@jonny with all the hybrid horror I missed how hard Donald Sutherland punched that old shrieking woman! #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe @jwisser like zombies milling around places they used to inhabit as people, but with no purpose beyond instinct.

So yeah, a depressing post-intelligent ghost planet #monsterdon

'Cos that's a real depressing ending. #Monsterdon

@LK_877 it really is, totally freaked me when I first saw it! #monsterdon

so the pod people were on Earth all along

also a dog had a human face

ty for joining, everyone!!

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#Monsterdon He’s a closeted Type H. Playing the part. Good Type H.

Quick shout out to the group of us monsterdonners who spend half the movie trying to parse the biology of the monsters, regardless of the quality of the movie

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#Monsterdon Plant Parkour!

All you gotta do is find some Roundup and problem fixed

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Weird how the only naked replicant is our heroine.

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@_L1vY_ This I can handle the mandog in Body Snatchers I cannot #monsterdon

'Course, you realize between the amphetimines and the sedatives there's a good chance Don's just dreamed the last fifteen minutes of this movie. #Monsterdon

@paco bless you kind person

#monsterdon #BodySnatchers78

She ran and caught that truck wearing THOSE shoes!? #monsterdon

Vegetable delivery!
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:blobastonished: BAD DOG! #Monsterdon

woah
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here it comes...

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Note to self: calculate how long it takes for the solar wind to push pod spores from planet to planet

#Monsterdon

I don't think the pod people have telepathy, they didn't know the human had escaped until Spock screamed

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There's definitely a version of this where the pod people are explicitly lovecraftian.

#monsterdon #invasionofthebodysnatchers

When in doubt, take five tablets of speed. Protects you in every situation.

#Monsterdon

He didn't even change the needle!

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oh no, they got Goldblum!

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Take 5!

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so insomnia is like a superpower in this universe

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Either they've given up hope or it's a weird time to get a bit horny

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to body double you the plant has to like overwhelm the area with foliage and produce a bunch of you-sized eggs, so i think it would be possible to set up like a motion detector in your room that's like "danger there's a humongous plant in here" #monsterdon

I want to see a movie where both the Pod People and The Thing get loose on earth at the same time and they fight for global supremacy. Finally settle the debate of meat versus vegetables once and for all!

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Plants are, predictably, easy to misdirect. They're still not used to thinking in terms of things without roots. #Monsterdon

love that hideous shrieking of theirs

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But we do have AXES!!

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Mathew has a lot of confidence in the telephone to solve all his problems.

#Monsterdon

man you could do that to me and i would not even care #monsterdon

I'm really glad I didn't see this as a kid

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Oh NO! They're all going to become Republicans now! #Monsterdon

ewwwww, freshly hatched clones!

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What is the glove exactly?
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BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BANJO GUY!?

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I love how this movie makes groups of people seem sinister and up to a common purpose

My every waking day with Anxiety!

#monsterdon

Pathogegic space invader flowers that doppelgang humans?

Everything will turn out fine

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon SF hills are loopy. It only adds to the unnatural scene-work of this movie.

"No, it's fine he broke in and stole my girlfriend, everything is fine. It's fine."

#monsterdon

NOT IN FRONT OF THE PLANTS!

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Just a white guy, driving around with a broken windshield and a dosed up woman in the passenger seat, mind your own business everyone!

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#Monsterdon the Cinematography is set up to foster scene Capgras in the audience. This is very well done. You get drawn in and manipulated like the cast is. All through wild camera angles and timing.

That's a much more productive garden than anything I've ever been able to grow.

#Monsterdon

lol, just watching movies of clocks, for 8 hours straight

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Honestly, just having my headphones on at random times and being disturbed by outside noises is relatable. Having people break into my apartment, not so much.

#monsterdon #invasionofthebodysnatchers

They've really done a great job at keeping the creepiness tension level high.

#Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

Do. Not. Go. To. Sleep.
(makes a pot of coffee)
#Monsterdon

@srol "Ma'am ....please secure your Large Adult Fetus before we take off" #monsterdon

#Monsterdon 6 foot 4 and 170 pounds? He’s not going to survive a bad flu. He’s just skin and bones.

You should get a bingo point for having a rotary phone still in your house!

#monsterdon

He's OK, just a little moldy

She'll be fine too in the morning

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Damn it people exercise some damned xenomorph isolation procedures!!

