Chakotay! #Monsterdon

"I'm gonna go have cereal."

The right response the the apocalypse.

Except I might skip the BRAN and go for, I don't know, Cap'n Crunch.

#monsterdon

It's a credit to the film that I instantly believe Chuck as wearing white moccasin-styled loafers. #monsterdon

@ColesStreetPothole Cinnamon Toast Crunch!

#Monsterdon

@ricci @jonny ooh, is that why sister survived in the lawn supply store or whatever #monsterdon

C'mon just process it a little more. #Monsterdon

@fluffy "There shall come soft rains." -- Ray Bradbury story where all the automated stuff keeps going and all the peeps are dead. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

sister just closes the door. i mean lol, but also, valid. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Can we count the cheerleaders square on the bingo card, even thought there’s only one - given that she is perhaps the maximum number of cheerleaders available on the plane?

okay in fairness if you came to my house and told me everyone was dead and the only proof you had was piles of koolaid mix, i would not believe you either

#monsterdon

It's Saturday morning, do you know where your children are? #monsterdon

This the second movie I've watched with you all where I think there might be a subtle pern reference (cyclic comet killing off civilization/living creatures). Or maybe I'm reading into things...

#Monsterdon

Nooooooo not Muffy #Monsterdon ☄️

Seems like Reggie figured it all out on the ride over, without having a single emotion on the bike. Suddenly she has emotions. #monsterdon

That sweater is worth every one of those 80 bucks too, it's glorious. #monsterdon

Saturday morning 1980s - inside watching cartoons.
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Still swifter than her... sister? Stepsister?
#monsterdon

That outside shot.... why am I looking for a pizza on the roof above the garage???

#BreakingBad

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Wow. Doris lost some weight. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

actually if it's that easy to survive, just like being in a shitty aluminum shed, then you would expect there to be like a shitload of survivors, but idk if i would want to survive in the wasteland of everyone who didn't want to see a very cool comet #monsterdon

holy shit, 80 bucks! i'd be mad too if my sister was about to ruin my 1986 US$80 sweater. #monsterdon

No teenager with missing parents is choosing to eat Raisin Bran.

#Monsterdon

End of the world and you're stuck with your kid sister. Oh dear. #Monsterdon

🦖 #MONSTERDON 🎞️

☄️ TRIVIA OF THE COMET

#NightOfTheComet1984

Kelli Maroney cheerleader roles
* Night of the Comet (1984)
* Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

She kept her costume from this movie.

uh oh Muffy gone

#monsterdon

It's Saturday morning! Where are the goddamn kids?!?

uhh... Hebrew school?

#monsterdon

The apocalypse looks so peaceful.
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

I just laughed out loud at the dead dog gag so... good job movie #monsterdon

I am happy to have been so quickly proven wrong. #monsterdon

The TV is out but the radio was working when they were still in the projection booth. This means there are other survivors or we have a continuity problem #monsterdon

Love that. "Nope. Not dealing with that." #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I had that boombox!

"...this is no time for Raisin Bran!"

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Sammy, you gotta get it together, girl.

#Monsterdon

I guess they really spend the budget on this movie to get this places clear for those shots.
#monsterdon

Samantha's pretty cool. #monsterdon

Enjoy that Raisin Brand, kid, you'll soon have endless low fiber bowel movements #monsterdon

You can tell it's set in America because insurance doesn't cover PREMIUM FACE BONES. :blobdead:

#monsterdon

Why was that the only abandoned car in the city?

#monsterdon

God look at this kitchen dirty clothes and curry powder all over the place WTF #Monsterdon

@Configures I guess what I’m wondering is whether it was considered more of a novelty to audiences in 1984 than today. #Monsterdon

she doesn't notice that's its glowing crimson outside?

#monsterdon

A shame about Samantha, though. #monsterdon

Muffy's dusted, Sam. #Monsterdon

if the sister is still alive DMK is probs a dude... aaand there she is. hi sis. #monsterdon

We just got Lewton Bus'd (fake jumpscared) #Monsterdon ☄️

Yeah, am done.

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet_1984

tbh i would take comet apocalypse if it meant that i could ride around on a motorcycle with no helmet and no traffic for a few days before succumbing to the totality of loneliness and rigging up a sick explosive death for myself #monsterdon

Right now Reg is probably hoping she gets to cack zombie Doris. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@simrob @jonny We also got the important plot point that the projection room is surrounded by steel

#Monsterdon

I'm sure this is perfectly safe. Nothing bad can happen when a 65 million year old comet comes to visit.
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@Louisa It's like *Day of the Triffids*, the ones who didn't turn into dust or turn into zombies (didn't go blind) were the ones who didn't go look at the comet. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Tonight's Monsterdon snack of choice: Popcorn, because it was fast and I was running out of time.

