My #monsterdon self-reply thread got all tangled. How embarassing.

Food of the Gods! I'd like to speak with the chef.

Thanks @Taweret and #Monsterdon for a super-sized portion of H.G. Wells! I leave you with this link to War of the Wasps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gx6vcCcLhA

what if the kid in the classroom was sweater lady's kid like five years later?

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@CactuarJoe They needed to make sure you understood the implications! By making them not just implications!

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Oh look, a potential sequel. #monsterdon

Thanks for big fun, @Taweret and @cherizilla and the whole gang!

Drink milk so you’ll grow big and strong, kids.

could have been improved by an abrupt the end

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The twist is the child is just drinking paint water
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Rather than downloading the movie at this late point, I will just use the power of my imagination.

OH GOD, OH GOD, THE RATS ARE FORMING A RAT PYRAMID

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#Monsterdon well guys, usually I'd say that was fun, but that was kinda horrible. Ah, well, the company was good.

See you guys next week.

@noggog

Steaks.

I mean, stakes.

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Gee, this kid is kinda scary.
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And they fucked off into… the 3rd grade.

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"something's in the water"
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@floatybirb Is this related to the marshmallow fluff from the ground? #WrongMovie #Monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #TheFoodOfTheGods, from 1976, is loosely (and that's being generous) based on the H.G. Wells novel "The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth", and included,

This movie sucks.
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Continue on https://miru.miyaku.media/ for the sequel to see if we get giant cows, kids or Rick Moranis

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making cows look sinister so being mean to them is easier....

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So. Much. Milk.

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@ricci There is? (a sequel)
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I want to see the giant cooooowwwwwsssssss

_a stream washes two shattered jars of the Food of the Gods giant-growth formula out into the lake_

ooooh are we about to see some giant fish? OGO POGO????

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Sequel: Butter of the Gods!

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And the menfolk Fuck off in the jeep leaving the women to the rats? WTF?

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WAIT

WHY WAS THERE EVEN A BABY THEN

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oh shit - GIANT COWS COMING! #monsterdon

The house is fine? Lol

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@apLundell Birth of the sequel

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holding rats underwater for your visual effect is seriously "I hope you die" territory for me

that is sociopath precursor behavior

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@Lazarou That's hawt! #DannyDevitoNoNogif #Monsterdon

How much gasoline do these people just have sitting around
seriously

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ah yes, wash it all out to sea. time for some majorly big fucking krill.

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The house exterior with flood waters is actually not a bad composite job, especially for the era.

10 Bucks says Morgan owns a copy of the anarchist cookbook. #Monsterdon

Seriously, now we’re lighting a fire with more gasoline??? This football player is an utter pyromaniac

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BBQ of the Gods

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Weren't there other giant animals out there, surely this can't be all of them

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Now that it’s clear they’ll live, will Morgan make love to Lorna?

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They don’t know what they’re doing. Humans or rats #Monsterdon

Oh, nevermind. Now they're going to burn them.

...

Why are they burning them?

I don't even want to know what that would smell like.

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Lorna still horny? #monsterdon

@floatybirb @jonny Coach told them to take the weekend off. I'm enjoying thinking of MarJoe explaining to the coach why his team is now down some players. #Monsterdon #TheFoodOfTheGods

The real monster is the filmmakers.

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Great shot there showing how the house is on a hill. #Monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

Wow, did Morgan hid a bayonetta on his shotgun?
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ugh, don't touch them, gross. i can only assume you have massive fleas to deal with now.

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@moira

So much for their plan to take over the world!

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Aw, c'mon, man. There's no call for drowning the actual rats. That's some bullshit.

I’m sure they totally didn’t drown any real rats for this movie. Totally.

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RIP Rat King. You sleep with the giant fishes now.
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@trixter I KNEW IT

VINDICATION

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I thought Brain Rat was going to speak then....

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@CactuarJoe there’s a director’s commentary of this with him btw #monsterdon

it's pinky

it's pinky and the brain brain brain brain brain

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Just so we're straight, in the previous scene we were shown that the rats had crawled all over the farmhouse, including the roof. Now that they're damp they have lost all climbing abilities and are drowning in water no higher than the porch of the farmhouse?

