QUAID! START THE REACTOR! #monsterdon

cool sets tho

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Just wander into the alien hive, idiot boy.

What the hell was the robot for?!

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The red glowing cave seems fine. You should go in.

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Wait teacher gives scalpels and fresh live frogs to 4th graders AND drives a *windowless panel van* around? The space bug probably made her more *normal* than before #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Those 80s bicycles in the school parking lot!! 💖 💖 💖

...that age when kids were still allowed to bike to school... 💔 💔 💔

@randy_s lol, genuine fear #monsterdon

This is fine. #monsterdon

Why does she keep calling the nurse Sister? Am I missing some alien thing or is it just, like, late 70s vernacular being used in the 80s?

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Louise keeps calling people "sister." I think she forgot she's not a nun in this one. #Monsterdon

I have boil on my bum
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#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 The parents decide to not zombify the kid yet, and he goes to school, where another child accosts him about the spaceship story he has been telling everyone. He catches one of the spooky cops from earlier talking to his teacher about some evil plan to destroy something that involves George, who I think is the dad's name. The child catches the teacher writing "Field Trip" on the backboard as eerie music plays.

This movie is GREAT
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wait. how does an alien mind control thing in your neck make you able to swallow a whole frog?

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@davesdogmaggie I just open the tag feed instead of the regular feed while I'm doing #Monsterdon so I don't have to care about anything else people are posting

Can't talk. Frog in my throat. #Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986

You seem to have a frog in your throat, Mrs. McKeltch #monsterdon

Stop eating bacon weird you freaks!

*In a Vincent Price voice

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#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 after not much happening, it becomes a night time and we decide to go outside, where the suited father and another suspicious guy jump out of the goddamn bushes and act like normal earthlings. The other dude is I guess also an alien zombie, and he works for the phone company, so he'll probably wander off to do something evil like invent Comcast.

It's just as well the boy is not a good actor or this movie could be really disturbing

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The fence obscuring everything beyond it is a pretty good device
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#Monsterdon just leaping outta the bushes like that lmfao

Very good synchronized nodding to indicate human consensus 🙂‍↕️

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@Taweret@octodon.social she's not dealing with the affairs at all, it's always wild excuses for him.....

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That entrance was worthy of Kramer.

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#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars1986 after a very normal earthling breakfast, where the zombie alien dad eats a pez dispenser all at once, the kid goes to school and it is frog dissection week, because the 1980s was a cursed time when we killed innocent frogs to teach kids biology facts that they will not remember anyway.

To protest all these rules, we have a frog fight. A girl is tragically frogged and then the kid is taken to the nurse for his part in this amphibian violence.

Tobe Hooper really wants you to know all the other things he's done. Does Leatherface make a surprise guest appearance?

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@wohali@octodon.social Lifeforce (1985), also directed by Tobe Hooper

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#Monsterdon Has the teacher been possessed by aliens or is she just an asshole?

Tobe Hooper directed Poltergeist which was produced by Spielberg. So, the whole frog thing might be a sort of tribute.

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The next morning they are enjoying an earthling breakfast, and then the dad wakes up, forgets what coffee is and is missing a slipper. He makes some normal earthling conversation, which is a clue to the audience that he is actually an Evil Alien! Also the Bluefin parasite from that one Star Trek TNG episode has infected his neck, which is another clue.

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If I ever go to America a big old yellow school bus would be one of those things I would point at like the tourists do with the buses here.

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Not sure I'd be letting Dad touch me after witnessing that little coffee scene

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Ah yes, every science class has a LIVE frog in a jar. For Frog Week, as you do.

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After the dad leaves, a giant glowing spaceship lands, in the backyard that looks almost exactly like the matte painting from the original movie. The spaceship is like one of those cartoony meteor orbs, only the craters are like weird glowing engines or something.

Anyway, the kid freaks out about this spaceship landing and wakes up his parents, who of course come to inspect and when they look out the window it has vanished without a trace.

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Dad has been wanking al night in the shed and hasn't slept, stumbles into breakfast dazed with shame

But he will do it again tonight...

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Yeah that's why they give him a big personality. So the change in personality is more obvious 🗞️ 💥

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Who drinks a soda first thing in the morning????

the repeat of the hill set is delightful I must admit

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The telescope next to the open window during a storm makes me uncomfortable.

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Hey, we had that solar system poster when I was a kid!

(And that orrery is in a lot of schools)

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AAGH! A martian with a hairy red helmet!

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#Monsterdon Hey, know what would help us stay awake through all these credits? Some coffee. This message brought to you by the #Monsterdon #CoffeeWatch.

Special effect are awesome so far.

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Golan & Globus, my fam!

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"Ziggy played..guitaarrrrrrr"

Let's go!

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@Lazarou Leave the boy; take the cannoli

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@bk1e And if you've nae a haypenny, Martians will eat you!
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@jsadow What! Well that spins that rather differntly! #Monsterdon

@srol

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I'm so curious if this also goes with the "it was all a dream ending." But not curious enough to spend $9 #monsterdon

@jchaven In the 2024 version the invading Martians are eating our household pets #monsterdon

In talking it over, this version works much better as a kid's dream version of the whole film. Whereas the original seemed like he'd really seen an invasion. #Monsterdon

@Taweret Agreed re: Martians look awesome, but they need a better union; clearly their dental plan sucks.

