king Gargoyle could've had a future in the NBA had it not been so racist back in 1972.

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I really don't think a little "Dukes of Hazzard" style narration would be out of place in this movie. #Monsterdon

It's late stage Lucille Ball #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Gargoyle is chasing that poor bagpipe player with rusty bellows.

#monsterdon anyway the gargoyles attack the main characters again, knocking a car over. One of them has wings and approaches Makeshift Bikini Lady, causing her to scream until she runs out of scream points and passes out. Then the winged gargoyle decides to fondle her face in an uncomfortable manner while the other gargoyles search the station wagon for bones and or snack packs.

#Monsterdon What’s with the whole flipping angle. You can see your friend. Why make it complicated with the flipping? Satan wasn’t illogical but his children are dumb as a bag of hammers.

#monsterdon The gargoyles are... flipping the station wagon... because that makes it easier for them to get the body of their buddy that they're trying to retrieve..?

#monsterdon not sure if Makeshift Bikini Lady was trying to get the motorcycle dudes out of jail because they were wrongly arrested, or because she thought they were Hawt. or both?

The movie may not explain this, so I'll assume "both".

daughter talking to the cops about the biker guys like she and her dad shouldn't be the primary suspects, LOL

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Just give them back the body of their dead friend, why must we White People always be doing this?!

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old drunk lady rocking a turtle in the middle of the desert because of course she would.

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#monsterdon "Better go with her, one of those gar-thingies is gonna get her!"

"You pipe down and get some sleep!"

god shut up, you're worse than my fitbit

Classic horror movie move: venture into the dark where the danger is #monsterdon

How many innocent souls need to die before this guy gives up his obsession? #Monsterdon

"Rosebud"

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#monsterdon listening to the Spooky Tape Recording for the 70th time today, Captain Demonology encounters some spooky background music and walks out to commune with the goat skull.

Because this is a boring activity, he falls asleep and then a gremlin! I mean... an alien, I mean... a gargoyle attacks him! Actually there's two of them! One of them busts through the wall, oh no!

Anyway, the way they walk kind of reminds me of the mooks from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

#monsterdon MONSTER CLAWS

omg it's the Creature from the Black Lagoon

#monsterdon I was expecting the motorcycle dudes to look more like greasers, but no, they just look like 70s dudes. When the cops arrest them because think they're gang members who stole stuff. The only evidence the cops have are that they found some junk that the cops think was stolen and also "motorcyles go zoooom!"

They protest their innocence. While the National Guild of Laywers is not present, Makeshift Bikini Girl speaks up on their defense.

the perps are alive. qwhite common.

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Ugh - is he going to play the scream tape again?

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Note to self: Find better accommodations next time. #monsterdon

Oh God he's going to do something perverse to the skull!

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@brooke there is a lot of denim all of a sudden #monsterdon

#monsterdon I guess because a goat monster fucked up our station wagon, some new characters, generic cops, appeared to give us a ride. The main characters tell them about the dead wizened hat guy's untimely death, which is probably a good thing to report to the authorities.

Then some wild motorcyle dudes appear and the cops stop to shoot and chase them for no reason. An Extremely Linear Chase Sequence ensues until the motorcycle dudes wash out.

Only 75 minutes long and we're padding with pointless dirtbike chases

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"Yeah, he's dead. We just watched him die"

*Cops laugh

"We do a lot of that to!"

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#Monsterdon She’s murderously horny. Thank you, Horngry Housefrau.

#monsterdon after we get away from the gargoyle thing, which we don't get a good look at because this is a horror film, we drive into a gas station to introduce a new character, Gas Station Man and a different character, Motel Hair Curling Lady. The second is definitely a milf.

Makeshift bikini girl reveals that she is carrying the demon king's skull around; its probably needed to solve an adventure game like puzzle later.

Because nothing bad ever happens in a motel in the middle of nowhere. #monsterdon

missed whatever happened cuz was bereft of food & libations. what did i miss?

btw the old guy looks like that Ford director of westerns, what's his name?

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My last vacation ended similarly. #Monsterdon

Those monster bones really go up given a spark or two.

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70s -- Stop talking, I have to flip the cassete

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:Just a minute, I need to load this bit of software for my Amiga"

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I like how the professor who is a professional crank mocks Desert Willie's gargoyle skeleton like he's Mr Science

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It's a tourist attraction

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#monsterdon Ol' Uncle Willie may be garrulous but affable, but it's difficult these days to see a character sport a red baseball hat without quickly concluding that they are villain-coded.

@trixter There was an ominous wing shadow, and the daughter said "my sexy pictures and your dry prose" to her dad, now you're caught up

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the desert's big
the desert's hot
this movie has
a half-assed plot

burma shave

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JUST SO YOU KNOW--that turn was significant. The music told me so

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#monsterdon "Music composed by: Robert Prince"? Bobby Prince? The same guy who put together the soundtrack for id Software's "Doom" (1996)?? Surely not. Surely..?

weird typeface--are gargoyles gooey?

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600 years after the gargoyles, we have commuter aircraft.

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This is like a Fallout lore monologue

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It was so much fun! Off to watch Facts of Life on Tubi! You take the good, you take the bad, you take em both and there you have..GARGOYLES. But mostly bad #monsterdon

@floatybirb Granted, of the humans in this movie she seems to come out best, ethically speaking. But she was complicit in leaving Willie to die while she rescued the tape recording! #Monsterdon

@Lazarou @floatybirb in this economy?!

or really in this climate

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@Louisa horny motel owner was the film's best character

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My favorite part of Gargoyles is the lead gargoyle carrying off the pretty girl so she can read a dirty book to him. #Monsterdon

I bet some of the gargoyles who were not in the caves ended up on “the Dating Game”.

