"I've been trying to hint my way under your covers."

Maybe asking about his ex-wife isn't the best way to get bed with him, you know?

#Monsterdon

@blogdiva you did! #monsterdon

"What's wrong? You're so tense!"
"Well, I'm concerned about us having kidnapped a dude, and how he was talking about something that was going to breed fast and devour stuff."

#Monsterdon #Piranha

#Monsterdon hello my honey hello my darling hello my ragtime gaaaaal

@Terencio Oh what's a few felonies in service of a good time 😂

#Monsterdon

Straight to "Did you start drinking before or after your wife left you"

I have to say this is not promising as a romantic sub-plot.

#Monsterdon

All right so I did miss a part but are these actually our protagonists??

#Monsterdon #Piranha1978

I think he's too drunk to remember he has no idea who this woman is

#monsterdon

#monsterdon The denizen of the she-shed wishes entrance to the great dark lair of the he-hut! Okay, the sexual revolution is over, everyone out of bed!

Uh oh this movie thinks we are going to care about these characters' backstories

#Monsterdon

Man, I have zero interested in this guy's ex-wife.

#Monsterdon

DEFINITELY prefer Heather Menzies-Urich as Louisa von Trapp 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ #Piranha1978 🐟 #Monsterdon https://mastodon.social/@SesameSquirrel/113897913150708941

She’s practically throwing herself at him and he just wants to drink. I’ve never felt so represented by a movie. #Monsterdon

"He's alive."
HOW!?
#Monsterdon #Piranha

If people just talked to each other, about 90% of horror movies would never happen. Another 9% would be cancelled if people listened to the scientists. Just saying.

#Monsterdon

Don't hurt the crazy security guard that was trying to stop you from releasing the monster's.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🏊 🏊‍♂️ 🏊‍♀️ 🐟 🐟 🐟 🩸 🩸💀 😱

Razor tooth fish escape facilitated by good for nothing kids!

I don’t think we can blame the car crash in the fish. #monsterdon

#monsterdon So absolutely tidy set of bones! Just laying there, all neat and orderly. Not all jumbled up… convenient. Now we have auto theft by stupidity too. The movie is racking up the IQ points for all the cast. Ooops... it's a PInto Jeep!

This lady is like a video game character. As soon as she shows up at a mysterious abandoned facility she starts flipping levers.

#Monsterdon

OMG! That stop-motion bipedal lizard thing! 😂 I was not expecting that by any means.

#Monsterdon

That jeep just went, "Okay, time to flip." #Monsterdon

Kevin McCarthy used his rubber puppet interacting skills in the role of college professor in Ghoulies Go to College

#Monsterdon

Pretty sure the dog (somebody's dog) wouldn't make it.

#monsterdon

HE BAGGED YOUR RIDE!

#monsterdon

Wait, was that a piranha walking around on the counter?

#Monsterdon

#TeamLittleGuy

#monsterdon

just drinking from a pipe in an abandoned military facility.....fucking idiot

#monsterdon

I LOVE THAT LIL GUY

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon wait WHAT

#monsterdon Yup, we guess that we have to get permission. At least now we have a spear-toting lunatic, so that's nice. Alarm is going off, another nice touch. Need that Wilhelm Scream to make it perfection though…

I love the lil stop motion creature

see if there's any treats to give it

#monsterdon

Nobody told him WW2 ended

#monsterdon

you FOOLS! You FOOLISH FOOLS!

#piranha #monsterdon

Yep. Everything to follow is all her fault. #Monsterdon #Piranha

and I definitely almost mistyped that as "Codzilla" #TypoOfTheDay

#Monsterdon

It’s Kevin McCarthy who just looks like whisky and cigarettes. #Monsterdon

"This place gives me the creeps"

Baby Gojira: Y'ain't a looker yerself ol' man. #Monsterdon

BUNNY!
#Monsterdon #Piranha

This stop-action creature was supposed to take over the town at the end of the film, but it was too pricy.

(They wanted stop-action for the entire film, but it was deemed impractical for the fish.)

#monsterdon

The outside of This facility looks less military and more "local zoo lost its funding." #Monsterdon

GREMLINS! #monsterdon #piranha1978

SWEET ALIEN FETUS!! :D #Monsterdon

What the heck is that stop-motion critter? I love it!

#Monsterdon #Piranha

ALIEN IN BUBBLY WATER YES

#piranha #monsterdon

That was totally not a hand puppet. #Monsterdon

hey the army left all the secret documents just lying around

#monsterdon

Look, I know it's the 70s in this film, but that is a *perilous* amount of denim for one frame.

