Demon Dad: "You've... been... BAD!" #monsterdon #TheGate

this movie is soooooooo about the 1980s gringo satanic panic OMG.

that’s why all those kids grew up to believe in QAnon and became MAGA am not even joking.

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I love how the social commentary in this (and also in Poltergeist) is that your house can literally be a hellmouth and emit weird lights, terrible sounds, tons of human screams, and even fireworks, and none of your neighbors will notice or care

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"You wanna come over later and mess around?"

Haha yeah, we've all sent that text

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#monsterdon big, abandoned and neglected child in suburbia energy

these movies are created to condition gringos into only responding out of fear and othering those who aren't like them.

notice how the demons are always black and semitic looking.

when Trump talks about us latines as maggoty hordes crossing the border and terrorizing their women and children, these are the images and feelings he conjures up on his cult followers.

horror movies are always about what would happen if the terrorized didnt have whiteness to protect them

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Sadly I know something the kids don’t, namely how much time is left in the movie. #Monsterdon

@aburka yeah i take it back. having the bible fail and rockets succeed is the right call #monsterdon

I love Harryhausen but just LOOK at the stopaction here. This is so fluid, really nicely done.

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dad has that “i was a shaman in a polyamory hippy comune but now i trade rare minerals futures” kinda vibe

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white people really don’t take care of each other’s kids in these movies. en Puerto Rico, all the viejas chismosas would be up on those hordes asses and giving the kids some chocolate caliente y bizcochitos de vainilla

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was this movie produced by Harryhausen? that monster is pure Jason and the Argonauts

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@apLundell strongly worded HOA letter....."Re: Hellmouth" #Monsterdon

the demons are fine!!!!!! being banished to hell probably sucks! they just want a suburban home they can dance in #monsterdon

the little guys! how could you harm the little guys! #monsterdon

This movie is definitely period authentic in its slurs. #Monsterdon

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there are literal explosions above this house. no neighbors running to see what’s happening, no fire trucks, nothing. these kids have been completely abandoned to the horror.

this is how you damage a whole generation’s psyche, normalizing #alienation.

choose your art & media wisely, white folks. these kinds of stories are pure #nihilism.

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Boombox as a weapon! This is the most 80s movie ever made. #Monsterdon

SUR-LAUNCH, not to be confused with:

this one just for @Taweret

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Big sister being decent, except when her friends are around... pretty realistic characterization, movie. 👍 #monsterdon

LMAO

Angus the dog was Jesus all along
https://meow.social/@YsengrinWolf/114452872043425207

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WAIT! this movie takes place in Canada? ooooh y’all showing your racist ass arentcha?

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This is why every new home requires 2 layers of demon sheathing in the basement.

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Fun fact: 80s neon fashion was well suited to demon hunting in darkened suburban hellscapes and dimly lit roller rinks. #monsterdon

BTW even by 1980s standards, these people were rich in a high income sort of way.

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I guess you could say they live in a 'Gated Community.'

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Oh good, they put a plank over the hellmouth. That should take care of it. #Monsterdon

BANGS ACTIVATE #monsterdon

ooops the kids cracked open the space rock crystal egg. and the light is lavender. is this gonna be a metaphor for facing their parents queer satanic panic demons?

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KLAATU
BARADA
NIKTO

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Bob Vila: “Well, Peggy, this is a hellmouth.” https://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88cvila.phtml
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That was a fun one. I feel like we've had relatively good luck with 80s movies?

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"Happy birthday, Al!" has to be the weirdest victory cry in a horror film ever.

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sorry sorry

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that eye in your hand was a gift you ungrateful brat #monsterdon

idk what is going on but timestamping to go clip the little guys dancing!!!!! #monsterdon

That was amazing, the floor falling out from under the kid!

Dang, the plot and acting stink but the FX are fantastic.

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shotgun in a closet? Now everyone's deaf.

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I love how their neighbours don't give a fuck about any of this, how suburban.

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Just because you can listen to the album backwards doesn't mean you should read the book backwards too, kid.

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That is some epic hair crimping. #Monsterdon

All that worry about D&D and the real problem was hell geodes

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This movie is 273 years old …in dog years

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"No parties!"

