Even my cat can't believe this movie. #monsterdon

TIL Roast chicken looks particularly bad in B&W #monsterdon

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🌠 TRIVIA STARS

👀 Look for director Bruno VeSota in cameo during Philbrick's "Commander Connors" vision. He is the car passenger villain that gets knocked out.

He's also a character actor, so you may have seen him before.

A gorilla suit with a diving helmet is seeming like a really good concept right about now. #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures

Oh hey, they used this cave in Night of the Blood Beast. Neat. #Monsterdon

lol, why not walk around the pile of dirt , you idiots....

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Hey! That's the Robot Monster Cave! #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures

@SordidAmok Maybe the real reason we're watching will show up.. you mean monsters? ... monsters? ... oh RIGHT #Monsterdon

I'm starting to have a Pavlovian horror reaction to music. Every time the soundtrack starts up something terrible happens. #Monsterdon

I liked the part where they were walking in silence. More of that please #monsterdon

for killing the snek you shall meet your end sir

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#monsterdon so far, this has been 15 minutes of demonstrating why timing is necessary for comedy

what is happening

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I'm missing the subtle humorous stylings of Ed Wood dialogue right now, not gonna lie.

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after this scene it took Weird Al Yankovich to rescue the comedic accordion from the dustbin of history

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dont blame me motherfuckers i didnt vote for this shit! i wanted BOG

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#monsterdon conga line!

It says something that the wacky music is actually a welcome switch from the wacky dialogue. And what it says is OH GOD OH GOD GET US OUT OF THIS MOVIE.

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The writer was the star of the original Little Shop of Horrors

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I haven't been listening to ANY of this "the men get chewed out by the brass" improv scene

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why does this guy have ten straight pages of dialogue

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"The colonel is an idiot" isn't a joke for everybody I guess

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Oh thank goodness, a new scene!

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how is he still talking omg shut up shut up

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How do you manage to make a *comedy* heavy on exposition? #Monsterdon

Well, at least the commanding officer has more gravitas than Jack D. Ripper

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make. him. stop. talking

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@bk1e Yabbut they're still talking... make em stop staaaahp! #MonsterDon

#monsterdon A full cavalry sword and not a bayonet. Yeah, fine, it's... a nine millimeter handgun, and a dead hat. I wonder if they followed through with the blanks or just went with live ammo.

A lot of the sound effects for the original Star Trek were actually from a sound effect library that had been in use in movies for a couple of decades, so it's not too surprising to hear some of them showing up in older sci-fi movies.

These are generally believed to be public domain now, and you can get a lot of them from FreeSound.org or Archive.org

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can you just imagine how much celluloid was wasted in producing this trashfire

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"Something smells like burnt feathers."

It's this script.

Writer Jonathon Haze, who you remember as Seymour from The Little Shop of Horrors, wrote this story so he could work with Dick Miller. Didn't work out.

So how bad is this week's sci fi comedy romp on #Monsterdon?
I need to get a snack and tea with alot of honey for my post podcast sore throat.

"But you're the back side of the army" That was almost funny. #Monsterdon #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures

@wohali Fun (slightly related) Movie Fact: the first major motion picture with farting was 'Blazing Saddles.'

Less-Fun Fact: when the movie was aired on network TV in the 80's, the farts were dubbed over with burping. #Monsterdon

It's Vince Guaraldi in the photo! #monsterdon

Fake hair.
Fake glasses
Fake mustache.
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I need this guy to stop talking forever

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was the book better, because this...
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@ottaross Were they making this for eight-year-olds? #monsterdon

I know it’s early, but I think we have a new worst #Monsterdon movie and, frankly, I think we can stop looking.

@otheorange_tag Little-known fact, gas masks would also protect from terrible movies

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"Something smells like burnt feathers." 🤨 #monsterdon

TikToks of 1962

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Shouldn't this guy be playing Hitler in a Mel Brooks flick? #monsterdon

That cut was so smooth.

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they had to do an obvious cut to transform the secretary into a gas mask person

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#Monsterdon a woman! in the military!

