@diazona @FeloniousPunk What makes it good is following the hashtag and watching along with everyone. It's the experience and community that's awesome.
@FeloniousPunk No, most are worse.
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 . Theyβre all not THAT bad, are they?
i just want rubberised gorgon victim statues is that so wrong
James Bernard did a good job with the music.
Bruno just wasnβt ready to be a father. He wasnβt murdered after all.
So I missed the first 34 minutes, so I'm looping it back around and Patrick Troughton is in this?!?!
@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 couldnβt 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:
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.
#Monsterdon π πΏ
@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.
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?
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!
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.
YEAH FUCK HER UP CHRISTOPHER LEE
I wonder if that mirror they keep showing us is relevant to the plot.
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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πͺ¨β οΈ STONE COLD TRIVIA πͺ¨β οΈ
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!"
Christopher Lee leaning over the balcony with the sword like "bitch, you thought"
@gnomon If I had that wig for Halloween I'd win some kind of prize for sure #monsterdon
Perseus move. #monsterdon
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CHOPA-ROOO
The little plastic snakes are HILARIOUS
I'm going in search of Carla - does anyone have a hat comprised entirely of mice?
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!! π¬
could've done a better makeup job on the gorgon. very low effort there
The cops never gave me 5 minutes to get dressed.
her hair snakes are so BOINGY
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.
DIDN'T BRING A SWORD TO A COAT RACK FIGHT!
Look at that. He brought a sword to a candlestick fight. How quaint.
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
@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
@Lazarou I feel like if you got slapped by Christopher Lee you'd wake up in the Skyrim opening. #Monsterdon
The police arrest Christopher Lee for all those erotic etchings...
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.
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
When people get in the way the soldiers can poke them into submission with their helmets
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
The full moon happens every other night in this town
Ooh, so there's some werewolfism mixed in here, why not
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...
#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.
wait are they doing a typhoid mary parallel here?
jesus chirst you could pick that lock with a chisel
I hope Paul brought a mirror with him to meet his new girlfriend.
Itβs dangerous to go alone. Here, take me.
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?"
#monsterdon
@whknott @Lazarou And the cops have spiky hats #monsterdon
Girlfriend is a gorgon
I know, I know its serious π΅
Oh, sorry. Carla has another blouse for work.
@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
My, a 'democratic state' concealing murders, what fantasy....
"What's she like?"
"Very beautiful."
"Are you familiar with any of her personality traits?"
"What does that have to do with it?"
#Monsterdon #TheGorgon
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."
Brain-in-a-jar scene. This is the Futurama origin story perhaps.
@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
Itβs Lord Summerisle
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
The last time Christopher Lee was in this part of Europe he murdered 50 nazis
Single man with all his dirty etching strewn around, sleeps in a racing carriage bed no doubt....
Drink if a character says βgood dayβ twice to get rid of someone. Chug if the second time is βI said, good day!β #Monsterdon
The real monster here is bad boundaries #Monsterdon
They bury 'em pretty shallow over there in the old country all full of monsters marauding about. #monsterdon
Mad woman werewolf would certainly make this movie more entertaining.
@forestine βThereβs a full moon tonightβ¦β #Monsterdon
What if you could be inoculated against gorgon sight? Like, if you see her reflection a few times then you develop a tolerance for seeing the real thing without turning to stone
But then we might actually have a plot and that just wouldn't do