#monsterdon Well, that was a terrible movie. But at least it was short and it kept moving. So that's still kind of fun.
After the dirt-bikers were introduced, I was worried that we'd get long, tedious dirt-biking sequences, but not really.
For a species that means us no harm they sure seem to be doing a lot of harm #monsterdon
@strangefour oviposition kink what?
Oh to be surprised by a scalie clawed lady wanting to lead me deeper into her cave.
#Monsterdon #Gargoyles #Gargoyles1972
Theory: dirbike hooligan was right, there were no gargoyles, they were just sniffing glue
Gargoyle king... are you flirting in front of your queen? Is that what you two are into?
"We saw you from across the parapets and liked your energy. Wanna come back to our cave for some egg play?"
#Monsterdon #Gargoyles #Gargoyles1972
Well, that'll teach me not to vote. Thanks @Taweret and everyone else making #monsterdon happen!
This movie is like 80% of the way to a really good movie. But the 70sness and some wonky messenging and low budget (that is uses every inch of) hold it back.
#Monsterdon #Gargoyles #Gargoyles1972
...I have no words
Judging by the gargoyles in the first half of the movie, all I need to do is wait an hour and then I'll be delivering eloquent speeches about how weird that movie was
Thank you @Taweret and all for thoroughly breaking my brain today... a good ol' classic #Monsterdon
"Rocks, my only weakness!" #monsterdon
The lift to thrust ratio is all wrong for that thing #monsterdon
Monsters on horses? HMMMM.
#Monsterdon #Gargoyles #Gargoyles1972
#Monsterdon And that’s a wrap until the next 1000 year cycle! Thanks as always to the incomparable @Taweret for organizing, hosting, and commentary!
@lytta most of us weren't sure either
mostly i remember a desk lamp coming down from space and then leaving before it ever landed
Cowboys on horses shooting the native gargoyles for living in their own cave lands?
Oh. OH NO.
#Monsterdon #Gargoyles #Gargoyles1972
I need more #Monsterdon so going to watch Werewolf of Washington as I missed that one
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Well that started out kindof ok
They’re getting away very slowly …
well now that I have AIR CONDITIONING, I'll go back and watch the movie #monsterdon
(The bar that night)
It just sucks! Every 400 hundred years we get all ready to take over the world and we just fuck it up! Barkeep, another whiskey, neat
#Monsterdon
It's day for night. It's badly shot in slomo. Is it wirework? Did they catapult them off the ground and get what they could in the air? Why didn't they make the wings any bigger?
These are only the questions I have for the last ten seconds of the movie.
I have many more about the rest. They will never be answered.
Ideas were had. Some of them made it into the movie.
Another #Monsterdon in the books. Made-for-TV is a good fit for us, I hope we return to that well sometime!
Another #Monsterdon is in the can!
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
Tonight's feature, #Gargoyles, from 1972, had a little of everything, including:
- Uncle "Crispy" Willie!
- Hood surfing Gargoyle teens!
- Gargoyle egg hatching!
- A surprise ending, and by that I mean ... "Surprise! It's the end!"
@berniethewordsmith lol I read this right as head gargoyle popped up with "You are clever. Your choices allowed you and your kind to survive. They also allow my kind to survive."
What the fuck? That's it?? Lol
“You’ll believe a gargoyle can fly.” #Monsterdon
grayson hall, great job, ma'am. #monsterdon
That's an ending, I guess.
oh, so NOW he flies #monsterdon
i'll take that as the weakest ass gargoyle flying scene you could ask for #monsterdon
Dude just utterly bricked someone with a rock! #monsterdon
Fortunately the cans were full of napalm...
Doc went to the same hand-to-hand fighting school as Shatner #monsterdon
@Taweret yeah this incineration of the nursery is Star Trek Enterprise level of war crime it seems #Monsterdon
the villain in the story really is the dad's hero complex here. he could have sent for backup and gotten some support that would allow them to like negotiate and maybe come to some kind of peace with the gargoyles. his motivation is explicitly to just write a book about his conquering of the gargoyles singlehandedly #monsterdon
Now all the omelettes are going to taste like premium leaded. And be super bad for you.
People around this doctor sure do catch fire a lot. #Monsterdon
i keep feeling like Denim Boy is gonna turn out to be some new boy band lead singer. like, his entire personality is "she was nice to me hurrr" but he has so many speaking lines. #monsterdon
Aaaaand our heroes roast a maternity room full of babies alive. :/ #Monsterdon
15 gallons of gasoline will surely destroy tens of thousands of gargoyle eggs
#Monsterdon #Gargoyles1972
YOU FOOL NO THINK OF THE OMELETTES YOU COULD MAKE NOOOOOOOOOO
yeah, it seems like the gargoyles are kind of people and murdering them en masse is kinda wrong
Why do both the humans and the gargoyles assume that gargoyles are even capable of taking over the world?
