the problem with werewolf movies is always that when you put fur on a human face, you don't get a wolf, you get a monkey or bigfoot

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I think I will rate this #monsterdon "medium" because it was neither rare, nor well done.

You can't have missionary sex while turning into wolves, the pelvises don't work that way!! My God they'll be killed

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cops came in firing into a dark room

seems about right

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Didn't think I'd use this image 2 #monsterdon weeks in a row, but there you are.

Good ending! And now I kind of want to go watch Joe Dante's best-known movie, Gremlins. Except I'm actually gonna make dinner and watch some X-Files. Goodnight #monsterdon, and don't let the werewolves bite!

Hey hey it's #Monsterdon time! We're watching The Howling, it's on Tubi at the link below. Join us!

#TheHowling1981

https://tubitv.com/movies/100044051/the-howling

someday someone will make a good werewolf movie

I GUESS

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"We're out in the middle of nowhere, leave the window with no screen open all night and see how much bat rabies we can get." #Monsterdon

@Lazarou "Your werewolf attack is important to us. Please hold."
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i sincerely do not know how tubi exists, it just lets you do full res downloads of the movie with seemingly no attempt at DRM. there's no way they have licenses for all these movies #monsterdon

DoesTheHamburgerFry.com
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Thankfully they have the durability and reliability of a MAZDA! #Monsterdon

1981 was still technically the 70s. You can tell because everyone's still super greasy. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon apparently robert picardo played the 2nd best character on voyager, the holo doctor, so im ready to point and clap if i see him

oh my god this guy is going to quake ultrakill these werewolves by virtue of the sheer duration of their transformation #monsterdon

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Classic error. You cut off a werewolf's hand, it's going to grow into a new werewolf. Now you have TWO werewolves.

These people aren't werewolves, they're weirdwolves. #Monsterdon

This is the most 1975 movie from the 80s I've ever seen. #Monsterdon

Tonight's #monsterdon snack is this moon pie.

My kitties are the closest thing I have to werewolves and pretend that black blanket is the night sky.

And that's a wreck! Video proof of the existence of werewolves goes out on live TV to a world too jaded to believe it, posing the question of whether we deserve to be prey if we can't recognize danger and act to protect ourselves. Marsha fucks off out of a burning barn into town and orders a gross burger in a gross bar while staring straight into the camera.

Awoo!

Thanks for hosting, @Taweret ! That was fun.

Good night!

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Running the end credits over a slow zoom in on a disgusting hamburger patty on a flattop grill with slow-jazz saxophone music in the background is

Perfectly in keeping with the rest of this movie

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they really swung for the fences there trying to turn this movie around into "society is the monster" after wasting the first half of the movie doing nothing #monsterdon

fuck continuity, we're going to use the rifle to barricade the door, and then we're going to have it again, and then we're going to have each of the characters hold it in turns, reloading it every time it's in frame #monsterdon

The Birth of Thing Addams. #Monsterdon

This movie's been the closest #Monsterdon movie so far to something I can't watch because of tension building and jumpscares, fortunately I have the mute button

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Bill's eating meat - Change in appetite for the bingo card!

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the nuns got a serious book habit

"It's a place to recharge your batteries."

And they do a great wicker man burning in the spring! #Monsterdon

"Unwanted body hair" is on the bingo card and I find myself wondering what constitutes *wanted* body hair

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@moira In the meantime, folks can read *Of Monsters and Mainframes*, wherein a spaceship autopilot, an autodoc, a werewolf, a cyborg, spider drones, and a mummy (or swarm of beatles) team up to fight Dracula. If we're lucky, they'll make a movie of it someday. #Monsterdon

Heh, that was a very #Monsterdon friendly stinger at the end there :D

SHE'S A WERE-SHITZU! #Monsterdon

Smash cut to the horrors of LA traffic. #Monsterdon

@paco I was just thinking that, perhaps too many of us were #Monsterdon

"He didn't get up and walk out on-"

I'm gonna stop you right there, sir. #Monsterdon

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lmao

"oh, you just had a terrifying experience with a serial killer? why don't you spend time in my deserted cabin to recover?"

"Are you wearing what I asked you to? The frog or the toad? Fully inflated? ooooh baby." #Monsterdon

Also I think David Carradine is the most believable Immortal Werewolf in the cast if only because he looks *exactly* as old as he did in Red Zone Cuba, filmed twenty years earlier. #Monsterdon

@jonny ssssh, don't let on! they might fix it!

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@paco

Ask not for whom the burger fries. It fries for thee.

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On the plus side, it's the Sheriff's car. If they run out of silver bullets you know he's got Coors Light in the back. #Monsterdon

...i want it on the record I hit post on that last toot *exactly as* the car exploded XD #Monsterdon

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If I were a werewolf, I would simply not spend 30 minutes converting from a human while my prey manages to find something to attack me with

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"I had that dream again"

"the one with the 13 clowns and your mother?"

THE MURDERSHACK HAS ELECTRICITY

FOUL

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Terry made a good life choice in walking towards the creepy voice. Maybe time to go into this creepy cabin with all the dead animals? Yes, let's.

