It was nice to finally see the origin of this meme #monsterdon

Hiding from my responsibilities in a cursed building, pounding away on an antique typewriter while my hell hound growls menacingly at those who would edit my prose.

Yes, yes. We all know how the writing process works.

#Monsterdon

You can tell they're not in Oregon because the creeps on bikes would be emos on unicycles.

#Monsterdon

I was sorry to miss #Monsterdon tonight, since they had a genuinely good movie lined up tonight. But in my defense, I was distracted by this surprise sunset popping up on the western horizon even while we were under grey rain and clouds.

August 9, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #sunset #michigan #summer #art #MastoArt

Sam Neill is such a good actor.

This is entirely too highly rated to be a #monsterdon

"What about the people who don't read?"

"There's a movie."

Lol😂

#Monsterdon

A bunch of random children declaring themselves to be my problem IS like peak horror for me. They don't even have to be deformed or injured.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

*sign on the front of the black church front door* "ANY WHO DARE ENTER THIS UNHOLY PLACE BE DAMNED FOREVER"

yes yes we all know how a walmart works

#monsterdon

I used to drive between Houghton and Marquette and Iron Mountain in the UP late late at night and this is the same vibe.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

See, he's clearly not Stephen King, he's writing about NEW HAMPSHIRE.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

SUTTER CANE'S
MINIMUM UNDERTRUCK

#Monsterdon

Ha, a nice touch at the end. #Monsterdon

*Sam Neill's character, desperately trying to reconnect with consensus reality, sits in a room devoid of personality, watching a black and white film where a space man in a silly monster suit carries a woman off screen while someone shouts "no, no!"*

Awwwww he's just like the rest of us

#monsterdon

"They'll lose the ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality!"

Yeah yeah we've all seen TikTok.

#Monsterdon

"What if reality was being re-written by a hack horror novelist"

Yeah, that sounds about right.

#Monsterdon

OH SURE

READ THE CRAZY-MAKING BOOK

IN THE CRAZY TOWN

NO PROBLEM

#Monsterdon

This makes me nostalgic for the days when people read books.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

There was a weird period of cinema where nobody was a cop or a detective, they were insurance investigators. Never really got it, like, it doesn't make your character LESS of a cop. #Monsterdon

OH GOD

CARPAINTER

MR. CARPAINTER WHO WANTS TO PAINT THE WORLD BLUE

I JUST FUCKING GOT IT

#Monsterdon #Earthbound

Honest talk but I will defend Ghostbusters II with my life.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

this is basically what happened every year at the Scholastic Book Fair

#monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness1994

SUTTER CANE

DEFINITELY NOT STEPHEN KING

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness1994

MFW the credits roll on a Monsterdon film

Wow. A BOOK STORE

I miss those.

#Monsterdon

Sam just casually hiking down a New York alley of the evening, as one does. #Monsterdon

Agent with an axe to grind, what else is new. #Monsterdon

Pandemic of utter evil sounded a lot more far-fetched in 1994, I'll tell ya that much.

#Monsterdon

"Even if everything I've said is Looney Tunes, pull it the book. Don't distribute it. It'll drive people crazy."

"I certainly hope so. The movie comes out next month."

The movie starring Sam Neill! THEY SAID THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE

*one very small confetti popper goes off*

*in the distance, a tidal wave*

#monsterdon

This is basically the same plot at The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

#monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness1994

bring back practical horror effects

they don't even do practical blood splatter anymore

#monsterdon

Something came leaking out of the church and corrupted the minds of the people nearby?

I have bad news for you about what churches are in the business of doing.

#Monsterdon

If I was a small telekinetic child I also would flap big ol' doors back and forth for fun.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

I'm not used to seeing a filmmaker that knows what they're doing on #Monsterdon

Dean Koontz wishes he could be Sutter Cane.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

SUTTER CANE'S
THE TIME-EATING MEATBALLS

#Monsterdon

Man this soundtrack goes HARD.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

Had to miss #Monsterdon today, so I muted the hashtag, and now my timeline is 90% hidden posts and 5% Monsterdon posts that don't include the hashtag.

The mental institution hallway was shot at the R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant in Toronto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._C._Harris_Water_Treatment_Plant#/media/File:R._C._Harris_Water_Treatment_Plant_interior_2025.JPG

#Monsterdon #MouthOfMadness94

"Every species can smell its own extinction"

Smells piney.

#Monsterdon

Sam y'gotta stop axing people questions. #Monsterdon

"Wait a minute, you're Charlton Heston"

Heston laughs

"Always was kid, always was"

#Monsterdon

Cute, on the motel TV we get a Monsterdon within a Monsterdon

#Monsterdon

He did it, he screamed the scream!

One of Sam Neill's all-time best.

#Monsterdon

"I DIDN'T SEE SHIT"

Perfect compliment for Sam, who has seen some shit.

#Monsterdon

meanwhile, in EVENT HORIZON

#Monsterdon

(Squishing and cracking) is always a good subtitle.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

As an occasional writer, I wonder if my characters feel like this.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

Sorry pal, your lady friend has discovered monsterfucker romance.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

ok, this movie is fucking awesome #monsterdon

she's called Mrs. Pickman and yet she wields an axe, curious

#Monsterdon

YOU JUST GOT STYLED ON #Monsterdon

"It's all real Trent!"

