@Lazarou yeah, she earned herself a place in Sto'Vo'Kor with her surprise heroic arc in the camp scene; that was a nice addition. #monsterdon

@paco honestly, this explains so much about America....

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@wulfric I will second the motion. Flying Fish of Fury sound like a winsome combo. #monsterdon

@nev I'm a stop motion dinosaur guy truther

#ReleaseTheStopMotionDinosaur

#Monsterdon

"We'll simply destroy all equatic life within a 10 mile radius. It's the only way to be sure."

#Monsterdon

I guess that explains all the Texas references, too - they weren't just trying to make it seem they were in Texas, they *really were* in Texas.

#Monsterdon #Piranha1978 #BiteyFish

…and ending with an ocean white noise effect that I want to loop on my sleep app #monsterdon

I want the fish attacking sound effect for my soundboard.
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Why do these fish make that absurd sound? I don't care how much the military altered them, no fish sounds like that #monsterdon

never did quite find out what happened to OUR BEAUTIFUL BOY from the lab tho, did we? #monsterdon

Credits! "Man in boat"? Do you know how little that narrows it down?

#Monsterdon

@lytta Yep! He got knocked into the water during the attack in the boat-heavy area

#Piranha #Monsterdon

BEWARE

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#monsterdon

the piranha fucked off into the sea!!!

ty for joining, everyone!

#monsterdon

and ty to @DMX for joining for the first time!

SHE WAS A PIRANHA THE WHOLE TIME #monsterdon

there's nothing left to fear
brbrbrbr over the ocean
... okay, that was good though.
#monsterdon

go on Dick Miller, punch those media ghouls

#monsterdon

Hoorror, death... Film at 11 only on 13!

#monsterdon

pollution saved the day! thanks pollution! #monsterdon

the piranha look like CGI from Birddemic
#monsterdon

#monsterdon "We'll pollute the bastards to death" Possibly the only more American solution to a problem than shooting it.

#monsterdon We should crowdfund getting McKeown a stopwatch. Those were not seconds she was counting. This dude is going to drown.

Now he's stealing a motor boat, what an adventure!

"We'll pollute the bastards to death"

How 70s

#monsterdon

The solution is pirana dilution is pollution!

#Piranha #Monsterdon

Hey #monsterdon help me decide what this bitey fish carnage scene is

It must have been so fun to be an extra

Half of you get randomly sprayed with fake blood, and then you all go ape shit for 10 minutes

#Monsterdon

Why is the control shack underwater, other than for plot reasons?

#Monsterdon #Piranha1978 #BiteyFish

Shoutout to the guys who got paid to wiggle a rubber fish model against people's underwater feet :D #Monsterdon

@ricci one already did and bit the camp manager’s face

#Monsterdon #Piranha

Oh wow that dead guy bobbing to the surface was so ridiculously fake, I love it!

#Monsterdon #Piranha

The Colonel bit it.

#monsterdon

oh okay or a boat jump and explosion lmao that's impressive let's just tick that square off right now then

cmon beach umbrella, take me home!

#Monsterdon

am ok with rivers, after all, my orisha is Oshun. i detest lakes. they’re just landlocked aquariums and am not into having fish nibble at my feet.

#Monsterdon #Piranha

Fun fact: Boats explode RIGHT before impact #monsterdon

We're introduced to new characters, Team Jetski... there's like some bikini babes driving a yacht with a jet ski guy behind them in what I assume is complicated rich people foreplay. Then we are introduced to Team Scuba Diving, who I think are doing ominous army things and not fun jet ski things. Maybe, I dunno. It looks they're getting eaten by the bitey fish. #monsterdon

@jonny gen x ftw #monsterdon

#monsterdon Well, there's the divers in diving suits mixing up how you're supposed to enter the water. My exact Bingo card suggestion. JFC. Okay.

and the brunette camp counselor is playing the part of the Black guy in this very white 1970s movie

#Monsterdon #Piranha

Dagnabbit! Why did HE get to live?!? #Piranha1978 🐟 #Monsterdon https://mastodon.social/@SesameSquirrel/113897959021674994

This really was the era of short shorts and tits, wasn't it?

#monsterdon

We also get a partial redemption arc for the dude counselor who helps rescue people from the fish. The fish still eat some of the children. Then fishing vest guy shows up on the scene and starts looking for his daughter while the main girl calls on the phone to I guess summon superman, or maybe batman, to fight the fish. Oh wait, no, she's calling the texas hat guy, who ignores her.

#monsterdon

Loving Dick Miller's flamboyant pink neckwear and his confident masculinity to pull it off

#monsterdon

This is not a crank call isn't the best intro to a public warning

#monsterdon

Dragged under by six half-ounce fish, there's that waifish 70s build for you. #Monsterdon

That scene was what tentacles wanted the regata to be

#Piranha #Monsterdon

an extended scene of children screaming as they are eaten alive in little bites #monsterdon

Mean camp counselor DID jump in to save kids even after a piranha bit his face while he was on shore, you gotta hand it to him there

#Monsterdon

@Taweret@octodon.social #monsterdon
Me too. The fish didn’t start all this.

@Louisa #monsterdon this movie doesn’t f around!

#monsterdon It'd be a hilarious gag if a seagull came down from the aimless shot to begin the swimming tournament. The twist is that the seagull had a touch of bird flu, and it was the only pathogen remaining that the Piranha weren't prepared for.

If I had stolen a Police car I'd be all sirens blaring for the audacity....

