Oh no, not the dog next? No........
Don't tell Kristi Noem!
#monsterdon

They believed in minimalist editing back in the 70s. Awkward silence? Leave it in! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon the dog better be ok :(

oh no, i got a bad feeling about the doggy's fate :( #monsterdon

ah yes another 70's movie whose soundtrack can't tell what genre it's supposed to be #monsterdon

He's just an old country doctor ...

#monsterdon

aw, but the calf was the best actor in this film so far. #monsterdon

Wait, wasn't he the captain not the doctor?
#Monsterdon

*suspenseful swabbing* #Monsterdon

lol @ Shatner doing a science pose like that Trump woman...

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Animals were (probably) hurt in the making of this film...

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon don't mind me, I'm just gonna stick my hand into the animal's foaming mouth. #KingdomOfTheSpiders

What did they do to that cow to make it look like that, this isn't cgi...

#monsterdon

Is your cow abusing alka-seltzer? Learn the warning signs!

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

NOOOOOOOOO! not the cowlet!

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

yep

them's rabies

#monsterdon #KingdomeOfTheSpiders

I'm 5 minutes late starting the movie. 😬
But I'm loving the opening music so won't fast forward. 😀
#Monsterdon #kingdomofthespiders

Shatner actually does know a bit about horses, that's indirectly how I (extremely briefly along with the rest of the radio station staff) met him.

#monsterdon #KingdomeOfTheSpiders

My partner suggested "William Shatner is abusive toward a woman" for this week's bingo card, and I foolishly didn't take it seriously.

#Monsterdon

William Shatner and spiders...obviously this is going to be a very understated movie. #Monsterdon

🦖#Monsterdon History

#KingdomOfTheSpiders was one of many environmentally-themed movies from the 70s.

Soylent Green is famous, but #Monsterdon fans should remember Godzilla even fought the Smog Monster.

He's a COWBOY with a PAGER!? FOUL!! #Monsterdon

oh, he's not John #monsterdon #kingdomOfTheSpiders

Look at him, abusing that poor animal to impress a woman....the rumours were true
#monsterdon

William Shatner ACTION country Veterinarian!?
And woman rustler.
#Monsterdon #KingdomoftheSpiders

A, yes, the nature prey of spiders, cows
#Monsterdon

Too bad the cow didn't have a bigger acting career after that masterful scene. #Monsterdon

Here for #monsterdon.
I think this may be a second viewing for me 🤷‍♀️

Cow senses danger!

#monsterdon

Oh no! The black man
's cattle
dies first!
#Monsterdon #KingdomoftheSpiders

SpiderCam (tm)

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Bertha got et by tiny velociraptors. #Monsterdon

Needs more cowbell. #monsterdon

suspicious cow is protagonist #monsterdon

doesthecowdie.com

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@Lazarou as long as he doesn't sing them. #monsterdon

This is the Nexus isn't it? #Monsterdon

When I was a kid I hated movies that front-loaded credits over scenes where nothing happened like this. I was a real Milhouse. #Monsterdon

Bond. J. Bond, associate producer.

#monsterdon

Going into this with nothing more than the title. Was I the only one not expecting the country music sound track?

#Monsterdon

I'm interested in learning about the Igo Kantor Ternary Set. #monsterdon #kingdomOfTheSpiders

Hopefully, at some point, there's a breakaway colony of spiders that asserts its independence from the evil kingdom of spiders. Death to the monarchy! #Monsterdon

@Lazarou If the spiders laugh at me for not watching even if I am watching then what does it even matter 😛

#Monsterdon

Is this kingdom an absolute monarchy or constitutional? Guess we're about to find out #monsterdon

For almost four seconds this film gave you the impression it might know what it's doing

#monsterdon #KingdomeOfTheSpiders

Oh that is some MUSIC. #monsterdon

Working title, Billy Shatner and the Spiders from Mars.

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

Dimension Pictures International! Only two of them, though. #Monsterdon

GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about Kingdom of the Spiders (1977).

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

https://youtu.be/sBs9f25Gv1Q

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#monsterdon WARNING For the people who scroll downwards when reading Mastodon you're about to hit a huge blob of posts/jokes/replies about SPIDERS, some including images, some involving Bill Shatner. If you don't want to see this please take the time to mute the #monsterdon hashtag for a bit! (We were watching Kingdom of the Spiders)

@CactuarJoe @Taweret Vowel-man?! (he's French, you know!) #monsterdon

@Taweret well

the title was not a lie, the movie delivered

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

@JoeWynne @CactuarJoe I tried to do a quick enterprise-surrounded-by-spiders-and-rats image but couldn't quite make it work xD

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

@Zerofactorial "This is the story, of spider Diaaaneee, doin the best that she caaan🎶" #monsterdon

Based on application of the the Tubi "rewind 30 seconds button" I believe the correct answer was closer to 3 minutes. Good thing no one tried to vote #monsterdon

@Taweret Why hasn't Hollywood greenlit a pitch under the title "Spiders on a Plane?" #monsterdon

Lets spray the spiders with axe body spray! Spiders instantly buy toyota trucks, scrape off so just "yo" then drive around with "Rumpshaker" blaring. (stolen from the best damned tweet I ever saw 15? years ago) #Monsterdon

the guy screaming hysterically while trying to fly a plane while covered in spiders was fun tho

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@MovieDivaJacki Perhaps his blood wasn't based on hemoglobin #monsterdon

@jonny The Desert Skies podcast (afterlife gas station in ~Arizona) has Tarantula Kings among other critters/groups. #Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders https://desertskiespodcast.com/tarantula-kings/

@MovieDivaJacki
Wait has William Shatner ever died in a role? Is "survives" a standard rider on his contracts?