Hey, if the acting in this flick starts getting you down, remember, everyone who acted in this film is long, long dead. #Monsterdon

we really need gomer pyle to add some class to this film right now

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is this a fucking loony toon, seriously what even genre of movie have we picked #monsterdon

#Monsterdon "excuse me stewardess, i speak jive"

@allanb@mastodon.social I didn't pay for this and I still feel ripped off.

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this is gonna be a long #monsterdon

I guess the movie is in the can...

I'll show myself out now

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If this was filmed 20 years later this countdown would have ended with a MASSIVE FART.

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@allanb I didn't pay for this, and am feeling the same way 😛
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That opening warning about objectionable content...

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Oscar the Grouch?

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Ah yes, the beatnik army sergeant on the army's missile base, classic trope

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This is some gentle humor, guys

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Sounds like they did the audio re-recording in the men's room, or maybe a stairwell.

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I really enjoy the credits calling it "committed by".

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"I'd like to send you there. Bang! Zoom!"

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he's making a bunch of faces to make sure you know this is comedy

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philbrick. phil. brick. #monsterdon

Did the laugh track break or what? #monsterdon

Let me guess, this was shown to the troops as part of USO shows, wasn't it?

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Whyyyy I aughtta... #Monsterdon

Hey - we'll make the jokes here mr. screenwriter. This is #monsterdon afterall.

#monsterdon Well, here we are. The movie is knowing it's silly, which of course buys it 100 points to start. R. I. Diculous. Okay. “(Wow!)" and “(Wow! Wow!)” and that's something special.

oh dear. this is going to to make Abbott and Costello look like the brain trust, isn't it

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COMEDY #monsterdon

Classic hose scene. #Monsterdon

A true story but the facts have been distorted 🤪 haha you guys

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Okay - opening credits are rolling. With a sound track that sounds suspiciously like white noise.

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Strongest force for blinkenlights in the world, more like it

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Is that sexual harassment in the opening credits?

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#Monsterdon peace through superior firepower

#Monsterdon Oh, god this spaceship noise is the computer room all over again. Why do people think this is a good thing?

I wish I had a name like Slick Slavin
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This is a true story. None of the names have been changed because no one was innocent. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "this is a true story. only the facts have been completely distorted."

Why do two of the lady cast members have "Wow" next to their.....oh....oh it's going to be like that, isn't it?

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"electronic noise"

It's a vacuum cleaner

A Kinder gentler movie! #MonsterDon

Always a good idea to apologize before being offensive.

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54321....

PRESS THE BUTTON
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R.I. Diculous, huh.

Oh we're in for a wAcKy TiMe :/ #Monsterdon

Get ready - less than 1 minute
This is the time I disentagle myself from computer cables
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For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962).

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It was a Bad Movie™, which is the point of #Monsterdon. Some are better than others. Some have aged well. This one hadn't.

They were ahead of their time for the zany, absurdist humor that Monty Python would later excel at, while desperately grasping at (and failing to pull off) the slapstick humor the Stooges and Marx Brothers were known for.

Nevertheless, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for organizing bingo, and to all of you for making it fun!

@TerryHancock The movie should be available to stream for free on Tubi, YouTube etc. and ideally have some monster in it. @Taweret organizes #monsterdon and may add it.

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So how do nominations work?

I'm thinking that "Saturn 3" (1980) might be closer to the correct level of bad for this project...?

@summiesan

Your fellow cellmates in this prison welcome you.

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Missed the recent #monsterdon , the #invasionofthestarcreatures tag makes me want to watch it

@paco yeah, the universal translator parody was the most genuinely funny moment in this #monsterdon

Good call on the bingo card given that a lot of it was random guessing though! @Cherizilla

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

@Taweret Dr. Kiss was some peak #monsterdon. Good times.

@SordidAmok I guess they could have been vegiwomen or non-binary vegetable-like creatures or who knows

Maybe their race naturally has four genders and only certain pairings work for reproduction

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