holy shit, the director's "death" section on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Wallerstein#Death
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@RufusJCooter Where else are loggers going to go logging? They pile up the logs when they cut them down before they can be hauled away... Okay granted there is no good reason for that pile to still be there in the middle of winter.
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@moira @bunnyhero Future #Monsterdon I hope

ORRR... the Swedish-colored bell bottom outfit is going to save his life! Guess I was dead wrong!

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So that was a motion picture! With sound! And turtlenecks! And skiing!
NGL, the best part was the turtlenecks... 2nd best was how they were trying to make a "Jaws, but in Colorado" movie, complete w/ Mayor who refuses to act on the news of gruesome deaths, because 'the economy.' 3rd was how the whole thing had this 're-using b-roll from human interest stories from ABC's Wide World of Sports re: skiing' vibe, with an hon. mention to the "Bi-athlete" storyline that they just dropped...
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@Infoseepage I JUST WANT TO EAT GRUBS

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@Newpa_Hasai Wookiees are completely different. Convergent evolution a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

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Holy shit, do *not* throw a gun like that!

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@JoeWynne @Taweret

#TeamMonster wants to know

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Those must be some balsa wood logs

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@Victorsigmoid *groan* 👏

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Are we going to watch Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot (1977) now for a kinder, gentler view of our hirsute wild man of the forest? Or how about Harry and the Hendersons?

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"let's go hide in the monster's pantry..."

#Monsterdon #snowbeast

@jonny Classic

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@PatrickWirth @RufusJCooter
So .. Beowulf ON SKIS!!
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Nodded off and found myself in the credits of Grizzly, which seems to be the same movie without snow.

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@bunnyhero Syfy Channel get on that please

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Thanks to @Taweret for this brief adventure in a winter wonderland, with a tiny bit of ketchup for color.

#Monsterdon #Snowbeast

@jonny so they turned in Cold Jaws in Snow and here we all are!

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@Louisa snoebeast got the last lines?

"Aaaerrrrrggghhh"

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Too much:
- snowmobiling
- pointless skiing
- fade to color

Not enough:
- human deaths
- snowbeast costume
- orgy
- end

Thanks @Taweret for hosting and everyone for posting! That was... something

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@JoeWynne @paco My guess is the monster consisted of a) crew member holding a furry clawed hand on a stick and b) other crew member with a lot of black greasepaint on their face and an untailored length of faux fur casually wrapped around their body.

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Gar looks pensively at a red patch right beneath where Cole was trapped. Probably Louisiana Hot Sauce #monsterdon

How many fricken snowsuits do these folks have‽ Gar has had a different one in every scene I think #snowbeast #Monsterdon

We are ignorant of things. Things like the truth. So sadness in our ignorance is very real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmIa7B3SXjI

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So what can we all take away from this #Monsterdon ?

Aside from 1970s Colorado ski lodges being more than a little skeevy.

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Do you think it went that way?

this needed the mystery machine and those pesky kids me thinks with way less Tuba

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You're right, it's probably a sousaphone #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial

That wasn't a tuba.

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@Ayyyydrew i think thats right because I too have no reason for being, no decided motivation, and am fueled by anger at trespassers!! 😡 #Monsterdon

@Taweret or convert any of the people into snowbeasts either. #monsterdon

@SnoopJ with very, very slow waves

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Ok what was the last line of the movie? It was way before Gar split off to lure the Snowbeast

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@SordidAmok As long as you mean killings by the snowbeast

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Thanks for hosting! It was a blast as usual @Taweret #Monsterdon

@justabean

Seriously, that would have been awesome. Someone rip the Yeti's head off and there is grandma.

"I would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for you damn medling kids."

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I really wanted the Snowbeast to win.

FILMED ENTIRELY ON LOCATION IN COLORADO

*cuts to black*

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Finally done in with a ski pole. Poor snow beast...it was just angry for being ditched by that red nosed reindeer bastard and annoying little dentist elf and wanted to go back to the north pole! :blob_pensive:

THE END

Oh well at least it got to eat a cop before it met its doom. Decent 70s level mojo in this one too, at least fashion-wise.

That's for the cool Christmas #Monsterdon @Taweret !

Omg! They totally stole the jaws music! First Jaws movie 1975
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In 1971, Clint Walker was involved in a freak accident at Mammoth Mountain, CA, when the tip of a ski pole pierced his heart. He made an amazing recovery and was back at work filming in Spain two months later.

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Wow. Look at gramma. #Monsterdon

Thank you @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon !

@_L1vY_
God yes.

#Monsterdon #snowbeast

@paco
It's ridiculous! They could've pulled the guts out of a mattress and piled it up down there and I would have been fine.

#Snowbeast ❄️ 👹#Monsterdon

thank you for the #monsterdon @Taweret!

