Oh, man. Even regular sized rats are scary. This is going to be bad… #Monsterdon

Damn rats setting out spike strips so I got a flat. #monsterdon

Honestly, they seem to be handling the dynamic range pretty well.

#Monsterdon #TheFoodOfTheGods

you actually shouldn't store your home canned goods with the rings on tight like that because it's harder to tell if it has spoiled and popped the cap OH i guess this lady has other problems now

#Monsterdon

Maybe don't let the grubs bite into your arm and continue to chew on it while you hold very still though

#Monsterdon

I like his shiny red little car

#Monsterdon

Those bugs were like the snails in the snail movie. I forget what the snail movie was called

But similar level of sickos.jpg reaction to the puppet reveal

#Monsterdon

I wish all of these people would be eaten by more realistic animals so I could enjoy it.

#Monsterdon

OH GOD!!!
*continues to hold bug while other hand is being eaten by other bugs*
#Monsterdon

It’s like the third or fourth time in this movie where somebody attacked by a thing has just stood there and let the thing attack them rather than try and get away through the open door or whatever. #monsterdon

PUNCHBUGGY RED

#monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

@paco She's a very solitary woman

#monsterdon

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Yes, that's how people react to giant mealworms eating their arms. A mildly despairing "oh god.'

Lady, when a gigantic grub worm the size of a kitten is biting your arm, the correct reaction is to shake your hand and fling that thing across the room. Don’t just stare at it!

#Monsterdon

She’ll pickle them.

#Monsterdon

Okay now maybe we're unambiguously underexposed.

I *love* that we're getting a proper depiction of night, though. No day-for-night here!

#Monsterdon

Jars got knocked over. Must be a poultry-geist. #Monsterdon #foodofthegods

COOL BUGS 🐛

#Monsterdon

No use cryin' over spilt peaches, like my gran used to say.

#Monsterdon #TheFoodOfTheGods

“Anyone say anything about see… err… some big… uhh… thing?”

Wink wink

#Monsterdon

red cap man looks like a sterno aficionado

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@steggy Marjoe Gortner

He was also in Starcrash

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@jivens

Bryan Ferry?
#monsterdon

#monsterdon Sooo, The Stuff (1985) is also a Food of the Gods adaptation? Also: It's gonna be that kind of film, eh?

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Ferry music is strange.

I just read the biography of our main actor. It's wild.

#Monsterdon

@turgon #monsterdon

I'm thinking of "stopping the flow of time" of this movie...

Idk, with how many movies there are about giant animals killing people, I think it would just be another Wednesday for them.
#Monsterdon

I knew i recognized the main guy! he was in Starcrash!

hope he dresses like that in this movie

#Monsterdon

Our protag is very stupid. Anyway, football talk is happening. He was too good at football to have gotten killed, you see.

#Monsterdon

what does football have to do with all the giant animals #monsterdon

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Well, our friend got killed and I got attacked by a 7 foot tall chicken.

Guess I'll go home. No reason to worry, really.

could not care less about the sports angle to this movie

#Monsterdon

how is not everyone on this island already gigantic. surely one person would have tried it, and then if one person is a giant, you can't very well remain not being a giant yourself #monsterdon

@ricci
Wow, you've really got it all!

#Monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

@cd0

The next thing he'll be giving them is steamed hams

#Monsterdon

@Taweret If you get on a nice one it's a lot of fun!

#monsterdon

Was he getting pecked to death by uh... #Monsterdon

I feel like I missed a line where they discussed what the food does

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So, just, uhm, a minor, uh curiosity thing...

So, uh, they eat this food from the gods or whatever.

It makes insects and animals grow gigantic.

But the people are normal sized?

Isn't that, uhm, well, I hesitate to say it, but maybe slightly inconsistent in some way somehow?

#Monsterdon

He's really calm for a guy who just boxed a giant chicken

#Monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

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Wow. This is some H.P. Lovecraft grade dialogue.

I don't think the good lord gave it to you because you are deserving people.

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe

giant chickenfeed?

#monsterdon

"...do those look like rat holes to you?"
"Nope, they look like potatoes to me."

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Why am I suddenly hungry?

#FoodOfTheGods #monsterdon

Okay, so main bro goes to get help, finds a spooky cabin, but no one is home. So then he opens a barn door and is attacked by a giant chicken, who he wrestles with in the hay has it tries to peck him.

I didn't make that up, that's a thing that actually happens in this movie.

Eventually, he skewers the chicken to death with a pitchfork, while other equally giant chickens watch, unperturbed.

