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

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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....

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

"Sometimes I feel like a tree"

Foreshadowing!

#Monsterdon

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

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

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

The possum of our fears

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

@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....

#Monsterdon

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

A literal trouser snake!

#Monsterdon

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

So they're life forms of letters, civilized

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon! #monsterdon! here we come!

Oh shit.. It's Evil Rambo

#Monsterdon

There's the swamp, from the Swamp Thing!

#Monsterdon

#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

#monsterdon #SwampThing

A Wes Craven Film is usually a savage dream

#Monsterdon

Savage dreams and unmapped swamps #monsterdon

An unmapped swamp.

An era before ubiquoitous earth observation satellites?

#Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

MONSTER ROAR oh wait that's just the MGM catte

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon #WrongSwampThing

“The players”! You wish. 😄 #Monsterdon

"When Heather met Foliage"

#Monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon

@klu9 #monsterdon we are so blessed

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

#Monsterdon
#SwampThing

You know, as far as rubber suited monster movies go, this one was actually pretty good! #Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

@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.

#Monsterdon

Amazon has now begun autoplaying The Giant Spider Invasion. Thanks, but that's a show for another #monsterdon (redux)

#monsterdon #swampthing

@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

And we end the only appropriate way this movie could, with the return of Jude!

I enjoyd that a lot. Despite the bloviation of the big bad. It had ineffectual mercenaries, gratuitous cleavage (and more), a serious latex suit, and plenty of shlorp. shlorp, shlorp foley.

Thank you every one for the laughs, and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting.

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

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?”

#Monsterdon

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

@OliviaVespera The only redeeming quality of the film.

#Monsterdon

The End #monsterdon

Special thanks to Radio Shack, a Tandy Company #Monsterdon

@pngwen Stop ruining it!

#Monsterdon

Who dropped all that dry ice in the swamp?

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@allanb #RaisesHand #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 👨‍🔬 🔪 🧟‍♂️ 🥬 🙅‍♀️ 😱

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!
#monsterdon

My cousin and I had a joke back in the 80s that "PG" meant "pretty good" #Monsterdon

This movie didn’t have nearly enough Jude

#Monsterdon

New Swamp Thing(tm) healing green Stuff(R) can take even blood stains out without scrubbing!
#monsterdon

Cable: “Hey, Jude! Don’t make it bad.”

#Monsterdon

YAY JUDE LIVES

#monsterdon #swampthing

Fire Gag Stuntman in the credits, hm

#Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

You can take a thing out of the swamp, but you can't take a swamp out of the thing...
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Swamp Thing: “Will you take me to be my lawfully wedded wife? To love and cherish, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, for better for worse, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto me, for so long as we both shall live?”

#Monsterdon

Okay, well, ... *as #Monsterdon goes* ... that was not so bad.

"I don't understand. It's healed."

SWAMP GOO MAGIC. Do keep up.

#Monsterdon

A proper ending for once! #monsterdon #TheSwampThing

#monsterdon Yep, he fucked off into the swamp.. as predicted by many..

I'll always be with you... because that fungus I used to heal you is NOT going away #Monsterdon

#monsterdon that is quite a latex body suit.

hey jude! you made it back!

#monsterdon #SwampThing

Wait, she still has those heels on? #Monsterdon

"I'll always be with you"... what did he do, give her a yeast infection?

#monsterdon

Jude!!! #monsterdon

Now give that sword back to the Lady of the Lake

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon He swam with that sword, huh?

Do we even get to see a manbearlizardpig cleaved in two to make sure its really dead?

#monsterdon #swampthing

while the agent is being moss healed, Evil Swampy comes back to fight good swampy with his sword, but because he sucks at swordfighting he loses anyway and now there's a (hopefully) dead wookiee bat in the bubbling swamp.

#monsterdon

magic moss. what all ladies secretly want from menfolks.
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Mine 'head-canon' is that The Formula in Alec, especially as he was half-burnt, sucked a lot of the teeming life of the swamp into him, like an huge yin-whirlpool in him drawing in yang in the terminology used in such works as "Robo Vampire".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RycS7ck3I6g

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#SwampThing

Take this, that’ll put hair…er… moss on your chest.
#monsterdon

#monsterdon Woman needs to get hurt to properly motivate the hero! This is a brilliant literary device no one else has ever thought of!

aw fuck, they should not have gone with those eyes for the costume....dear fuck....

#Monsterdon

I, uh, don't think springs and swamps have connections like that which you can just swim through. But okay. #monsterdon

The stick is mightier than the sword #monsterdon

Both Good Swampy and Evil Swampy emerge (with Agent Big hair) in the inexplicably bubbling part of the swamp and start shoving each other. Then Evil Swampy stabs Agent Big Hair with his sword. Good Swampy arms himself with a tree trunk and uses "bash", apparently winning, then goes back to use his "lay on hands" skill to heal her. I think. Or nope, I was wrong. She just dies. No wait, he applies his moss to her boob to heal her.

#monsterdon

Not copping a feel. *Healing*. Totally legit. #Monsterdon #SwampThing1982

Well, it's no Kaiju battle but two monsters hanging out in a swamp is still kinda cool. #monsterdon

Oh she’s part plant now! #monsterdon