#monsterdon MONSTERDON IS GO, GET ROLLING

Honestly, I marble at how we didn't make more rock puns during #TheGorgon. #monsterdon

With Hammer films fresh in the discussion it has come to my attention that Quatermass and the Pit aka 5 million years to earth is available on The Internet Archive. That would be a great followup. https://archive.org/details/quatermassandthepit_202002

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vulcanised gorgon statues frolicking in the fields, bouncing down the plains

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@YsengrinWolf @jsadow@c18.masto.host ah yeah i forgot about that

SOMEONE has got away with MURDER

paging jessica fletcher

jessica fletcher please report to 1907 europe

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk #monsterdon

@FeloniousPunk oh, dude. Hammer films are classics. And this one had Lee *and* Cushing! The other one that comes immediately to mind is "Horror Express," but I think that came from American International (Roger Corman's production house).

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#Monsterdon should be proud of me, the resident cannabis worker, for not making a single "stoned" joke this evening. I enjoyed all the ones others made, though!

@diazona @FeloniousPunk What makes it good is following the hashtag and watching along with everyone. It's the experience and community that's awesome.

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maugra-reee

maugra-raiiiii

mougra-raaaaaaa

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The Gorgon was a mannequin the whole time?!

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@FeloniousPunk No, most are worse.

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I know we got a lot of stats people on the hashtag. We should start a running tally of movies with denouement and movie that just END. I bet the just END number would be much larger. #Monsterdon #TheGorgon

This was my first #Monsterdon . They’re all not THAT bad, are they?

i just want rubberised gorgon victim statues is that so wrong

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James Bernard did a good job with the music.

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#rewind

Bruno just wasn’t ready to be a father. He wasn’t murdered after all.

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So I missed the first 34 minutes, so I'm looping it back around and Patrick Troughton is in this?!?!

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@ottaross You'd think she would have smashed that mirror at some point. #TheGorgon #Monsterdon

I can barely manage to trim my own beard backwards looking into a mirror so I probably couldn’t handle a decapitation. #Monsterdon

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched THE GORGON (1964). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

Gorgon is slay. #Monsterdon

@floatybirb those hats are funny, can't deny them that! #monsterdon

My Bechdel-sense didn't go off at any point. Or is this wrong? #monsterdon

Love a Hammer Horror. Thanks @Taweret for hosting, @ryan for the stream, and all of you for being such witty commentators.

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@nhgeek I am very stoned and it still dragged! #monsterdon

And that's the end of the budget. Wow. I dare that movie to make less sense. Still it's always fun to see Chris and Peter go at it. Thanks for the fun watch and thanks to @Taweret for hosting. Now I must leave as we have someone on their way to Gorgonize the garage. Whatever that means. #Monsterdon #TheGorgon

And the moral - Love gonna fuck you up.

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When a movie skips the end credits it's like YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME BUT YOU CAN'T STAY HERE. #Monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and to all the posters and lurkers participating, thanks to you all as well. And remember #Monsterdoners: A lot of girlfriends doesn't make you a libertine.

Gor-gone! No credits, but really, was any deserved?

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Film over. No credits. GTFO #monsterdon

Okay so this time I simply forgot to do #Monsterdon because I was eating all the cheese and bread.

As excuses go, I think that pretty solid.

De-gorgonization. Sob! #Monsterdon

Chekhov's mirror!

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The winning Doctor Muttonchops goes to fight Madam Carrothair, but then she turns into the Gorgon and starts sprouting snakes from her head. Also her eyes turn all red and her dress is green now. She repels him with her gaze then turns to fight Inspector Nick, who she also turns to stone.

But while she's doing that Mustache Saruman sneaks up behind her with a sword and decapitates her, and her snake head turns back into her normal Gigantic Hair Head.

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YEAH FUCK HER UP CHRISTOPHER LEE

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The End

It certainly was

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I wonder if that mirror they keep showing us is relevant to the plot.

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Do you know how much arm strength and the sword heft and sharpness you need to cut through a spine? It's not trivial!

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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🪨☠️ STONE COLD TRIVIA 🪨☠️

Barbara Shelley played Carla, the Gorgon-possessed character, and suggested to the producer that she should also play the Gorgon with a wig of _live snakes_. The idea was rejected.

After the producer saw how bad the SFX wig looked in the completed movie, he admitted to Shelley that she was correct. The five wires used to manipulate the snakes just didn't cut it.

Per Christopher Lee, "The only thing wrong with "The Gorgon" is the gorgon!"

