he'd be a lot more comfortable if they'd just fill the swimming pool

#monsterdon
#gorgo

Dun dun dun. Congratulations baby snatchers. Mom's gonna be PISSED. #Monsterdon #Gorgo

MAMA'S COMIN' !!!!!!!

Time to evacuate! You should have already arranged training from the Japanese, but you were too busy exploiting stuff!

#Gorgo #FreeGorgo
#Monsterdon

Yep: You Stole a Baby. You monsters.

#monsterdon
#gorgo

Gods, all of these animals are so fucking stressed out. Free themmmmm! #Gorgo #Monsterdon #FreeGorgo #JusticeForGorgo

is he asking him to go to a hotel with him? i mean, they're still jerks, but... #monsterdon

Booooring! Can't he ride a bicycle or something? #Monsterdon

Love how the flame throws viewed from the front have maybe 0.5-1 meter of flame, and from the back roasting poor Gorgo it looks like many, many meters.

#Monsterdon

he doesn't have nearly enough water :(

#monsterdon #gorgo

#monsterdon Flame Throwers! They were standing by? Is that a thing you can have in London? Truck full of guys with flamethrowers?

It's so they can promote the event as a Gorgasm #monsterdon

fuck them up, Gorgo!!

#monsterdon

Yes, Gorgo! Kill, kill! #Monsterdon

Holy shit, two different women with lines! :O

#Monsterdon

@plaidtron3000 Huh I thought Gorgo looked no more than a few meters tall (like 20 feet) on the beach

#Monsterdon

it's the most important scientific discovery of the century, so obviously we put it in a circus. #monsterdon

#monsterdon This film is well done.

I really like these london scenes.

"8th wonder of the world." now where have i heard that before? 🤔 #monsterdon

OH HEY! A woman with an ACTUAL LINE! :O #Monsterdon

DORKINS CIRCUS

someone's a fuckin dork alright

#monsterdon #gorgo

"Look, we had a pest, I called the Dorkin man."

#monsterdon
#gorgo

Everything’s turning up Dorkin!

#monsterdon
#Gorgo

So, is "Marching Band" customary for kaiju capture?

#monsterdon

MONSTROUS TRIVIA

The short film "Gorgo vs. Godzilla" was directed by John Carpenter before he became famous. He has never allowed the film to be screened or released in any way. In *his* words, it is "devastatingly bad".

#Gorgo #FreeGorgo
#Monsterdon

The kid came with? #monsterdon

"It's the water off the animal!"
You mean it's pee?
#monsterdon #gorgo

"You little knothead!"

Hot new insult just dropped

#Monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie
If we ever make a #Monsterdon t-shirt, this quote is going across my boobs.

@aburka TOP MEN

#Monsterdon

kid says, Direct Action. #monsterdon

Gorgo needs to be kept damp at all times, so they are taking him to London #monsterdon

you know, dublin. in IRELAND. WHERE WE ARE SET

#monsterdon #gorgo

@Taweret Those wacky Irish and their pranks on the international scientific community! #Monsterdon

#JusticeForGorgo

#monsterdon

"An elaborate Irish hoax"

Feck off

#Monsterdon

Ah yes top paleontologists. The paleontologist laureate. Top men are on this. #monsterdon

conventional weapons are not effective against kaiju. nets tho? super effective. they should sent in the fishermen not the army #monsterdon

“Great, we caught it! Let’s take it back to a place with lots of people and buildings!” #Monsterdon

sam will NOT pull out... 😔 #Monsterdon

all hands on nets? i thought it was all hands on deck. 0/10 crew

#monsterdon #gorgo

why did i think being sealed in a can and lowered straight down at the kaiju was a good idea?

#monsterdon

Aww, they made one of those mouse-on-a-string toys for Gorgo!

#Gorgo #Monsterdon

I was worried when I realized I’d got a crappy 320x240 version, but it fits the vibe of this movie.

#Monsterdon #Gorgo

some of this movie is well shot and looks really good
and they're making good use of a fun location. its got a good atmosphere

#monsterdon don

It's like a little metal underwater snack box. #Monsterdon #Gorgo

@floatybirb he chose... pooooorly #monsterdon #gorgo

interesting sex dungeon he'd got down here-- oh wait, sorry. wrong movie. #monsterdon

@jonny If the president of the US can't be taken seriously in a tan suit, how can this git hope to be? #monsterdon #gorgo

Gorgo keeps your smile white and your breath fresh! #monsterdon #FuckingAdBreaks

Everybody smokes, but where's the coffee?

#Monsterdon

Fine, I know when I'm not wanted. - gorgo, probably.
#monsterdon

I'm enjoying the monster a lot. Good to see the Gorgo making an appearance so early in the film. Now on to resolving the union pay dispute!

