monsterdon replay · Best of The Blob

"there is nothing here but us monsters"

that's a level of self-awareness i was not expecting from #ACAB man

it's a blobocaust

everybody, let's give a round of cheers to @Taweret@octodon.social for another splendiferous #Monsterdon.

can't wait for next Sunday.

i have been told by THING1 that Jean's eyebrows could cut glass

me thinking about the goggie

do you have any guns?

yup.

Murrica.

now y'all know where Spielberg got the idea for the Jurassic Park kitchen scene

"The Queerest Thing You've Ever Seen"

a firefighter asking how to put out a fire.

a bunch of kids going across town to get extinguishers to save the hero who has seconds to live.

this movie is the height of American ingenuity.

Marty's friend can't wait to get his Brokeback mountain on this weekend.

Steve & the guys playing with the Blob's placenta, just like the #MasterRace idiots they are.

Steve McQueen's name in this movie is... Steve

http://angryflower.com/367.html

Zander

Zander@derg.social

I think that the scene where the blob goes into the movie theater is kind of iconic actually and would have been really fun to experience watching in theaters, since it would be kinda meta.

There. I found something genuinely positive to say about the film!

#Monsterdon #TheBlob

Brad

bk1e

Bob the Angry Flower vs The Blob

#Monsterdon #TheBlob #BobTheAngryFlower

Oh no! How are we ever going to get away from a slow moving mass? #Monsterdon

1950s middle-aged teenagers had Penguin Books' dead-white-men looking fathers. that'll age anybody.

every time i try to write blob, i write BLOG. see also, ↑

btw Jeanie's dress is totally on point

the old man reminds me of...

why do old white guys keep poking their sticks into alien balls?!?!

that was no shooting star. that was more like a plopping BLOB.

"the dog died"

@Taweret@octodon.social

the music is the most inappropriate thing in this movie

And that, children, is how global warming started.

@jonny I THINK they are trying to build suspense ala Hitchcock: it's not scary if you don't know the killer's in the house, it's scary when you KNOW. So, we KNOW the blob is eating people, but no one is even believing it's happening except some KIDS OMG we can't take the tension!!!

Good thing we got a recap of what happened earlier in the movie we're watching. #Monsterdon

Spoiler Alert:

At the end, the Blob says "...and I would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky KIDS."

so Stevie here must have 3 kids at home and full pensioned job with those wrinkles every time he smiles

good old days of 99¢ opioids

You definitely don't want to ask "Old-timer" his name or anything. #Monsterdon

This is every D&D party. #Monsterdon

@swelljoe
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@podsothoth

consider

The Stuff:
intelligent
controls a hive mind
can coordinate itself globally
can pose as your parents
can hide inside your pillow
understands marketing

The Blob
oozes around a supermarket or something

raptop (𒀯 𒄷 𒄈𒀭𒁇)

Newpa_Hasai

CO2 fire extinguishers are nice and all, but surely they have a dewer of liquid nitrogen somewhere? #monsterdon

Monstrous Trivia:
The Blob was originally the B film (bottom of marquis) under 'I Married a Monster from Outer Space'. It was so well-received, however, a fast switch was made to put it at the top and roll it out to more theaters.

Real teenagers loved it!

aburka 🫣

aburka@hachyderm.io

@forestine #monsterdon

Louisa

Louisa@mastodon.xyz

The blob effects are very good though, speeding up and reversing the film in clever ways, having it pulsate and fracture when it gets shot

I have time to think about this because nothing else is happening

#Monsterdon

@trixter The Kids are allright.

Small hammer the size of a normal hammer #Monsterdon

Kinda surprised the cops aren't more into it, locked door mysteries were a big thing in the 50s.

You could light the house on fire, then if anyone comes running out, you'll know someone was home. #TheBlob #Monsterdon

@blogdiva "Health & Safety Check"

THAT'S why it's important to learn how to tie your shoe laces properly. #Monsterdon

for a nurse, Kate is rather useless

raptop (𒀯 𒄷 𒄈𒀭𒁇)

Newpa_Hasai

@jonny As best I can tell, Steve McQueen aged terribly, since he was 28 at the time. #monsterdon

#monsterdon I just missed the dialogue of the first scene (in the car) cause I didn't realise it was coming out of the wrong speakers and I was trying to add subtitles cause I assumed the audio was just bad enough that my #AuditoryProcessingDisorder just couldn't parse the words...
#ActuallyAutistic problems

Be careful of the blob... the BLOB!
BLOB!

Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer

Princejvstin@wandering.shop

I have no Blob themed dessert and I must scream #monsterdon

_CLK🐋

LK_877

I am not embarrassed to admit that I always enjoy the Theme Song of The Blob. #Monsterdon

Brad

bk1e

The movie is probably slightly more enjoyable if you pretend the blob shouts “blob!” every time it comes onscreen. Slightly.

http://angryflower.com/189.html

#Monsterdon #TheBlob #BobTheAngryFlower

ano yatsu

yatsu@retro.pizza

and we bid farewell to the The Trilogy, it will live forever in the heart. #monsterdon

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

does fucking off into the arctic qualify as fucking off into the sea? #monsterdon

TheREALPaulJohnson

RobynGoodfellow@mastodon.murkworks.net

"Take this thing to the arctic where it will never thaw out" Got some bad news for you there Chet. #Monsterdon #TheBlob

aprilfollies

aprilfollies@mastodon.online

#Monsterdon “No sir, a bomb would send it all over the country!” Never stopped the US Army before.

honestly i feel like the Stuff would kick the Blob's ass

Well, if CO2 works then CO4 should work twice as well. #Monsterdon

sean

sean@skj.social

"...you got any CO2 extinguishers?"
"Nope, CO2 doesn't burn, Dave."

RamenCatholic@mindly.social

RamenCatholic 🐢🌈

#Monsterdon
1958: "..the Arctic, where it will never thaw out!"
2023: "Yeah, about that ..."

Instead of fire, the opposite of fire #Monsterdon

#isthisproductplacement #monsterdon

Is it me or does the Blob look like melted Twizzlers?

https://thecolonialtheatre.com/blobfest/

#Monsterdon TRAVEL:

The Phoenixville, PA Blobfest includes a reenactment of the crowd running from the SAME theater, *still functioning*. I kid you not, we should go July 12 - 14, 2024:

Don't forget, The War of the Worlds would be recent memory for contemporary viewers. Makes the idea that the police think it's all a prank at least slightly more plausible.

raptop (𒀯 𒄷 𒄈𒀭𒁇)

Newpa_Hasai

@ryan No, it really should #monsterdon

Has #Monsterdon watched the movie within a movie from The Blob (1958)?

Louisa

Louisa@mastodon.xyz

It's weird the blob has no understandable motivation, huh? It's not just looking for mass/food to increase its size, it's not really hunting specific creatures or trying to outsmart or use humans, it's just... killing whoever the plot says to kill

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon respect to the old man ready to jump into action!

SnoopJ

SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

LOL HE HAS TWO HELMETS #Monsterdon

welp, there goes the little dog...

they locked themselves in the freezing, meat locker because of course they did

#monsterdon NO NOT THE DOGGY!!!!!

@CactuarJoe or the key to immortality ... preservatives.

at this point in octaman, octaman had killed like 12 people

I'm guessing that was a party of junior high kids, then? #Monsterdon

"i am the demon that possesses your soul"

yup, this movie is totally about the crime that got Danny Masterson 30 years in prison

strangefour with the Pleiades

strangefour@retro.pizza

And now our feature presentation!
#Monsterdon #TheBlob

"Steve, I believe you"

so #TheBlob is a #MeToo movie for the 1950's middle-aged teenage guys

#Monsterdon

Crap, the romantic music stopped. So close to a sex scene. #Monsterdon

aprilfollies@mastodon.online

#monsterdon hubby's joke: now we know how they got Fran Drescher's voice for the nanny- "have you seen the blob from 58? Just do the kids voice".

Cactuar Joe

CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

REBEL WITHOUT A BEDTIME #Monsterdon

aprilfollies

#Monsterdon The total lack of any tension or sense of urgency in this movie whatsoever does remind me a bit of Manos.

Doc went to Johnsonville for a bratwurst convention #Monsterdon

Mechanics working at night?

Yeah, right.

@sean Linear storytelling is so 1955.

i wonder what the blob is up to right now

Louisa

Louisa@mastodon.xyz

Cop: "They're making us look silly"

Jane: "I think you're doing a pretty good job with that yourself, sergeant"

JANE IS A COMRADE #Monsterdon

that doctor's stretcher looks like it has stirrups. the kind used for pap smears, births and... abortions.

jonny (nonvenomous)

jonny@neuromatch.social

after the movie is over i'm going to boot up SparkAR and make an instagram filter to add googly eyes to the blob to anthopomorphize it so i can be on its side even more #monsterdon

Chehkov's chess board? #Monsterdon

Nurse Kate giving me One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest vibes

i had a goggie that looked just like old man Blob's goggie.

Director: wtf man, I can't make a movie where all that happens is that a blob of jello eats people over and over.

Producer: Hmmm, yeah, and we need to justify McQueen's wardrobe budget somehow.

Writer: I got you, fam. (Picks up script and starts a scene about car racing teenagers.)

WhiskeySailor@history.lol

Mr. Softie :zc:

The song remains the highlight so far
#monsterdon

SnoopJ

SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

That was a BSA salute, in case anybody does not catch the body language reference. As in: "Scout's Honor" #Monsterdon

Trixter of the Moon Council

trixter@retro.pizza

"What am I gonna do with you kids?" says the cop about a man clearly his own age. #monsterdon #TheBlob