You're not supposed to show the creepy eyes until you already got him balling. #monsterdon

@aprilfollies @Lazarou @Taweret I see what you did there #monsterdon

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched INVASION OF THE KILLER BEE GIRLS (1973). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

#monsterdon Really enjoying the use of the compound vision monster perspective.

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

Thank you @Taweret for hosting our feature! Definitely stung.

and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! The Bee Stamp!! I just played with that during the boring parts with no boobs.

And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: Everyone had a different interpretation of what the goo treatment was, but we achieved Hive Mind on the quality of the film.

🚨 Reminder: There is Monsterdon Gear here!:
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Pillows, hoodies, more

the costuming department just found a style of sunglasses they like and said "good enough" #monsterdon

@SnoopJ I think your review is pretty spot on. There was a lot there to work with, and they had a decent story. They just didn't follow through.

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@CactuarJoe My theory is that this movie is the reason people stopped referring to "balling" #monsterdon

@diazona @wrog Yah, this was well before the series of Mickey Mouse Protection Acts were passed so Also Spracht Zarathustra was well in the public domain by then

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For my money the bee girls were less interesting than the wasp woman was even though she never stripped down. And bees are not wasps #monsterdon

#monsterdon If this movie was un-fun, I would recommend also avoiding *Hell Comes to Frogtown*, which made for an extremely uncomfortable bad-movie night.

@sean @Taweret <claps>

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#InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

@davesdogmaggie I DID. IT DIDN'T HELP

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once more at the bottom of thread:

If you are seeing this and are unsure what #monsterdon is, it's a weekly event at 6pm Pacific on sundays where a bunch of us watch a movie together and post about on the #monsterdon hashtag.
https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

beneath this there are several thousand posts about a movie you weren't watching, and if you don't want to join in the future you should mute "#monsterdon" (or add a temporary mute to clean them up for your feed for now):
https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon#Muting
https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Filters

Oof. Hadn't seen that for almost 20 years - wayyy more gratuitous non-consensual sex stuff than I'd remembered, guess I blocked it out.

Dug the soundtrack, the clothes, the set design, but... oof.

Oh well. Thanks everyone for joining in! Thanks @Taweret for hosting! Good luck this week, see you next Sunday!

#Monsterdon

@wrog It was written in 1896, so yeah, it might have been public domain. I can't imagine that they would have had any reason to license it from the producers of 2001: ASO - I mean, regardless of how popular the latter got, they don't own the rights to that song.

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@msh @Taweret Something about the actors' desire to succeed seemed pathetic to me personally #monsterdon

The main bee woman clawing at her face is a nice touch.
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#AttackOfTheBeeGirls

@jonny @SnoopJ Or have the one woman who tricked the army guy at the quarantine checkpoint show up on a busy city street somewhere and pull down her sunglasses to show bee eyes. #monsterdon

Hm. I guess Richard Strauss is also public domain? (though having this be only a few years after 2001:ASO seems extra-special lame/asking-for-trouble...)

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I’m working again, so I couldn’t watch #Monsterdon with yinz, and maybe I’m happy I didn’t actually see it, but I was definitely entertained. Thanks, @Taweret !

@SnoopJ like it would have made way more sense with the way the main man character was just ignoring her and wanted to shut her up with sex, it was literally harder to play also sprach there and not do a bee sound #monsterdon

#Monsterdon updated commentary: clearly some kind of beauty treatment.

@jmelesky They're so rare!

#monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

2001 bees?
I hate this movie.
#Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

Well, that was disturbing. But I'll live.

#BeeGirls
#Monsterdon

There's no way I could have tolerated that without watching Liquid Sky at the same time.

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Can the final girl not shut up? She started as a library nerd, she ends as a chatty nerd.
Oh they are gonna fuck. Boo! Boo this movie!
#Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

Ugh. Just ugh. #monsterdon

anyway tx @Taweret tho wow that sure was somethin
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@SnoopJ it would have been extremely easy to just put in some bee sounds over the end and have it turn out that the machine wasn't important because they are self sufficient bees now and that would have made the movie way better #monsterdon

So we get a Hitchcock-esque denouement (science person over-explains what we just saw but the explanation doesn't make much sense) AND a heteronormative "actually women *like* being bossed around" denouement. #Monsterdon

@brooke It makes about as much sense as anything else here TBH

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@Taweret I know right? You have to try really REALLY hard to make a movie with Swedish levels of T and A so unsexy as this #Monsterdon

OK, kinda glad that's done, it was fully imbibed with the essence of the 70s, including the problematic bits.

Not a fave, but better to have watched it together than alone.

Next week? Yeah, probably.

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@aprilfollies @Taweret Don't blame me, I voted for Piranha

#monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

The whole dang movie and I never got a bingo! #Monsterdon

Double feature with “Graveyard Tramps”

???

#invasionofthebeegirls #monsterdon

the bee conversion tit ritual tho
tha bee tit-ual
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@brucetheknife @moira haha pun intended?

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Alright she's one of us, girls, now everybody show your tits and look around in aimless wonder! Fluff your hair a bit without actually moving it. A little smooch. We want the audience confused but jacking it. Perfect. #monsterdon

I think we have found the most squarely bottom-of-the-"Bad Movie"-dip movie of all time

https://xkcd.com/653/

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@moira well they definitely scored with a terrible ending. #Monsterdon

This was no B-movie bee movie. It gets a grade of F from me.

If you told me you could put this many boobs in a movie and it would turn me OFF, I would not have believed you until tonight.

#monsterdon

Bleugh. Yeah that was pretty bad. Greasy sex scenes, bland characters, plot that lurches forward on broken legs, inexplicable soundtrack, fetishy rape scene, just gross, gross gross. What an unpleasant film. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon "Nicholas Meyer tried to take his name off the finished product. They gave him sole writing credit, removing co-writer Sylvia Schneble's credit instead."

