"That haystack may be smaller than we thought!"
Really? A guy missing on a beach? You think that's a strong lead on a deep sea monster? #monsterdon
@jonny I'm looking forward to them finding the whale carcass myself #monsterdon
Imagine if this movie was made 10-15 years later. Imagine the beach parties. #Monsterdon
even in the 50's or whenever this was, the only time you mention Oregon is when you need somewhere for something mysterious and horrible to happen. and then you still film it in california because you can't actually film at the oregon coast #monsterdon
yup, that's a car. #monsterdon
ARCHIE! BETTY! VERONICA! JUGHEAD! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Overturned cars are so rare - it must be caused by the giant octopus!
That's uh, some salute there from the MP.
did he stop somewhere and buy a balloon just so he could do that?
Oh *now* he can say "giant octopus"
Now is not the time for balloon animals, sir! #Monsterdon #itcamefrombeneaththesea
so... if you fail a lie detector test, you're lying. if you tell a woman your story over a cigarette in the next room, that's fine, we'll moblize the army to find your stethoscope monster. okay. #monsterdon
This movie has some great reference footage, that depth charge sequence was phenomenal!
WE GET OCTOPUS AUTHORIZATION #monsterdon
"It grabbed us! Like a Navy captain trying to put the moves on a marine biologist! Just all over us, without even asking!" #Monsterdon
dude, have you never heard of the word tentacle!? aren't you a sailor??? #monsterdon
Ew, you didn't tell me this was going to be a kissing story #monsterdon
Look, you kids gotta figure out which one's the third wheel. Either that or just form a tricycle like god intended. 9_9 #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon #ItCameFromBeneathTheSea So far we have not seen a toy boat yet; for shame. However we have had submarine stock footage and A REAL OCTOPUS. Fuck yeah Cephalopods!
They could only afford to animate 6 tentacles. I can't help counting them when it's on screen. #Monsterdon #ItCameFromBeneathTheSea
that rocks, five stars to that octopus attack. it probably has a gnarly beak that can crack that hull and suck out the nuclear reactor core whole #monsterdon
#Monsterdon This, this right here, this is why I love Harryhausen. Look at that squid/octopus pull that boat down! Isn't it charming? A little scary? Inspire you to have willing suspension of disbelief?
Love that giant tentacle just rising up next to the ship #Monsterdon
AW YEAH, HARRY IN THE HAUSEN! #Monsterdon
They did a really good job putting together a plausible theory about the Nuclear Squid it's a shame the lady had to be the one to present it to Fifties Men #ListenToTheLady #Monsterdon
"Here gentlemen, is your villain"
Sure, just pick the octopus up for a second and shake it to make a point, let it know who's boss
I think octopus vulgaris mostly eat crustaceans and bivalves, maybe it just doesn't want to eat your crappy little fishes #monsterdon
The octopus is off the Japanese coast? What's the problem, takoyaki alone should solve the problem. #Monsterdon
That Octopus is probably a member of the Communist Party, if you ask me ...
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Maybe the octopus is dieting, did you consider that? #monsterdon
I must admit to being somewhat disappointed, I came to this movie expecting monsters, not extended scenes of plain old sexual harassment
this came out one year after Gojira
An atomic submarine propaganda documentary?
Ooh title card is neat with the bubbling waves and faded layering effect going on.
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Hey PETE, notice the No Smoking sign behind you?
smoking directly in front of the no smoking sign #monsterdon
Please smash his head with that beaker, Joyce #Monsterdon
Coffee sounds dope
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thank god we can be sure only one of the men will be hounding this women, the other guy is wearing glasses #monsterdon
Kenneth Tobey played an Air Force Captain in The Thing From Another World, an Army Colonel in The Beast From 20,0000 Fathoms, and a Navy Commander in It Came From Beneath the Sea. In real life, he served as a rear gunner on a B-25 Bomber in the Pacific Theater. Meanwhile, jinjoist chickenhawk John Wayne sat around with a thumb up his ass making B-Movies while doing everything he could to avoid participation in the fight against Fascism β¦
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Counting that as a MICROSCOPE
#Monsterdon #ItCameFromBeneathTheSea the submarine crew complains that all the radiation is reducing their breeding potential. y'all know that you can adopt if you want kids, right?
anyway we surface the submarine and the frogmen dudes report that the Mysterious Tentacle Monster looks more like a fish and/or a barrel. They seem to be describing a unique pokemon.
ah, the rad-suit polycule assembles
Wait a minute, you're telling me this tissue came from a creature?
like the newsreel narrator #monsterdon
Well if itβs beyond the scope of navy men I guess thatβs that. Might as well pack it in. #Monsterdon
from wiki
"Much of the filming was done at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, including scenes aboard a submarine, and several naval personnel were given supporting roles.[7]
To keep shooting costs low, director Robert Gordon shot inside an actual submarine, both above and under water, using handheld cameras."
