It really is a scifi movie trope that you can make any animal into a super genius killing machine if you just run it through a maze a few times.

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#Piranha

Oh come on -- seriously

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Ray? Ray Harryhausen is that you?

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#monsterdon They were never great vehicles, but I do love the honest enthusiasm and repairability of those crappy old jeeps.

"Restricted Area" is just code for, "Come on in, get naked"

#monsterdon
#Piranha

"just leave the head on, I'll eat it whole like a seal"

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Guessing the alcohol over-user is an ex piranha sceintician

#Monsterdon
#Piranha1978
#BiteyFish

FLORIDA SANTA!? What are you doing here?!

Oh, delivering alcohol, natch.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon _gentleman in a straw hat pulling a wagon walks through the forest with a dog_

Oh hey, that dog reminds me that I still need to watch Prey (2022). That one has been in my queue for too long now.

#monsterdon Oh my goodness, it's the white zone / red zone crap again routine from Airplane. LOL. Excellent. The only thing that would make this better is a Wilhelm scream from the teeny tiny bitey fishies!

Title card is pretty cool.

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@Taweret@octodon.social James Cameron 1st film was Piranha 2

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#monsterdon Oh hey, Keenan Wynne! @k8eb worked with one of his relatives when she was performing in the US tour of Les Mis a few years ago. Small world!

@Taweret@octodon.social Yup! I think his first solo

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We are going to do Orca sometime, right?

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This has got to belong the the genre of film in the late 70s where various animals from nature sorta killed and ate people

#monsterdon

Love the titles sinking into the water and getting bloody. So simple. So effective.

#monsterdon

Say what you will about the bitey fishes, they sure don't waste any time #TeamMonster

#Monsterdon

Okay THAT climbing out shot was cool

#monsterdon #piranha1978

#BiteyFish: 2
humans: 0

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A school of fish can only eat one person at a time. Fish facts. :rockfact: #monsterdon

The Creature from the Black Lagoon's feelings are hurt by these disparaging remarks.

#monsterdon

The guy in charge of security now comes out..

NICE TITLE DISSOLVE INTO BLOOD!!!!

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you're right, Jaws *is* a good movie #monsterdon

#monsterdon Okay, first stupid act. So we're underway early. I sort of want them to die right now. Come on little fishies! Om nom nom! Ring that dinner bell! Got cast to eat, yum yum! Awww, thank you! Red chum water! That was quick. I need to run lottery numbers, I"m lucky!

@Zerofactorial i did, however find a torrent and ad free version, so once again Piracy wins! #monsterdon

“What is this?”

It’s NOT good acting!

#monsterdon #piranha1978

#monsterdon ALL RIGHT, EVERYONE: GET WRECKED, BAIT

I'm enjoying the Boat Cop angle to this more than I would have thought. Credit to the writing, and to Lance Henriksen

#Monsterdon #Piranha2

RIP exploitation pirate ladies

#Monsterdon #Piranha2

@futurebird it always cracks me up Sunday evening when I get about two sentences into your posts before I realize they’re not about #monsterdon

HEY! THERE'S OUR BOY! #monsterdon #piranha2

@flowerpot @Taweret@octodon.social it felt like so much longer than that! #monsterdon #piranha1978

what a cute ambulance.
#monsterdon #piranha2

bout time to jump scare us with a -- YEAH, there we go. #monsterdon #piranha2

@yatsu @SnoopJ The Piranic

#monsterdon #piranha2

@SnoopJ so many shots in and around this boat, just makes me imagine the piranhas on the titanic. i would watch that movie. #monsterdon #piranha2

HEY! the piranhas still make the brbrbrbr noise. alright, we'll keep 'em. #monsterdon #piranha2

"mainly i was bored"
same, sir.
wonder what those man-eating piranhas are doing rn...
#monsterdon #piranha2

"A brand new wreck and we're not allowed to dive inside of it?"

Buddy, if you don't understand how dangerous what you just said is, you shouldn't dive in any wreck.

I look forward to his getting chomped on by some military piranha

#Monsterdon #Piranha2

lol, that guy just got himself a hot date AND kept her from making off with the food, he gets the first point of this movie. #monsterdon #piranha2

@floatybirb Yeah, it was weird how at one point they went into too much backstory for a couple of the characters, and then for the vast majority of the people, nothing #monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

Thank you @Taweret for hosting this carnivorous choice!

and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! Always a highlight!

And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: With our large swarm of participants, we can really tear into these film reviews. I'm going to have to finish reacting to toots tomorrow morning.

🚨 Reminder: Toss your current fashion and decor! Replace with Monsterdon items here!:

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pillows, shirts, hoodies, more!

Variety of tits this time. #monsterdon

lord, more titties. why is this movie so horny??? #monsterdon #piranha2

@ramsey @apLundell @Louisa Huh interesting, I did not get that implication. I mean, yeah, it was very lightly hinted at, but the rest of their behavior didn't seem that consistent with people who hooked up. 🤷

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@diazona @astroPug @roque https://miru.miyaku.media/ #monsterdon

a lot more comedy in this one so far

#Monsterdon #Piranha2

"I like the smell of this fuse" is my new favorite line. #monsterdon

@roque

Haha, no, thank you for jumping in!

