@jonny Always have your rearguard operate in shifts, specifically so this doesn't happen.

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So... huh. That was something?
Full marks to whoever did the score & incidental music!
Not sure what the deal was with the revival meeting subplot?
Also unsure of the physics of the black hole opening a portal to the giant spider universe? And why just 1 was giant, and the rest were regular sized? And why they were in geodes? Or what NASA has to do with giant spiders?

Dah well.

Thanks everyone for joining in! Thanks @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week & see you next Sunday!

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I hope they didn't lease those spiders. They've got to get them back to the agency and get all the ice cream off them, or they won't get their deposit back.

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@Infoseepage I was entertained by seeing characters die, I just needed more of it.

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This movie loves a vehicle swerving lightly off the road and immediately bursting into flame

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You mean you had cops and spiders and no one did the spider-pig song? #iMnotMadJustDisappointed #Monsterdon

#monsterdon be afraid of god and spiders is the moral of the movie?

#monsterdon a classic monsterdon ending
The end
Love you all

I think the giant spider's going to regret eating that sheriff #monsterdon

Barbequed chicken is great, close-ups of raw bones on a grill doesn't really sell it though

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#monsterdon the off gassing from melting this giant spider prop caused climate change

So did Polka Fest happen or what? #Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion

That was not the worst monster movie we have seen. But that was a very bad movie. Possibly the most average of bad movies of the 70s. But very very greasy.
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The Chair-Plane paid handsomely for this product placement

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These are 1970s dollars, but it made $15 million off a budget of $300,000 #monsterdon

Even the spiders couldn't tolerate these people long enough to stick around and eat them all

For not being in the pantheon of truly awful movies, that was truly awful, aside from some cute spiders. Thanks @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Until next week....

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thanks @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting & thanks everyone for the company, what a tangled web we weave indeed

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Did we just witness the origin of THE STUFF??

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#monsterdon thats right ACASF (all cops are spider food)

#Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion1975 i'm melting

meeeeelllllttttiiingggg

He's trying to pistol whip the spider with his holster.

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A movie that "...managed to get network play on both ABC and CBS, was mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000, and made somewhere in the range of 15 to 22 million dollars on a budget of $300,000."

And apparently the rights went up for auction last Tuesday.

#monsterdon #thegiantspiderinvasion thx @tawaret see yall next week

The spider was then turned into melted ice cream. The end. #monsterdon

-fin!

We had

And that's #Monsterdon #GiantSpiderInvasion

that movie really grossed me out and i'm not talking about the spiders. i loved the gigantic spider scenes though! and of course the live commentary cracked me up, thanks everyone, and of course thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

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I'm gonna go fuck off into the portal to the giant spider dimension. Goodnight #Monsterdon

Wow. Even though I didn’t expect any denouement, the credits appeared with jarring suddenness.

This movie is almost 50 years old. And it’s not good. Worse with the weird local tv intro that the dvd has.

Alan Hale, Jr does have screen charisma, though. #monsterdon

well actually I bet a bunch of the lil tarantulas are just fine. I'm rooting for them

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And we end with the preacher fucking off into his sermon.

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... and the black hole is still there, to this day, spitting out giant spiders whenever humanity is in need of a hero

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@jchaven This movie isn't even very old.

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@Lazarou IDK what that was. Except idiotic. #Monsterdon

Okay, so the spiders come from the black hole, which they're going to try to block by dropping a neutron bomb on it.

The black hole that the scientists just walked up to, to have a look.

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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🕷️ GIANT TRIVIA INVASION 🕸️

Director Bill Rebane locked one of the writers in a cabin threatening not to feed him unless he produced 10-15 pages a day.

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So the spider was full of pudding #monsterdon

Who knew spiders were made of ice cream? #monsterdon

Did anyone else stop watching after the boobs? I'm just paused there.

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#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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Seriously though. What the hell is supposed to be going on right now? #Monsterdon #TheGiantSpiderInvasion

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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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

Love that fucking spider float cruising across the fields

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Barbara Hale, resourceful as ever. #monsterdon

AMBUSH BRIEFCASE

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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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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

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

):< #Monsterdon

"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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