“Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.” #Monsterdon

WAIT TAHTS CHAKOTAY

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Jose Feliciano ftw #Monsterdon

Heeeeeeere's Timmy!

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Aw man, is mom a creeper? That'd be mean. #Monsterdon

so, guy's packing up for what he knows is the last time, and he takes a tiny plastic trophy? definitely "peaked in high school" vibes there. #monsterdon

Ah yes, the scooby-doo zombie chase; a staple of every 80s horror movie

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I've never been shooting in Centralia PA, the abandoned mine town that's been on fire for decades, but I imagine it looks like that #Monsterdon

ping Eh, I didn't need that round.

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@starkraving666 Sure, but the super tiny 80s miniblinds fucking RUIN the vibe. #monsterdon #NightOfTheComet #imdbTrivia

#Monsterdon Do you think there are any therapists in that bunker group? Because all of these people are going to have survivor’s guilt and PTSD like nobody’s business.

@CactuarJoe What's #Monsterdon???

Huh, we're at the halfway mark already? I hope there some more events, but I trust that there will be

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Oh yeah, make sure you save the plastic trophy, Rob. #Monsterdon

I sure hope they thought to siphon all that gas out first before totaling that car, since it's not like gas stations will be super reliable #monsterdon

@yatsu Definitely getting grandma's-house flashbacks. #monsterdon

that's a great Craftsman house #monsterdon #nightofthecomet

#monsterdon That caddy knows what it did.

BTW if you're ever curious what car is in a movie, there's apparently a whole database of what car is in what movie, for like 20 years now, I just learned of it last week: https://www.imcdb.org/movie_87799-Night-of-the-Comet.html

BTW keep your eyes peeled for the Buick later. That plus the shots they're getting in general plus the colors is just _peak_ 80's

i am fairly certain my mother has a cheap gold-leaf frame like that in her house. #monsterdon

And now for a different type of Mom than Doris.

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Foreshadowing itch is foreshadowing #monsterdon

Kelli Maroney improvised the Uzi line when the weapon jammed for real. Director Thom Eberhardt told the cast to react to any unexpected occurrences in character, since time and budget were tight and they needed to avoid retakes. #monsterdon #NightOfTheComet #imdbTrivia

@jonny to be honest time has flown by considering how little has actually happened since the Comet Event so kudos to them for that at least #Monsterdon

@Configures Oh, I’m not saying you didn’t exist—just that it wasn’t portrayed in movies and media as a normal thing, usually. #Monsterdon

AUTOMATION IS THE SECRET THEME (this time the record player) #monsterdon

@srol this movie has a lot of ideas about what people really say

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Swiper no swiping!

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but look that shot of the cheerleader with the mac-10 and the over-it friend holding her ear is iconic, and iconic a good way that we literally never get in #monsterdon

@bstacey not long after the Berlin Wall came down #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe all the diet pepsi they can drink, in fact. #monsterdon

This movie is really pushing "make it with" as something it believes people really say. #monsterdon

This is like un-Bechdel'ed. The last 2 women on Earth are named characters and they are arguing about the last guy on Earth. On the morning after the apocalypse. #monsterdon

But hey, at least you have Diet Pepsi. #Monsterdon

i wish i had some twizzlers tho

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Casual nudity but we have to say "made it with him" right?

Ah, things I am glad we left behind in the 80s.

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She dreams fanservice?
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"Freaked out"

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make...what? #monsterdon #nightofthecomet

"A dead cat?"
"Semi dead."
Cat dead... details later...
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And all that gunfight er is /not/ going to attract a bunch of zombies?

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Okay, it's dead. You skin it, I'll set the meat to smoke. #Monsterdon

i was about to say it is too early for this level of sexual tension and then i realized we are halfway through??? we haven't even really gotten any plot yet. we are only not getting "playing in the wasteland" shooting a ton of guns and stuff. i wish it was another hour longer #Monsterdon

It's a housewife's weapon, basically. Even a housewife can handle it.

(Got to love all the casual racism/sexism)

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It is a little baby Robert Beltran.
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Oh no, she's going to turn zombie, isn't she?

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The audio is too echoey for me to understand anything but I think they’re just establishing romantic subplot. Did she say she’d give him Texas? Is cheerleadsister itchy because she’s becoming a zombie? #monsterdon

Sure I'm glad that those random scientists had a couple of scenes to explain why that itching is ominous

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girl's a fine shot. #monsterdon

Trans themes ahoy!

