Did Shelly's character forget the kids' name? Or did Shelly just flub it and they liked that take?
Shelly "Oh no, I forgot his name"
Director "KEEP ROLLING"
blondguy is like
they wanted the guy who played the commander of SHADO but had to settle for some Italian guy nobody's ever heard of
@brooke I wish this movie did, too #Monsterdon
@Taweret but Burt Reynolds #monsterdon
#monsterdon you can say damn in commercials now, and that's what's wrong with america
"she was found in the water, but she didn't jump in, at ten months of age!"
So... the baby, named Billy, dressed in stereotypical baby blue, was a girl?
This should have come with a content warning about child acting #monsterdon
I'm absolutely not convinced that these children are connected to her in any way and aren't just some random kids she roped into a scheme that required her to have kids along.
no that's okay. we don't need to see 70s people naked
@paco the baby had a radio? #monsterdon
Every shot of that hat it looks more ridiculous. Is she some lost gnome wizard?
#Monsterdon #Tentacles
Seriously WHY THE HAT #Monsterdon
Holy hell this kid is ruthless #Monsterdon
"Its against my principals to spend so much on children"
#Monsterdon
Wait, what the fuck is up with that hat? And her brother in a nightshirt?
#monsterdon
"Mommy you're plump. There's more to love" Geeze kid. #monsterdon #Tentacles
Did they find the baby's body? I think I missed that
#Monsterdon βThe taxi driver didnβt report anything weird.β Yes, when Iβm worried about Deadly Ocean Mysteries, I call Yellow Cab.
okay the sexual politics of this movie just got bizarre
"All the victims had radios"
Cut to this kid with a radio on the side of his head. Guess who's next to die...
Ah, the seismic detectors are up too high. That explains everything. #Monsterdon #tentacles
@Taweret
Everybody is afraid of him because he eats fish with the head on.
Wifely foreshadowing now. #monsterdon #tentacles
@randy_s Gen X baby. We're SURVIVORS. #monsterdon #Tentacles
@arrjay well maybe #checksnotes very specific jobs? #Monsterdon
"i could be the happiest woman in the world" if only i wasn't in this movie. #monsterdon
So, #monsterdon
Would you rather....
"You're the champeen posher." Oh boy.
#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 Mr. Turner earns my respect by quoting the one famous dude who said that "behind every great fortune is a crime" to the curly haired glasses guy, who retorts something equivalently pithy about there being a lot of bullshit.
So the walkie-talkies are foreshadowing now too? Are they off band transceivers? Should the kids get licenses? #monsterdon #tentacles
Madlad just made a "your mom" joke about his own mom, to her face. #monsterdon
ah yes, the octopus is conducting an elaborate RF foxhunt. #monsterdon
oh my god woman, the next time you ask about this poor man's bathroom habits, i'm going to call the police on you. jesus. #monsterdon
"...radio ... radio"
"Yes, it's a device that converts electromagnetic waves into sound."
@RobynGoodfellow I love her energy in this movie #monsterdon
#Monsterdon
BUT NOT THE BABY
are you trying to tell me this whale has a rifle
ok so they have a sort of ruthless constantly owning each other relationship that uh ok #monsterdon
Why is everyone's, except John Huston, hair a sad desaturated brown? Like their hair faded bronze. Is that just what the 70s was like? I lived in part of it but I forgot how bad the hair was.
#Monsterdon #Tentacles
Look, just because the baby had its inside sucked out of it like the other dead men, doesn't mean the two deaths are related.
(paraphrase)
#Monsterdon
No, the baby didn't have a two-way radio, cigar dude.
smh i misgendered the baby earlier β:BlobCat_Pensive:β
#monsterdon #Tentacles
@Taweret the harpsichord is diegetic but the octopus is not
@Taweret Shamelessly lifted by Spielberg fifteen years later for a little dinosaur flick. #monsterdon
SEE!!
