It's a horticultural horror show.

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i lived in san francisco for 8 years, but long after this came out, so i was not responsible for any pod people #monsterdon

You don't get to fill the Spock bingo card space until he actually appears on screen.

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Soon all will be podded.

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Anyway, I hoped everybody learned an important lesson : Plants are the enemy.

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I'm also sad Donald Sutherland died this summer #monsterdon

Fondest memory of seeing this back in the theaters was from leaving the theater ... a six or seven year old boy, walking out with (I suppose) his parents, spontaneously starts pointing at people in the lobby and doing a good version of the pod-screech.

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Matthew has Elizabeth do the thing with her eyes while they laugh like "no you're not crazy"

THE EYE THING IS EVEN FORESHADOWED this fucking movie #monsterdon

@Taweret They cannot FATHOM the things we have seen.

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As about our aqua-surge whirlpool dip! #monsterdon

You might not think a friend is somebody who would break into your house in the middle of the night because you didn't answer the phone, but as this movie demonstrates... #monsterdon

non #monsterdon people are seeing posts about a banjo dog and have no idea

no idea

And, with a bit of nudity, fire, and the final plant-based screeching, that's a wrap. I've seen this one before, and It's not one of my favs. Too much pod fluff padding.

Still, thank you @Taweret for an evening with the pods.

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oh god it WAS banjo dog guy #monsterdon

I dunno man, it just seems like pod people got a really lousy lot in life. You got someone else's memories, you don't care about anything but survival, you don't even get to have sex because you're a plant.

I'd say they should unionize but I'm pretty sure that's what started this whole problem. #Monsterdon

@lytta So eventually we get pod walruses and pod giraffes and pod snakes and stuff? #monsterdon

Why isn't Matthew naked though? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon aaaaaand he was turned ;_; but a meme was born <3

anyway here's #BanjoDog #monsterdon #BestOfMonsterdon #bleptember

@CactuarJoe Maybe they collect knowledge? Just centuries one millenia of drifting from world to work remembering science and trivia. Simple basic unemotional intellect. Data without a base form changing into something new on each world.
Wait the pod people are just Yithians?
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@lytta Man, I bet that'd be a helluva cultural revolution. #Monsterdon

And thus a meme was born.

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@CactuarJoe to be fair... many of the organisms on earth do not have human emotions or conscious desires, and they're still pretty cool. including, to be a bit on the nose, plants

it's also entirely possible that a later form they take on earth will have desires and emotions of some sort, since those things are actually evolutionarily advantageous

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I didn't know a hydroponic pod garden was such a fire hazard!

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And iconic ending frame and roll credits!

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Now her face is chapped. #monsterdon

that was ok but next week let's pick a not normal movie and pick a real nasty zero budget movie from the 50s or 60s
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i was not ready for that.

... i was also not ready to zoom that far up donald sutherland's nostril, but that's a separate issue.

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this is a good one but dang it's awfully long

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One of the best Monsterdons so far, at least that I've seen!

Thanks @Taweret as usual for setting things up. <3

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Fun fact: that final moment of the movie was spoiled for me 20 years ago in an issue of InQuest magazine. I have to say, knowing it was coming for the last 20 years really dulls the overall impact. 😂

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I might need to rewatch that without my head in the #Monsterdon feed. Thanks for the cool hang everybody! I hope y'all are still doing this in April when I switch back to days again.

You have to pinkie promise if you become pod people you have to tell me
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@paco

#PodPeopleAreScabs

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It's been more than 40 years since this warning about pods and yet still we cast them. #monsterdon

loveli how she shakes her head when he screams instead of running. I would think that by now she would be putting on the Ellen Ripley on this aliens.
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*SCREAM*
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Silent credits is an interesting choice. #Monsterdon

And so we end up going down Donald Sutherland's throat. Odd choice for blow out. Thanks as always to @Taweret Next week maybe back to more rubber monsters? Till then I'm looking forward to a long night's sleep. #monsterdon #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers

The end. Everything is the same, we're just a bit more boring now

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Well, so much for saving humanity.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

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WHOO BOY yeah that was a kicker. GOOD TIMES, ALL! See you next week!

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...Somehow the creepiest part of the ending is the absolute silence. #Monsterdon

The camera fucks off into Donald Sutherland's mouth making the meme face.

If I wasn't watching this one for #Monsterdon I would have considered turning it off. But I liked some of what it had going on.

