#Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion1975 i love how the spiders legs just sort of .... go up and down

That was terrible, five stars, had a lovely time #monsterdon

@nhgeek Along with a GoFundMe for a better beginning

And one for a better middle

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Another abrupt ending. And everyone fucked off back into their greasy lifes. #monsterdon

Well. Okay then.

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"WELP, THAT'S IT, ROLL CREDITS." - this movie

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Oh right, suddenly the end! They didn't get enough the characters though 😧👾🕷️

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I love how they close with the preacher talking over the credits. A+ :praxis_100:
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What? That's it? The movie just stops there?

What about all the other spiders? Did they all die off screen?

What about the preacher? Why wasn't he involved in any way?

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#Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion1975 roofs? rooves?

fuck. tolkien got me

anyway, happy abrupt ending to those who celebrate. to me the preacher VO is very reminiscent of DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004)

keep your eyes peeled for fake diamonds and creepy uncles, #Monsterdon, and may the giant spiders grant you a merciful death

all this has happened before and it'll all happen again, yes yes, we know

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real question, did they credit the "spider wrangler"?
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What kinda of ending was that? The giant spider sucked up a lot of smoke and turned into goo?

The preacher was just for color commentary?

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

As always, huge thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight’s feature , #TheGiantSpiderInvasion, released in 1975, answers the question, what’s got eight legs and wants to gobble up all the humans? Amongst the many arachnid delights, there were also:

Well, #monsterdon is #monsterdone. We have only ourselves to blame.

YOU DID THIS TO ME.

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#monsterdon The End! Brutal! Quick! Shockingly Tidy!

Sorry! Out of movie! #monsterdon

well, unfortunately, there were survivors.

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This is a fever dream in a bad trip

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I guess the flare was the signal after-all, and the big spider was the portal (sort of)

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He’s fighting the spider alone? Where did the hillbilly posse go?

Why did the fire go backwards and why is this spider made of nougat?

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Day time. Shoot flare. Night time. Boom. Day time. Brilliant. #Monsterdon

that's a lot of goo #monsterdon

they blew up the big spider with a flare gun????? man i feel like i am missing everything in this movie because i'm just focused on how much i love big spider #monsterdon

turns out the spider was made of oatmeal all along

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@Taweret Everyone knows handguns are melee weapons

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@Taweret bait while we're introducing unlikable characters #monsterdon

When spiders molt, they produce ice cream.

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it's a tiny hand-fired nuke!

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When is the spider going to eat the preacher?

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so... the spiders come from the diamonds...? then what is the portal???? is that just like where the diamonds come from? #monsterdon

It does look goofy. But I have to commended them for making a giant spider puppet with legs that move as it goes forward.
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well he probably shouldn't have run right up to the giant space spider

brought that upon himself

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And this, folks was how we decided that giant spiders were infinitely preferable to people, and why we are now ruled at all levels of federal, state, and local government by giant spiders

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The "default sci-fi theremin tremolo" is being used wildly inappropriately here. It should be used to indicate weird space stuff. Get a different sound effect for the actual giant spiders. Hopefully one that doesn't hurt my ears as much...

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Go spider go eat that cop!

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Love that fucking spider float cruising across the fields

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These mob scenes look like they wrre filmed by someone else / somewhere else / for another movie! Did they change the type of film? Or is it just poorly filmed? #Monsterdon

AMBUSH BRIEFCASE

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I’m just imagining the director and editor cutting this together and at some point the director saying “Nailed it!” and, well, it makes all the failures in my life seem trivial. #Monsterdon

The spiders are not killing people nearly quick enough to be rid of all these horrible humans by the end of the movie

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If the spider's rockin', don't come a-knockin'! Ho ho ho.

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#monsterdon cant believe the fair was in town at the same time as the giant spider invasion, glad the spiders get to see some of the beat american past times

Okay, those crowd sequences in town were actually pretty well done, all told. Aside from the spider itself, mind you. #monsterdon

He forgot the flares. 😑
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I think Alan Hale's contract stipulated that he needed to sit at a desk talking on the phone in 90% of his scenes.

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So wait why are we not pulling the trigger ourselves and instead having to fire a flare first to tell the pilot to do it?