-_-

-________-

Come on

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Oh wait, I was wrong, there were two roof rats that were just lounging there, and then the guys shot them. Great job guys, great job.

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Does this count as fucking off into the sea? Asking for #MonsterdonBingo 😆 #Monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

“Pick up those jars of gasoline, Thomas. Now open the front door!” #Monsterdon

"...do you think insurance will cover this?"

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the two boys come back to rescue the girls; which means taking them up stairs while water floods into the house and all the rats outside drown because they can't swim. For some reason, the giant rats aren't climbing the house to eat them, even though they had no trouble climbing the house before it got wet.

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Good thing the guy who emptied all the shotgun shells to make pipe bombs still has lots of shells left.
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I guess this is not a PETA friendly movie
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Okay, I did not know Honey, I Shrunk the Kids was written by Stuart Gordon & Brian Yuzna.

Sorry, was just off on a Wikipedia rabbit hole about movies with giant animal props that I actually liked

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there's a bush RIGHT THERE for the rats to climb up...

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Uh good job now you're even more fucked than before

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[raises baby above head] YOU ARE THE RAT KING! THIS SHALL BE YOUR BLOODY INHERITANCE #monsterdon

See!! Massive flooding!! Different problem!!! #Monsterdon

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VERY obvious compositing on that dam bursting. 😅

That's right, give the mice another reason to go upstairs where you are.

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Now they've got a bunch of wet giant rats

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Is this how islands work in Canada? You can just flood them that easily?

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@MatthewTitus88 That wood knot! --dad #monsterdon (I fell asleep so hard! work+practice+hosting)

they're drowning like rats. #monsterdon

Throw a Molotov at the house: why not, makes as much sense as the other logic in the thing #monsterdon

Seriously they blew up the hill and released all the grow-goo? That doesn't seem good to me #Monsterdon

and the award for most distracted labor nurse goes to…

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Explain giant rat motiviation to me. Do they think we stuffed with cheese? I mean, that seems like they are set up for disappointment.
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For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Mrs. Skinner, and her Rodentio

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if I were there I would hug and cuddle the rats and we would play and be friends until I could find the giant cheerios

Ah yes, water.gif
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great, so the water mixes with the Food of the Gods, and spreads it to....

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you guys know water flows _downhill_, right?

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Meanwhile, on Earth 2, the Monsterdon crew is marveling at Ray Harryhausen’s giant stop-motion rats.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074540/trivia/?item=tr3771804

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@floatybirb
There were cool giant maggots of unknown species.

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There's always a dam. I knew it was there because of ADR.
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ramp up the drama while our two heroes run away on some lark to blow the dam
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I think what they did for these "we need rats in a specific spot" was the obvious thing: they put food at that spot on the miniature

and I think they included footage from when most of the food was gone so that it wasn't too obvious that they were eating anything

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"How'd you know there was a dam?"
"Mrs. Skinner told me!"

I didn't think the audience needed to know! #Monsterdon

I'm tired of these movies copying the tropes of plays from ancient Greece. Oh the old lady was eaten by a giant rat in third act? Ho hum. #monsterdon

And the child will be named Ratatouille.

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Hey! Be more careful lady! Someone worked hard to make that giant fake rat head!

Well, not all that hard. Ok, not hard at all.

But anyway, you still shouldn't just slam the door on it, geez!

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p much hope the rats win at this point

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On the plus side, testing of cosmetics for giants just became much easier. Darn you Big Pharma!

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feels weird that i also watched ida lupino’s excellent The Hitch-Hiker (1953) this week #monsterdon

#monsterdon She died as she lived : Mildly annoyed.

doesn't the farmer's wife get to cut off their tails with a with a carving knife!?

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I extremely do not like any of the shots that involve VFX on live rats that isn't just like, they're running around on a miniature.

This reminds me of the movie that was really bad with spiders but it's so much more visceral to me with rodents despite being comparable levels of animal abuse (unclear exactly how much, though) for the era

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you should be able to see a cute rat tummy through that window dangit

has scifi channel made RatNado movie yet? 🤔
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Oh no not asshole boss! Those poor rats might get sick.

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