Aww, what a cozy English flick we have chosen for tonight

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"my God this man's still alive!"

Cut to the romance movie in the next auditorium over

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Horrible car wreck then opening credits with completely inappropriate music nice start to #Monsterdon tonight

what was the deal with that cold open #monsterdon

The whimsical Asphyx's Love Theme

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#monsterdon #theasphyx And now for something completely different...

Spirit of the Dead

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is that a Harpsichord?

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@whiskeysailor 1:38:40 or thereabouts.

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Ah yes, this was before they invented seatbelts and airbags, so surviving a car crash was frankly astonishing.

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Meanwhile, on the Love Boat...

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No, that's preposterous! No one was alive in England in 1972!

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The dreary look of a Monty Python sketch shot on location

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Well he was alive until you yanked on his legs #monsterdon

#monsterdon Neenor neenor neenor! We're off! The Asphyx from 1972! Mute our hashtag or join along, free to watch on Tubi!

Nee-naw goin' loudly.

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Ah, that 70's English police siren. unfortunately, to ME, that means a Monty Python sketch is about to start. #Monsterdon

Grab your asphyxes! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #TheAsphyx it begins

WE GOT EVERYONE IS 12 YEARS OLD TODAY SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGN!!!

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What in the Beat Takeshi was that all about? #Monsterdon

Ah, it looks like the scheduled bingo card got kinda borked. Sorry about that!

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@RachelThornSub Ah shoot ya beat me to him. But I knew the priest from Super Sentai stuffbeing a villain in Biomanngers.fandom.com/wiki/Hirohisa_Nakata
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If only the UK prime minister brought a batch of deep fried mars bars. That would sort the kaiju out proper.
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#Monsterdon The priest of the shrine is played by Hirohisa NAKATA, who played the titular character in the Captain Ultra series.

Oh the shrine priest guy is... someone from old sentai. I think.
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They hot boxed Guilala with nerve gas...
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Does her boss have a Calamari Wrestler toy on his desk?
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Oh that escalated uncomfortably.
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#Monsterdon Yikes! No comment on the method Fake Merkel proposes.

I think I caught an STI watching that sleazing.
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Don't be racist president Burger.
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Not trap can catch Monster X. Is Guilala the freaking Road Runner?
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#Monsterdon Officer TAKAMINE is played by Bin FURUYA, who was the guy inside the Ultramar suit in the original Ultraman series.

@jgamble TL;DR if I'm right, you didn't do anything wrong

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@jgamble Here's what I *think* happened: there's a link you can use to generate a fresh bingo card, but then after that, the card you generate has its own link, and squares marked on that card are synced to and from the server, which is good for when you want to jump from one computer to another while in the middle of playing. Normally, the link shared here is the one to generate a fresh card, and in that case when you click the link you'll make a new card that only you have the URL for. But this time, I think the link that was shared is the one to an already-generated card. So when anyone checked off a square on that card, it was synced through the server to everyone else who had the card open.

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Actor playing UK prime minister is not even trying on a British accent. He's straight up Sean Connerying it.
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#Monsterdon The last commenter is film critic Haruo MIZUNO, who made his last screen appearance in this film, and passed away one month before the film appeared in theaters. He was famous for saying things like, “Aren’t movies wonderful?” And “Wasn’t it great fun?”

shoudla talked to that kid. he coulda sold you a Pokemon you could use.

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@diazona lol it's such a crisp, clear print! it's true I was eating pie and washing dishes while "watching," but I was thoroughly entertained and sad to leave #monsterdon

Fetch boy. Oh no, no fetch! No fetch!
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#Monsterdon The next guy to comment on TV is Lily Frankie, an illustrator/actor/writer.

@diazona

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It's my first time with a Bingo card. I assumed the person who generated it did the marking off of squares. Was I wrong?

Kaiju have the best theme music. I would love to stomp about with a score like that following me. Well apart from when sneaking of course.
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Oh direct rip off Godzilla music now. Self Defence Force music but a few notes off.
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#monsterdon Alert viewers will notice that Professor Sano is Captain Sano from the original movie.

@jgamble Most of us were playing the same card so you probably weren't the one who actually marked off the bingo

("Actor Hamming It Up" was the last square in that column to be checked off)

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@Louisa were they literally scaring the life out of her? was that the plan?
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Now we're interviewing... I'm gonna guess kaiju movie directors, maybe?
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For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about The Asphyx (1972) and the second, Wrong Frogs feature.

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

@phooky "More and more immortality corporations are offering subscription plans to watch your own asphyx on a live stream, but prominent psychologists strongly recommend against it"

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#Monsterdon Special effects by the Tokusatsu Kenkyūjo (Special Effects Research Center), founded in 1965. They have done the special effects for all the Masked Rider series, among many other projects.
The theme song, “cosmic mind,” is by the band Dev Parade, a band formed entirely of members who weigh more than 100 kilograms.

Oh hey Hurricane Ryu is in the Guilala suit. He was the suit actor for monsters in some Godzilla movies, and a manga artist, and a bunch of other odd jobs.That guy always seemed like a character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ryu
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@ramsey @Taweret @cherizilla @JoeWynne @ryan I do not regret voting for it #monsterdon

I didn't realize you all were all in for the double feature, so I closed the tab. Not sure I could've endured it anyway.