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I thought they were going to copper hill. Why did they go to the school? #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe @yatsu See, this is what they get for running copper between all their data centers, instead of fiber...

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I like how dreamlike the original was shot throughout, which makes the whole ending dream thing properly foreshadowed and here it's just not and that does matter

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i think i liked a lot of the '53 better _particularly_ the school nurse but otoh Kai Ratched was pretty amazing and I do prefer the remake's monsters and alien sets

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Marking bombs as dangerous to make sure nobody gets hurt.
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@Sorl Mostly Pathetic #monsterdon

@LibertyBet tsk, it's Ceres all over again...#Monsterdon

A big thanks to @Taweret for this week's creature feature. It was great to have an original and its remake fairly close together and compare them!

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@jonny Alienception?

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Oh no, the metal detector guys are about to blow our position! Better kill them remotely and have probes spin out of the backs of their necks. Then they'll assume everything is just hunky dory and won't suspect a thing. #monsterdon

The one notable change is this version doesn't include the astronomer. IIRC, He kind of served as a romantic interest for the lady doctor.

In this version it kind of seems like David had a crush on the school nurse, and dreamed her as a damsel in distress who needed to be comforted in times of trouble. #monsterdon

I really hope the writers and directors got therapy for their family trauma. That they in turn shared with us, the audience

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That’s it for this week’s #Monsterdon. Loads of fun. It was great to compare this version of #InvadersFromMars to the original. There were aspects I liked from both, but I definitely liked the Martian creature effects in this one.

Thanks, @Taweret, for hosting and, @cheribaker, for the bingo card, and everyone else for the lulz!

This movie is really struggling in the "make it make sense" department.

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@blue gross. Even #Monsterdon has *standards*

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i prefer the creatures from original Invaders From Mars

@north No one wants to see what he saw. #Monsterdon

Everything was better than the 1953 version except the ending.

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On to the next remake! I assume it will be a romance movie

That was weird but also kind of unexpectedly good... thanks for hosting @Taweret and thanks everyone for the commentary as always!

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And then Amazon Prime queued up Howard the Duck *shudder* #monsterdon

And another #Monsterdon ends as David fucks off into Mom & Dad's bedroom

Some improvements over the first one, particularly where the mind-controlled humans were concerned and the bizarre "it was all for copper" plotline, but overall I think I liked the original better.

See you all next week!

No movie should end with a kid walking in on his parents, screaming.

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No alien meatball dance party at the end? C'mon man.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

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Pro tip: you can look out a window without opening it

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #InvadersFromMars is from 1986, and is a remake of the original 1953 film. We not only had full color, and big hair, but also:
- Coffee with Tic Tacs!
- Frog week!
- Original movie fence, hill, and path! You know the one.
- Mobile taxidermy van!
- A brain alien that looks like a mash up of ET and a toad, but in a good way!
- Brain stem implants!
- Great puppetry and practical effects!
- Penny powered ray gun!

Well ... we all know what "mom and dad" were doing ...

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Yeah, at that point I'm just gonna steal the car and leave town. Like, that shit was bad enough the first time, I'm out of here. #Monsterdon

David is going to be psychologically traumatized and unable to trust anyone for the rest of his life. #Monsterdon

OK, well, that was a movie. Thanks everyone! Have a great night.

ty @Taweret and the entire #monsterdon crew.

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David only runs flailing his arms, as it was the style at the time #monsterdon

Oh no, the film is Groundhog Invaders from Mars Day. #monsterdon

I'm falling behind because I keep pausing to read comments. #monsterdon

@allanb slightly exploded on the way

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See, they had this great plot twist on Dallas, and we thought ... why not end our movie that way?

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#Monsterdon Anyway Was it just a dream (like it was in the earlier version) or is it a timeloop?

Gee David that nightmare was so cool, I think I'll make a movie about it
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@moira Admittedly, I think it's just some undefined nuclear reaction (that given the capabilities shown has way more energy than implied by direct matter-energy conversion). But it's been a while since I read any EE Smith

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#Monsterdon Once AGAIN. Pennies (even probably in the 80s) were mostly Zinc! The Aliens could do better

"I liked the part about the martians coming to steal the copper" does sound like a #monsterdon post.

#monsterdon Okay that's it, the end. The movie ended at 1:32:00 Just stop it there, trust me, nothing good lay beyond

That's a weapon? I thought it was a testicle #monsterdon

So, the penny was the Chekhov’s gun. #Monsterdon

Haaaaaaaang on. If you're going to go the "it's all a dream" route like the original (LAME) why have the parents survive? Make it a real nightmare and kill the parents! #monsterdon

I swear to fuck if this was a dream

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Don't you hate it when your 5th vertebrae explode?

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Oh hey my favorite character from the original, that hill!

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