"Military test site" does suggest a reason you might actually not want to go in there

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Who doesn't go hiking in the woods at night?

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Yeah, this is Jaws-inspired.

#Piranha #Monsterdon

No Tresspassing. This means you, fish.

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No trespassing? I bet someone does trespass actually

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if they were so qualified why are the piranha loose, HUH?

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Yes. Thank you trivia writer. I got that on my own.

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And Lance Henriksen, nice. In four years from this to Aliens, impressive. #monsterdon #piranha2

This movie strengthens my belief that James Cameron is a water-type pokemon.

Buddy just really really loves the water

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@astroPug @roque 👍

Doing work or any sort of activity that requires higher brain function seems tough to juxtapose with #Monsterdon

@floatybirb @Lazarou My favorite part is she spends like 2 minutes of screen time trying to turn over a canoe and get it into the water, and then just gives up and grabs an inflatable raft.

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@floatybirb Sure, I get it - I just don't think it works in the context of the rest of the film. It's too serious and the victims are too young.

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@Taweret i miss the one fishy who had legs 😢

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@YsengrinWolf I assumed he escaped, because we saw him get to shore. He probably has new levels of trauma though. #monsterdon

... and what happened to the kid they rescued from the overturned canoe? He just kinda vanishes as the raft is disassembled by piranha

#Monsterdon #Piranha1978 #BiteyFish .

@Louisa Perhaps this trivia courtesy of Amazon Prime will give you some closure on the romantic tension in tonight's film. #monsterdon

Honestly this wasn't too bad, the only misstep in my opinion was the kids' camp scene, and just because there's no way to make that stupid enough to fit in with the rest of the film, and they didn't try - which is good, given it's little kids - but it's a mis-step

#piranha #monsterdon

(thank god for this long opening sequence, this evening's timeline is HOPPING people.) #monsterdon #piranha2

So, what did happen to the mutant walking piranha? They were cute.

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@paco frankly she's more responsible for those deaths than the hammy scientist #monsterdon

The fact that the kid knew to go get the booze canteen to make pops feel better... #Monsterdon

We never did find out if he was gay. #monsterdon

The moral of the story is that nature is out to kill you so you're better off sitting in your pathetic little cabin drinking yourself to death instead #monsterdon

Who else is watching Piranha II on @ryan 's stream? link in post above #Monsterdon

@Cherizilla I started with a normal piranha doodle and upgraded it with some arms and legs when we introduced this lil thing, trogdor-style but without consumate vees.

I'm still kind of upset that the movie set this up and then never paid it off, this prop is lovely!

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Ok, I liked Piranha 1978.

It moved fast, was bonkers, quotable and 100% enjoyable.

10/10 would watch again.

#Piranha1978 #Monsterdon

Okay, that was WAY more fun and watchable than it had ANY right to be. If I went to the movies and saw that I wouldn't even be demanding my money back at the end. Thanks @Taweret for hosting and @ryan for the stream!

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This was my first #monsterdon and can I just say I might have a small tear in my eye for you guys! #piranha #wherehasmastodonbeenallmylife

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TRIVIA BITES

Piranha made money and spawned sequels and remakes.

Piranha 3, assigned a writer and director and planned to be released in 1991, was never made. But a single full-page ad did appear in Variety. And here it is...

I need to stop accidentally predicting things. Also no way dragging him through a glass window does less damage than the fishies.

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The piranha fuck off into the ocean!

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Sequel bait clinches it in the 11th hour as the piranha presumably fuck off into the sea

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Lol you bastards!! How dare you end like this

Our leads didn't even kiss, Grogan clearly has PTSD and maybe an oxygen deprived brain

The evil scientist won? We never saw the walking fish again?

Everyone's going to be killed by piranhas

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#Piranha1978 feels very contemporary to me. We've returned to a world where people make decisions as poorly as the characters in this film do, and the most culpable escape meaningful consequences

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Lol in the piranha fucked off into the sea for a sequel

-Fin 🐟

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YAY fucking off into the sea!

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#monsterdon "there's nothing left to fear" as she gives the camera the Kubrick stare 😬

That's the answer! POLLUTION WILL SAVE THE DAY!
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There's nothing left to fear

<<creepy ass smile>>

or is there?

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Okay. Here’s our sequel: Invasion of the Piranha Girls

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Thank you, evil scientist lady with the great leather bag, for setting up the sequel.

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Nibble, nibble, bite and bubble! Tonight's fish frenzy was provided by #Piranha from 1978, where our aquatic friends were literally ... chomping at the bits! We also had:

So—whatever happened to stop motion dinosaur guy?????????????