#monsterdon

Oh man. Don't let the colonel hear about all this.....#monsterdon

OK, everyone has normalized these giant chickens in about 2 minutes. Moving on. #monsterdon

So is this like #GravityFalls or something? #Monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

Yes, YES only 10 minutes in and we get Marjoe Gortner fighting a giant rubber chicken? Great stuff

#Monsterdon

We're having a shitload of coq au vin tonight

#Monsterdon

THEY
#monsterdon

"We can't risk another frontal assault, that chicken's dynamite!"

#Monsterdon

"why don't you go back to the tiny chickened place ya came from" #monsterdon

#monsterdon Did you think I was going to say... A GIANT C... hahahahah ROOSTER. Come on, that fruit is too low even for me. *ba dum tiss* Heheheheh fruit.

#Monsterdon

Okay movie, I know you hate yourself, but making one of the monsters a giant chicken is really a cry for help. #monsterdon

Locations in this #monsterdon, so far

Candian Football Rink (like normal Hand Egg rink, but with snow on the ground)
Boat with Cars on It
Woods (full of giant mosquitos)
Large Log Cabin (spooky)

#monsterdon

So he's having a fight with not so much a giant chicken as a giant chicken _head_...?

#Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

 🌩️   TRIVIA OF THE GODS 🌩️

Ida Lupino as Mrs. Skinner!! She was an actor in and (innovative) director for some of the most important #ClassicFilms but #TheFoodOfTheGods is her second to last appearance in a film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Lupino

(also, i am howling 😂 ) #monsterdon

Is this the "Playing Chicken" I've heard about?

#monsterdon
#TheFoodOfTheGods

Don't play chicken with that giant chicken, dude. #monsterdon

Whatcha got there in that barn preacher boy?

#Monsterdon

CHIKN! #monsterdon

Col Sander's worse nightmare #monsterdon

That’s a monster cock!

#Monsterdon

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Okay, are we watching Sleeper?

Giant Chicken?!?
#monsterdon

DAMN THAT A BIG COCK

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A GIANT PECKER

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So anyway, after our weird hippie monologue on the ferry, we celebrate the great outdoors by doing a goat hunt on horseback, then one of our bros falls off his horse and gets attacked by a giant mosquito, triggering a sequence of Shatnering, complete with screams. I think he was our PR boyfriend.

His other bros come to rescue, but it looks like he's dead, or at least seriously injured from the giant mosquito attack.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon I heard the flannel budget for this film was really up there.

#monsterdon Overheard: "Where's your coconuts?”

reminds me of those gag gift souveniers labelled "Yukon-sized mosquito"

#Monsterdon

PR guy has no useful skills for resisting a giant mosquito draining, unlike our 150 pound, 45 year old all-american slabs of tackling and blocking over here #monsterdon

okay this is great

#Monsterdon

Nice enough dead body VFX for 1976, and I get the sense this is not a gorefest but takes itself more seriously

Relatedly, I was going to make a quip about how dark this movie is, but I really kinda love the exposure actually. It makes this feel more like it's set in a real place.

#Monsterdon

I'll say this for Marjoe, he can ride a horse.

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I was kinda hoping this film would be about food

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@yatsu And to be fair it DOES beat the two-foot immobile plastic wasp, so #Monsterdon

"Jesus"

Actually, I think his name was Davis.

#monsterdon

honestly that's some good fucked up face makeup. actual quality.

assuming they just didn't give the actor anafalectic shock

#monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

Guess he was allergic to hunting! Let that be a lesson to you.

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He died of that blueberry gum from willy wonka. #monsterdon

Apparently, Bert Gordon’s special effects are holding the camera really close out of focus and shaking a lot. #monsterdon

I'm not staying with the Muppet face corpse

#Monsterdon

Jesus, I knew you were ugly but...
#monsterdon

Just normal Manitoba Mosquitoes nothing to see here move along #Monsterdon

My god, he looks like Scotty. #Monsterdon

Ahh, the Minnesota State bird! And almost normal size!

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Marjoe's seen enough drug overdoses to know what this is....

#Monsterdon

Aren’t those just normal-sized mosquitos in Minnesota?? #Monsterdon

So... Am I the only one who, if a giant wasp/mosquito/whatever the heck that was came flying very very slowly at me I might, you know, move or something?

#Monsterdon

That's a pretty average sized skeeter for North Carolina. #Monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

Those Canadian mosquitos are to scale.

#Monsterdon

I take it back! I take it back. This movie has me hooked.
#Monsterdon #TeamMonster