This was my first #Monsterdon as well. I usually miss it and get FOMO, but this time I was determined.

They’re watching piranha2 but I can’t get to it so easily and have to get back to chores.

mr dumont, uh, your socks... #monsterdon #piranha2

Lance Henriksen and James Cameron working together, it's filmmaking magick

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@strangefour @apLundell@octodon.social @Louisa they made him watch too #monsterdon

@apLundell @Louisa
Who among us hasn't been horny after kidnapping a scientist?
#Monsterdon #Piranha

What the heck, I'll watch PIRANHA 2 (1982)

https://miru.miyaku.media/

This movie is uncomfortably horny so far, especially the oedipal stuff?

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@YsengrinWolf lol, he dies and everyone just forgets about him, harsh #monsterdon

That was...awful. But thank god for...pollution?

Ouch.

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#monsterdon My two takeaways are: I'm glad I never did summer camp as a child, and I'm glad those shorts never came back into fashion.

this kid gets eaten alive at some point, right? #monsterdon #piranha2

@apLundell@octodon.social @Louisa lol, I'm glad they cleared that up. It was on my mind.

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@floatybirb And there were the two midnight counselors discussing whether it was a good time to go swimming. They *probably* had names, right? #monsterdon

@paco 10. assaulting a cop when they broke out of jail.
#Monsterdon #Piranha

@forestine @ryan Y'know I loooove this idea but I have some other things lined up to do, and I think one installment of Piranha at a time might be enough for me today. Have fun though!

#Monsterdon

Welps, it's been real folks. Apparently there's a movie called Mega Piranha, which just automatically started playing.

See yers next week.

#Monsterdon

And now after watching the #Monsterdon movie about fish eating people and turning the water red, I’m rewatching Conclave, about men wearing red metaphorically devouring each other politically

Yes I did. #Monsterdon

where _did_ those fish go anyway

#piranha #monsterdon

"WHERE'S MAH DADDY? I FOUND HIS MED'CINE FLASK!"

#monsterdon

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night.

#Monsterdon

oh, she's not grabbing the knife to kill him underwater? bummer. #monsterdon #piranha2

So many possible Bechdel test passing scenes, assuming the two females talking had names, which I don't know any of us could swear to #monsterdon

Never forget Betsy! #Monsterdon

P. S. okay Barbara Steele from previous #Monsterdon _The Pit and the Pendulum_ was Haughty British Science Lady!!!

okay going to bed now

@trixter @Bluedepth #JusticeForCodzilla #TeamMonster

#Monsterdon

@Bluedepth It will live on forever in our hearts, though.

#piranha #monsterdon

@Lazarou

A perfect B then. 😆

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:mastodon:

I want to see Codzilla walking into the ocean.
Please?
#Monsterdon #Piranha

So... Do we add Piranha 2 to the poll? Flying piranha! What more do we need?

#Monsterdon

So the stupid woman who did so many stupid things, ultimately unleashing deadly, mutant piranhas on the whole world... lives? Everyone else dies or gets munched on, but she just lives?
#monsterdon

@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca it was 'not great, not terrible' this week! #monsterdon

everyone should just be pleased he didn't also cross them with flying fish

#piranha #monsterdon

I never saw this movie when it was in theaters, but I was still scared of piranhas for a while just from the ads. 😂

#Monsterdon

@moira @yatsu breakout character #monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon has to an end. As always thanks to our host for tonight @Taweret.

If you missed-out on tonight's fun you can join us next week by following the hashtag #MonsterdonAlert and voting on the next feature! Sometime tomorrow @Taweret will post a poll to pick the next movie using this hashtag.

Just vote - even if this would be your first time. Then next Sunday watch with us.

@lytta more like died awesomely

we got a poignant little shot of his hat drifting down into the moss at the bottom of the lake

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#monsterdon Ending theme by Vangelis?

Where is Codzilla though? #TeamMonster

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Is that the canteen full of booze? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon

Sounds like a better movie this week. Always fun reading your toots.

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Piranha (1978) 2/5

"everything sucked"
"the only good thing was the sound the fish make"
"and the terrestrial piranha"
"where did the terrestrial piranha go"
#TeamLittleGuy

#monsterdon #MonsterdonReviews

There needs to be a post-credits stinger with our little mudskipper buddy.

#piranha #monsterdon

@Taweret@octodon.social Not sure I want to be thankful for trauma, but thanks for hosting another fun film!

#monsterdon

Lil‘ legfish monster by Phil Tippett, yay #monsterdon

Setting up for a sequel.

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@yatsu Nope. Completely wasted character. I WANT THEM BACK

#piranha #monsterdon

#monsterdon And that's the end of that. Okay, we've hit the end of another "film”. I don't know where to go now, I've been building this up so much for so long... ;)

"There's nothing left to fear" don't worry that's what sequels are for

#Monsterdon

"That Dam Guard!"

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WHAT?? THAT'S how you end the film! You had one of your main characters AT DEATH'S DOOR and you just CUT TO CREDITS???

...Alright, screw you too, movie >:/ #Monsterdon