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This movie is like a Choose Your Own Adventure™️ where every choice is labeled “the right thing” and “the wrong thing” and they consistently pick the wrong thing. #monsterdon

They give him a swig of booze and that brings him back to life

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Moral of the story: SCIENTIST = BAD! #monsterdon

if you have no idea how to end a movie just roll credits jesus christ #monsterdon

He can really hold his breath #Monsterdon

Bourbon is medicinal! #monsterdon

Np way can you hold a copy of Moby Dick in one hand.

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@brooke The Snowbeast Solution™

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Piranha: The solution is pollution!
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#monsterdon "Sixty three... sixty four..."

_every single person watching monsterdon_ SAY IT

edit: "eighty two, eighty three..."

_every single person watching monsterdon_ DAMMIT

There's like 16 piranhas eating 100s of people and traveling hundreds of miles in seconds... #monsterdon

its amazing well lit' underwater inside a flooded building

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And here we see the rare aquatic Bob Vila in its natural habitat #Monsterdon

Wait, this is the 70s you could just light the river on fire 🔥 🐟

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Hooray for pollution!

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What can't pollution do!

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Yay for pollution!
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why would you get in a boat instead of STAYING ON THE LAND

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lol, did the general fall in and get eaten?

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@jonny That's definitely Corman's influence. If the movie takes itself too seriously, so will the audience.

#monsterdon #piranha

OK is anybody counting the number of vehicles that they have stolen now?

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This movie really could do with some body part props

#Piranha #Monsterdon

Colonel pushing helpless people off the boat, seems legit

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you don't have to run away once you're on the land

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#Monsterdon yes bitey fish, eat the rich. Make the people happy.

Nooooooo the booze cruise has a maximum occupancy of 18!!

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Diving near speedboats in shallow water, even I know better than that.

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Sir, a second piranha had hit the resort

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They’re eating the guests, sir.

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Nice makeup job actually #monsterdon

The bikini babes are like "this guy we're both dating is a showoff so let's drive faster to freak him out." But then he sees the pool of blood from the scuba drivers and tries to get them to stop, but they don't, and I think the fish eat him. Then out of nowhere another speedboat drives in and crashes into a different boat and explodes. T the fish start attacking the normal (unboated) beachgoers. #monsterdon

was there any particular reason we needed a speedboat soaring over an explosion?

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Reading Moby Dick at the beach to attract emo boys

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Based on my childhood attempts to waterski, this man is incredibly talented. #monsterdon

We have dead kids, but the body count is very nebulous. Maybe one? Maybe a dozen? Who knows! There is a ridiculous shortage of dismembered arm and leg props in this flick.
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“Why don’t they look…” #monsterdon #mst3k

#monsterdon oh these guys are screwed

Piraña, the bees of the water. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon so that's what happens when there are too many options at the buffet. Analysis paralysis and you end up eating none of the children

@SesameSquirrel He helped kids out of the water, even after he got bitten and sliced up, so he gets a pass, for now.

The colonel, however, needs to get ate.

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honestly some of this really does look like a nice location for a lake/river resort, someplace affordable but pleasant, particularly during the summer

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Okay, so this movie keeps going, and I guess the climax is at the sea resort, where the Texas is like PT Barnum and he's greeting a senator and also a guy in a sea captain's hat. Meanwhile, a lot of beachgoers are splashing in the water where the bitey fish can eat them in the near future.

Colonel Big Hat then shows up to bully him and give him vague orders; I guess I missed whatever the evil army plan was. #monsterdon

@diazona quite possibly 'the grubbiest decade of all Time' #monsterdon

Shit, give the head counsellor props for staying in the water to help even after he got bittten.

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@arisummerland Ya gotta suspend your disbelief for the mountains part.

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The big coverup is the attractions aren't new? Not like, faulty or in bad repair, just not new? What

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this movie is really splitting the difference here between "a WHOLE BUNCH of kids just died" and "none of them died on screen so we can still make this movie"

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This whole scene has unpleasant "school shooting aftermath' vibes to it,

nice jump cut to partying fools at the social event

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child just teflons trauma off of her, she's only sad about her dad leaving again #monsterdon

A phone conversation in its entirety:

"Listen to me, this is not a prank call"
"Thank you"
"Please you have to believe me"
"Thank you, thank you"
*hangs up*

wat

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Eh, I liked the Teen Regatta scene from Tentacles better. The lady had that hat. #Monsterdon

we're just gonna have a scene where kids die horribly, just blood and screaming and crying and it goes on and on

no one can stop us and we give NO FUCKS

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The little Grogan girl is 20% afraid of the water, 80% embarrassed at being in this movie #monsterdon

I respect the kid who tried to balance on the tube. It was futile, but an attempt was made.

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#monsterdon This may be a monsterdon first, I hope the bitey fish don't manage to eat Annie there

@allanb I'm a father and I don't know how the hell I will sleep. This is a parent nightmare too
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