Okay, werewolf transformations by Hanna-Barbera, gotcha. #Monsterdon

She's not a werewolf, she's just She Hulk. #Monsterdon

Never before have I been so confident in referring to a soundtrack as ORGAN MUSIC #Monsterdon

Bit o' full frontal for the kids in row six. #Monsterdon

I love how this movie's sets jump between Evil Dead and Endor

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Is this a werewolf or a hardboiled egg at 30 minutes in the pot? #Monsterdon

You're a lot prettier than Walter Cronkite is less of a compliment than it first sounds
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I know this film is from 1981 but it has a real 70s skeezy vibe to it so far.

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<Jan voice> Marcia Marcia MARCIA!

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"She's a very elemental person"

No, the band is elemental. Earth, wind, and fire specifically. #Monsterdon

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YES, MORE CAR DEMOLITION PLEASE

#BanCars #FuckCars

"We're gonna make ratings history tonight!"

First woman to transform into a werewolf live on camera! #Monsterdon

Launching my #monsterdon thread for The Howling (1981), a movie that promises many Awoooos!

Monsterdon is the thing where we watch an old monster movie each week and make fun of it. Good times are had by all, or at least most. If you do not want to see lots of posts by me and others saying "awooo!" at this movie, you may wish to mute the hash tag (which may require a browser login).

Anyway, let the Howling commence!

@_L1vY_ I think the subtitles substituted Gehenna for Guyana (i.e. Jonestown).

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@moira @allanb feels like the Vampires are far ahead in this race #Monsterdon

i'm going back for the "it takes me so long to transform that i get shot about it" scene that was too fucking funny and they played it for 0% laughs #monsterdon

Well that was silly.

I wish it had better story/pacing/plot, and less violence against women though.

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YOU CANT kill someone on air my guy NOBODY knows about werewolves yet #monsterdon

we don't have time for the full 5 minute transformation sequence, cut to commercial and we'll come back for the end #monsterdon

I remember when my dad caught me doing this and made me smoke the whole werewolf

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Wait, is it a werewolf or a vampire? #Monsterdon

To her credit, she did not trip and fall
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From what I know about weirdos with shacks in the woods is they don't like people poking around their weirdo shack..

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Synth stab part deux!! #Monsterdon

This is like Deviantart: The Movie

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Oh Marsha's cooking all right. #Monsterdon

"They're worse than cock-a-roaches!"

Dem werewolves, fuhgeddabouddit, I'm WAAAAAALKIN' HEAH #Monsterdon

"Warlocks, Werewolves, and Demons"

Ah, the good ol' WWD. #Monsterdon

"I still think it was UFOs!"

Let's not cross genres now, chief.

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"I figure another five years of real hard work, maybe I'll be a real human being"

Not if the Scientology you're reading has anything to say about it. #Monsterdon

"You're a lot prettier than Walter Cronkite!"

Sorry I can't return the compliment, sir. #Monsterdon

Okay, so the colony is on a beech in the woods somewhere. It is lit by Christmas lights and is playing country music, but like the country music that is adjacent to country music. They have one picnic table. At least one Goth Girl is there, to counter the cowboys.

Eventually an old guy gets sick of the country music and tries to kill himself by jumping into the fire pit, but the psychology book guy talks him out of it by wrangling him and telling him that it will all be better.

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seriously though, check on your mates at parties during these dark times....

"he's just trying to get attention"

oof, harsh lady, harsh...

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The 80's, when everyone made out on the beach to live lap harp music, what an age

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Bill: "What's in it?"

Mysterious woman: "It's good."

I'm gonna go with LSD.

What woman hasn't had her male therapist invite her to his country retreat

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"Maybe she's pregnant, who knows"

It's fun when the movie is urging you to wish death upon one of the characters

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"You can't be afraid of dreams."

Oh, thanks, doc. I'm better. Totally cured! Stupid bastard. #Monsterdon

I like how this movie is promoting art as a great hobby for everyone

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Walking the streets, she meets the Muppets coming the other way. #Monsterdon

Telling the kids what a 'payphone' was

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I hate it when people interrupt my public bathroom monlogues

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This movie starts with credits over some TV static in the background set to various quotes that are ominous in a vaporwave sort of way.

Then we go to a guy on a talk show telling the audience that repression is what makes things bad and that we should not deny the beast between us. This guy is trying to sell a book about something, perhaps about how to be a werewolf.

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Oh whew, Avco. I thought we were about to get hit with the American International logo again -_-; #Monsterdon

Movie actually had more werewolf than human deaths, and that's just weird.

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@CactuarJoe lycanthrophy is just a plot by Big Beating It to sell more weird porn!

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Pros and Cons of... the Howling

PROS:
uses at least 5 different musical genres
includes spooky werewolf colony in the woods that also has tennis courts
goofy ass werewolf transformation scenes
i liked the drawings they were a neat plot device
horny

CONS:
casual misogyny (but it served the character concepts so maybe it was well used?)
horny

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Thank you @Taweret and #Monsterdon ! What a howl! Another 80's classic for the books and a delicious dose of Joe Dante.

ARROOOOOOOOOOOO 🐺

@nazokiyoubinbou

Some movies have surprised me, started out believing it would be awful, but they were delightful and had me on the clouds.

Especially watched with friends. Like #Monsterdon ... even then if the movie is crazy, still have company with awesome people!

I miss when they asked how you wanted your hamburger. The only places you can get them these days run $20/burger. Solid film. Fun time. Thamks #monsterdon pals. Take care. See ya soon.

no #MonsterdonBingo for me tonight. I probably missed a few, but I mark 'em as I mark 'em

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She died as she lived, corpsing on camera. #Monsterdon