#Monsterdon

these cuts between live on set and shitty bluescreen are giving me life

#monsterdon #gorgo

<throws torch into monster's mouth>
British monster has encountered spicy food for first time in its life. It's super effective! #monsterdon #gorgo

Yeeting logs on fire at it! That'll defeat the monster! #Gorgo #Monsterdon

some scientists claim #Gorgo is a hoax! I wish I knew about about field work before choosing a lousy lab-based area of research in real life :(

#monsterdon making me regret life choices #Gorgo

Did you just harpoon me in the fucking head, you little shit?

#Monsterdon

was that kid speaking Gaelic and being dubbed over in English? Anyways the lack of lip sync sparks joy in me #Monsterdon

This kid is a better actor than all the adults in this movie

#monsterdon

@yatsu @trixter if you're on this archive.org version ( https://archive.org/details/PhantasmagoriaTheater-Gorgo1961992 ), which is awful, this one ( https://archive.org/details/gorgo-1961 ) is substantially better #monsterdon

Creepy trilling flutes = imminent monster. It's a scientific soundtrack fact!

#Monsterdon

i'm going to go but i'm absolutely going to complain about it

relatable

#monsterdon #gorgo

#Monsterdon Yeah, if I had to be in this movie, I'd probably die from fright, too. Scared of my career dying.

#monsterdon he died of fright. Not the bends.

"They can speak English as well as you, but they prefer to swear at you in Irish." #monsterdon

the boy's pants are much longer than usual for movies of this type and era. usually they wear tiny shorts #monsterdon

Ok, but which form of Gaelic? I demand linguistic precision in my monster movies.

Not that I can understand any of them.

#Monsterdon

something's eating him
-- and we'll hopefully get to see it in the rubber-flesh some time in the next hour. #monsterdon

WE'RE IN IRELAND, BY THE WAY. JUST IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED

#monsterdon #gorgo

who could resist a wee irish orphan #Monsterdon

Almost bagpipie music to indicate Scotland? Ireland? #Monsterdon

Surprisingly good production values on this #monsterdon film.

Not sure how I feel about that. Doesn't seem right.

[David Attenbrough voice]

Here we see the Boatof Whitemenus attempting to signal its interest for a mate in these waters. Quite the site

#monsterdon

I'm just going to get the obvious out of the way now.

They're gonna need a bigger boat

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Do they all shop at L.L. Bean?

They need to be careful. From what I've learned from movies, Deep-sea salvage ALWAYS results in either monsters or ghosts.

It's the most dangerous job. #monsterdon

By Poseidon's bath bomb! #monsterdon

@Bluedepth I find it mildly tilting that they omitted the accent

#Monsterdon

How the hell did people in the 60s sit through 30 minutes of credits before the movie started?

#monsterdon

The producers wish to thank the Royal Navy for letting us play on their boats in exchange for making them look halfway competent in case of an emergency <3 #Monsterdon

Launching my #monsterdon thread for #Gorgo, some movie with a giant lizard in it that I guess steps on stuff. Some classic concepts should never die.

Monsterdon is the thing where we watch an old monster movie every week and praise and/or make fun of it. If this appeals not to you, then mute the hash tag or face a flood of postings.

#monsterdon Gor GO!

It begins! Hit play, y'all!

#Monsterdon

let's fucking gorGOOOOOO

#monsterdon #gorgo

Looks like they fixed it #monsterdon https://mastodon.org.uk/@bigben/111757971230900422

@CactuarJoe It's okay didn't you read the sign it says "_IN_flammable" oh whoops oh shit now what #monsterdon

For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about Gorgo (and their mom).

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

#Monsterdon Early Data
hit 1300+ toots this week, most today

Oh Also! Thanks to everyone who finally FINALLY voted Gorgo in! It was worth the wait! #Monsterdon #Gorgo

@paco Some are still working on doing away with the sovereign #monsterdon

@Taweret Though finders keepers didn't work out too well for the circus people

#Monsterdon

Big thank you to @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon tonight; Gorgo is always a good choice.

@paco A quick web search (taken with a grain of salt) says UK inflation between 1961 and now is 2,132.38%

If I've done the math right, 5 shillings in 1961 would be 5 pounds, 33 pence today.

#Monsterdon

@trixter True, a little cross dressing all in fun #monsterdon

@strangefour hey #monsterdon anybody know this movie?

Dear #monsterdon,

You have been invading my timeline, more of you every week. It's fantastic!

I know almost nothing about these movies y'all watch but I love it! Keep up the good work.

@trixter @Taweret Homosexuality exists #monsterdon

@joewynne @aburka oh noes what have I done

OK yes everyone is living happily in the ruins of London, or in the sea, carry on 😛

#Monsterdon

@paco I think that's how much it costs per square inch

#monsterdon
#Gorgo

@Zerofactorial @paco Absolutely _shocking_.

#monsterdon #gorgo