They have the high ground now. It should be over. #Monsterdon

Nothing bad happens when romantic orchestra music is playing, does it? #Monsterdon

I don't worry about being a replaced by a pod person, there's zero chance a plant would survive long enough to grow around me. #Monsterdon

That was very enjoyable, and educational. I'm going to keep a closer eye on people from now on. Anyone who doesn't immediately laugh at my jokes is suspect. #Monsterdon.

#monsterdon for those who've seen the 80s version, which is better? I think I like the remake. Can't beat that ending

#monsterdon pod people love bubble baths

Well, it is a greenhouse. One should expect seed pods.
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Is that a pod in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon looks like Griffith park

Pod people shouldn't really be fooled by the ol' switcheroo. I mean, it's kinda their trick isn't it? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon you can't just call the governor lol

This is actually kind of spooky
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#monsterdon I love the super dramatic music when nothing much is really happening

Depeche Mode's "People are People" is a lie. #Monsterdon

This is like an anti-"Weekend at Bernie's" now. #Monsterdon

calling the cops to tell them you don't have a dead body in your house

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon it is a terrible idea to leave only one person to watch the pod person. That is, at minimum, a two person job.

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Okay, we found a pod person but maybe we're not leading him to a trap yet. So maybe they're not all pod people yet. Also, I'm pretty sure that they guy without finger prints seems to have facial features. It's not as spooky as they're describing it.

Also, I'm not sure who to call if you find a pod person. I don't think I'd trust the police to um... do anything about it. Assuming that the police aren't pod people themselves.

Can we call 50s Fox Mulder and Dana Scully?

when i was left in the room with the mystery corpse, i never imagined anything creepy would happen

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he's actually trying to cover up the fact that he bought a life-sized sex doll replica of himself #monsterdon

I hear there's a big post credits scene. 😀 #Monsterdon.

Oh, hey, Black Mirror

#Monsterdon

@ModusMatt

(tries to figure out why he can't find the 90s one in imdb.)

Oh, they changed the title: it's "Body Snatchers" (1993). Somebody evidently wanted to do a remake but couldn't come up with anything new/interesting to do with it.

well okay, it's set on a military base, so *that*'s different. but... meh.

#Monsterdon

@moira
@Taweret
my retcon will be that the pods had nothing to do with it, and it was just the kiss from the protagonists clay slabs for lips that turned people emotionless and communists. his bad dream was just him continually sleepwalking and making out with everyone. it also explains his intractable horny. #monsterdon

#monsterdon so are the pod people communists in the context of the red scare, or the opposite, prototypical conformist "good americans"?

Whenever there's sci-fi from the 50s with distressingly right-wing morality, I blame John W. Campbell. #Monsterdon

Got distracted by emergency moderation from a new fash pop-up site. They're gone now. Anyway, great work #monsterdon, thanks for hosting @Taweret !

@joewynne @Taweret your free iPod, along with your soon-to-be-rewritten biography, _I, Pod._ #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

@ModusMatt Honestly I think they're both good in different ways and I'm not sure one or the other is _better_, and they're different enough that both are worth seeing.

#monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

@Taweret Don't stay up all night over this.

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@msh @Taweret Needed more fucking off into the sea. #Monsterdon

@nev My man, it's the 50s, they don't tailor their straightjacks! #monsterdon

For those of you wondering: yes, the "yay he made it to the authorities in time" ending WAS added on, according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers

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@ModusMatt

it was 1978, actually. And yeah, I think it was the best of the bunch (there was a 1990s one with Gabrielle Anwar that sucked)
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That "The End' Really needed a question mark. #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

#Monsterdon I kissed a Pod and I liked it.

Wow, that's almost a happy ending! #Monsterdon

ty for joining, everyone!!

#monsterdon

Becky's started her own POD cast :D #Monsterdon

Huh ... Jordan Peele's Us is a lot campier than I remember it being ...

#Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers #Us

#monsterdon Also the flying plastic flapjacks get in on the act.

So in a world where deep sleep is killing everyone sleep apnea suddenly becomes a super power! Take that you f**king CPAP! #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

get your pods here, fresh pods, fresh pods #monsterdon

#monsterdon Are they gonna start singing like The Whos in Whoville?

Nothing like running from pod people to make me feel like sucking face. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon pods are conveniently flammable

#Monsterdon so why are all the telephone circuits busy?

Is the operator a pod person and just lying? Or are the pod people jamming all the phones with calls out of town (maybe inviting more people to become pod people)?

LUBRICATION

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#Monsterdon Oh we found a monster. And also, they called the FBI.

Maybe we'll actually get 50s Scully and Mulder in this movie! Then we'll have more watchable sexual tension!

