Swamp thing commeth!

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This was one hell of a stunt. #monsterdon

#monsterdon I know! I'll hide this notebook under a piece of wood in a burning building!

I see thsy have discovered the jelly of friendship (napalm)

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#Monsterdon 👨‍🔬 🔪 🧟‍♂️ 🥬 🙅‍♀️ 😱

I would also like to talk to the rambos-must-have-branches-in-their-hats director

transitioning from... inside a giant clam?

#monsterdon #SwampThing

@arrjay #monsterdon

let alone, lack of offsite data backups.

They’re quoting Nietzsche

This truly is a horror film #Monsterdon

The stuntman must have had an interesting time with that fire

#Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

The wife getting shot so that he can hook up with his new fling was the most predictable thing ever

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My name is Ricardo Montelban.
You killed my father, now you will die

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Swamp Thing: First Blood

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i honestly can't tell the difference pre- and post-mask removal. besides the hair

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Is this a cut-rate Sylvester Stallone?

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@SRLevine I am glad the basic idea is comprehensible so I don't have to try to follow any of the interpersonal relationships.

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Kissing leads to penetration just like dad warned us about #Monsterdon

Ray Wise has a cameo in the 1982 remake of Cat People as a man breaking into tears on a soap opera and it looks so much like his later role on Twin Peaks.

#Monsterdon #SwampThing

Wes Craven's Face/Off

#Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

Oh great, she found some Gravy SEAL preppers

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She's 100% discount Sigourney #monsterdon #TheSwampThing

Am I the only one who thought she was his sister and not his wife? Maybe I missed something...

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#monsterdon Propane Tank-fu. I approve.

"the command shed" means "outhouse"
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That was a very random and non-consensual kiss #monsterdon

wtf dude

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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🥬🌿 SWAMP TRIVIA 🛶🌱 🥬 🌿

❤️ During site searching, Wes Craven met Mimi and asked her to take a small part. The part grew. Wes had to extricate her from Louis Jourdan, but they were later married. Then divorced, but she is still known as Mimi Craven.

#SwampThing

corn that could grow in the US in 2001. sir, you have no idea.

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Nixie tube display spotted!! Nice!

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Maybe don't touch that glowing green stuff with your hand lady... It can have results.
#Monsterdon #SwampThing

Hey that's a pretty good SEM prop!

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So now we're just creating random glowing explosives, what is this lab even

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Why in the world..? If the thing was busted, why wouldn't they bring it back to base to either salvage it or run a postmortem analysis?? Either these scientists are super green to field work or they've never had to deal with writing their own funding grants.

2/2

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The Secret of the Ooze.

#monsterdon #swampthing1982

"The sensor looks OK to me."

(they pull the sensor off its most, open it, look inside to see some comically large circuit boards with disconnected ribbon cables)

"Well it doesn't look OK to me."

(they toss the opened and dismantled sensor straight into the knee-deep swamp water)

1/2

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Holland, for fuck's sake. Personal space. #Monsterdon

Wait. They aren't going to fix the sensor?! They're just throwing it askance and littering the swamp?!
These are shitty scientists.
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digging the DIAGONAL SWIPE CUT

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Ooo, is it like a kinder egg? Oh wait, those are banned in the States, for being dangerous...lol

Just has some shitty electronic inside, no toy....

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"Save the malarkey for your wife, and that young Joey Biden guy back at the base."

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Ray Wise looked kinda fine before he was Leeland Palmer!? #monsterdon

The BRAINS you say?

Adrienne Barbeau's haircut is such that I'm seeing so much Maggie from ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

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"Sometimes I feel like a tree"

Foreshadowing!

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Of course they would casually walk into the lab with the radiation danger sign

...why is there radiation danger in a bio lab

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Bechdel Fail, they were only talking about a man to each other....

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The possum of our fears

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I must have missed why they are here with all this equipment

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Oh it’s a lab and it’s got radiation! #monsterdon

I have already lost track of who these people are and what they're supposed to be doing

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Nobody can be that agressively suspicious without a healthy handful of cocaine.

#Monsterdon #SwampThing

@JoeWynne Are black caterpillars known to be particularly aggressive? #monsterdon

i think by the end of this movie we'll learn the real monster of the swamp is casual bigotry

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@socketwench #monsterdon

But what if the pope falls in the woods and nobody's around to hear it?

Nature soon reclaims the works of Man here....

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#monsterdon Splish Splash, it's hard to run in the water.

Ah yes heels are notoriously the most appropriate footwear when visiting swamps #monsterdon

A literal trouser snake!