If I'd known to plan ahead I might have gotten some Red Vines / Twizzlers / Licorice.

What are you eating?

#monsterdon

#monsterdon anyone else have look to see if the mercedes has a coat hanger sticking out the front grill every time there's one in a movie? (extremely common home repair for broken hood latch)

Smoke-filled room? Check

#monsterdon

Is this song now an electronic/guitar riff on jingle bells? Epic!

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Electricity check. Cable TV, not so much. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

I would also do all of this in her situation. #monsterdon

Good news, at least Doris is already dead, right?

Or is a zombie and we get to see her take a pipe wrench to the face shortly.

#monsterdon

This is the most incurious, oblivious protagonist I can imagine. #monsterdon

the front hall of their house looks like every fallout 4 house

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

bro wouldn't have died to a zombie if he knew more comic book trivia thats all im sayin

#monsterdon

@peltast kicks zombie ass, rides off on motorcycle. She’s born for this! #Monsterdon

There were apparently a lot of raptures, but also some raptures were zombies. Because that one zombie had clothes, but everyone else is dust without clothes, so I'm just trying to keep up here.

There's naked zombies somewhere, that's what I'm saying. Realistically.

#Monsterdon

@jonny basement of movie theater “making it” with the dude that got bashed in the head by zombie #monsterdon

Really the absence of people isn't as shocking as the absence of cars. This is supposed to be LA, right? #Monsterdon

Ah fuck, wait is it a zombie movie? Let's read up on it ... yes, yes it is one.

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet_1984

Brief shot of an LA Olympics logo on the top of one of the skyscrapers.

#monsterdon

Wow, Thom McAn had their own stores back then #monsterdon

So far the most unbelievable part of this film is just how long modern infrastructure keeps running without anyone minding the power plants.

#monsterdon

@Taweret she is probably Canadian which I will believe to make this #Monsterdon protagonist even better

🦖 #MONSTERDON 🎞️

☄️ TRIVIA OF THE COMET

#NightOfTheComet1984

There was no time for retakes, so the Director told the actors to stay in character and react to whatever happens.

🔫Listen for Kelli Maroney's improvised line when her Uzi jams irl.

We saw in Chopping Mall that she can handle a gun. My kind of woman.

Keytar solo!

#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Were the vehicles product placement?

#monsterdon

Getting Covid lockdown vibes here

#Monsterdon

Shutting down the city like this was probably 86% of the budget.

#Monsterdon

@ramsey Hit great for me in the 1990s. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

The doofus being dead and the summary of the movie give me hope that DMK is going to be another cool 80s girl #monsterdon

Red Sky at night, comet's delight.
Red Sky in the morning, comet take warning. #monsterdon

Take the Benz!!! #Monsterdon

That scene with a left turn off of Hope under a red sky is a better piece of visual cinema than this plot could possibly deserve. #monsterdon

@Taweret AND turning on your headlights.

#monsterdon

and she's got the motorcycle? the longer this movie goes on the more i want my DMK is another gamer girl headcannon to be True (and the more disappointed i'm gonna be when it isn't). #monsterdon

REGINA THAT IS BLOOD WHY ARENT YOU MORE CONCERNED its the 80s isnt everyone freaking out about AIDS and shit?

#monsterdon

@Taweret bookmark this for later

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@foolishowl I thought it was Twizzlers (which to be fair are probably even less effective against zombies than any color of licorice)

#Monsterdon

Orange filter. Simple, but effective. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Okay, we're getting more of this cool red sky. Right on.

#Monsterdon

Love these recolored wide shots. A few of them made me wonder if mattes were involved but I think it's just editing magic of real shots?

#Monsterdon

Making the absolute most of their street closure permit #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial I sort of thought they had been passed down to us through the generations from I dunno the ancient Egyptians or something #Monsterdon

@amyfou oh no

no

(lol)

(they're similar but different and it's a west cast-east coast thing)

#monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

#Monsterdon Nothing suspicious. L.A. is always this empty early in the morning. Yeah.

@socketwench Nah, database geeking. But hey if others go for the superhero geeking, that's fine for them. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

Slap! PUNCH! Domestic violence CW.
#Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

respecting the stoplights even in an apocalypse because we live in a society

#monsterdon

@amyfou Basically yes.

Red Vines are a little bit harder to chew, and Twizzlers have a bit more artificial flavouring.

#monsterdon

Nope it's a 1971 Triumph Bonneville. Nice bike.

#Monsterdon

@JamesAkers Aren't we all dust in the wind anyway?

#Monsterdon

I don't think that was a female driving?

#monsterdon