"Was he fooling around?"

Well he was in this movie so I'm gonna say yes. #Monsterdon

MORE JAW HARP YEAH

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"Grabowski" is such a screenwriting 101 fake name

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someone has aspirations of using BRIGHT RED throughout this movie, i can already tell

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At least it's only 85 minutes of my life

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Excellent intro music. Lots of woohooohoowoohooo wahwah wowowow
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fucking breakneck pace on this thing did we start 45 minutes into this or something #monsterdon

look hon his death spared you the name "slobowski" so frankly I think you've come out ahead

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Lol did not expect the funky theme song

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soundtrack so boingy

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OMG this theme song! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon thrilling careers in information technology! Are dot-matrix printers the future for YOU?!

A shot of a teletype machine with the 70s hi-hat popping off is very clever. I'm already loving it.

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#Monsterdon INVESTIGATE. SUSPICION SEXY STATE.

ooohh i LOVE this theme song! #monsterdon

oh we are gonna get FUNKY tonight #monsterdon

This is a legit neat intro sequence. Also very DC.

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Best theme ever? MORE JAW HARP THEMES

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that is a low effort title card

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#monsterdon Was that GW Bush?

I love when the Bee Girls say it's swarmin time and swarm all over those guys

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That is a shockingly fast first death! Kudos!

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okay, dead body in the first 10 seconds, this is looking up. #monsterdon

APPROPRIATE MUG OBTAINED #monsterdon

#monsterdon Flowers... that's never auspicious. I guess, lets start with the first prop and just go along. PIle of tires, car horn, dead body, screeching…

Hee.. He died smiling. #Monsterdon #AttackOfTheBeeGirls

#Monsterdon time to first body: less than one minute :D

#monsterdon STRONG START

I can hardly BEElieve it, it's time for #Monsterdon

WE GOT EVERY WEIRD KINK IN THE WRITER'S PLAYBOOK SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGN

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@apLundell I had straight up kept this in my back pocket but never got a chance to use it.

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y'know i'm coming back to this:

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/113858566045437286

And you know why?

because it was all so COMPLETELY JOYLESS

seriously all of it but _particularly_ here, there was no spark of joy or affection or _anything_ in the cinemaphotography, it was so purely mechanical.

"here's the stimulant. your penis will now react."

if i thought there was talent involved i'd've considered talking about it as intentional, as echoing the _sterility_ of the situation.

but I don't, not for a moment.

uuuuuuuuuuugh

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@Configures @ohiofi oooh good point I missed that

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@GramrgednAngel

Wow. He, um, got a LOT better...

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@moira @diazona @SnoopJ I would not be surprised if someone told me that was all because of a choice the actress made, not the crew #monsterdon

@diazona @SnoopJ I remember that as well and others reacting to it as more of a standout moment than I did. I thought it was rather predictable so downgraded it - but it was competently done, and I suppose does note a moment where they were trying.

Which I'm not sure they were doing with the scene I mention, it may well have been a complete accident.

Blind pig and truffles and all that.

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Ugh this movie was so bad that I can't even recommend it to a bad movie podcast or talk about it with people who haven't seen it. I don't want anyone to see Invasion of the Bee Girls.
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@diazona @catzilla @Taweret does it count if the monsters are disguised as humans?

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@moira @SnoopJ Ahh I didn't notice that, I may have been looking away, that's fair

I believe I was thinking similarly about the scene with a bunch of small convex mirrors on the wall

but honestly, flat-out not remembering would have been an acceptable answer as well 😛

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@catzilla @Taweret https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076271/ #monsterdon

After a that last #Monsterdon it just seemed right to tuck this on my double bill, evil girls, genetic experiments and all, and it's on yt complete should you dare. Produced by #rogercorman — say no more.

https://youtu.be/tubwN9G4-Ao?si=A44pc_mwaAg3Y7MC

@catzilla @Taweret I think that happened in the one we saw that had William Shatner as the lead. Something with spiders? #monsterdon

@diazona @SnoopJ you gonna make me remember what happened in this movie?

okay so after the cop bails on whatsername whose husband whatsisname was found dead at the factory, she goes out on the front terrace and she turns for just a moment before it's cut, and the way the light is working with the transparency of her robe thing is actually quite nice.

that's all they gave you.

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@catzilla @Taweret stipulation: the non-human monster has to win

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@moira @SnoopJ Wait which shot?

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@lytta Why didn't they go with that instead of Scheherezade and Zarathusra? Would have been so much more clever #monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie @moira @wrog that definitely does sound rough

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@diazona @SnoopJ I saw medium-budget television-grade cinematography and I've definitely seen much worse than that in movies we've watched here.

I saw _one_ shot I thought rose above it and it was cut weirdly short, almost like they were going 'oh shit, we can't show this, it'll throw the rest of the movie into sharp contrast'.

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@moira @wrog I might have used one in school if I'd ever had a reason to call anyone lol

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@moira @diazona @wrog Imagine you were in tech support back in the day and all you had were pagers and pay phones. It was no way to live. #Monsterdon

before i go for the night... here's a version of Flight of the Bumblebee that I enjoy: https://soundcloud.com/atvance/flight-of-the-bumblebee

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@SnoopJ Interesting take. I thought the production value and acting were pretty medium - I mean, we've definitely seen worse, in fact we often see worse, but still none of it rises to the level I would consider *good*.