#Monsterdon

@phoutz I hate to terrify anyone.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3737868/

#KingdomOfTheSpiders 2 #Monsterdon

@peter_mcmahan @jonny I think the production crew that had to set them out in whatever array the producer wanted would have quit #monsterdon

@DragonHunterD Oh of course, any time the feed isn't more fun than the movie it means something has gone horribly wrong (maybe except that time we watched Hogfather but even that didn't really feel like #Monsterdon proper)

@DragonHunterD exactly the spiders need #DiversityOfTactics #Monsterdon

@cheribaker A clear anti-handgun message came through #monsterdon

The moral of the story: Always keep a damn broom in ya house. #Monsterdon

Long-time listener first-time SPIDER

#Monsterdon
#KingdomOfTheSpiders

@moira interestingly, females can live 30-40 years, but yeah. #Monsterdon

@JoeWynne @Taweret Legs - I see what you did there #monsterdon

@jonny

In a trench coat!!

#Monsterdon

@randy_s I remember that going to the beach used to be a dangerous proposition, like walking over razors #monsterdon

@strangefour I was HOPING that for one sweet second. #Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

@JoeWynne @Taweret "legs" 😁

#Monsterdon

@JoeWynne Probably the time spent practicing stupid lasso tricks wasn't going to fit within the window the film had been given #monsterdon

I got some bingos! I try to be fair but I think my judgement on them differs from some others playing

#Monsterdon

anyway good job team and thanks to @Taweret for hosting as always

#Monsterdon
#KingdomOfTheSpiders

@davesdogmaggie well yeah it's been like what 47 years?

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I thought for sure Rack's prowess with the lariat was going to pay off in the big climax. What a rip off #monsterdon

@brooke I was trying to figure out whether the station was automated but they dropped in the current temperature mid-phrase so I don't think so. I think they're just working out of the transmitter building or something.

#Monsterdon
#KingdomOfTheSpiders

@CactuarJoe @srol Reminds me of a period around 2010-ish (?) when it seemed like the SyFy Channel had just built a big matrix of predatory animals and natural disasters and was going through all the combinations one by one

#Monsterdon

Uncle Bill have the first automated start of radio broadcasting? #monsterdon

Thank you @Taweret for another entertaining evening of classic cinema!

It's a wrap!

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

The ornithologist in that 90s Gamera movie had to get dragged to a lot of meetings about space pterodactyls before she stopped arguing and started calling them birds. It wasn’t an error, it was an arc. Our entomologist here needed a better script.
#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

Much thanks to @Taweret for bringing us this wonderful monstrosity! #monsterdon

@Lazarou "We're an autonomous collective. Each of us takes it in turns to act as executive for a week"

"Shut up!" #montypython #monsterdon

They missed an explanation for Shat’s amazing power against venom. He should have had a habit of being stung or bit to build up his resistance. #monsterdon

@Lazarou @Taweret ooh yes good point

I guess there was sort of a sea of spiders 🤷

#Monsterdon

reminded me a lot of The Mist 2007, especially at the end. I wonder if this could've inspired it?
#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

OK, it was never produced. Shatner said it was being produced in 1998 but it died in hell. 2003 saw another attempt to produce, but I can't find any other news. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3737868/ #monsterdon

WAIT I HAVE ONE LAST SPIDER LINK.

There are many awe-inspiring photos of "megawebs" where not normally social spiders end up making huge webs all over everything, often a result of flooding driving them out of their habitat, or because of a (usually aquatic) insect population boom giving them essentially infinite food (and therefore no incentive to eat each other). Here is a story of one such "arachnotopia":

> In late October 2009, the managers of Baltimore’s primary wastewater treatment plant sent out an urgent appeal to the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland for assistance with what they described as an “extreme spider situation” in their sand filtration facility. The building is enormous, occupying a space of about four acres under a single roof…
>
> I was part of a five-member, interagency team of arachnologists, urban entomologists and pest managers that visited the facility the following month and witnessed a spectacle that none of us had ever seen before, nor could even immediately comprehend. Peering into the dim, cavernous interior, we saw a vast world literally swallowed up by webbing. Great masses of it engulfed the equipment, blotting out much of the machinery from view. Endless sheets of it blanketed the ceiling, and in one spot had actually pulled a massive 8-foot fluorescent light fixture out of alignment (Figure 1). In places where the intrepid crew had taken brooms, poles and other tools to sweep the web away to create some access, the material lay piled on the floor in dirty coils as thick as a firehose.
Figure 1. Several of the facility’s suspended light fixtures had been pulled out of alignment by expanses of webbing anchored to the upper walls. This was the most conspicuous example.
>
> And throughout it all, there were spiders beyond imagination, embedded in their communal silk by the millions, dangling down on drop lines everywhere in response to any disturbance. What was happening here?

https://www.pctonline.com/article/megaweb/

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How the hell is Shat still alive with that many spiders on him? Cowboy power or simply plot armor? #Monsterdon

@Louisa lol xD

#Monsterdon
#KingdomOfTheSpiders

The moral of the story is that if you live in the Southwest you should line your shack with Corbomite just in case you get swarmed #monsterdon

Kingdom of the Spiders (1977): 3/5

"the spiders were just sort of hanging out and it was fine"

#monsterdon #monsterdonReviews

@diazona #TeamSpider represent! #Monsterdon

@jonny I'm imagining the movie theater audience at the end of #KingdomOfTheSpiders #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe #TeamSpider

#Monsterdon