#monsterdon

that’s the ashiest of legs i’ve seen. man is definitely not one with moisturizers

#Monsterdon #Piranha

@jonny I learned a good rumor today! #monsterdon

I guess our main character's plan to escape the military industrial complex has failed, because they're in jail, and even see a Cool-S graffitied on the wall. Fortunately, the main girl has a plan, she tells a long story about a plumber who liked to flash people, so she smashes a toilet and asks the warden to look at it, which he does, because he's a sucker, and she knocks him out and steals his keys. she's annoyed that she has to take his pants off, so they escape with eh pants. #monsterdon

"All woman are whores" the Divorced Drunk Man

#monsterdon

OMG #Piranha1978 🐟 #Monsterdon The blond camp counselor *IS* Melody Thomas Scott a\k\a Nikki Reed Newman Abbott on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS

Oh no! Kirsten Dunst! Don’t go! #monsterdon #piranha1978

And that, ladies and gentlemen was your promised jump-scare with the caterpillar there

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#monsterdon Hot cut to a monster scene. I love that bit.

I wish my kids camp had a theremin.

#monsterdon

Look at those epaulets and badge

Very "security guard"

#monsterdon

Everyone falls asleep reading #monsterdon #piranha1978

you gotta rally the local police and stop the swarms of militarized super fish

its your job

#monsterdon

@moira He seems to have stopped drinking for the past few hours at least

#Piranha #Monsterdon

"He thinks I'm drunk!"
"Well, you ARE drunk!"
"Yeah, but not _drunk_ drunk!"

#piranha #monsterdon

An army platoon of all Boomhauers

#Monsterdon

Pirana do not exist. Any comments to the contrary are commie propaganda

#Piranha #Monsterdon

“The lives of the fishes outweigh the lives of the fish food“ -Spock

#monsterdon #piranha1978

"I'm not afraid. I'm a scientist."

A+ dialogue, no notes.

#piranha #monsterdon

"Join the Army, hurl meat into a river.....jeez....."

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Oh my, a whole military convoy??

Are they...

...are they going to shoot the fish..?

For a committed woods-based alcoholic he sure can run fast

#monsterdon

The scale of this disaster now requires military interfishen

#monsterdon
#Piranha

@annathepiper how can they eat the raft, man! They’re animals! #monsterdon #piranha1978

The fish hate their raft!
Fish: "fuck that raft"
#Monsterdon #Piranha

piranhas actually suck at eating and prefer pre-digested food, and you die from that little humming sound they make, that's the lower harmonics of them liquefying your bones with ultrasound #monsterdon

Oh the rubber fish are actually fantastic!!!

#Monsterdon #Piranha1978 #BiteyFish

lol, a minute later he dives into the river to save a child, fucking loser....

#monsterdon

BUT NOT MAGGIE THE SKIP TRACER DARNIT! #Piranha1978 🐟 #Monsterdon https://mstdn.plus/@JoeWynne/113897982097585141

I never killed anybody, I just bred weaponized super fish that kill people

#monsterdon

Meanwhile on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God
#Monsterdon #Piranha

If he bled to death, how come he's still breathing??

But better get the shovel

#monsterdon

Wait, are they rowing out into the river to torture the old science dude? That's not how 'International Waters' works

#monsterdon

#monsterdon He seems utterly unprepared for any sort of logical carrying on with any other human being. He looks like he’s wearing an actor-suit, and there's a multi-legged arthropod deep inside him, neurotic and at a loss for what to do next.

That was a Common Loon! #monsterdon #piranha1978

Oh this is too ridiculous to be scary

#monsterdon

IT'S BABY GODZILLA #TeamMonster

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#monsterdon Hey! We got a Harryhausen figure on the loose. I don't remember this part. This makes the movie at least ten times more awesome. Ten times a very teeny number is still redic teeny. But still.

oooo, Harryhausen creature!

This is clearly the best bit of the film, isn't it?

#monsterdon

Lol OH MY GOD

I did not know at all this wasn't just a killer fish movie lmao

#Monsterdon

I love how they can wonder around this facility like all Humanity has died off and there are no rules any more

#monsterdon

David and Barbara are sleeping with the fishes

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Rednecks LOVE it when city folk demand to be taken somewhere #monsterdon #piranha1978

#monsterdon No, your ex-wife didn't send me, the CLINIC WITH YOUR SOCIAL DISEASE RESULTS SENT ME, you nasty dirty jerk! Damn Piranha now have both herpes and mono! You hairy oaf, not keeping your drunk peccadillos to yourself!

I wonder how many takes the 'fish fork' scene took and whether that actor ever looked at fish again

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Man can live by booze alone. We learned that during pandemic. So shut your pinchy little face, get in that river, let the fish nuzzle you, love you, nibble their way into your RIB CAGE and let them make amuse bouche from your LIVER! ARRRRR!

this journalist lady being distracted by video games and having a 'mare in the airport is very contemporary

#monsterdon

Thesis: The movie making industry needs more Roger Cormans.

Arguments:
1. He has not (in the research I have done this morning) been accused of inappropriate behavior.
2. His drive and tight control taught many of Hollywood's greats how to hone their craft. His movies were not called "The Roger Corman School of Filmmaking" for nothing.
3. Without the bad, you cannot have the good. And well made bad is a special treat.
4. He acknowledged past greats. Many of his later movies reference early greats of filmmaking.
5. He was not afraid of a challenge. At least one of his movies was the result of a bet.

Any counter arguments?

#RogerCorman #Filmmaking #Monsterdon #Movies #sff #horror

#monsterdon Well, it's either trespassing or sex. This gets us experimental fishes, but if you have sex and trespass, you get zombies.