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Our ping-pong submarine detector picks up a weird contact but we can't see anything on the periscopes. It's probably Cthulu. We start looking for it and got to red alert, providing some Boat Operations Scenes. It starts chasing them.
We learn that the submarine ONLY costs 55 million dollars... which is probably a lot more in today dollars. Then Cthulu gropes the boat or something and we get an Interior Shaking Scene.
Hand me that thing! #monsterdon
You just don't get the sincere forehead swipe "pshew" anymore do you #monsterdon
These men are having a surprisingly reasonable response to radiation. #Monsterdon
"Objects in sonar are closer then they appear" #Monsterdon #ItCameFromBeneathTheSea
Uh oh, they've started playing the devil swing! That means something awful is about to happen!
@Taweret I assume that after two weeks in a submarine you sort of are whether you mean to be or not. #Monsterdon
This is what split screen is for. #monsterdon
good titles. coming out of the water without dripping and stuff #monsterdon
All I gotta say is Octaman better watch his ass β¦
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clearly, by "it," they meant the movie titles #monsterdon
Whoops, I started watching It - The Terror from Beyond Space instead of It Came from Beneath the Sea! Talk about egg on my face!
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Oh Monsterdon time!
Oh another IT movie!
Oh I need to get a snack before I started.
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Motherfucker I forgot it was Sunday and am too late for #Monsterdon
@strangefour They're just monkey boys! We can crush them here, on land!
Hexuapus. What are you doing with that tube full of seamen? Just crush them and throw the sub away already.
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If Monsterdon were TBS's "Dinner and a Movie," tonightβs dish would have been Calamari Rice-A-Roni.
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i want a version of this thing where the monster threw cable cars i really do
also where the monster turned pete into a toad
@SchlocklusterVideo @brion Yeah, they were up at the Embarcadero and it was *right* *there* #monsterdon
bye everyone, much fun :) thanks @Taweret #monsterdon
@Zerofactorial @brion The Bay Bridge always get overshadowed in Monster attacks!
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@RufusJCooter @wohali The SFX blew that budget away #monsterdon
I just got home, and my takeaway from reading ya'lls #Monsterdon posts is I should fast forward to the cool octopus attacks and skip the human drama.
Thanks for another spectacular Monsterdon show everybody! Hereβs a final shot if my new artfor It Came From Beneath the Sea. Can't wait to draw again next week!
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@brion He never got a chance to wreak havoc on the Bay Bridge #monsterdon
An action car chases away from an octopus that is ignoring them. How thrilling.
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@randy_s OMG that's amazing
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#TeamOctopus - A superb analysis on the fly! I'll be looking over more of your toots in the next couple of days for source material for my film school PhD.
And @Taweret - You rule the Fediverse with this event! And I'm sure you'll get more evidence with tomorrow's Trends report. Thanks for all you do!
Until next week, everyone! Keep an eye out for assholes and suckers.
I give it two stars for Ray Harryhausen, and one more for the crumbling building miniatures. A worthy #monsterdon
I'll give it this much: it didn't really bother ending as much as it kinda stopped, even with what tried to be a denouement in the restaurant
I would definitely watch an alternate version of this movie where the giant octopus makes friends with San Francisco and they all go shopping together
Well, that was a pleasant bit of six-tentacled entertainment! Thanks to @Taweret for all this!
apparently the octopus couldn't SEE it going wrong either. sigh. #monsterdon #BeneathTheSea
@OldRustBucket This is this week's winning tweet. #monsterdon
@Zerofactorial π€£π€£π€£ It's not like radiation sticks around, or anything ...
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#monsterdon "I'm the only one who knows where its weakness is!"
And then he shoots it in the eye? Wow, good thing we had an expert.
Everything's fine now. Never mind about all that radation stuff alluded to, no worries there #monsterdon
Man! I was waiting for the twig of a submarine to be snapped like a, well, twig. Disappoint
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That may have just ended the most that anything just ended ever
Thanks for hosting @Taweret!
So they're just forming a new polycule? THE END. #monsterdon #BeneathTheSea
Well, "Kill it with FIRE!" seems to be working for now, somewhat
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#Monsterdon. Good night, everyone!
Is that a harpoon in your frogsuit, or are you just happy to see me?
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I meant the octopus, you idiot. A book about the octopus. Sheesh! βLeslie, probably #Monsterdon #itcamefrombeneaththesea
Too bad Pete didnβt fuck off into the sea. Goodnight, #Monsterdon! :blobcat_coffee:
No bingo for me, alas, but thanks @Taweret for hosting!
@SnoopJ Underwater lab? Yeah, I wish! #monsterdon
It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955) - 4/5
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Appropriately enough, he kisses like a cold fish. #Monsterdon
Well, that was a disappointment. Better luck voting for Godzilla next time!
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Well, there's goes that threesome. #Monsterdon