#monsterdon #BodySnatchers78

"It's got no finger prints… like a fetus"

lol

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She does scream, well that actress
Useless for fighting Xenomorphs though

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It’s GIF-frey. Okay? For the last time! #monsterdon

Do cities actually have mud baths? like are they everywhere?
It's a strange world I've never seen outside this movie

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Until the later scenes the most freakish part of this movie for me on first seeing it was seeing Mr Spock smile and act like a Human all the time.

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#Monsterdon in the late seventies the Escalators had amazing designs that did funny things in reflected light.

#Monsterdon Not a conspiracy. Just organic e2e encryption run amok.

Is 'Harry' the name of the dog or the banjo man?

If you know, you know....

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Wait, can most people *not* do that thing with their eyes?

#monsterdon #invasionofthebodysnatchers

"That thing with here eyes" is really upsetting in a way I can't quite describe.
#Monsterdon #BodySnatchers78

Alex Cox pointed out how the director used the Transamerica* Pyramid to signify things were getting weirder in the movie

(Not that sort of Trans, although a giant pyramid for trans people in San Francisco sounds cool)

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The days when women apologized to men who ran into them

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keep your eye on that banjo man and his dog.....

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"Do do, do do, I've got you babe…"

Oh, sorry, that's just what I expected from that clock radio.

#Monsterdon

he's got tribbles in the grain bins

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This movie has the Sutherland meme in it, no? That silent scream scene.

#Monsterdon

I think we've got a first body ripe for a snatching.

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The sound on this movie is very good, classic 70s creepiness

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Lookit the cast of this #Monsterdon

Sutherland!

Goldblum!

Nimoy!

We're really punching above our weight class tonight!

It's body-snatcher morning, and everyone is going about their rainy morning as usual.

#Monsterdon

im definitely not a pod person

i just wanna get out ahead of any rumors

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I'm calling it #monsterdon O'clock.

Let it rip!

I'm slowly convincing myself that, assuming preservation-of-consciousness between human original and pod person replacement, there's actually no meaningful loss and possibly actual upside to humanity being 100% placed by the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).

Once the planet is fully converted, they'll presumably dismantle obvious dangers to the combined species like nuclear weapons, then continue on with their human lives. Where is the downside?

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they even foreshadow Matthew's ax use with the rectangular knife he is using to cut up the zucchini for stir fry #monsterdon

This was before the Final Girl trope had been invented #monsterdon

Incandescent bulbs everywhere were hella dangerous #monsterdon

VLC starts the movie back over from the beginning and I'm genuinely tempted to rewatch right now. I also don't feel like standing up so it might actually happen #monsterdon

A+++ for the silent ending credits. A good movie about a bunch of general assholes and one smart lady. I've gotta go feed the kitties. Goodnight #Monsterdon, and thanks for hosting @Taweret !

Sometimes you gotta have a bleak ending. Man that was really good for a 70s movie.
Thanks for another monster movie watch along @Taweret #Monsterdon #BodySnatchers78

I don't get it. Let's imagine that it works like they say: no more love or hate. No more emotions. So can they get rid of the police? Will there be no more crime? Can we get rid of armies and spies? What do those people do instead?

Were the children pod people? Do the space pod people have no better way to educate than this?

How do the pods feel about the 4-day work week?

So many unanswered questions. :)

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I remember thinking the first time I saw this that by the time he wrecks the warehouse, it's already far too late and that it's an heroic but futile gesture of defiance.

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well, they _tried_ to fuck off into the sea, but the pods beat them to it

#Monsterdon #BodySnatchers78

love that face he pulls at the end

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Curious, the aliens duplicate amalgam fillings. #Monsterdon #BodySnatchers78

Magnetic stirrers are cool

#monsterdon #invasionofthebodysnatchers

being a pod but u still have to go to work, no thanks
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THE STOP STIRRING THE PEE SCENE. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatcher1978

Cutting ropes: surprisingly effective #monsterdon

Almost. Allllmost.

#monsterdon #mawg

what is he even hoping to accomplish? they have the city and trucks and ships full of pods. this does nothing

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oh ok if becoming a pod person is going to consume my body and make me collapse into a husk then maybe i would hold off on being a pod person, i changed my mind
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Me, from 2024, watching the movie with Shazam on hand: "NO DON'T TRUST THE BAGPIPES, THAT'S THE ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS!"

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"She's a husk now....she's fine."

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Number of movies I have now seen with Leonard Nimoy and a bagpipes rendition of Amazing Grace: 2️⃣

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