#monsterdon

I hope they weren't experimenting on piranhas and then the piranhas escaped

that's the last thing we would want

#monsterdon

Closed army testing site is an odd and interesting looking site. Who ever was the location scout on this movie did a good job.
#Monsterdon #Piranha

Pro tip: Don’t put any part of your body in pool water when said pool is surround by rusty 55 gallon drums. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon if the military site has been closed for five years or more are there really enough horny teenagers breaking in to keep the piranhas fed all that time?

those stairs are definitely abandoned, definitely no sign of six or seven years of abandonment on those stairs, nope, totally covered with leaves and stuff, not clean at all

#piranha #monsterdon

#monsterdon NO, you both are wasting our time! The fourth wall is quite tired of you already. Get to becoming FISH FOOD you loudmouth yokels! INTO THE WATER. Spread that A1 Steak Sauce on your skin ya nasty long pig assjacks! You're Dashi in Polyester! ON with it!

ah the good old days when you can show up at a stranger's house in the middle of nowhere and kidnap them to be your local guide

#monsterdon

There's going to be nothing but two skeletons.

#monsterdon

@floatybirb Dogs ARE neat and hopefully not going to be eaten.

#Monsterdon

dang they're taking their comedic cuts straight out of 1957 war comedies

#piranha #monsterdon

The cracked windshield comes standard with jeeps.

#Monsterdon #Piranha

They were testing army fish! Armies of fish! #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Boomers never were good with personal boundaries.

#piranha #monsterdon

She is kind of rude. He's trying to eat breakfast.
#Monsterdon #Piranha

#Monsterdon "i didn't axe-murder your young couple"

that's awfully specific

"I didn't ax murder your young couple, I _chainsaw_ murdered them."

#piranha #monsterdon

You eat fish? Fish eat you! #monsterdon #piranha1978

it is polite to share with your guest, sir

#monsterdon

@allanb Oh no! 😱

But you're probably right.

#Monsterdon

oh dang he cooked a python

#monsterdon #piranha

'Man cannot live by booze alone." #monsterdon A lost gospel.

Brandy. Even the dog is named after booze #Monsterdon

the old man's love of the river and the cycle of Nature will be his undoing....a very 70s message.

#monsterdon

I like Jack. I'm sure that means he will be fine in this movie.

#Monsterdon

ah it's all so peaceful and pristine here

I hope no militarized piranhas show up

that's the opposite of what we want to happen

#monsterdon

I also only need the river.

#Monsterdon

@floatybirb it was the 70's, nipples were a very important part of cinematography. #Monsterdon

The river is my toilet

#monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

TRIVIA BITES

Director Joe Dante used his success in #Piranha to be able to direct other comedy/horror movies like Gremlins and The ‘Burbs.

Q: Is this movie a comedy? a Horror movie? or a Thriller?
A: Yes

the seventh cavalry? already? today? goddamn how much syrup are you drinking today, Not Jack?

#piranha #monsterdon

"Scotch, gin, bourbon, and for your convenience all in the same bottle." #Monsterdon

@Lazarou @CactuarJoe "FENCE EXISTS FOR NO REASON AT ALL, WE PROMISE"

#Monsterdon

Indeed that was a real video game! Shark Jaws was released in 1975.

#monsterdon

I see the young man is hitting the maple syrup extra early this morning

#piranha #monsterdon

ok, first thought. The dog's going to get eaten
#monsterdon

Sitting around in plaid with a bottle: porch guy 🤝 me

#Monsterdon

Wild Turkey, breakfast of champions.

#Monsterdon #Piranha1978 #BiteyFish

city folk can find keep their plane tickets

#monsterdon

One to add to the pool of aquatic movie tropes @Cherizilla : people see a body of water and feel compelled to swim in it

#Monsterdon

"The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading only"

#Monsterdon

DICK VAN DYKE'S BOSS?

#piranha #monsterdon

Joe Dante of Gremlins???

#monsterdon

@Lazarou "Third couple this week. I'm gonna have to build an addition just to stack the skeletons." #Monsterdon

@Bluedepth piranhas are omnivorous

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon these titles in white over the red sea moon reflection are very striking

my hat's off to whoever did them

the screen turned red for the opening credits, I wonder if that's foreshadowing #monsterdon

Heh, dude comes to the door like DID I HEAR SOME HEAVILY IMPLIED FISHMURDER ON MY PROPERTY!? >:( #Monsterdon

People calling Game of Thrones "Death and Boobies" never saw Piranha.

#monsterdon
#Piranha

How do you even direct someone to act for this setup?

"Okay, you're being eaten. By lots of little fish. But they are absolutely overpowering you, okay? Aaaand, action!"

#Monsterdon

Nice fade to red, titles. Classy!

#Monsterdon #Piranha1978 #BiteyFish

Fish: 2 Humans: 0

#monsterdon

for some reason, that scene was funny

#monsterdon