#monsterdon Okay, lots of gamma radiation and nobody is going Spock Smushy!? I want mah money baaaack! I demand Spock Smushy! Waddle Waddle Smush Smush.

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When the brainstorming doesn't work, you have to get rid of that isadora duncan style neckscarf

OMINOUS ZOOM INTO THE GROUND

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They should be feeling some effects of radiation by now, given the dialog earlier.

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Anyway, Johnny Fontaine got the part. #Monsterdon

FINALLY some spider action!

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Oh, no, Alan Hale, your shirt us unbuttoned too much. No one needs to see that.
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She's probably going to pick up the black hole, the way this is going

Please do us all a favor and get sucked in

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ok when a horror movie makes a character THIS unlikable you know it's intentionally so we can all root for him to die.

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space eggs? #monsterdon

This guy’s hat suits him. Poor hat. #monsterdon

PUSH HIM NOW! #Monsterdon

Eggggggs! #monsterdon

I'm concerned about how small all the spiders we've seen so far are

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in my tedium era #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion1975 this feels like a setup to a Fallout side quest

Look at this gorgeous array of lovely old oscilloscopes 🤩

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wait how does a spider, even a GIANT spider, decapitate a cow??

not so much building tension as cultivating tedium #monsterdon

@bunnyhero Thank you. #Monsterdon

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“Sheriff Jones?? That dumbshit?”

Our first actor-cobweb contact!

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I assume one of those meat bodies was the car chicken. Chekhov's chicken you know?

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@jchaven Thank you.
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#Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion1975 alien spiders can skeletonize a cow overnight

Back brace also had a minor role in Star Trek 6 as a Klingon #Monsterdon

Did they use… real cows? 🤮 #Monsterdon

@hollie I have a money saving idea!... #Monsterdon

Velikovsky namedrop, compare with Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

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@ricci’s #monsterdon reactions are a national treasure

'Why not let your marital problems air-out in an open field?'

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those oscilloscopes look like surplus from the 1950s #monsterdon

well we've tried to brainstorm it, so fuck brains. let's spin the big wheel in the back of the room and just do whatever it says.

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@jmelesky There's a follow-up question about whether the narrative seems to think this is a valid response on the part of the man or a joke made at his expense. Also whether he and the Lady Scientist are forced into Compulsory Heterosexuality after that.

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Don't eat at Dutch's Cafe, got it. #monsterdon

oh darn I thought she was going to strip

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#monsterdon "You wouldn't know rabbit turds from rice crispies"
I bet she does and I bet this guy wasn't eating rice crispies for breakfast earlier.

If he's never seen so much fouled up data in his life, he's clearly never tried web scraping. #monsterdon

Cow carcasses galore! Must've had a special on them, too.

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This looks like a pretty well funded high school classroom. #monsterdon

Couldn't the costume department get this guy a hat that fits his head? #monsterdon

@paco I'm going to refer this to physics court!

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"You're so dumb you wouldn't know rabbit turds from rice crispies"

This is one healthy marriage

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#Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion1975 oh! cow

The cow head almost seemed like a Godfather reference

Surprisingly sophisticated for this movie

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Oh wow those are really bad dead cow models! I'm happy about that.

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#Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion1975 the wonder twins are still coordinated

Hope this guy is first.

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Uh... is it just me or is that beaker just straight-up burning? #Monsterdon

What are they supposed to be growing out there, besides cow heads? #Monsterdon

Was that Gromit?

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okay it's "kwayzar." that's fine too. just so long as it's not "kwayzer"

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Not only can I not tell what critter could have done that, I can't tell what critters are dismembered here. #monsterdon

Mm, anybody got the number for the FDA? #Monsterdon

Did she trip on the cow’s head???? What just happened??? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon nice fake cow head

that's a awful lot of Oscilloscopes. I wonder if it was the only prop avaliable on sci-fi place
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you can always tell you have done a good job as a screenwriter when you need to go "well, back to the {x}" because there's no other way to naturally transition topics #monsterdon

I'm gonna need a long hot gamma shower after watching more of these the intimate details of these character's lives #monsterdon

"Father always said teaching you to run a farm is like teaching an ox to use a typewriter." 😂

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You can never have too many oscilloscopes in the lab.

okay, points for the dead cow gore, that is both cow and gore. #monsterdon

Incidentally, for those of you not as old as I:

These interiors would have looked old to me in 1975, like ten to fifteen years out-of-date.

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@YsengrinWolf Ah, that's what that was. I couldn't tell.
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So much cross cutting, so little happening.

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choosing to believe the band Cattle Decapitation got their name from this movie

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@flowerpot a cow's head #monsterdon

#monsterdon I gotta say the actual film, not counting the story, dialog, acting, or plot, seems to be done pretty well. Also I appreciate the Brunswick fake Eames chairs, the nice ones with the fart-hole in them:

On Preview, did Ausin Powers steal the "This coffee tastes like shit" routine from this movie?

Incredibly lethal levels of radiation? Literally shrug and say, "Back to the tea." #monsterdon

“A meteorite would have made a trememdous explosion”, whereas ballistic missiles are known for their quiet, subtle landings. #monsterdon

Dr. Lwaxana Troi over here #monsterdon #thegiantspiderinvasion

Gamma rays making super spiders? Are they going to bite Peter Parker? Is this Spiderman?

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This astronomy lesson seems a little scattered, but reasonably accurate, as far as I could tell.

I'd wondered why we missed the opening science lesson that this genre led us to expect, so I guess this is a valid variation.

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Use a drone! #Monsterdon

Wait, did the AF jet crash earlier?

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@moira nope, they never try fire! #NotBitter #Monsterdon

@apLundell Having spent some time as an astronomer myself: lollllllllll 😂

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"Far too lethal" um, how lethal is that?

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@flowerpot the head of a cow

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It's not clear that she has enough oscilloscopes

Oh shit they got on the Wisconsin mob's bad side #monsterdon

Kester never stops eating

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What did she fall down next to? A beat up mailbox? I have no idea what it was?
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@moira Eh, it's just a Goncharov homage. #Monsterdon

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Not Vegan: The remains of the cattle were created by butchered meat and real cow body parts. If you look closely, you can also see most of the flies in Wisconsin at the time.

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In this scene there is one lady actor and one 'dude is is the directors brother and always fancied being in a film"

LOL @ jumpscare with the cow's head

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Oh, good. Finally someone comments on the radiation levels being dangerous.

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#Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion1975 "i have a zoom lens with a long focus range and i am gonna fuckin use it to rack focus dramatically"

CATTLE MUTILATION O'CLOCK!

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That cow's front fell off. #monsterdon

now watch this, it's gonna blow your mind, dude. (^_^) #monsterdon

Scientists flirting in the 70s. The peak of romance. Tea?
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Look, movie, I get it. You want to build up some tension. But spider webs in a woodland building are completely normal. No one is shocked or scared of them. And frankly, these don't look like they were made by GIANT spiders. #monsterdon

spider or old handbag? #Monsterdon

LMAOOOOO

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Right now there’s a lady spider saying “guys let’s turn around” but she’s being ignored

Before the Bechdel-Wallace test, all we had was the “is there an extended sequence of assuming a competent woman must actually be a man?” test. #monsterdon

@Infoseepage I don't like that image #StartsDrinkingSterno #Monsterdon

The Scientists Make Coffee/Tea with lab equipment joke is mandatory.

Even if the scientists in question are astronomers.

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