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

#Monsterdon Annnnd another #Monsterdon drones to a conclusion. As always, thanks @Taweret for organizing, shame on all of us for voting for this, and it was an honor to make fun of it with you all. 😁.

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@TerryHancock You can't always believe the buzz

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#Monsterdon Nyeaaah what did you expect? A happy ending?

#Monsterdon love the wrap-up science explanation "the radiation made them sterile so they became super horny and tried to have sex over and over"

Well. I've been stung by #Monsterdon

That was just stunning.

Another #Monsterdon has to an end and in true Monsterdon fashion the end was abrupt. As always thanks to our host for tonight @Taweret.

If you missed-out on tonight's fun you can join us next week by following the hashtag #MonsterdonAlert and voting on the next feature! Sometime tomorrow @Taweret will post a poll to pick the next movie using this hashtag.

Just vote - even if this would be your first time. Then next Sunday watch with us.

my recommendation for anyone is to just watch the scene in the middle with the bee room and the royal jelly and nothing else.

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Thanks friends beeeeeeee you next time #monsterdon #invasionofthebeegirls

This would've been a fun little slice of 70s dreck except for that dreadful and unnecessary assault scene in the middle. #monsterdon

@catzilla Questions we could ask about so many #Monsterdon movies

Lights blinking! Smoke rising! Fire burning! #monsterdon

@plaidtron3000 @starkraving666
Movie certainly has aspirations well beyond its sheer silliness!
#Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

#monsterdon https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bees-2

Woof. I think we have a new winner for worst flick. That was excruciating. Thanks for hosting @Taweret. Maybe next week we can get back to cities getting stomped? #Monsterdon #AttackOfTheBeeGirls

Well, I can't think of much to say about the movie other than whew and whoa #Monsterdon

Computer go boom

Horny but sterile nuclear bee girl colony collapse

THE END

The most thirsty but least sexy movie I have ever seen in my life, but still fun to riff on

Thanks for hosting this #Monsterdon Mojo Overload @Taweret !

Did we ever get an explanation for running the one guy down with a car, though? #monsterdon

Alternate post-credit theme song for tonight's feature.

https://youtu.be/DSwAL9_oj4k

#Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls #🐝

I first saw this in a television-cut version without any nudity. It made even less sense…except for all the bee-girls' dying, even fourteen-year-old me thought that completely senseless.

—but I did find the dying bee-girls' comforting each other touching.

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So...Neil Agar is committing suicide by coitus while listening to Richard Strauss? Bold move, referencing a much better film at the end #monsterdon

Well, she was no Borg Queen.

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@davesdogmaggie The *Thus Spake Zarathustra* music? It's on the end of the copy I'm watching thanks to @ryan https://miru.miyaku.media/ #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

@Taweret i wouldn't do it without the slime, but with? no problem

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oh wait BEE IS STORED IN THE oh the movie is over already, dammit #monsterdon

#monsterdon note: this comment was before a woman was ray machine comverted to bee lady killer.

Okay, I'm coming closer to having an answer!

The print appears to be part of a Univac System 70, first introduced in 1973. Thing is, they basic acquired the whole thing from RCA by buying their computer division.

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Really?

They're ending on Also Sprach Zarathrustra?

(Of course, my brain ALWAYS has this cut straight into C.C. Rider because that's when Elvis comes on stage WAIT WHAT I GREW UP IN THE SEVENTIES WHAT DO YOU WANT OF ME)

#Monsterdon

And the movie fucked off into the bees. (and fucking?)

That was one of the movies of all time.

#Monsterdon

so the final twist was just that bees still exist. in the world. like actual bees

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genius. I can't BEE-lieve how good that was.

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@starkraving666 "Why is the star wars song playing?"

Me "You mean 2001?"

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#monsterdon thanks everyone, esp @Taweret and @ryan , I had a ball!

#monsterdon Also Sprach Bee-A-Thustra

Lmao bees still exist, fuckers!!!

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SAFE

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And so ends another #Monsterdon. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting. Thanks to all the posters and lurkers. And remember #Monsterdoners: That's not science; that's fiction.

Wow, for #monsterdon standards, that was quite a bit of denouement. We had two whole separate scenes, one expository and one closing a romance loop. I’m downright impressed.

Not impressed by the movie, mind you. But denouements are graded on a curve here.

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight we watched #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls, from 1973, which was abuzz with all manner of sweet funks and bumps. We also had:

oh no they're just fucking i guess. I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE SHES THE NEW QUEEN

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@aprilfollies Yeah well I don't want answers

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Wow. That was.... a movie.

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Oh please, someone edit 2001 onto the end of this movie. #Monsterdon

NOT THE HARDWARE!

#BeeGirls
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My gosh, this guy is a rude dumbass, the lady is explaining all the science.
I hope she is a Bee Girl and kill him
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon "bee me up, scotty!"

LOL going out with "Also Sprach Zarathustra" very nice, never seen that before

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I'm not feeling particularly gratis from this ars, guys. Put the lion away. #Monsterdon

He got too close to the bee machine, he's a bee boy now!

#InvasionOfTheBeeGirls #Monsterdon

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"Also Sprach Zarathustra" out of nowhere?

Really.

REALLY?

duuuuhh duuuuh duuuuuuhhh THE BEEEES #Monsterdon

Well, thanks as always @Taweret for hosting!

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#Monsterdon So he literally smoked the bee girls, huh.

... I am informed this movie has a sequel….???

I have questions.

?????????????????????????? #monsterdon

Yes, yes we are...

another kink of the director added in

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Talk Nerdy to me :bloblewd: #Monsterdon