Bob Eubanks: Bachelor number three likes terrorizing humans and tending giant eggs

Gargoyle : * flaps wings*

Bachelorette : * giggles*

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they tried so many things in this movie and then abandoned them. old willie, the legends around the monsters, the tape, the skull, the body... like when the gargoyles started talking the whole first half of the movie stopped existing #monsterdon

@fluffy I swear, they said 17 year *locust* for some reason

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Well, that sure ended, didn't it?

I think the lesson here is that when the reclusive proprietor of a roadside curio museum wants to meet with you about an exciting discovery he's made, send him a Zoom invite

Thanks everybody! Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting! See y'all next week!

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okay I was about to make a joke about the gargoyles' breeding cycle being the same as the 17-year cicadas but then the movie made the joke for me, and I have to appreciate that level of service. #monsterdon

A poorly lit gargoyle in awkward flight. Majestic. #monsterdon

The premise seemed designed by committee (“we have lizard suits!” “can they be gargoyle suits?” “can we work demonology into this somehow?”). For such a short movie, there was a huge amount of filler, despite doing a couple big exposition dumps early on. I appreciate the cleverness required by the sound department to deal with the budget constraints, but that wasn’t enough to justify the watch.

All in all, I’d say it was … bad, but not in a particularly interesting way. We didn’t have content farms in the 70s, but TV movies were kind of close.

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The Gargoyles must be related to Daleks. #monsterdon

in conclusion, I need to buy limes #Monsterdon

As much as I hate to say it, there is a... okay not quite... _attach an ending_ and there's a decent story in this movie that they _absolutely_ chose not to show us

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Thanks @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon

it seemed like they just killed the gargoyles because that's what you do at the end of a b movie and not because there was any actual reason to

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Well, guess I'm a monsterfucker now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Big sentai vibes, I want to see some Rangers fight these gargoyles. Goodnight #monsterdon!

I like how it ends on these pseudo-mugshots. I want a closing re-cap like an episode of Dragnet.

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well, this has been terrible. thanks @Taweret for hosting and thanks to everyone for being so hilarious!

P. S. people who are getting ads: just fucking install uBlock Origin already

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That ending had a real "the production used up its budget" vibe. #Monsterdon

did they just like... lose the last two pages of script?

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MOVIE OVAR. [No budget remaining]

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I smell a sequel! #monsterdon

also, how is Diana's top still so clean. i think that woman has super powers. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Why would you throw your enemy (a human) down into your hatchery where he could kill your young before they were born?

This gargoyle leader is not the best tactician.

Also, I think this movie is pro gargoyle abortion. 🤔
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so our heroes just murdered a bunch of babies is what just happened

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The Garth Marenghi technique #monsterdon

@gnomon they're only a few weeks old, give these big babies a break

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so we're just gonna do a genocide then i guess

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It's weird how the gargoyles have deep fierce grunts and roars but when they talk they are about as menacing as Gilbert Gottfried

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He is human-curious.

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Happy Life, er, Death Day! #monsterdon

So...who's laying those HUGE eggs? #Monsterdon

Gargoyle erotica, was that on the bingo card tonight? #Monsterdon

@MylesRyden [doomguy intensifies]

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#Monsterdon Look, am I supposed to be rooting for these racist asshole humans or the Gargoyles? Because I’m getting confused as to who the real incarnations of evil are.

Side note: too bad that series never got made into a movie (or more likely TV show) since I'd love a monsterdon style critique of its weird sexual politics and what would sure to be badly CGI'd dragons

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Playing a stunt in slow motion does not make it more impressive.

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Somehow I get the feeling we're not going to see a flying battle of Gargoyles in this movie, are we?

Just a lot of slow motion dance

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@jonny They’re hatching from eggs, and only show up every few hundred years, so are they, like, giant sentient cicadas? #monsterdon

"sometimes they take Human Women"

Man respects Ape personhood, we are not alone

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king Gargoyle is quite cheeky 🤓

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Yes, we're fans of your father's work

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Mrs Parks! Aw drat, no drink that time.

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I know I am just a queer person with a wide and exciting variety of gender-related Issues but I'm not sure her dressing like that while hanging out with her father is okay. #monsterdon

Caress the face, then smack the ass. Thoughtful dom #monsterdon #gargoyles1972

I forget was "Gargoyle ass pat" on the BINGO card? #monsterdon #Gargoyles1972

Quick! The Gargoyles are hugging and purring, time to slip away!

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Wow she's STILL drinking!

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#monsterdon Anyway, the gargoyles kidnapped Makeshift Bikini Lady and carried her off into the forest and/or desert, where they have a secret cave lair.

A new winged gargoyle has dropped who is different from the one I made a poll to name. I'll call this guy the Yazirian.

#monsterdon CACTUS MOTEL MISS HANNIGAN'S TIME TO SHINE

monologue, monologue, monologue, monolgue!!

maam, im becoming concerned about your liver

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will she ever finish that last drop?

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they look even worse in daylight, daylight and slow motion....very bad

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so the gargoyle kin took his daughter and are looking for the body of their dead bro because why wouldn't they?

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