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Huh, I didn't notice I'd gotten a Bingo. Probably because I wasn't expecting Ceremony to get filled.

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So far no one is voting to get ass-phyxed. I can’t imagine why! #Monsterdon

@jonny @Taweret @SnoopJ Maybe the asphyx dances because it just can't help it #monsterdon

This might be the movie with the most languages Monsterdon has seen. Definitely the most languages with more than a single line of 6+ languages.
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i need to clip this entire g8 meeting scene i am fuckin losing it #monsterdon

I’m not going to pretend I understood the ending with the car crash. #Monsterdon

Anyway that's another movie launched into space, too bad the guinea pig will keep living without air and food and let me tell you do you have any idea how hungry you get when you can't die? Regardless, it's not our problem anymore. Good job, team, and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting!

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His son dies and he wants immortality. His daughter dies and continued existence is unbearable. What's up with that?

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Oh, and hanging with an extra leg tug. Almost forgot that one.

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“my eternal and everlasting friend” - at least the guinea pig gets the acknowledgment it deserves #Monsterdon

WHAT IS #MONSTERDON ?

We just don't know.

No coffee, but we did have smoking!

Really bad old age makeup.

Immortal guinea pig. Bow down before them.

Giles flambe. Decapitation, Death by drowning (and being sucked over the weir) and by branch-to-the-head-bonk. And tuberculosis.

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Oh there's a guy! The white haired general guy is the original Ultraman
https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/Susumu_Kurobe
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Still gave it a higher rating than any recent #monsterdon movie I've seen as far back as The Creature from the Black Lagoon last summer

I made it! I'm free of the Asphyx! AHAHAHAAAA 🚘💥🪦

(Big thanks to @Taweret for hosting these madcap adventures and all of #Monsterdon for making it hilarious.)

Film summary clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ofaP4rDxY

Stock footage! Well this movie has a super tight budget. Monster X will not have any new footage destroying buildings I bet.
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So, if the guinea pig gets run over by a car, does it get physically smooshed and then reconstitute itself? Or does it become a rodent-of-steel speed bump that the car bounces over? I have questions! What if a cat eats it? Does the cat poop it out whole and alive?

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Ah, I get it! That's for the sequel!

@YsengrinWolf he didnt get the "death becomes her" warning obvs #theasphyx #monsterdon

Thank you to @Taweret for hosting and @cherizilla for the bingo card!

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@Taweret @jonny @SnoopJ And if I were to witness it voguing while emitting horrible sounds I would prefer to be left out of any experiments #monsterdon

After an hour and a half focused on #Monsterdon #TheAsphyx I was kinda hoping to tune back into the TL and see some good obituary news, but alas 🤷‍♂️

More sour-grapes trying to console us against having to have to die, maybe not as obnoxious as the ones associated with trying to make us accept not all being rich and free…but still, to this immortalist, objectionable.

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@cainmark @moira @north OMGGGGG

and paint! there was a whole green room in this movie! #monsterdon #theasphyx

No space ships or lunar disco bar this time. Guilala crashes in with the opening titles like 10 minutes in.
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Well, that was terrible. Truly awful.

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well, finally over. This one was a looong one, gee
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the G8 meeting in this movie is incredible, @ryan is it possible to download from the stream? #monsterdon

Hanako the toilet ghost eats that guy. That's my bet.
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OK, what's the story with the cars barreling towards one another at the end?

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #TheAsphyx, from 1972, might have also been called The Ghost Tingler. It might have been a lot of things, but what we got was,

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Including book covers. #Monsterdon

If I had watched this on my own, I would've regretted an hour and a half of my one wild and precious life that I can never get back. But with all of you lovely weirdos, it was time well spent 😊

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I'd watch a sequel with the guinea pig. In space, 5000 years in the future. Think of all it would have learned!

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Poop joke already?
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@jonny I agree, many missed opportunities to make something really worth watching #monsterdon

#monsterdon Thank you @Taweret! We get a lovely movie, a mix of needlessly complicated killings, a Dorian Grey/Dracula mashup, and a little nod of the hat from M. Night Shamalama-ding-dong. :) What a twist!

Really asphyxiating that was.

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:mastodon:

"sorry, my stomach gurgles every time I lie...."

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@moira @north anything green is most likely made with arsenic during that time. so yeah, EVERYTHING is a murder contraption.
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Won't he end up dying if he forgets to pay his water bill?

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I feel like this is gonna be the kind of movie that inclused alot of cameos by old tokusatsu actors. Maybe I'll notice a couple, but I feel like they are gonna be obscure or really old.
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So, Hugo didn't realise that he would age, but never die? Well, dang!

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as always, that was weird and thank you @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for bingo, @JoeWynne for trivia and ALL you beautiful #Monsterdonians for making it fun.

Plus, immortal guinea pigs ftw!

What strange motivations in that movie. The main guy (at no point did I learn his name) was shown to be especially kind and loving at the beginning: was that so his pursuit of immortality would strip away that kindness? Nah, he was a dick as soon as he saw a ghost photo

Was Giles reluctantly drawn into this pursuit so he could marry Christina, eventually descending into the same madness? Nah, he was on board right away for no apparent reason

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We get quick shots of bits of bloody Giles, but when we're looking at the whole lab, it's Giles free.

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