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Christopher Lee leaning over the balcony with the sword like "bitch, you thought"

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@gnomon If I had that wig for Halloween I'd win some kind of prize for sure #monsterdon

Perseus move. #monsterdon

CHOPA-ROOO

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The little plastic snakes are HILARIOUS

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Sword versus candelabra is a famously even match. #monsterdon

...why did you turn around

why would you do that #Monsterdon

GodDAMN he's getting close to Peter Cushing's head with that candelabra!! 😬

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could've done a better makeup job on the gorgon. very low effort there

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The cops never gave me 5 minutes to get dressed.

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her hair snakes are so BOINGY

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I'm guessing they're going for a connection between the moon's association with women and the fact that Gorgons are female monsters. Like, it's about the power of untamed female sexuality in a patriarchal society. Or I'm reaching for something that isn't there.

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DIDN'T BRING A SWORD TO A COAT RACK FIGHT!

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Movie.

Mo. Vie.

Show. us. the. monster.

I'm begging you.

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Look at that. He brought a sword to a candlestick fight. How quaint.

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They have more full moons out in the German countryside. It's a side effect of all the silver mining. #monsterdon

I can't imagine getting slapped by Christopher Lee and not having your head explode into a cloud of blood

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They're going to have to scare up another woman and send her after Carla to have a conversation if they have any hope of passing the #Bechdel test.

It's not looking good.

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@Taweret If this were directed by the Aztec Mummy director we'd have 25 minutes of someone telling us backstory #monsterdon

I do wanna ride in a carriage through the spooky woods tho

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The police arrest Christopher Lee for all those erotic etchings...

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@Lazarou I feel like if you got slapped by Christopher Lee you'd wake up in the Skyrim opening. #Monsterdon

ooh slap!! #Monsterdon Will Smith could never!!

There's 7 minutes left in this film, and I feel like that's not enough time to resolve anything.

Classic #Monsterdon.

@whknott ahhh, thought so #monsterdon

all you had to do was have people in a place and they get turned to stone one by one while someone figures out that a gorgon did it and then goes after the gorgon

there didn't need to be any rummaging through paperwork involved at all

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When people get in the way the soldiers can poke them into submission with their helmets

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We should make bastard cops wear ridiculous looking helmets again that would be great #Monsterdon

Is that warrant signed by a judge? Or is it an ICE warrant? #monsterdon

"My name is Meister. Mister Meister." #Monsterdon

This is probably the least insufferable Janeway holonovel #monsterdon #thegorgon

@CactuarJoe same

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The full moon happens every other night in this town

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Ooh, so there's some werewolfism mixed in here, why not

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Can Carla make you rock hard in specific places or does it have to be your whole body?

I have some ideas for a new low-budget film...

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#monsterdon Yessss, a white-knuckle monologue at the last minute!! Pulse pounding excitement!! TALK, TALK, TALK, TALK

_in the background_ hisssssss

If i was a gorgon, I would make little squirrel statues as a side hustle.

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wait are they doing a typhoid mary parallel here?

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jesus chirst you could pick that lock with a chisel

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I hope Paul brought a mirror with him to meet his new girlfriend.

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It’s dangerous to go alone. Here, take me.

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Godzilla vs Magaera #monsterdon

You walk in and find her sitting there on a golden throne like that, and the only question you have is "why did you want to meet here?"
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@whknott @Lazarou And the cops have spiky hats #monsterdon

Girlfriend is a gorgon
I know, I know its serious 🎵

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Oh, sorry. Carla has another blouse for work.

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@allanb @log Fortunately they're on buy one get one free

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@diazona imagine living somewhere confusing like that! #monsterdon

"Why does bad luck follow me wherever I go? IAnd why do I have to wear this wig over my lovely snakes?" #monsterdon

wat is it? a democratic state or a police state? #monsterdon

"What's she like?"
"Very beautiful."
"Are you familiar with any of her personality traits?"
"What does that have to do with it?"

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Why is that brain so tiny? #monsterdon

"You suspect somebody."

"Carla, there's only one statuesque woman in a gigantic red wig in this town. It's not a difficult deduction."

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@Lazarou I was revolted by his trickling water over his hands and then wiping them casually on a rotating towel after handling a bloody *human brain*, now THAT's horror! #Monsterdon #TheGorgon

"Please tell me."

No, we've got at least two more deaths to go through before the big reveal. #Monsterdon

It’s Lord Summerisle

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Any time Christopher Lee says something like "you look like you've been buried in your grave and dug your way out" I just presume that's a thing Christopher Lee did

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@log @allanb brb getting a PhD in gorgonology

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The last time Christopher Lee was in this part of Europe he murdered 50 nazis

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