@monsterdonne Oh that was fun! I laughed a lot!

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welp…that was a movie…
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#monsterdon So basically there wasn't an entire monster costume at any point in the production was there?

RIP to a snowlegend #monsterdon

I'll be honest folks, I fell asleep for everything but the last few minutes.

What's this I hear about the Snowbeast guest starring on an episode of Knight Rider?

Thanks again for joining everyone1 See you next time.

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@SarraceniaWilds maybe we were the real snow beast all along
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The snowbeast did NOT fuck off into the snow.

#monsterdon #Snowbeast1977

@strangefour@retro.pizza Aww, it's got hair like an English sheepdog!

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@bunnyhero I just realized pole ski was redundant #Monsterdon

Snowbeast really ought not risk giving away his position by playing blasts on the tuba like that #monsterdon

aw man, my internet keeps cutting out so i missed the very end. uhhh i'll take yours all's word for what happened.

Thanks for hosting, @Taweret, as always!

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This movie has given us all so much to contemplate in this season. Enjoy your deep thoughts, #monsterdon until we ski again. Stay out of the murderbarn though.

beast really tried to get a Rod Stewart weave

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Snowbeast is a giant ewok with white fur. #Monsterdon

Ironic. In the end, it was the ski pole that defeated the beast #monsterdon

our 'heroes' fuck off into a fade to red and a notable lack of orgies

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thanks all for another abrupt ending #monsterdon and to @Taweret for hosting!

And fucking hell it was definitely a #monsterdon

I wonder if they really had a full Bigfoot costume for this movie
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I'm about ready for this creature to eat all four of them.

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If the snowbeast knew enough to take all of their rifles, why didn't the snowbeast just fucking shoot them?

Strapped snowbeast sounds dangerous as fuck.

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Snowbeast had what, ten seconds of screen time if we include all the waving of paws?

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@Taweret yeah the final tally wont be till tomorrow before work I mention that Im taking all comers and stragglers

you have the next eleven hours or so #monsterdon

Maybe the snowbeast just needs a haircut

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Gars snowsuit is like anti camouflage.

Lens flare from the dying monster’s perspective!! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon well that sure was a movie we all watched

I hear you music trying not to imitate the Jaws theme and I'm not convinced #monsterdon

Look at how they treated their audience!

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@SnoopJ

They should have added the Charlie's Angels sound. That's what I thought of each time it occurred.

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‘68 Gold Medalist Kills Cryptid, Ending Series of Bizarre Killings #monsterdon

Why didn't we see the snowbest's reflection in the camper windows? Is it a vampire?

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a ski pole
how self involved

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The icicles on the camper ladder were sideways.

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If the movie won't even show Snowbeast at a distance in repose, the costume must've been *real* bad. #Monsterdon

Well, that was a terrible movie.

I feel like the Amazon Prime content tags have lied to me.

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An artists interpertation of the Snowbeast
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#Monsterdon 🌨️ ❄️ 🦍 👣 ❄️😱

Nooooooo!! Snowbeast!

Also why do you yelp like that when you get poked with a skipole but not when you get shot?? Snowbeast, we will always 💞 you.

I wish they would have owned the cheese but they were ashamed to show the snow beast :( #Monsterdon

@srol "come back, come back!" #WrongMovieWithSomeonesTongueStuckOnMetal #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon well i did get a fade-to-red ending at least

but they didn't kill the stupid humans

and they clearly did not make a whole snowbeast suit :D

Okay well at least Gar didn't die, so I SAY THEY THRUPPLED OFF INTO THE SEA er uh I mean mountains!

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Well at least the snowbeast got their own fade to red. That was definitely a movie with a lot of snow in it!

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We get two or three frames of it, and it is the wampa they're going to use in the Star wars movie in 2 or 3 years time

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So ends another #Monsterdon. Thank you to everyone who lurked and posted, and a special thanks to @Taweret for hosting. And remember #Monsterdoners: ...you were right. Coming up here was a bad idea.

@jonny luckily they are more vulnerable to a ski pole than to a gun (maybe because they are ice type?)

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Well, off to tend our wood burning stove.

Night all! #monsterdon

Uhh. He killed it with the 2 1/2” of ski pole before the basket? Fuck you, movie! #Monsterdon

Hmm, that slope looks familiar...

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

As always, huge thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight’s feature , #Snowbeast, released in 1977, was full of fatal furry fury, including,

Do we need to have a discussion about pistol vs. rifle accuracy at a distance? Really? This was produced in the USA and everyone involved in this film should have their gun facts correct. And the stopping power of relative bullet caliber sizes?

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My sister: "I like how they show him [Gar] looking up in the air, and then they show the ground immediately next"

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