#monsterdon ALRIGHT GIANT SPIDER TIME LET'S GO PACKERSSSSSS!"

"Just an illusion"

#Monsterdon

Talk To Me

#monsterdon

#monsterdon
This is peak 80s kids' horror movie.

Colored light coming out of a foggy crack.

Light as a feather, dumb as a board... #Monsterdon

Light as a feather, stiff as a board, light as a feature, stiff as a board

#Monsterdon #TheGate1986

@Taweret Resting up for Cinco de Mayo #monsterdon

#Monsterdon this is like a kid version of reading the necronomicon out loud immediately after finding it

I was absolutely this girl #monsterdon #thegate

That boy is wearing a blouse, ain’t he? #Monsterdon

Now you did it. You opened the mystical geode.

#Monsterdon

We're 18 minutes in, not much has happened, and I've already got a bingo!

#Monsterdon #TheGate1986 #MonsterdonBingo

"That's impossible!"

"That ... is why you fail."

#monsterdon #TheGate

"And don't forget that Angus, who is a dog, gets his pills every day, in his *dog* food."

#Monsterdon

Oh, oh, are they going to play stiff as a board light as a feather.

#Monsterdon

Why are there so many unshielded candles in these teen party? That's what's really freaking me out here.

#Monsterdon

Future lumberjack psychic!

#Monsterdon

The candlelight ghost story part of this party evening

#Monsterdon

Light as a feather, stiff as a board, coming up.

#monsterdon #TheGate

It says "Drink your Ovaltine" #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe That explains a LOT *waves hand at general situation*

#Monsterdon

Is it just me, or is there a crazy amount of smoke inside?

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is there a pod of whales singing in that hole?

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Great, hell is sending them assembly language.

#monsterdon #theGate1987

@Lazarou What an interesting Tom Hanks movie. 🤣

#Monsterdon #TheGate1986

Mmmmm look at those juicy crystals

I love a MacGuffin

#Monsterdon

80s toys were always gateways to demonic incantations and possession.

#Monsterdon

Eh, it's just "Vote Reagan" said backwards. #Monsterdon

Geode *and* a light show. Now you're getting demonic messages on your magnet sketcher.

#Monsterdon #TheGate1986

DON'T READ THE ARCANE WORDS OUT LOUD!!

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I see cigarettes but no smoke

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Please don't let anything happen to Angus #monsterdon

Whoops, they just got a full dose of the zombie gas, sorry kids. #Monsterdon

Urban legend says that that geode contains Marcellus Wallace's soul

#Monsterdon

Now they can make a bong out of it #Monsterdon

Wild teenage party downstairs, but the kid is upstairs cracking open a geode while holding a jar of dead moths.

Relatable.

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#TheGate

Purple glow!

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"When ninety-seven dog years you reach, smell as good you will not"

#Monsterdon

Do any of you young people fully understand the amount of hairspray in this scene? We blew a hole in the atmosphere with that stuff.

#Monsterdon #TheGate

"No parties!"

[Smash cut to a party]

Classic #Monsterdon

Mom this is the 80s, kids alone at home without a party would be a *sin*.

#Monsterdon

Chekhov's bugs?

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LOL the faux-punk mallrat jacket

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Bees in a jar metaphor about something #monsterdon

Kid is going to bed and the dad is STILL wearing a tie? Back when I wore a tie to work every day, that tie didn't stay on during the train ride home, much less all the way through the evening.
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You see, son, your friend Terry is a bad seed. A hopeless loser.

#monsterdon

Chekhov's geode

#Monsterdon #TheGate

Found it on Youtube! Link for other Tubi orphans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5CV10tDJEY

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So far… two kids were digging and cracked open the septic tank. Some bugs flew out. #monsterdon

The movie suddenly morphs into Weird Science.

#monsterdon #TheGate

Trying to help a kid understand another kid acting out because his mom died is like 12 levels more complicated than I expected this movie to get

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "That hole, it's weird."

