Keep telling the kid everything is gonna be ok when he's busy bleeding internally isn't helpful.

#monsterdon #pumpkinhead

Wait, is the dog supposed to be a girl? I'm guessing from the name, but we saw its uhhhhh testicles pretty clearly

#Monsterdon

It's too late for an ambulance. Call a coroner.
#monsterdon #pumpkinhead

Feeling intense relief that the kid got hurt, not the dog
#Monsterdon

All of a sudden everyone is very sweaty. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon i know its the inciting incident but a glancing blow from a dirt bike? when they've got a lifted truck and a drunk driver???

lol, love how unfussed the dog is

#Monsterdon

Medic!!!

#Monsterdon

no kid, don't cross the road! haven't you seen pet sematary? #monsterdon

Shout out to everyone who just frantically searched Doesthedogdie.com

#Monsterdon

Are the humans the monsters?
#Monsterdon

"He'll be fine. He's... sleepy."

#Monsterdon

ow, my squeedlyspooch!

#monsterdon

Kids can get clothes in any colour as long as it's brown #Pumpkinhead #monsterdon

Man this is gonna be sad, you can just feel it #monsterdon

Did that dog just put a hit out on the kid for naming him?
#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

#Monsterdon noooooo

It's five to six decades since, and I should have developed a better reaction, but I can't bear to watch children being even verbally abused. I don't care what happens to the abusers, though I admit a childhood fondness for Valentine Michael Smith's trick of shifting them out of 3-space and directly into Heaven….

#monsterdon
#Pumpkinhead

MY SPLEEEEEEEN - this kid

#monsterdon #pumpkinhead

"But the dog's okay."

#monsterdon #Pumpkinhead1988

#monsterdon I'm a bit late, have I missed Gourdnoggin

the dog knows the way to the Inciting Incident. #monsterdon

Yup, there we go. Dennis the Menace, flat. #Monsterdon

Nothing better happen to Gypsy the good dog
#monsterdon

@nev Eh #Monsterdon doesn't *have* to be bad, I don't think. We've been on a bit of a hot streak lately.

#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

lance, i would not leave your child alone with these charming visitors hanging out in you store's back yard. when one of them inevitably runs over his own dick, your son is going to have to deal with them.

#monsterdon

Okay, kid, I'm gonna leave you alone at the hamlet grocery. Don't get killed or anything where I could have easily taken you in the truck with me. #Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

Wait this is creepy AF #Monsterdon

"Gypsy, no!"

"Bark! It's time for the inciting incident, Billy! Bark bark!" #Monsterdon

I'm suddenly reminded of Cobra Kai on dirtbikes in the original Karate Kid…

#monsterdon

George "Buck" Flowers as Mr Wallace was in a lot of John Carpenter's flicks. #Monsterdon

i mis-estimated the plot density-per-paragraph-unit-time distribution of this movie and spoilered the shit out of myself reading the wikipedia page trying to catch up. that is to say, almost nothing in the plot has happened yet and we are in the first half of the second paragraph #monsterdon

Hop in the pickup truck all you Reaganomics Okies! We gotta go vote against our best interests!

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon
Ah yes. Ignorant poor country folk. Right.

Let's make mom an empty nester! Woohooo! #Monsterdon

Yo... these kids wearing dusty bags? OMG! What side-a-town they on? #Monsterdon

People really don't have to talk in this movie. It isn't helping.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon "Do you have to encourage him?"

Well, we took this whole vacation to go dirt-biking if that's what you mean.

Look, when you work retail you learn to expect the unexpected #Monsterdon https://mas.to/@flowerpot/115403846836969416

Another monster attack would be just what this movie needs to get things going right about now

#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

"Nah, he's just a jerk jerk." Man that describes half the cast.
#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

I know this ain't regular Monsterdon, but I'm still surprised by how competently made this film is. Perfectly decently done flashback, monster appearance, ominous foreshadowing, lore drop, obnoxious teenagers, etc.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead What is with these kids and the dad? Are they like 1930s/Depression era cosplayers?

I like that our photographer is dressed like Ellie Sattler. #Monsterdon

shame he's wearing a helmet #monsterdon #pumpkinhead1988

#Monsterdon🚲🩸🚲 🚲 🤕😠 👹 🎃 😱

’character says movie title’ ✅

#monsterdon There we go, all set, the info menu button gives me 30 seconds of timeline jog on the disc. So, caught up and probably right with the rest of you all. YAY. Dinner *and* a movie, and they said it shouldn't be done. But it was anyways.

This is 1988. One year later, we had this scene in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.
#monsterdon

@yatsu I was thinking a Dust Bowl documentary.