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This movie has no night or day control.
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@CactuarJoe That's why they're no good at chess #monsterdon

#monsterdon I'm still trying to figure out whether that hilarious theremin sound effect is supposed to be part of the soundtrack or whether it's diagetic uhhhh spider squeals.

"...drop the gadget! Repeat, drop the gadget!"

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if the spiders are interdimensional and giant, why isn't there a giant, visible interdimensional portal big enough for it?

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So 1 cop is doing crowd control and field intelligence during a confrontation with a 50' space monster?

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SPIDERS DON'T HAVE QUEENS

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"We've got a lot of people hurt here!"

Yaaaaay! #Monsterdon

@apLundell Look, closing the portal will clearly kill the spiders, because Science.

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#monsterdon THE MUSIC AND THAT MOUSTACHE AND SINGLE WOMAN IN PIGTAILS ARE GIVING A MUCH DIFFERENT VIBE THAN RALLYING THE GUYS(TM) FOR GIANT SPIDER KILLING

god forbid a spider do anything!!!!

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oh oh, the blood from his mouth was nice. #monsterdon

Love the disgust on the line read "god, another one" #monsterdon

Heh. Terrible, hokey movies and pretending they're better than whatever hit movie they're aping, I can't think of a better combination :P

Yeah, you cast shade at Jaws, Spider Invasion. I'm sure Spielberg is being kept up nights by your little production here :P #Monsterdon

I’m begging you, Alan Hale, button at least one more button on your shirt. #Monsterdon

Wasn’t this area full of toxic radiation? #Monsterdon

I've got a man from NASA and he knows what he's doing probably shouldn't belong in the same sentence anymore

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@jonny

I believe it went something like:

“we have to close the black hole”

“we should shove more matter into it until it chokes and blocks up”

“oh, you mean neutron rays? great idea!”

… though I, too, may not have been paying full attention.

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I agree. Boo the police #monsterdon #thegiantspiderinvasion

They didn't get this crowd of gun toting hicks for the movie, that was just happening anyway and a camera team followed them....

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Wait did I just hear that the giant spiders have to draw energy from a lifeline into another dimension?

whaaaaaaaa 🤦

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#monsterdon movie: we couod choke it with the extra mass
Me: *thrusting*

Rookie mistake to get your mob to cluster that close. It gets like Twitch Plays Pokemon, you can't move anywhere. #monsterdon

And here's why you don't actually shoot at night for these movies

all hail the blue filters

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Everyone is driving an AMC, including the cops and mobs!

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woah hey night for night okay

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DAY FILMED AS NIGHT!

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#monsterdon Will somespider PLEASE eat the sheriff already

@SordidAmok I mean why not at this point

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"this is my hole! it was made for me!"

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Why can’t these white dudes have fun at the Polka Festival, leave the giant spider alone! It just has a taste for human flesh! #Monsterdon

another dead mime corpse!

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My black hole has also turned into an open doorway from hell.

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the spider portal: go girl give us nothing
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Actually hold up: there would be like a thousand people crowding around it taken selfies for Instagram, and only if the scientists could get through that crowd they would try to make friends with it

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So does everybody in this town drive pintos? #monsterdon

"The running of the Spiders" used to be a proud American tradition

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day for night

never works

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Love to the guy who has to call the National Guard on a 'Giant Spider Invasion'

"You're not going to believe this guys, but BELIEVE ME..."

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Spent a bit of money on car splosions.

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I love how they're using crowds of people to block the bottom of the giant spider so you can't see the chassis.

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Everyone runs in the same direction.
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Interesting how the panicking mob is always in the way of the spider's lower half #monsterdon

I’m not opposed to a rural mob of gun-toting monster killers, but I’m not sure the movie’s really earned it. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Ooops! We found the Ford Pinto!

Skipper: "Hello operator? GET ME THE POLICE."

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Go, space spider! kill them all!

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🕷️ GIANT TRIVIA INVASION 🕸️

The producers wanted larger spiders because they new Jaws was being made at the same time. The film crew then created their biggest monsters, using VW Beetles for the inside, driven backward, so the brake lights could be used as eyes.

Crew members stayed inside and manipulated the legs. It was hot work in the summer.

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“Mommy I want to go on the spider ride!”

PACKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Hard to get an exact id given the low resolution, but similar wide leather strap watches appear to have been part of the Mod style movement.

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