Our sound track has changed to country music. It's certainly cheaper on the budget.

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lol, that dust washing away was once people.....

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#monsterdon *computer system keeping braindead blood donor zombies alive blinking "UNABLE TO DISPLAY HR" as life support systems audibly flatline*

It's a little on the nose to call the bloodbags "human resources" but I'll allow it

Don't tell Mom the babysitter's a pile of dust #Monsterdon

"My parents told me never to breathe anything from strangers"

Awfully specific advice

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"My parents told me to never breathe anything from strangers" elicited actual meatspace laughter #Monsterdon ☄️

They're searching the secret military base for our escaped heroine, and seem to be concentrating on the theatrical-smoke wing so far.

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Excellent design, have the whole base go down at one big old switch

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I'm so disappointed the cheerleaders are not going to repopulate the earth.

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So Vault 84 isn't a lot of fun now is it

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Classic prison cell escape routine, this lady has skills

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Feels like a prequel to Cabin In The Woods here

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Finally, some quality 80's sax.

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honestly it being airborne and everything being eventual death atp makes all the ironic detachment and shopping and partying make perfect sense. and apparently you pass through a zombie stage where you are mostly fine for awhile and gain wicked one liners as a side effect #monsterdon

The music in this movie is a bunch of B-tier pop-star imitation tracks.

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RIP diagetic music.
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Nicea, nice sunglasses there. How are your eyes looking

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Uh oh now scientist lady is wearing sunglasses

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this movie's got some great women #monsterdon

The convertible seems like a poor decision under the circumstances #monsterdon

This movie is cheesy and kinda cheap. But man it does occasionally have the most perfect imagery. Director of photography needs an award.
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@diazona "Shall we look for survivors, gather food?"
"No, we wait in the mall....wait for girls...."

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Lol Regina left Samantha behind in the wasteland no problem huh?

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these dudes are definitely young republicans, maybe libertarians

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"Let's go to the mall!"

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#HowIMetYourMother

I'm extremely confused about how the alliances in this film got established

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Turns out the real monster is American consumerism.

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#monsterdon "I'm not crazy, I just don't give a fuck!" This is a fairly entertaining, if overplayed bad guy. He really wants to be in Gotham City.

"I'm not crazy, I just don't give a fuck"

And that's America's problem

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suppressive fire is one thing but you can't be blind firing at full auto in the apocalypse unless you were the first person to raid the sporting goods store #monsterdon

Uh oh. He's wearing fingerless gloves in the 80s—he's a bad guy.

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Tech Bros killing the only women alive.

#NightOfTheComet1984
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Okay, I had to laugh at the "what are the odds, it's LA" line. #Monsterdon ☄️

Sunglasses indoors and fingerless leather gloves. He seems nice.

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Maybe Hector doesn't dig white chicks, have you considered that?

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Getting the rights to use "Girls Jut Wanna Have Fun" was probably half the budget. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

i am glad the protagonist women are out and armed in downtown LA but also i wish they would like remain in the place that let them survive at least until the red sky fades a little bit. i only want the best for them #monsterdon

The rash is fine it's just a curry allergy it's nothing #Monsterdon

This is against the Prime Directive #monsterdon

Geoffrey Lewis! #Monsterdon

"Secret government lab abducting children!"

Ok Qanon, calm down there....

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I guess these zombies are 28 days later adjacent

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Sorry, Rob, mom's tile grout now :/ #Monsterdon

"Daddy would have gotten us Uzis"

🤌🤌

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Is this the movie with the most diegetic music?

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Was it a bad dream or an erotic one? Exactly how twisted is this chick? #monsterdon

🦖 #MONSTERDON 🎞️

☄️ TRIVIA OF THE COMET

#NightOfTheComet1984

The two motorcycle cops? They were working for the filmmakers to manage traffic. Got into the movie!

@apLundell I can squint and say "it's from the Hoover Dam" since that's supposed to be able to run for a millenium with only simple maintenance... but it IS suspicious. heh.

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Teenage Comet Zombies is my new favorite band #Monsterdon

Turns out the vacuous teen cheerleader is also a crack audio engineer. Quickly took over the automated radio station.

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That's no research base, it's a cult! #monsterdon

"MAC-10 submachine gun was practically designed for housewives"

This movie has some great zingers

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you don't know how sentient the zombies are, idk maybe broadcasting that you are alive in the radio station is the worst possible thing you could do #monsterdon

ooo, the mysterious government lab!

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The gun-toting radio-station guy is Chakotay?

