the 70s. YOu were either making out in the back, watching people make out, or playing on the swingset in front of the drive-in movie theatre screen. #monsterdon

An honor to be nominated. #Monsterdon

All of y’all saying that the post-credit cartoon frog is eating a human, did you learn nothing from watching this movie? Frogs don’t do anything!!! That’s 100% a glove.

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The closeups of taxidermied animals evoke Count Dracula (1970) #Monsterdon #Frogs1972

@diazona @SordidAmok Yeah. The implication was that the frogs (or whatever) got them, too. That was sad.

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@riedlr Well, the rich young woman may be the heir to everything now with Ray Milland's poisonous character dead, so I'm not shocked they didn't try harder to get the Coast Guard or Animal Control or whomever to intervene. #Frogs1972 #Monsterdon

That's a wrap. Not gonna stick around for Wrong Frogs, and won't be around for next week's, hopefully it's _not_ Yeti.

Thank you @Taweret as always.

Till we toot-along again.

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So back in the 70s people paid actual money to watch it? Unironically? Without live-posting with their friends?? #Monsterdon

I wasn't planning on visiting Florida, and now I'm REALLY not planning on visiting Florida.

Also, unnecessary post credits animated frog?!

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Is it the frogs calling him..?!

#Monsterdon chekov's gas pump, please please explode it soon

I'm glad to see an early Sam Elliott film. He played that Sam Elliott character well. It was a very Sam Elliott take on Sam Elliott.

But... he really needs that stache.

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I'm just assuming the frogs crawled inside every open hole on the Old Bastard and hollowed him out from within.
In much the same way old sailors used to butcher Whales, through the anus first....

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#Monsterdon pre-emptive strike against the gator!

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They should have to credit every animal who co-starred in this picture. Those water monitors were compelling! The frogs were very believable! The snapping turtle of death was truly terrifying!

Much better acting from the critters than from any of the humans.

thank you @Taweret @Cherizilla @JoeWynne and all you find #Monsterdonians for making this a fun adventure!

Hug a frog/gecko/water monitor/snakeroo/tarantula/killer snapping turtle for me if you can!

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Sam Elliot's *acting ability* in this movie got him a starring role in Lifeguard (1976).

It’s like they’ve set the scene. Now I’m waiting for the movie to happen. #Monsterdon

Well that... that was terrible. Shot in Florida huh. That tracks. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting. Shouldn't have trouble sleeping tonight. That one's knocked me right out. #Monsterdon #Frogs

Good old AIP. I guess that was about what we could've expected.

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Well, we ran out of film so the movie's over. 'Course we ran out of story a few minutes back, so things just kinda ground to a stop.

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On the plus side, no more racism ranch july vacations.

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And… Grandpa would’ve been fine if everybody else hadn’t left. But he was an asshole, so anyway. #monsterdon

This was a movie. But the rich died! Good for the frogs and friends! Thanks @Taweret for hosting and everybody for joining #monsterdon

Moral of the story:

Never enter a staring contest with a frog!

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Legitimately cannot decide if that ending counts as abrupt in my book.

This was a really good #Monsterdon pick. Not so bad that it isn't any fun to watch it, but not particularly good anywhere through except in fits and starts, and in its individual acting.

Have a nice night, y'all!

Well, unlike many of the people in that movie, we survived. Thanks @ryan for the stream and @Taweret, as always, for hosting!

I kind of want to see an edit that is just the animal footage, with soothing music overtop.

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Lenny the frog be just like "Call him again, George, that was amazing, did you see him jump?!"

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#Monsterdon * long exhale through nose *

Roll credits, aka the wall of shame.

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Well I think the Animals were in control of the whole game from the start, props to the Frog General whose master plan really put's Humanity's schemes to shame.
MVP to the Mocking Lizards, for the Chemical Attack and Boat Sabotage.

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The frogs, the snakes, and phones... All the animals are turning against us.

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Was not expecting the cartoon frog in the credits #Monsterdon

Boom! Abrupt Ending!
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OK, and that's it.

Thanks everyone for helping identify animals and how to be safe outside!

Big thanks to all the participants and @Taweret for continuing to run the madhouse that is #monsterdon .

Smell ya next week! :D

Lights out. Nicely done. Still not really scary. #Monsterdon

@whknott that's usually what happens around butt cracks....climax. #monsterdon

The frogs are using some kind of sonic attack! #monsterdon #frogs

Credits frog?

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The call is coming from inside the frog pond.
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Did they kill him by sitting on him? How did that... What do... Really, movie? #monsterdon

Grampa is the kind of guy who converted all his wealth to cash, put it in the house, and would burn it all to spite his "disloyal" family. Got it.

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end credits frog rap!

that was fun, thanks folks! #monsterdon

#monsterdon This film should have been entitled "Bad Acid Trips, or: The Disapproval of the Frogs" (1972)

Uhhh... so what happened to Bobby, Colonel, Sam's open shirt, etc. etc.?!?! #monsterdon

THE FROGS GOT ONE! #monsterdon

Kudos to the Frog Wrangler, I guess.

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The frogs are just playing "King of the Milland"

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"What's your dog's name?"

"Fluffy"

<on phone> "Mom, how's Rover?"

<reply> "Ribbet-Rover's just great! Ribbit."

"Your dog is frogged."

@sean "the frog says: dieeeeee"

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OMG the large-mouth bass makes a sound like FLIPPER?
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THAT IS NOT A SOUND FISH MAKE

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"You should count yourself lucky, Mr. Pickett! This was once a thrill only Roman emperors could afford!"

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