This is how we get Spider-Cow, right? The Amazing Spider-Cow, does whatever a spider cow does. #Monsterdon

This also makes me think of the premiere episode of Strange New Worlds, which has Captain Pike on a horse on his ranch #monsterdon

Betting a call on his cellphone? What year is this? Or was that a talking pager? wtf?
#Monsterdon #KingdomoftheSpiders

so, is William Shatner an opioid jockey?

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

@Kinetograph Probably got type-cast. #Monsterdon

Oh dear fuck..,.cowboy shatner......

#monsterdon

PLEASE let someone lasso a spider in this

#monsterdon

lol, a spider up the nose is pretty horrible though #monsterdon

No joke, this may actually be the most talented cow animal actor I've ever seen. #Monsterdon

spider-cam?? #monsterdon

Not the cow! #monsterdon

cow is the best actor

#monsterdon #KingdomeOfTheSpiders

that font screams late 1970s whitesploitation movies

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

Wait, wait, Shatner didn't write these songs? #monsterdon

@Lazarou Fitting, I've often Shat in the country. #Monsterdon

Oh, this'll be good.

#monsterdon

For the record our #monsterdon bingo sheet. All decisions on which squares to mark made my the kiddo and her aunt who is visiting (and induced to watch with us). Occasionally they called for a rough approval vote from mom, dad and grandma.

@Lazarou D.T.s? #monsterdon

@Lazarou Damn CIA! Stay out of our water supply! *shakes fist* #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @Taweret Funny Hat Man in the Funny Hat Carriage, but with Funny Spider Hats? I could see it

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

@moira @Taweret I wanted to see a coronation ceremony, like the one King Charles had #monsterdon

@blogdiva @Taweret And tonight we determined the running time would be three minutes #monsterdon

Every sunday I burn the roof of my mouth because I'm running late with my pizza, and I don't have time to let it cool because #monsterdon is on.

But then, once the pizza is on my plate, I eat it immediately.

It never occurs to me to let it cool on my plate while I watch the movie.

@blogdiva @Taweret Wait: "Twelve-Legged Spiders on a Plane" #monsterdon

Final thought: The spiders saved the doctor lady for last as she was the only one to treat them kindly. Kindness means a load in a monster movie. #Monsterdon

@Taweret I loved the way they kept cutting back to him, too

"EEEEEAAAAAIEEEEAIE-"

"...so if we burn the spiders blah blah-"

"-EEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIE-"

"...Sure but what about-"

"--EEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAIEEEE" #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @peter_mcmahan I would be honored to take the role of the spider arranger, no matter the costs #monsterdon

The main thing I learned tonight is that Shatner could be a more restrained actor and somewhat less hammy if he tried #monsterdon

They didn't even TRY to explain how all the other animals and people were attacked and bitten and died within seconds but he made it upstairs and onto a counter and slept it off. #Monsterdon

@moira I think it's more like a mounted cavalry situation. Rat-mounted Spiderknights :D #Monsterdon

@jonny Good point in general, but I do think the continuing erosion of the amount of spider-safe space the main characters had to deal with was also a pretty effective way of building tension

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@jonny

It was more than once in this movie that I hoped for the spiders to Voltron into a mega spider, Hundreds-of-Beavers style.

#Monsterdon

Hey also, why make a point of showing how the radio station still thinks everything's normal? How big is Verde Valley?

#Monsterdon

@JoeWynne THE SPIDER BALL CAN WEAR CLOTHES SEE IF I CARE #MONSTERDON

@yatsu BLINK TWICE IF THERE'S A SPIDER ON YOUR NECK #Monsterdon

@Lazarou

That's "Phase IV" - #ants.

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

OMG thank you #Monsterdon participants for all the wit and humor I didn't know I needed.

Well, that ending must have inspired the Mist. #monsterdon

Honestly the movie was much less disturbing than I was expecting, but that may have been because I was only half paying attention to large portions of it due to the #Monsterdon feed

🦖#Monsterdon Appreciation

I actually loved the whole chaotic crowd scene. That alone was worth every penny I spent on it.

❤️ THANK YOU ❤️

🕷️ @Taweret for the smooth hosting duties.

🕸️ And to the Real Time Film Analysis Squad for bringing out the details necessary to show that this film really has legs.

(😮 I'm getting a huge flow of new toots coming in most of which I will have to address later.)