#monsterdon #pumpkinhead

These kids remind me of the Glaussners from The Middle. #Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

this would be a better store if it was harley and ivy instead

#monsterdon #Pumpkinhead1988

Don't fuck with the kid #Monsterdon

omg, are they all one family or just the child labourers?

#Monsterdon

Those kids are creepy.
#Monsterdon

Guess the dog can sniff an asshole a mile away. #Monsterdon

Guys if you don't stop bullying me The Misfits are gonna write a song about this

#Monsterdon

note to self: supercut of every “pumpkinhead” in pumpkinhead #monsterdon

Give the kid his ball back already. #Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

Ah, the 80s: when parents just let kids bully other kids #Monsterdon

Ouch, this circle the kid and taunt them is giving me flashbacks to elementary/middle school.

#monsterdon

Is that the poem it's based on?

#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead 🎃

So far the movie is spending a lot of time trying to get us to hate every but the nearsighted kid and the dog.

#Monsterdon

he's fantasizing about pumpkinhead eating those kids

#monsterdon #Pumpkinhead1988

These dirtbath kids have the sibling torment routine down pat. #Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

What is going on? Is this a new story within a story?
Are they chanting the being into appearing?

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon these little kids are living under the poverty line in the hills aren't they

it is the disadvantaged who know about the vengeful spirit

in the 80's, the culture war was the filthy as fuck dirtsack america vs. the forehead bandana dirtbike cityfolk #monsterdon

it's true, kids are scarier than adults

#monsterdon

#Pumpkinhead mentioned! #monsterdon

Lol that was ABSOLUTELY the guy #Monsterdon

#monsterdon
The best way to get a good deal at a rural general store is to insult the owner's son.

PUNKIN' HEAD

and we have a title! #Monsterdon

@Violinknitter ahhh now me too

I do like that song though

#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

Lol I guess the hillbilly stereotypes weren't overt enough yet, they needed a truckful of kids in burlap sacks

#Monsterdon

It's great how few problematic stereotypes we're dealing with

#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

oh there she is (Mayim Bialik). i think. under layers of dirt #monsterdon

This opening is very Pet Semetaryesque. Ya know something bad is gonna happen, it's just a question of how and went.
#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

LEAVING HOPE GET IT

#monsterdon #Pumpkinhead1988

Walking CPS case right here #monsterdon #pumpkinhead1988

Coming in a little late for #monsterdon but I picked up the first season of Millennium on DVD at a flea market yesterday so it's a Lance Henriksen weekend for me!

@socketwench I am indeed, cheering for the teens to get et. #monsterdon

these kids look like they just came off the set of a Mad Max movie.

#monsterdon

"Shut up," "you shut up"

Thank you, Universal Background Dialogue! #Monsterdon

Oh man, I miss my dirtbike. I haven't gone offroading like that since the day I learned that man is mortal. #Monsterdon

Has Mastodon changed something technical?

Every couple of seconds the whole thread goes blank for a couple of seconds before it updates.

I tried 4 times to star a certain toot and each time right when I'm about to, this shit happens

#Monsterdon #Mastodon

I absolutely had the jean jacket blonde's hairstyle in the early 90s. Long straight hair, bangs that you think you're going to give some volume somehow, but you aren't

#Monsterdon

motorcycle zooms over the ridgeline

OH crap, there's train tracks back here!

crashing sounds off cramera

#monsterdon

if you're a group of rowdy youths in the south, you either make your pit stops at the Texas Chainsaw farm or Pumpkinheadville

#monsterdon

And now we know who will be the first to die #Pumpkinhead #monsterdon

Thanks, now I have Copland’s Rodeo stuck in my head #Monsterdon https://mastodon.xyz/@Louisa/115403838406953685

Those dudes are cosplaying Hotshots.

#Monsterdon

DoesTinyTowheadGetSelfEsteemDestroyedByMeanCityPunk.com

#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

So. We have "teenagers".

And they have a big F-you truck and a *vette*!?

You haven't even done anything yet in the movie and I have *no* sympathy for them.

#monsterdon #pumpkinhead

80s movie bullying dialed up to 11 on this guy. #Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead

The dog's right about how annoying dirbikes are

#Monsterdon #Pumpkinhead1988

#Monsterdon🚲🩸🚲 🚲 🤕😠 👹 🎃 😱

This dog knows what to do. He’s the only one who does except maybe for the flashback horsie.

I want to stay and play with the vegetables!

#monsterdon

When every single one of your friends thinks you're saying repugnant shit, you may deserve to die.

#monsterdon #pumpkinhead

"Hey, cut me some slack. I'm the jerk archetype." #Monsterdon

Oh a car full of Pumpkinhead food how nice #Monsterdon