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"[Larry] and I weren't going steady" welp RIP Larry I guess
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@SnoopJ They’re dream sequences. That’s her 80s dream hair. #Monsterdon

you'd think mastodon would have learned that when I type #monsterdon it does not want me to "complete" it to just #monster or #mons by now

shitty half-baked feature tbh

Oh no, not Samantha! #monsterdon

They've known each other for like an hour, the apocalypse has just happened, and they're already flirting? #monsterdon

uh, sam??? #monsterdon

Uh oh, little sis is dissociating and rocking. She's gonna murder someone. #monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

The kids are calling it "Texas" these days?

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"Going steady", one of those romantic modes that just kind of disappeared, perhaps about 20 years before "talking" emerged. #Monsterdon ☄️

ominous itching #monsterdon

this bathroom is a fucking liminal space

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"Texas? Florida? You can have 'em."

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@ramsey I mean, I had a 100+ issues unbroken streak of X-Man comics in the 1980s, and was well up on Fantastic Four, Avengers, Superman, and Batman, too. I knew a kick-ass army brat woman who could ride cycles and shoot. I'm not sure there were many women like that all in one package. There were plenty of us back then, being disbelieved and having to prove ourselves back in the day. Novelty? To some, sure. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

the fact Samantha has so many dreams about zombie cops means she's an all right kid #monsterdon

#Monsterdon No, he was just gifting you $15 a visit. :blobcatrollingeyes:

"i'll be back"
so, he's not coming back then, check.
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@steggy Also stay for the cheesy 80's soundtrack

because the cheesy 80's soundtrack refuses to go anywhere

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Which chemical process could lead to slow dehydration and culminate in plain "calcium powder" being left behind? (I'll accept calcium compounds that are at least 20% calcium by mole.) #monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

The sexual tension...

This isn't just some date night at the barrio.

#Monsterdon

That's a Bingo for me. 😁 #Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

Awwww, they're wearing Christmas colors.

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@foolishowl It's AMAZING. #monsterdon

Oh, it’s that time of the movie for one of the protagonists to get naked, is it? #Monsterdon

What happened to the audio???? I guess the boom mic died.

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I feel like Samantha is dealing with some pre-comet trauma. Possibly because of the dead abusive step mom. #monsterdon

Dead Malls take on a whole new meaning in this film.

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The cops are zombies.

Come for the cheesy 80s soundtrack, stay for the social commentary

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yall might recognize that scientist as also Mary Bland in Chopping Mall

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What is with the soundtrack?

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Samantha's velcro shoes in trans colors, I am here for it!

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🦖 #MONSTERDON 🎞️

☄️ TRIVIA OF THE COMET

#NightOfTheComet1984

Robert Beltran recommended Mary Woronov ("Audry") to be in this movie. They developed her movie dialogue at the station on their own.

He knew her from appearing together in Eating Raoul (1982). Later, they appeared together in Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989).

@msh @aburka @apLundell Unfortunately not the good stuff though

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How many music videos were filmed in the bathroom?

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Kinda weird how high the background music is in the mix.

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So THAT's how you use one of those chairs. #monsterdon

The radio station is still going? Is this before or after all the host bits were prerecorded?
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Is this a third dream sequence from a different POV?

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“Come on in, have a seat” (there is no chair) (she sits on the floor) #monsterdon

Just typical L.A. cops. Nothing unusual here.

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They got me a SECOND TIME. 2nd wake up from a zombie dream.
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not going into the bathroom after THAT nightmare, that's for sure. #monsterdon

@aburka @apLundell these scientists are useless clearly we all turn into some variety of curry powder #Monsterdon

tooooo many dreaming layers

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hmm is Samantha's hair more blown out in her dream sequences?

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Okay so what this movie does is take all the typical traits of a female lead from the 80s and splits them into two characters. Reg gets all the competent, hardass traits, and her little sister gets all the shower scenes and the eagerness to get eaten. #Monsterdon

ACAB, including and especially probably zombie cops #monsterdon

Hector returns to his post-apocalypse all Pat Benatar mixtape #Monsterdon

Hi another monsterdon were just introducing random nudity. And a dream sequence within a dream sequence :blobfacepalm:

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AZCAB

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Dream sequence says ACAB #monsterdon

Another dream scene, not at all cheap

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