All those tarantulas are probably dead now. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon cup of the spider to ye @Taweret

@Lazarou Whatever system it is they run over the World Wide Web #monsterdon

@Lazarou @diazona @Taweret fucking off into the sea of spiders, i'll allow it

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I thought tarantulas don't weave webs. #Monsterdon

@amyfou @Taweret I think that poor rat was really gritting its teeth in its big scene #monsterdon

i vote we do Shatner first, the RV couple will probably just die from stupid accidents, then Arizona Lesbian and City Scientist Girl can take the child and the RV and go conquer the world. #monsterdon

Our etymology lady hero deserved better, but hey, that was a wild movie! Thanks for hosting as always, @Taweret , that was fun! #monsterdon

Weird that they made such a big deal about how the cropduster better not spray even a little of his chemicals over the town, because it's POISON!

But then he crashed into the town and exploded and that was just fine. Nobody even mentioned what was in his tanks.

#monsterdon

@Louisa but at least they have coffee #Monsterdon

So in conclusion, I guess our plucky band of survivors is definitely going to die, and now they're fully, crushingly aware of that fact

G'night everyone!

#Monsterdon

So I guess there's a sequel, and it's 3D. THREE DEEEEEE

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

All the animal abuse means I wont' be recommending this one, but otherwise a pretty quality movie?

#Monsterdon

Thanks @Taweret this was another Monsterdon that as a Kingdom of Fun!
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@diazona i want to see spider GOVERNANCE and the dawn of the new spider CIVILIZATION #monsterdon

Glad I made it for #Monsterdon this week, good times!

Aaaaaaand Tubi immediately starts playing Empire of the Ants #Monsterdon

@Taweret Thanks for hosting #Monsterdon

#monsterdon This was fun!

omg the spiders have learned how to create matte paintings!! #monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature was #KingdomOfTheSpiders, and was full of creepy crawly delights! Of course, there was also,
- cow pasture spiders!
- gas station spiders!
- cabin spiders!
- truck spiders!
- plane spiders!
- doll spiders!
- spider hill!
- spider town!
- spider world!

And so it goes. #monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

...Guys you really shouldn't zoom that far in on a matte painting, it doesn't hold up. #Monsterdon

@Lazarou haha we had the same thought

#Monsterdon

DJ has a gun to his head. "What a GREAT FINE day this is, NOTHING COULD BE BETTER." #monsterdon

i want a virtual assistant that looks like an old timey radio

#monsterdon

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@jonny Pretty much exactly what the title promised to be fair

#Monsterdon

“It’s coffee time, to hell with everything else” preach Emma. #monsterdon

does this end with a nuclear bomb? do they nuke the site like in Return of the Living Dead and end up spreading super-spider eggs everywhere?

#Monsterdon
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@Lazarou "Spiders got a fuse box, she wears on her chest!... 🎶" #WrongLyrics #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #CoffeeWatch --- FINALLY! Coffee!

COFFEE TIME #monsterdon

COFFEE? COFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEEEEEEEEE COFFEE

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

I hope Shatner has super-venom powers now

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#monsterdon The End

Spiders cannot be trusted to do home electrical work #monsterdon

props to shatner for being willing to do that scene honestly

#monsterdon

Hollywood is in love with Tarantulas

#monsterdon

this extended shot of shatner dying shows us how the spiders are doing nothing wrong and just hitching a lil ride #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Cowboy gets his karma

oooooh, a rat-tarantula _alliance_

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

Ladies and gentlemen, the spiders have learned to explode. #monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

And all along the queen spider was hiding in plain sight as Shatner's toupee!

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

Where's Chuck Norris when you need him?

#Monsterdon

i was promised a county fair scene goddamnit

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#monsterdon fake #kingdomOfTheSpiders trivia - The production company were initially stumped on how to provide enough spiders for the filming of this but then Shatner made a call and they wound up shaving approximately 2300 tribbles for use in the film.

@wohali
I do not want to think about how they got the spiders to stay on the rats

#Monsterdon

Oooh sweetie rat actor 😻

I love rat actors so much it is very funny how they're used in movies with the assumption that the viewer can't read their body language (which is basically always "PLAY? INVESTIGATE? HAPPY!")

#Monsterdon

Are the rats in league with the spiders or something?

#Monsterdon

rats + spiders = nightmare fuel

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Spiders are well known for breaking through barricade windows, it is known
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So that town chaos scene, the same guy killed the mayor AND the sheriff yeah? #monsterdon

WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING THE SPIDERS DON'T CARE

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

What do you mean the spiders got in the wiring? They're fucking animals man! Animals! - Private Hudson

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

"They cut the power"

"How could they cut the power, man?! They're animals!"

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Oh my GAWD

patience? i've been watching this movie for an hour and twenty two minutes already. #monsterdon

I'm tryin' real hard not to notice that they could just walk out of here if they had a decently wide broom to sweep the spiders aside with. #Monsterdon

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