I didn't know he started his career as a Erik Estrada apprentice actor.

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"spent last night nailing some hooker in my truck, I'm the last Man on Earth!"

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Cat eating discourse! I'm dying here 🤣 #Monsterdon

Somebody went to a lot of trouble to automate this radio station

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I forgot to check doesthedogdie.com

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Definitely watch your drinks in this 'radio station' ladies...

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#Monsterdon there is a "Red Dust" movie poster in the projection room. Carefully chosen

#monsterdon I think we can all agree that our heroine has an unusually cute nose but I'm not sure that justifies all these motorcycle handlebar up-nostril shots

So #monsterdon has started 🤣

The idea for GTA5 was birthed by this film

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More 80's montage music #monsterdon

you could not ask for a better protagonist than video game motorcycle woman. the rare #monsterdon where i am conflicted about being on the protagonist or the monster's team

Oh fuck they talk, too.

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That's two deadly movie monster upgrades.

Social skills, ability to coordinate, tool use? You're fucked.

"I've been trained..."

So much classier than "I know Kung Fu!" haha.

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The Zombies talk in this timeline. Much like ours. #monsterdon

Actually having a hard time making fun of this, I'm enjoying myself quite a bit tonight.

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The zombies have discovered tool use pretty quickly

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"a blood soaked wrench.....I'll pick that up!"

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What are the rules of this? Only people having orgasms at the moment the comet passed by remain normal and the rest either get dusted or turned into zombies?

This is worse than figuring out the vampirism rules for Twins of Evil.

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After a night of mediocre projection room sex, you could at least offer her an Egg McMuffin.

Wait. Is this the world's most terrible product placement? #Monsterdon

I do wonder what the deal is with the radio DJ, as to my knowledge radio stations did not have fully-automated playlists in 1984, and it was super typical for local FM stations to have morning shows with hosts and such.

Also that is not how high score lists work. #monsterdon

So we've got vaporized people, but somehow we're going to end up with zombies too?

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Only the hot girls will survive.

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I guess these people needed to be wearing a higher level of SPF #monsterdon

Check out the movie poster on the back of the door.

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I love this 80s idea of automations waking up in the morning #monsterdon

Rapture?

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Effects budget: fog machine and a red light #monsterdon

Sex in a sleeping bag, nothing but the best

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Arcade Bellhop has a boyfriend, who is the movie projector attendee guy, which I am told was a sweet job before movies went all computerized. Anyway, he's sleazy and wants her to stay in the projector booth with him and make out, I think while he also bootlegs movies or something. I will call him Bootleg Joe because I don't know his real name.

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Look, I'm like 18 ok, and I can watch the comet wherever I want to watch the comet! And I can also throw Milk Duds at you.

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A comet for Christmas? #monsterdon

"Like, I'm 18, okay?"

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I like the little white cordless phone with the pull-out antenna.

Can I get that in an 5G model?

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Sandinista! A contemporary reference!

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The high pressure, fast paced life of a movie projectionist

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"all telecommunications seem to be out on that part of the world...anyway...."

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Launching my #monsterdon thread for #NightOfTheComet! Hoping for lots of comets! Wooo space snowballs wooo!

Monsterdon is the thing where we watch an old monster movie every week and make fun of it; you may want to mute the hash tag if this isn't your thing.

And we're away…

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My first exposure to this movie was when I was a child and my parents took me to see The Last Starfighter at the movie theater. One of the trailers for coming attractions was for Night of the Comet, and I distinctly remember being scared of the zombie faces.

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@lytta @ramsey @ottaross I thought they were all dressed up because Regina and Hector Chakotay were getting ~married because it was up to them to make sure civilization survived. #NightOfTheComet #Monsterdon

@Crazypedia Dr. White was trying to fool the other scientist who was staying behind to believe the cheerleader was dead, so she injected her with sodium pentathol instead of something more lethal. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@Crazypedia Gene pool's gonna be pretty tight with so few survivors. Maybe the part of the world that was in sunlight when the comet passed by will be ok. #Monsterdon #NightOfTheComet

@Taweret While we're on the 80s film kick, a #monsterdon submission:

The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988)

It's on YouTube in full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR-X3yFl6OM&themeRefresh=1

and also on archive.org, maybe elsewhere too?

@apLundell@octodon.social Illuminati fingerprints all over the situation. Kid's about 17 years old and he has 23 cars? 17 and 23? 1723? The birth of Adam Weishaupt? Not a coincidence.

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Maybe the real zombies were the friends we made along the way. #NightOfTheComet #monsterdon