[smash cut to party]

The 1980s

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It was terribly silly, but if you consider the fact that the target audience was Glen and Terry (who later became Ducky and Garth), i.e. 12yo kids, it was pretty good. A kid's horror movie.

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I'm going to take a moment to collect my thoughts before rendering judgment

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#monsterdon Plex needed to be updated, then my Wifi needed to be reset, so it's times like these that I sort of just want to put a movie on a memory stick and see if the stupid TV can just play it locally. Godforsaken technology, getting in the way of my trashy movies! LOL!

Terry has a strange Barbie fetish now

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@Taweret Yep. Thanks for hosting, and I would not have ever watched this all the way through if the #monsterdon gang were not here with me

His carbon monoxide poisoning finally wears off and he realizes everyone is fine. They’ve just destroyed the house because they were hallucinating.
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Yayy, Angus is alive!

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#monsterdon That was significantly more exothermic than I was expecting.

Batteries Not Included?

But that's a different movie!

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in many Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle stories, the rich fuckwads Poirot or Holmes or Ms Marple hsve to deal with usually came to their money by some of the most vile aspects of colonialism.

this zombie guy must have been the farmer who lost everything to the speculators that built the house those kids live in.

again, it goes perfect with the satanic panic theme. whites trying to,cope with the violence that their wealth and privilege represents

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This film will be cured by the power of Estes Model V.

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#monsterdon Gun:0 Boombox:1

What they need now is a little help from the Goonies

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I admit i have not been paying attention but it is so boring when the way to defeat demons is just "the bible" #monsterdon

WTF THAT SHADOW? looked like the silhouette of Godzilla?

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OMG, that kitchen phone just melted like the Raiders of the Lost Ark Nazis! #Monsterdon

Do those little things ride house hippos to get around??

#Canada #toronto

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Angus was actually 97,000 years old and had been guarding that hellmouth since before humans wondered onto Turtle Island

And you just threw him in it.

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#monsterdon color saturation set to stun

Points off for the homophobic slur

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This is how people lived before the Internet, finding out about Occultism from record covers.

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[MAN SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ON RECORDING]

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Godzilla cameo! #monsterdon

OMG the mom’s perm and makeup

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The dogs knows the Ancient tongues, from before Man walked the Earth

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lol, always inhale weird glowing gas from a magic rock.....

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OMG is this a remakenof that 1950s movie saw about the aliens landing in the scientist’s backyard?

i always try to avoid trailers and synopsis of #monsterdon movies so i can be surprised by the awfulness

We had a Hellmouth under the house when I lived in Richmond, VA.

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I’m thinking “Stranger Things”…

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And the kids are grounded to this very day...

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Angus is back! All is forgiven.
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THERE A DEAD MAN IN THE WALL! WHY DID IT TAKE THE KID WITH THE GLASSES?!?

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I admit I'm having more fun than I expected from a late 80s movie

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lol, literally threw the book at them!

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The moral of the story is radon is a real risk. Protect your home and your health—test for radon today. It’s simple, affordable, and could save lives.

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#monsterdon Cheering that the parents are just not a part of this. LOL.

"We'll find something."

"Hey, here's Song of Soloman!"

😬

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Wow, this film actually turned a decent profit?? Nearly 2x opening weekend...

And of course it's a Toronto-filmed film.

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Dad's a slimer!!

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the kid with the glasses was Flanders as a kid, wasn’t he?

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Feels like that bug zapper could take out drones

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@bunnyhero We did a project where we built them and shot them off. I think it was for school, but it may have been Boy Scouts. It seems like kind of a Boy Scouts thing. #monsterdon

#monsterdon not gonna lie .. there is some for real teenage dialog in this thing

That's a MUCH better answer than "Yeah, we dug in the hole again."

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almost another HOUR of this stuff folks

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Weekend at Angus's

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Clowncore kitchen decor. #monsterdon

By the power of hairspray... I AM SUPERTEEEN!!!!!

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these kids with their creepypasta stories grew up to be #MAGA

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#monsterdon A teenage girl with planets in a poster? Okay, she's a bit more with-it than I originally gave her credit for.

oh i want that kaiju toy #monsterdon

That mesmer is wearing a wedding band. Are we in Utah?

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@CactuarJoe It's the words that summon the band Twisted Sister. #monsterdon

that plaid shirt screams 🗣GENX

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