omg it's CUTE

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I love all the special effects.
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Now imagining creatures I'd feed F.O.T.G to.

Corgis

Shetland ponies (would they look like draft horses?)

Box turtles (Morla!)

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OH MY GOD THEY'RE SO CUTE #Monsterdon

yyyeeeesssssssssss

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so it makes everything big by just doing a global linear scaling of all tissues, including tissues whose material properties change with volume scaling like exoskeletons and membranes and stuff. so that's why the maggots are so tough, their normally very squashable skins are now hard as bone from being scaled 100x #monsterdon

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Marjoe Gortner is appearing here just a couple of years after the documentary where he blows the lid off the corruption of revivalist preachers.

Turned his preacher-acting ability to better use in Hollywood. Theoretically.

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@nev
At some point, we are all predatory caterpillars telling the human, "Look, we're hungry!"

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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.

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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

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

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I like his shiny red little car

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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

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

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OH GOD!!!
*continues to hold bug while other hand is being eaten by other bugs*
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Tiny mothras.

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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

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@paco She's a very solitary woman

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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!

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@wohali Big Maggot Syndrome

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She’ll pickle them.

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Okay now maybe we're unambiguously underexposed.

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

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

You could, I dunno, pull your hand out of the maggots

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COOL BUGS 🐛

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

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

Wink wink

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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?
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#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.

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

hope he dresses like that in this movie

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

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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

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Oh boy, that's a tarantula hawk wasp (the spider-hunting wasp family Pompilidae, subfamily Pepsinae). That's the one where the sadly late Justin Schmidt recommended if you get stung by one, "just lay down and scream."

Like most solitary wasps, they're actually pretty chill and reluctant to sting. They won't start a fight…but they will end one.

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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!

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@cd0

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

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

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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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I've never been on a ferry

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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?

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

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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.

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@CactuarJoe

giant chickenfeed?

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

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Why am I suddenly hungry?

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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.

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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

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We're having a shitload of coq au vin tonight

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

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"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.

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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)

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

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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

the giant animals are just all here already and everyone is just fine with that except the football guys. is this like the wicker man where the moral of the story is "dont go to other places and disrepect the local customs" #monsterdon

(also, i am howling 😂 ) #monsterdon

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

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

Whatcha got there in that barn preacher boy?

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CHIKN! #monsterdon

That’s a monster cock!

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Col Sander's worse nightmare #monsterdon

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Okay, are we watching Sleeper?

Giant Chicken?!?
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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.

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I did not expect a giant chicken.

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#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"

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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

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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.

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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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@CactuarJoe not the deer's tho. #monsterdon

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