See you all next week!

aw no that made me sad she was the only one i liked :( #monsterdon

Wow. Okay, so, aliens win. Pretty much a shutout for the creepy pod people. Good game everyone, hit the showers. #Monsterdon

<emotionlessly> Well, that's a fuzzy, plant based wrap. Thanks all for everything. Please sleep soundly and soon.

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That was good fun, sleep well everyone. Sleep. Well.
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Aaaaaahhhhhhnnnnnnnddddd that’s a wrap.
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WELL THAT WAS A HORRIFYING ENDING.

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers, from 1978, is a remake of the 1956 original, and full of pod fun! We also had,
- Rat turd capers!
- Pod berries!
- Potato autopsy!
- Hallucinatory flu!
- Archery glove fashion!
- Human face dog!
- Oh, and a _lot_ of actual creepy scary stuff!

WOW

What an ending!

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I suppose it's a good thing the pod people are still doing science, of some form

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Do you think you'd get high off the smoke like if it was a growlab? :DW_cyber_smoke:

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for a pod people their information dissemination freaking sucks. he's like the only one left and they haven't sent his picture around the telepathic hyphae or whatever #monsterdon

#monsterdon I think for my money the scariest thing is everyone gets replaced by these supposedly superior beings and yet we still have to have health inspectors, and all the bullshit jobs are still there.

Oh wow, when I was a kid, my father worked in a university biology department, and I'd play with those magnetic stirrer things, and I'd totally forgotten about them until now.

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@lytta Not going to lie, the nerdery was definitely a draw to participating (even if I'm not enough of a biologist to contribute on the macro level).

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...Day in the life of a pod person? #Monsterdon

@wohali@octodon.social I think Donald Sutherland wouldn't make a movie in the 70s without one #monsterdon

I shot this picture in my garden on Friday #monsterdon

I think some of these pod people shrieks were repurposed as Zerg noises in the original Starcraft. #monsterdon

Why are the aliens still in human form? Shouldn't they have transformed into crabs by now?

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Boy, trenchcoats were popular then weren't they?

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Oh. She's still stalking him in the nude. That's frightening.
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ok but what if the triffids arrived now #monsterdon

Most movie meth labs are less flammable.

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not following the pointless last moments of exploding heroism, at least have the dignity of delivering a final monologue #monsterdon

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Say what I will about this movie, the VFX people must have had a fun time working on it.

Look at all these pyrotechnics!

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so their order of infection was probably the garbage workers because they had to dispose of all the husks safely, then who, the dockworkers? to spread across the planet. we're probably seeing the last phases of the infection and they had already taken over most of the critical infrastructure by the time the movie started #monsterdon

Wow, that Brooke Adams can run #monsterdon

A man with no plan and no hope who persists nonetheless

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Too bad he doesn’t have any “Roundup”
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Donald's going burn the weed shed like a narc

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Oh. So that's what happens to the human body... Eww.
Oh it's a tit nipply out tonight.
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okay so... I think what we just learned is that the original bodies dissolve into nothing because they absorb all the nutrients and mass and everything from them with the tendrils. nearly-finished pod bodies and almost-deflated human bodies look the same. #monsterdon

I was complaining about the tv motion fuckery, but it does have the benefit of making this movie look like a fever dream #Monsterdon

I still miss the rat turd

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It's a 70s flick, you've got to get in a topless scene. I think it was the law back then.

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Deflated!

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And that's how babies are made; in an industrial grow building

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@funkula Half dog, half human, AND half alien plant, so he's more alive than ever #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai @blue It would have been a HARD PG-13 film if it was rated today for sure.

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"Elizabeth noooo"

You say you love her but you can't accept that she's eepy?

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Now that freezer's only good for frozen vegetables #monsterdon

WAKE UP
WAKE UP
WHY DON'T YOU PUT ON A LITTLE MAKEUP

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Pod people skipped the leg day

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We're SAVED!!!

No pod person would ever play soulful bagpipes like that right?

Right?

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Anyone else got a hankering for edamame? #Monsterdon

Bagpipes, go straight into the heart, AMIRITE?

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The manface dog!! :blobcatscared:

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Bagpipes AND banjo, how did this not win Best Original Score!?

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no way are you going to resolve the pod people infestation in 13 minutes by heading towards the ships, if there's any environment where the pod people would thrive it would be ships. #monsterdon

Is this movie really rated pg? #Monsterdon

Wrap that canckle in duct tape we got to motor on

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yes! ships! we can be cornered on a ship!

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hhgh, I was hoping they'd drop the ankle spraining, it's so cliche -_-; #Monsterdon

Everything falls apart because she wore heels. Of course. Of fucking course. #Monsterdon