"Son, everyone has an anus."

#Monsterdon somebody please let those bees free

No dismissing, no mansplaining, no misdirection. just decent parenting.

#monsterdon

Chekhov's Terry

#Monsterdon #TheGate

Just so long as Terry doesn't start torturing animals #Monsterdon

Ah, the old urban legend of the worker's body walled up in the house's ... walls.

"Terry's a little ... weird"

#Monsterdon #TheGate1986

@Victorsigmoid absolute bastards! #Monsterdon #Moths

...the most useful father/son talk ever seen in a #monsterdon ??? REALLY?

Aw man. #Monsterdon always starts before I finish making my pizza.

If only there was a way to predict what time it starts and make my pizza earlier.

@SordidAmok what you really need is uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox... #monsterdon

Bill Clinton was so _young_ back then….

#monsterdon
#TheGate

Surely you can launch your rockets in a field (especially a baseball one) near your school?

#monsterdon

"There won't be any problems"

Foreshadowing!

#monsterdon

the title suggests that this house will take care of you, miss. #monsterdon

He sure has a lot of Young Astronauts patches on his jacket. I was in my elementary school’s Young Astronauts club and I didn’t even know they **had** patches.

#Monsterdon #TheGate

Mrs. VanDeGriff?

#monsterdon It's science

#Monsterdon Grounded when your parents are going out of town. Sure, Dad.

#Monsterdon 🧒 🧒 ⛏️ 💰 🌪️ 🔥 👿 😱

are those whole cooked carrots?

As a new homeowner, I am excited to find out where the hellmouth under my new house is.

#monsterdon #TheGate

The 70s and 80s, when home architecture died.

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a good amount of the SFX commentary track is about real and fake geodes, geode effects, etc. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon I like how she said "get in the car!" after Al was already in the car.

Would be nice if there were some aliens down there

But I guess rocks are okay too

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon A hundred bucks for that geode?

And now the dumb kid broke into the basement and let out all the smoke! Stupid kids. #monsterdon

cute pup!
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Cool Masters of the Universe t-shirt.

#Monsterdon #TheGate1986

Chekov's Model Rocket

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BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!

#monsterdon

HOA gonna throw an absolute fit when they see this 🙄

#monsterdon

This is the most ominous tree removal I've ever seen

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon A running kerosene lantern in a treehouse, no bueno! And then, lightning killed the tree. This gives me vibes from Poltergeist, so in a lot of ways, die tree, die.

I hope this kid is up to date on his tetanus shots. Cause that’s how you get tetanus.

#Monsterdon #TheGate1987

What an underwhelming title card.
#Monsterdon #TheGate

Oooh didn't the giant spiders in The Great Spider Invasion come in geodes? #Monsterdon

call before you dig folks #monsterdon #thegate

They found the sewer main!

#Monsterdon

A geode from the Franklin Mineral Museum. So spooky.

#Monsterdon

Congratulations, kid. You found the earth's butthole.

#monsterdon

Nothing good came from an 80's movie geode

#Monsterdon #TheGate

CALL BEFORE YOU DIG! 🪏 #monsterdon

#Monsterdon geodes are well known as the devil's nodules

It's an eeeeeevil geode. #Monsterdon #TheGate

ah yes, the 80s, when a random child in his PJs and a jacket could wander between heavy machinery and pick up random demonic things off the ground with no one saying a thing. #monsterdon

#monsterdon without a proper streaming link for Canada is disappointing, but let's go

This room looks awfully smoky. That's kinda what my house looked like in 1986. Both my parents and my (by then adult) sister smoked.
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WHAT DID YOU ASSHOLES DO TO MY TREEHOUSE?

#monsterdon #TheGate

#monsterdon So many patches on the kids jacket, and the stairs are giving me homeowner twitchies. God, please don't let them start to bow or flex!

DOG! Big fuzzy dog! #monsterdon