But I have not studied film criticism at all so idk

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The Bee Girls could have truly used the Anal Intruder from Top Secret! “here in Eastern Europe we use 240v. It took our entomologists 12 hours to get the smiles off their faces.” #monsterdon

@blogdiva ****ed off into the smoke. #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

@diazona @wrog I definitely used one in school. Not necessarily a lot, but I definitely remember it. Nobody had a cell phone yet and I know they'd been invented but I don't know if they were actually available or if it was all being used for pagers only or however that worked.

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@Taweret What I want to know is, was Dr. Susan really following the lab head's notes, was he really at a conference in Europe, or was his dessicated body stuffed in a closet somewhere? #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls #Monsterdon

@RamenCatholic wait that's a real thing?

I know a guy who has a "Dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians" T-shirt but I always thought it was something random that he just came up with (or maybe an inside joke among people he knows)

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@aprilfollies @SnoopJ *beebee gun

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@diazona @CactuarJoe It's not a good sign when it makes you angry not at its subject, but at the director and producer #monsterdon

#monsterdon Well this resolved very quickly but then back into non-sensical explanations. also woah end music choice.

@Taweret
Mutation through radiation and bee goop? #monsterdon

@ohiofi It may be for the best TBH

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@wrog @moira I like learning these historical tidbits 😀

TBH I'm not sure I ever actually used a pay phone in my life... they certainly existed when I was a kid, I knew what they were, but I wouldn't have had the faintest idea how to find out one's number to call it. So I suppose the transition to making them non-callable was probably mostly done by the time I was a kid. (90s)

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"Invasion of the Bee Girls (re-released in 1981 as Graveyard Tramps)" #monsterdon

@jonny
@SnoopJ
I did feel like they were suggesting that. But it could have been more obvious. #monsterdon

@diazona I can’t find a movie poster or DVD cover or anything

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Honestly, it was watch this movie or start clearing snow while it was still snowing, and I think maybe I made the wrong choice. Perhaps too close to call.

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@Infoseepage That would explain why they're not in the IBM blue #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Yeah that's why I was thinking it sits right at the bottom of the "Bad Movie" dip (https://xkcd.com/653/): it's about as bad as a movie can get without the badness making it entertaining. And usually when you watch a bad movie - or, when *I* watch a bad movie, I dunno about you all - I want the badness to be entertaining.

That would be somewhat less true without the rape scene, for sure, but the rest of the movie mostly wasn't holding up too well either.

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Thanks again for another great time with the #Monsterdon crew! See y'all next week!

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@Taweret You tell ‘em! #Monsterdon

@ohiofi WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED

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Gave it one and a half stars at letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/invasion-of-the-bee-girls/ #monsterdon

@ohiofi I almost want to look that up and watch it to see if they somehow managed to make it as bad or worse than the original

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@CactuarJoe @RobynGoodfellow I want one!

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@apLundell Oh, I thought you were referring to the producers there… #Monsterdon

@Taweret

The title sounded good. 🤷‍♂️ 🐝

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@rallias @wrog @RufusJCooter @jonny There is, of course, the other possibility: that they were protected against being sued for using the song in the movie because nobody would have been willing to admit they watched it

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Still, the Bee Girls were more bee-like than the Cat Women from the Moon were cat-like.

So the film had that going for it.

They weren't tremendously bee-like. But they kind of had the eyes, and they made the noise. So that's something.

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@apLundell eh, if it's at his house, it's definitely his. if it's at the lab, there's dozens of people it could be, including several in his lab. way less focused blame.

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@davesdogmaggie ♪ Carry on my wayward sooon~ ♫ There'll be ball when you are doooone~ ♫ #Monsterdon

@Taweret i can't help it if i'm weak for monster girls and double weak for bee girls :( bee girls are usually really good

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@moira Yeah, they literally never even mention that scene again. Bleh. #Monsterdon

“Hey guys, they came back with an X rating for ‘Invasion of the Girls with Boobies’, but I think we can make a small change to the title and get that R rating.”
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Hello beautiful #Monsterdon peeps, please consider voting for the movie, Piranha, to view next. 🙏
There is only mild sex and nudity in it, per IMDB.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078087/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg#certificates

@CactuarJoe Yeah, take that back out - and it serves NO PURPOSE! - and it's way more laughable in the good way

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@Zerofactorial actually i believe all of the women were younger than the men they were having sex with-

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I'm not sure if this film was as bad as Godmonster, but I think the creepy fetishy rape scene right smack dab in the middle puts it in a league of its own as far as terrible quality goes.

Like I'm not sure I'd recommend Bee Girls even to fans of bad movies, at least not without a LOT of caveats. :/ #Monsterdon

@apLundell for reals holy shit

tho' okay 1973 that's ... actually a lot more reasonable. i think we were illegal in every state (except possibly nevada) in '73

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@gnomon @Taweret @Cherizilla Yeah. that sub-plot and sub-par sub-plot resolution was pretty icky. I hope she still takes that self-defense course. Anway: Taweret, I was not bored and I laughed out loud several times, and though parts of it were bad, parts were kind of intriguing, so thanks as ever for organizing #Monsterdon ! #InvasionOfTheBeeGirls

@moira Yeah, that was really, really bad. :/

I know it's a risk but I hope it doesn't happen again. Threw me out too.

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@r343l One of the better things about this movie, imho. #Monsterdon

@neia 😂 WELL DONE

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@hollie I was seriously knocked out of the movie for a good 25 minutes

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elsewhere, where the bee women won:

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@forestine This movie was so bad I can't even make a "That's what she said" joke :/ #Monsterdon

what the ball did I just watch

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Looking forward to next week!

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