#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

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.

#Monsterdon

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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They realized they forgot about the leader rat

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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.
#Monsterdon #FoodoftheGods

#monsterdon Oh no! The hero rat!

@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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Good thing the guy who emptied all the shotgun shells to make pipe bombs still has lots of shells left.
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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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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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Their big plan was to blow the dam and then outrun the floodwaters in a jeep?

And then, they had to hope that rats couldn't climb?

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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Normal sized rats can chew through a wall. Those rats would be inside already

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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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So they blow the dam then drive UPHILL back to the house. #Monsterdon #FoodOfTheGods

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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yes, rest the pipe bombs on the outside of the dam so most of the force goes out into the air. #monsterdon

"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

@OldRustBucket Fifty-foot tall dingoes at that!

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#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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A lot of these 70s #Monsterdon movies have had 2 male leads who are best friends and just kind of exchange smug sarcastic quips, maybe one gets killed. It's incongruous compared to the action movies coming out of Hollywood before and after.

You think it's because of Paul Newman and Robert Redford?

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Marjoe On The Edge is Best Marjoe.

Have you seen him in Earthquake?

He could have been another De Niro...

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#monsterdon "It is crazy isn't it, at a time like this?" (Horny character talking about siege-sex due to giant rats outside a cabin in the woods on Oak Island)

We're not even going to hang a lampshade on it, we're just going to openly complain that we can't turn this thing into a stag film.

actual laughter was produced at American Gothic hanging on the wall

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Could she just give birth to the Brood Of the Gods already so we can get this over with?

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why does fahm lady have American Gothic on the wall?

I hate how these commercials be having me all behind. I also hate knowing Kevin Hart promotes that effing death phone iPhone 17. #monsterdon

rats, sometimes they're dog sized, sometimes winnebago sized
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loving the bomb making lab....

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This is pretty much just night of the living dead, but in the day, and with rats. Day of the living rats. #monsterdon

This movie just got extremely philosophical:

From the time we are born, until the time we die, life is just about finding something to do.

#Monsterdon

@floatybirb It it was Jack Nicholson maybe he would have ordered an omelet with tomatoes and then been eaten which would have been satisfying.

#Monsterdon

Good things there are no dingos in canada because they be going for that baby. #monsterdon

@ohiofi The trucks in Maximum Overdrive were at least the right scale!

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Who made who eat underground pudding?
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@trixter innit?! #Monsterdon

@ohiofi i want to see the rat scene again with AC/DC playing #Monsterdon

Them getting on here and actually shooting rats for this film says that the director is a psycho! #monsterdon

Have animals other than chickens, wasps and rats eaten the magic rock cum? I feel like some other insects would have eaten it.

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the rats ate my baby?
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I should curate myself some emoji reactions for #monsterdon...

#monsterdon This is a great mini set.

jeesus smh, love me baby

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"I want you to make love to me."

I just yanked out my earbuds. I'm going to enjoy the silent footage of happy rats frolicking

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Is he making molatov cocktails?

No, don't make out with the fool!

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