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?

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#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

OHHHH IT'S A NIGHTMARE FAKEOUT :blobcat_party: :blobcat_party: :blobcat_party:

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FUCK THIS TREE SPECIFICALLY #Monsterdon

DON'T CLIMB IT, IT'S PURE EVIL!

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That kid woke up SO ANGRY.

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Check that HP product placement!

Clearly it didn't work, because Americans have no idea what HP sauce is 😂

#Monsterdon #TheGate

Cue suburbia ...

Chekhov's rocket!

Gee it got dark and stormy really quickly.

#Monsterdon #TheGate1986

Wish I had a creepy treehouse as a kid....

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#monsterdon JFC, had to wrestle with Plex, are you kidding me? Login? Must have updated the Plex app for Samsung Tizen sets. LOL. Inconvenient. But here we go!

#Monsterdon that… is a big ass foyer

And now I’ve already filled two squares… #Monsterdon

OH NO THEY MOVED AND DIDN'T TELL ME AGAIN

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I am waiting for the opening music to reach a crescendo and for my TV to explode.

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How cruel, to make your kid wear the shirt that says they're 12th best

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Oh christ, it's The Goonies. :/ #Monsterdon

Gen Z doesn't know how pervasive the Stranger Things graphic design was.

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Oh, Rit Wallis did the editing. That's cool.

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@jsadow @Cherizilla omg I used to love that area when I lived in Boston.... the bookstore, the crepe store, the cinema, ... #monsterdon

I now own a physical copy of this movie, #Monsterdon

I blame you all for this. You monsters.

#theGate1987

It's 2am, but tomorrow is a holiday, so I've got my toast and my bingo card and #monsterdon here we go!

💡 TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS 💡

(where applicable)

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon it begins

#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO GO GO!!!!!

ZOOOOM.

and NOT the Stranger Things font, despite you thinking it might be!

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Anyway. This has been Shower Thoughts with CJ™. Have a nice night :3 #Monsterdon

Anyway, here's my one big unanswered question.

The Bros show up just before the big final pit opening scene.

Were those REALLY The Bros? Or were those the twins' manifested belief that The Bros were coming and should be there right about now? Did they get in the car, drive down the road and have the Bros turn into monsters as teenage hormones and fears clashed? Or did they just vanish as the car left the geode's AoE? #Monsterdon

Also there's the whole bit with the Third And Final Return Of The Pit -- the zombie busts through the wall JUST AS THE KIDS ARE MANHANDLING THE GEODE ONE LAST TIME

Glen even POINTS IT OUT to Al! #Monsterdon

I think the whole two-day affair eventually centered around Satanic invasion because that's what metal-head Terry had on his mind for the whole time. And then, as he told other people about it, a narrative coalesced and it became a *social* belief.

That's why the Bible worked and the Rites of 80's Nu Metal failed -- only Terry thought the band's rites would work, but *everyone else* was a white kid who got dragged to Sunday School. #Monsterdon

One last bit - what's with the baby doll? It's in the treehouse in the dream, and it shows up on the floor of the bedroom after the Big Guy shows up.

#Monsterdon #TheGate1986

So the movie starts with a lightning bolt striking a tree, which falls over. The hole the tree leaves is a gateway to hell, right?

Except it isn't, not at first.

First, the kids find some geodes. Remember those? The kids busily crack them open and wa-hey, they sparkle as you open them.

The spooky shit doesn't start happening until the kids OPEN the geodes and start imagining things. #Monsterdon

...I have a theory about this movie. Check this out:

There weren't actually any demons in The Gate.

Stay with me here, I think I can prove it.

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@listless Gabe and Mark were a stunt driving team. They were “Fallus & Moore”. #monsterdon

@combatwombat Every time one door/window opens, god throws a guy! #monsterdon

I'm not actually all that interested in the #Monsterdon movies, I just love going back through the timeline afterwards and reading all the comments.

So the #Subspecies franchise stole the mini-demons from this? 🤔

Typical. 😖

#Monsterdon #TheGate1987

This one I gave two and a half stars over on #letterboxd because it felt just a bit lightweight to me https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/the-gate/ #monsterdon

Look, moths collecting on the window by moonlight are scary, and this movie really needed nothing else. 👍

#Monsterdon #TheGate1987

@diazona @Cherizilla FWIW, he rides a bicycle in the dream sequence at the beginning of the film.