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one of those life forms mailed the guy you're replacing?

So they're life forms of letters, civilized

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#monsterdon! #monsterdon! here we come!

Oh shit.. It's Evil Rambo

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There's the swamp, from the Swamp Thing!

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#monsterdon Adrienne Barbeau in 1980 did Carpenter's The Fog. I think they were married too…

Launching my thread for #SwampThing, a #monsterdon production! It's about a swamp and a thing. I guess. I haven't seen it before.

Monsterdon is the thing where we watch old monster movies every week and make fun of them (usually). Mute the hash tag (or me) if you don't want to be flooded by millions of posts about a swamp and a thing tonight.

SCIENTIFIC GENIUSES IN SWAMPS ROLL CALL

BELA LUGOSI
WHOEVER'S PLAYING THIS GUY

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A Wes Craven Film is usually a savage dream

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Savage dreams and unmapped swamps #monsterdon

An unmapped swamp.

An era before ubiquoitous earth observation satellites?

#Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

Parrot: "They're better off! They're only dealing with ONE idiot!"

#monsterdon #WrongSwampThing

“The players”! You wish. 😄 #Monsterdon

"When Heather met Foliage"

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are those armed guards.... wearing Speedos?

#monsterdon #WrongSwampThing

Nice opening credits for #monsterdon #WrongSwampThing Kinda reminds me of Flash Gordon.

@klu9 Don't let that stop you 😛

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Overall, a mixed bag. The screenplay was not great, and the plot went a little haywire in the last chapter. The score was extremely inconsistent. Also, some nonconsensual kissing.

Okay, that sounds like an unmixed bag.

Some of the pacing was okay, and the overall plot seemed relatively coherent until it flew apart. There was some enjoyably silly violence. Jude the general store kid was a great presence in the movie, lovable enough that I didn’t mind the “plant man raises the dead with neon glowing” twist.

So: fun, but very mixed bag. #monsterdon

Where did you come from.

The bog. side eyes.

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@klu9 #monsterdon we are so blessed

No green, glowing liquid or energy can revive Radio Shack, a Tandy Corporation.

#Monsterdon
#SwampThing

Computer equipment provided by Radio Shack. That takes me back!

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@OliviaVespera

Triple feature, after this a movie with a name like "Gator Face" or something

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I could start to work again? Who's going to give tenure to a guy who looks like this? #Monsterdon

Well, this was fun G'night all!

#Monsterdon

Sorry, evil swamp thing. No healing power for you.

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@Louisa I mean a lot of them are pretty good!

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#monsterdon Huzzah! Return of Swamp Thing, 1989! That's what I remember, mixed up with this one! It's on Pluto TV and Tubi, and Peacock for that matter. LOL. Gonna check it out, see if it's what I remember. It's been so long.

Well, that's another movie launched into space. Good job team, and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting!

#monsterdon #SwampThing

OMG, I think Arcane turned into a sword welding ManBearPig!

#Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

Hey Jude, don't make it sad.

Take a Swamp Thing and make it better.

Remember the comedy in your part.

And you can start to make it better.

#Monsterdon #SwampThing

Filmed in South Carolina. Huh.

As always, thanks @Taweret for hosting, @miru for the stream, @JoeWynne for trivia, @Cherizilla for bingo, and everyone else for keeping track of all the different transition effects.

G'night, #Monsterdon!

@strangefour That just appeared and I am intrigued enough to start watching

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So Swampy took out Fake Rambo and even got Fake Kahn-turned-pigdog

Then effed off into the swamp

THE END

And Jude the cool dude is OK!

Love a happy ending! And we all have Tandy, a Radio Shack Company, to thank for the advanced tech that made itvall possible!

Thanks again @Taweret for this dank #Monsterdon !

Stephen Hawking be like “dude, really?”

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#monsterdon thanks for the stream as always! Love you all!!!

@OliviaVespera The only redeeming quality of the film.

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The End #monsterdon

Special thanks to Radio Shack, a Tandy Company #Monsterdon

@pngwen Stop ruining it!

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@allanb #RaisesHand #Monsterdon

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Perfect timing for the Bingo!

thank you @Cherizilla

thank you @Taweret for hosting and @JoeWynne for the trivia and the sympathy for the Swamp Thing actually meriting Adrienne.

So why didn't his arm grow back when he was absolutely bathed in sunlight outside? #Monsterdon

Cathy and Barbara, you’ve got a lot of ‘splaining to do!
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My cousin and I had a joke back in the 80s that "PG" meant "pretty good" #Monsterdon