Radios. Itβs a clue! #Monsterdon
We are a third of the way through and still none of the characters have noticed the title of the movie they're in
MOMMY YOU'RE PLUMP
#monsterdon
#Monsterdon βBehind every great fortune is a crime.β Wow, the corporate VP doesnβt usually come right out and say it. I may be Team Octopus.
She has Farrah Fawcett-Major hair #monsterdon #1970s
#monsterdon she borrowed that hat from the set of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
you CANNOT ASK YOUR KID about why their friend needs to piss that is off limits for both of you #monsterdon
@blue smuggle, something.. wait she'd need tw... nuthin! #Monsterdon
Anyone who thinks scuba diving is safer than boat racing has probably done neither #monsterdon
"we need that tunnel" the tunnel brings jobs, what? #monsterdon
just gonna smoke that cigar in everybody's indoor space, huh
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He mispronounced 'siesmic'
@Taweret it's like the phantom of the opera with his damn pipe organ
Speaking of ages, she was 57 when this movie was made, and her son is like, 10? Interesting choice
cyborg octopus confirmed #monsterdon
"I don't approve of competitive racing" sure, sure you don't. Almost like those kids might get FUCKED UP by a giant octopus or something. #Monsterdon
he's smiling because thank god that scene is over and we can move on to more octopus
See-is-mic.
@aprilfollies on the open sea! #monsterdon
is she using that hat to smuggle drugs? #monsterdon
This woman must have had an *extremely* geriatric pregnancy. #monsterdon
So her outfit is a bedazzled dixie cup wearing a sombrero. Got it.
The old reporter has strong Columbo energy. #Monsterdon #Tentacles
Honestly I think sailing is safer
#monsterdon #ColdTruths #SailingGreaterThenScuba
"Must one be nervous to drink?"
Depends on if it's good scotch?
#Monsterdon
@Infoseepage Nominate the costumer for an Oscar #monsterdon
@diazona @brucetheknife (quietly scratches "just gas" off bingo card) #Monsterdon
FIVE 1977 dollars?? #monsterdon
what is the purpose of this tunnel they keep alluding to? #monsterdon #tentacles
Holy shit this hat is ICONIC I want to wear this to a children's regatta #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon βThat thing saw me.β And we all know that Octopus Holds Grudges.
I considered buying that sun hat this summer. #monsterdon
Where did she steal these children from?
@brucetheknife Oh yeah totally, that was a "come hither" look if I've ever seen one
That giant sombrero makes you look like an LA native
The sound of footsteps and clinking glasses in this scene is about 500% louder than the dialogue lol
Okay, legit props to whoever on the production team decided βmaybe it squirts ink!β as a method of reasonably obscuring bad FX. #monsterdon
#monsterdon THE EYE!
She always forgets her sonβs last name! #Monsterdon
the octopus is playing harpsichord from inside the hat
So many ass and crotch shots of middle aged guys in this movie, I think I know what the Directors' kink was
"I'd like to enter my two kids in the sailboat race!"
This is Lunch and this is Appetizer! #Monsterdon
Mathis movie is very tense π¬ ooop octopus! #Monsterdon #Tentacles
Now THAT'S a hat
i have been processing about 5% of these words, the entire time that the octopus is not on the screen and nobody is wearing a nightgown is totally lost on me #monsterdon
Thumbs up on the ink spray. But wait the octopus is giving him the eye through the window? Hmmmm. #Monsterdon
That broken air hose whipping about is more menacing than the actual monster in this #Monsterdon TBH
I can't get over what a queen Shelley Winters is. Killing it in the sombrero. #Bedazzled
Yeah. Stop sticking your nose into his tunnel. #monsterdon #Tentacles
It reminds me of Michael Crighton's "Sphere"
Okay that's kind of a fun shot. Nice shock and horror and minimal monster reveal... but we already saw some tentacles.
#Monsterdon #Tentacles
this place is too small for the two of us
Oh, Shelly, you gotta stop letting them do this shit do you. That fucking hat, honey. #monsterdon #tentacles
just smoking a cigar indoors. amazing
well that dive went badly. #monsterdon