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@MindTGap@universeodon.com unexpected Jungle/Monsterdon crossover! :catjam:

#Monsterdon #Jungle

Wound up with a pretty full bingo board! Good call on this one @Cherizilla

(edit: I'm being told there was a bicycle in the beginning but I missed it because I had some trouble starting things up)

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

@Zerofactorial LOL! You win. #monsterdon

I thought I knew that scene from somewhere. Here's a nice VFX breakdown of the guy-exploding-into-demons part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fiom5oWIdw&t=45s #monsterdon

Somehow Plex decided our movie file was Monster Dog. (perhaps some #monsterdon in the metadata?) so when I bring it up, it shows me Alice Cooper is in the film. Not realizing it was talking about the wrong film, I kept watching for Alice Cooper in this film and never recognized him.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087616/

the two main actors looked like the Crazy Frog Bros #monsterdon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv3G2FqeUzM

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That was not so awful.

I eluded to it earlier, but it felt like the movie was trying to imitate the false ending structure of Poltergeist. So much happens in that film between "This house is clean now" and the final haunting. #monsterdon

By the power of the creepy doll, I compel you.

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@apLundell Because you knew you were chattel #monsterdon

@SordidAmok This is no time for rational decisions

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Kinda fell off this one once it started with "what if this nightmare came true! What if THIS nightmare came true!!" plus the false endings, plus the very drawn out but still not clear pure hearted sacrifice(?), I dunno y'all

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@SordidAmok
Terry was a good part. He got to eat pizza and jump on the bed air-playing a guitar 'n stuff, and got paid for it!

#Monsterdon #TheGave1987

This is one psychotic nightmare of one little kid containing a massive black hole's sense of guilt.

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I see there's The Gate II, which I assume is just Fright Night

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@mmezabet It wasn't in my cut, either.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZMcvd0yjo

Well, that was a fun collection of lil' dancing dudes and random 80s toys in the backgrounds of shots for me to point at and go "Robo Strux!" at my disinterested cats. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting, I'm gonna fuck off into the bisexual-lighting dance party in Hell!

#monsterdon #TheGate

The Gate: It's Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead but with fewer demons <3 #Monsterdon

I don't think anyone actually died, and I saw no coffee, so _almost_ a full bingo.

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@Newpa_Hasai I mean, they’re bad… but in a good way.

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@davesdogmaggie from the perspective of the little demon guys or no deal #monsterdon

Not a great movie, But some nice pratical fx, and some of the worse greenscreen ones.
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@davetansley Maybe they didn't have cheese! (oh I heard Cheesus, christ I'm outta here!) #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial Also Al and the twins, there were a few. Definite plus.

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Amazon Prime Video is suggesting Big Trouble In Little China now.

I'm down.

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Well, that was certainly the movie we watched for #monsterdon so far!

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anyway great practical sfx i mean goddamn, worth watching for that, script really needed an edit pass and the film honestly a better director, very made-for-TV kind of cinematography.

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Okay so my headcanon is that this is the film equivalent of the CN tower: they cooked up a project to show off all their industry related skills to try to prove that filming in Canada is worthwhile. Hard to argue it didn't work if that's true 🤔 #Monsterdon

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It wasn't Terry who grew up to be a priest. It was Glen.

Stephen Dorff plays rival megachurch owner/preacher Vance Simkins on "The Righteous Gemstones."

So now I need a few hours to de-1987-tox.

Thank you #Monsterdon
#TheGate and I think we all understood the lesson of this film regarding paying your insurance premiums on-time, including pet insurance.

Good night!

#Monsterdon

And THIS is why you should not leave your kids all unsupervised for three days, folks.

#Monsterdon I am like two away from a Cover-up here. I've got Bingo Blue balls.

@davetansley all dogs go to heaven! #Monsterdon

The End! #monsterdon

cool out, #monsterdon

thanks, @Taweret and @ryan

Mixed bag on this one! The effects were the star but the rest of it was kinda muddy. A solid slice of the 80s, though.

Honestly, I expected more horror!

#Monsterdon

Presumably all the dead imprisoned moths came back to life too #monsterdon

@strangefour Maybe this will be better:

https://strangerthingsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/BOPTD0BZ_5-UAMtQDy23
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#monsterdon You deserve a good cry, kid.

I hear I just got to the end credits of #Monsterdon. Well... Oops, I was going to watch. I guess I can watch out of sync. I often do...

Music to sail a PSX RPG ship to. #Monsterdon

That's what I call trash the house with style!
#monsterdon

I guess the demon lord is actually just a souffle inside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmr4dKlXR_o

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and they even got Terry's shoe back, aw!

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I bet the dog, the sister and his friend are all zombies!
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@CactuarJoe It's a Yeti, Giant of the 20th Century miracle!
#Monsterdon #TheGate

Oh so the dog is back! #monsterdon

Al!

Glen!

Angus!

Terry!

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This is quite the stop-motion animation epic, isn't it? That's not so bad!

Angus! #monsterdon

#monsterdon Oh Glenn! Give me your hand! I want to nibble on it! I need a bed of timothy grass, and a small plastic habitrail...

And then the Crite Hunters showed up and repaired the house.

#monsterdon