They don't seem like particularly good fighters.
#Monsterdon Appalling slow chase scene through cave system coincidentally leads Discount Indy to allies.
weird eyes, grating voices, growing underground for years and years... these motherfuckers are cicada #monsterdon
@Louisa Also not a fan of the way the other 'goyles keep fondling the eggs
SHE WAS MY BUTTERFLY
my #Monsterdon feed is currently divided 50/50 between people who are horny for the gargoyles and people who wish they could be horny for the gargoyles
👹 TRIVIA ON THE ROOF 👹
The Good News: Filmmakers used neoprene wetsuits covered in fishnet and small pieces of rubber to make the gargoyle costumes.
The Bad News: Temperatures reached 100 degrees F during filming.
I was thinking earlier that Dr. Boyle's actor is giving me a lot of Shatner vibes, and that mini fight scene clinches it. Two-handed back hit and all.
you know what? gargoyle egg cave looks kinda cool
Shades of Mew-Tants running around in the caves last week @_@ #Monsterdon
I would think about tagging all the #Monsterdon shit I boost for spoilers but let's be honest, no one will or, frankly, ever should see this movie
How many times have we checked off the SHOOT AT YOUR PROBLEMS box on the Bingo card? 😆
#Monsterdon
@jonny disturbingly I find myself hoping for a sequel
how do you feel about...interspecial dating
ewwww, creepy Gargoyle King, these monsters can go fuck themselves this time
Oh, how cute. It’s baby Yod… Oh, never mind. #Monsterdon
@Lazarou aw but the cute baby gargoyles
#Monsterdon Gargoyle who can read perfectly well insists that the girl read gargoyle porn from the colonial era out loud. Weird flex, movie.
"You too are our prisoners in the land of gargoyles. And now, you're left on your own recognizance. Don't forget about tasty treats for elevenses. "
Yeah, King Gargoyle is kinda hot. #Monsterdon shouldn't be awaken things in me, dammit.
we're closing in on 10 minutes remaining in a made for TV movie and we have just begun scratching the surface of the gargoyle lore #monsterdon
#Monsterdon You know by that cackle, I think these gargoyles might be evil. 🤔
#Gargolyes1972
Kudos to the horse who's okay with being ridden by Bernie the gargoyle #monsterdon
I thought they were going to use the scientist and his daughter to start a new race as befits the blatant incest theme.
For the safety of mother gargoyles, I hope they don't have to lay the eggs on this size.
#monsterdon
WHAT IS THIS SCALIE SHIT #monsterdon #gargoyles1972
so we all agree that this movie happened because the writer found this cave and wanted to film in it, right? #monsterdon
@floatybirb Maybe they're inflatable #monsterdon
Man, where's Jim Kirk when you need him? We could really use a good "In another life, I could have called you... Friend." speech. #Monsterdon
10 minutes to go. What in Gorgo's name could possibly happen in this movie in that time?
actually scratch that, he has the evil laugh down pat to be a supervillain
OK the gargoyle riding a horse is incredible
They definitely need to form a superhero squad. He's got the snark for it and everything.
real Planet of the Apes vibes here #Monsterdon
What the fuck are they doing to Bernie Casey’s Voice? #Monsterdon
@Taweret no two are alike that must've been budget busting
why does the movie have narration establishing that the cycle is 600 years long, and then the characters repeatedly emphasize that it's 500 years long?
someone give the gargoyles guns
Oh this is TOTALLY Rise of the Planet of the Apes for scalies. #Monsterdon
those guys were Matt Hoffman before it was cool
Lol, the Gargoyles can ride horses now?
Rather than use their wings of course...
Why is half of this soundtrack played on vacuum cleaners???
Gargoyles look a lot like Fremen at night.
Wow that was a nice junk shot #monsterdon #gargoyles1972
@blogdiva Don't say that! The feds will climb out of their holes in the earth to fucking shoot them! #monsterdon #gargoyles72
#Monsterdon Gargoyles are big on education.
Winged ones are breeders! It WAS sexual dimorphism!
@starkraving666 Presenting (finger gesture) to the ER with
Gargoyles Assemble!
This isn't that bad a death toll for a first contact scenario tbh.
#Monsterdon #Gargoyles1972
yeah i'm rooting for the gargoyles here #Monsterdon
oooh these are dime-store _silurians_ okay I had it wrong
#monsterdon hear me out-
Gargoyles care for their young by lifting and comforting them as a human adult would with a human child? They're really undercutting the horror now