When Morticia's scared everyone oughta be scared #monsterdon

@Louisa This is one that I think really benefits from black and white. They look WAY more disturbing than they would in color that would highlight any fakeness. #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

@CactuarJoe splitting up in a horror movie. rookie mistake #monsterdon

#monsterdon Mulder and Scully are gonna show up

"What if Pod were one of us ..."
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#InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers #Monsterdon #JoanOsbourne

40 mins in and we gots bodies poppin' out of pods

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I have the weirdest craving for edamame right now. #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

feed me, seymour #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh My Gods! A woman in pants! They're jeans, with *usable pockets* - what sort of woke shit is this?!

Who is creepier in the 50s the pod people or those flirty men? #Monsterdon

"Your favourite egg, orange juice with toothpaste." #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

Hello, random cop, good to see you, we're not hiding a body at all! #Monsterdon

Lost bodies are normal. Go back to bed. #monsterdon

this is a #CompletelyNormalMystery #Monsterdon

Becky's very unconcerned about her dad being replaced by a pod person and getting carried out of her house in the middle of the night!

#Monsterdon

I miss the days when you could just break into a single woman's house and carry her off in the night. #Monsterdon

i think basically the first line of home bodysnatcher defense is to not constantly leave each other alone or in pairs of two #monsterdon

everyone should practice a "woman in 1950s horror movie" scream, just in case. you never know when you'll need it. #Monsterdon

This seems like a tactical error. He's gonna get back and find the two people he's left at home have been replaced. #Monsterdon

Okay Dr. Horny, we get it. You're horny #monsterdon

@wrog i used to have a job taking fingerprints for background checks. This technique was terrible & would've looked like a blurred inblot for anyone @JenYetAgain

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Sure, spend an evening with a creepy clone corpse, why not. Since you're a friend. #Monsterdon

Dear #Monsterdon ,

I have a confession to make. I do not like 50s lounge music very much.

Love,
Floatybirb

You found a bland white guy? What's the problem, it's the 1950s, those are a dime a dozen right now. #Monsterdon

Was the cuckoo clock the '50's idea of a jump scare? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Wait.. how is a "worry of what is going on in the world" supposed to lead to a state where everyone suspects that people near them are not who they are? What is going on in the world?

Is this a tell that the psychiatrist is a pod person, maybe?

And/or is the thing going on in the world Communism? I thought this film was about fear of Communism.

Them driving around without seatbelts is making me nervous #monsterdon

@DinosaurRobo
OIh, yes, a bit of background. In the 50s no one talked openly about depression. They used the term Pod Person.

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"it's not that easy to go crazy, even today." anxieties of the era #monsterdon

Spoon…bread? #Monsterdon

The real-life condition where people have the delusion that the people around them are imposters is called Capgras' syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion

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#monsterdon just a little xanax

@cheribaker I wish real life had a soundtrack like a 50s movie TBH #Monsterdon

now, billy, just because your mom is a pod person who wants to replace you with a pod person doesn't mean she doesn't still love you

#monsterdon

The children know

#monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

Starting a #Monsterdon for #invasionofthebodysnatchers . Going to try to live toot it this time instead of pausing to write toots.

So far this movie is starting with... exactly what I would expect from 1950s mental health care, which that it involves a guy in a suit screaming "I'm not insane! I'm not insane!" to people in lab coats while a cop watches.

Gonna guess that the AMAZING TWIST is that the people the main guy is telling his story too are also like... evil space pod people.

#monsterdon the dubbing is better than usual

#monsterdon ohhhhh I get it. It's a commentary on social conformity.

Y'know, I kinda wonder what the end of the pod people's lifecycle looks like. Y'think maybe after a couple of years they just... Root themselves, open their mouths skyward, and vomit out a seed so hard it breaks orbit? #Monsterdon

..spoon bread?

#Monsterdon

...slapping somebody's ass really didn't mean the same thing then, did it? Huh.

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Why did she dress up like that to go to the doctor?

#Monsterdon

No it's just that Doc Percy is a complete hack.

#Monsterdon

Better Nate than lever.

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HAPPIER ending: "Jack Finney's novel ends with the extraterrestrials, who have a lifespan of no more than five years, leaving Earth after they realize that humans are offering strong resistance, despite having little reasonable chance against the alien invasion.[2]" Wikipedia #monsterdon

This movie was too good. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[4][5]" Wikipedia #monsterdon

got distracted during #Monsterdon again and missed part of it.

I *might* come back and watch it later, or maybe not. I am less engaged with this movie, even though it is reputed to be a famous classic.

@jonny @Taweret My retcon is that they dropped off a couple of pods at the mine _just in case_. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

@DinosaurRobo Did they have focus groups then? Or maybe it was just a studio censor thing. #Monsterdon

In summation: Gooble, Gobble, ONE OF US! Awesome show, Monsterdon folks!
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Another monstrous event! Thank you
@Taweret !!!

It was great fun everyone! Please leave the theater in an orderly manner and pick up your free pod on the way out.

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