Muppet Babies was based on fact!

#Monsterdon

"A place of pain and suffering beyond human suffering"

Chief we've already watched Planet Earth (1974)

#Monsterdon

ACAB

All Cops Are Bearers of something horrible from just barely beyond human ken, knowable and unknowable at the same time

And also bastards.

#Monsterdon

"Cane is known to have an effect on his less-stable readers."

Yeah, these days that's called an algorithmic feed.

#Monsterdon

I am really enjoying all these horror novel covers in the background.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

This is how I also feel whenever I hear the Carpenters.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

@klu9 Yeah, this is more like Prints of Darkness. #Monsterdon

Y'think Sam Neill woke up every morning like, "Another day in the pretending-to-be-driven-insane-by-eldritch-beings mines." #Monsterdon

Probably stay away from GHOSTS OF MARS though. I hope that will be a #Monsterdon showing in the future but it's not worth chasing down on your own until you're a committed Carpenter-head.

Maybe we'll be able to do BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA sometime, though? Tubi does have a listing for it but I imagine the rights don't come their way often.

oh thank gawd it's over i can stop now

#Monsterdon

This was REALLY good!

#monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

This is so meta, I'm getting confused. A movie from a book about a book that's turned into a movie.

#Monsterdon

Oo, mass tentacle time at the infirmary :D

#Monsterdon

A cautionary tale about the dangers of mass literacy, and movie adaptations.

#Monsterdon

You'd think someone would have noticed the book driving people crazy within 7 months after publication and maybe thought to not turn it into a movie

#Monsterdon #MouthOfMadness94

SUTTER CANE'S
TRIASSIC PERK

#Monsterdon

So Sutter wrote Sam being attacked by Illithids for shits and giggles? #Monsterdon

As a million creatures too expensive to film came toward our hero, trust us! #Monsterdon

Old Ones mention! Take a drink.

#Monsterdon

I don't think putting Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft together *quite* works. They're trying to pull off a niche author who is somehow an epochal publishing phenomenon, a writer who'd be famous among nerds who like to sing Cthulhu carols becoming somehow a worldwide celebrity. It doesn't *quite* gel.

I wonder if it would work better if Cane were portrayed as an author who'd started with books like *Carrie* and then *became* weird in the squamous eldritch chthonian sense.

#Monsterdon

Oh shit, get out, Sam! You got Illithids! #Monsterdon

This is how AI training works

#Monsterdon

Neil Gaiman's in there. #Monsterdon

The "any who enter this unholy place be damned forever" sign on the front of my church has a lot of people asking questions that are answered by the sign on the front of my church

#Monsterdon

Sam, stop telling the woman about all the ways you bust. #Monsterdon

Oh good, this film needed a love interest. #Monsterdon

Tonight's feature has been brought to you by Sweating and Cigarettes

#Monsterdon

HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING
HE KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE A PALEONTOLOGIST

#Monsterdon

SUTTER CANE'S
SENTIENT CAR

#Monsterdon

John Carpenter can't survive in a non-tobacco atmosphere

#Monsterdon

Arts and crafts are important <3 #Monsterdon

If you're a fan of John Carpenter we will be featuring some more on Saturday, 8/15, for #KungFuSat Noon ET. Internet archive link will be provided. #monsterdon

«Critics generally commended the film on its technical aspects, particularly its special effects, acting, and directing, but perceived it as being too complicated, confusing, pretentious, and underwhelming.»

"too complicated" say critics about movie whose entire script is structured around a denialist character who has the literal plot of the movie explicitly explained to him multiple times

One wonders what else those critics struggle with understanding.

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe I think Mouth of Madness works as well as it can while still being a movie. The pure concept would work better as a book. Kinda? But it's easier to loop itself over and over to replay differently in a movie that would just seem tedious in a book. *shrug*
#Monsterdon

"Human interaction was monitored by the Inter Planetary Psychiatric Association. The body count was high, the casualties are heavy."

(at the end of credits)

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

So In The Mouth Of Madness was NOT a porno after all.

#Monsterdon

@paco agreed.
We expect less quality. But sometimes #monsterodn gets us off guard.
Gee, I remember the original wicker man. That was disturbing...
#monsterdon
#inthemouthofmadness1994

SUTTER CANE'S
LAST ACTION HERO

#Monsterdon

Oh, it's ending like Blazing Saddles! #Monsterdon

This is what happens if you don't fund the SCP Foundation

#Monsterdon

God is SO a hack horror writer

#Monsterdon

[horror drumkit plays]

#Monsterdon

@SnoopJ Everything's fine, time to go live out a perfectly normal rest of his life!

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

oh, thank goodness, he's back in the real world

so glad that the horrors are through

#Monsterdon

Every time I've seen this movie, I find that it's full of *great* bits that don't fully cohere into a great whole. So many of the moments of Styles being puppetted are fantastic, I think, for example.

The sum total is good, but not as great as the parts.

#Monsterdon

Linda looking at that tear in reality like she's got some naughty ideas for it.

#Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

SUTTER CANE'S
X-FILES EPISODE

#Monsterdon

BLESS ME FATHER FOR I HAVE SINNED

I HAVE BEEN IN A JOHN CARPENTER FILM

#Monsterdon

Sam at some point y'gotta accept the encounter is scripted. #Monsterdon