This is so weird for me to see a good performance from John Carradine. I'm so used to him sleepwalking through a role or just been a clip added in later with no contact with the rest of the cast.
#Monsterdon #TheHowling
the tape recorder, sir! it's been...JAMMED!
Marsha hamming it up. Must have ate a pig. :blobcat_angel: #monsterdon
Why is this giving me Outlast vibes?
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yeah, go ahead, put your hand in the blood. f-ing city boy.
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Reuse and Recycle
Like in The Howling, where they reused set dressings from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Look for the corpse in an armchair in Walter Paisley's bookstore. Probably pretty ripe by now.
@lytta I just question her choice in victims #monsterdon
Just finished watching the 2024 version of #Nosferatu. I have the original version on DVD, but the remake seemed interesting. Eggersβ take on Hamlet (which I only realized later) was kinda meh, but this was better - still had a lot of that oddly cold and sterile vibe that #TheNorthman had, but this time mostly made up for it with a much more sinister villain. Compared to the material Murnau ripped off, Orlok is much rougher and more openly violent, just to name two differences.
They don't grow things back then...
ok where's the Duran Duran-backed montage #monsterdon
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Ah. The conspiracy Pack.
Marsha Marsha Marsha!
#Monsterdon #TheHowling
I think that room will not be happy despite the smiley sticker, don't open the door, lady!
Let werewolves werewolf.
We need our own web page! #Monsterdon
so this whole movie has been everyone around this woman gaslighting her from the start? how did she even get into this gig with the cops being bait for werewolves anyway? #monsterdon
(Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust's Carmilla playing in the back of my head, That is the Rule of Nature!)
SHUT UP DOC #monsterdon #thehowling
okay, so at this gathering of the Modern Werewolf Society, tonight we will...
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π Some context for the Smiley face buttons and stickers...
First appearing in 1963, by 1971 over 50 million smiley face buttons alone had been produced. T-shirts, stickers and other pop culture appearances were ubiquitous.
π I barely made it through this period with my insanity intact. So it's not surprising that by 1980, the image was ripe for use in dark storylines.
More: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face-2058483/
@amyfou IKR?! Usually Karens can't put things down! #Monsterdon (I don't make the rules)
While the werewolf is transformed Karen is transfixed with horror (I think), but then gets enough sense to grab a jar of acid to splash it on the werewolf and runs away. She gets into a car but is stopped by the police and taken to a secret temple in the woods where all the other colony people are there.
And the werewolf really really hates ... baths I guess?
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SHUT UP DOC #monsterdon #thehowling
Well, can't say I wasn't warned about this movie #Monsterdon
Proto-Leela is gonna straighten them all out
The most horrifying thing about the werewolves of the Colony is their self-righteousness #monsterdon
ah yes.
Doctor AWHOOOOOO #monsterdon
The lesson of every monster movie is that women can't trust anyone
P. S. told you shrink was a werewolf
I don't think Doctor Who would turn people into werewolves...
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He know how to use if, how to control if. He's a wizard with conjunctions!
it's a sex cult really....they smoke meth and think they're werewolves....
#Monsterdon #TheHowling1981 and now comes the peer pressure gauntlet
Wait. Is the sheriff is werewolf? Okay didn't think of that possibility but I should have. Everyone else is a werewolf. Such a happy colony.
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Dramatic merging action! #Monsterdon
Wow! Back in the day, you could still drive that fast on an LA freeway.
...but they all WERE WOLVES (get it? get it? get it?) #monsterdon #thehowling
and at the end of the transformation scene, Tom Paris walks in laughing like a madman #monsterdon
The Misadventures of Sheriff Doggo
Cool, a touch-sensitive synth-emitting bone-mobile hanging on the cottage porch.
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@apLundell When the audience is glancing at their watches while you show off your major, budget-blowing special effect, and you realize you had one job
4 eared werewolves! #Monsterdon #TheHowling
here's the real horror: LA traffic!
So they are all werewolves? Neat. I didn't see that coming.
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Seriously. She could have been two miles away by the time he emerges #Monsterdon
This is a really gross and really slow transformation sequence...
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THE WEREWOLF TOOK SO LONG TO TRANSFORM SHE GOT BORED AND JUST RAN OUT what on EARTH #monsterdon
Welcome to our wolf club house #Monsterdon
I know John Landis said he regretted the very long transformation scene in An American Werewolf in London, that in retrospect it ruined the pacing but he was just so impressed by what the effects department did, and
Yeah
Well we know who's not a good boy. #Monsterdon
okay so we've got the crafting table...
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Picardo was almost strangeled by an errant air bladder near his neck during the transition shooting.
@cocaine_owlbear Was An American Werewolf in London the most painful looking werewolf transition in an 80s movie? I didn't see them all. #Monsterdon #TheHowling1981
I knew the sheriff was a doggo
If this happens to his shirt when he transforms, it doesn't explain how he was fully clothed when she met him.
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@jonny She made like a tree and got out of there #monsterdon #thehowling
Okay, The werewolves are kinda cute in a 'Now hear me out' kinda way...
#monsterfuckers #monsterdon
"Not all of us have enough money for a Mazda"
HAhahahah best line in the whole movie
We got a Fantasia situation? An Evil Dead? Jamie Lannister? #Monsterdon
This time the transition seemed pretty good though at the beginning the anatomy gas awkward and the cinematography didn't do the practical effects justice #Monsterdon
ok, fine, that's good mandible extension, dang #monsterdon
one of us
one of us
one of us
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Damn that was a fine 80's TF sequence.
after all that she just LEAVES? #monsterdon
Seriously like TEN MINUTES LATER dude that is the longest transformation of all time
"ok yeah get a bunch of balloons, get em wet, and then put them in between bamboo shoots in a bundle and twist and crack them together, that's what a werewolf sounds like" #monsterdon
WHO keeps calling them in a spooky whisper. Are werewolves psychic? Is it a metaphor for being drawn to the Beast Side??
The transformation is quite nice. So much that it makes me think someone figured out how to make this special effect work, and they came up with a script to justify it later #monsterdon #thehowling
Ok now repeat that for the last 19 minutes and we have a good movie. #monsterdon
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If she only had a kong toy filled with peanut butter she would have been safe
βAwoogencyβ was RIGHT THERE and I missed it.
That's one smokin' werewolf!
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Okay we all know American Werewolf in London is the gold standard A+ werewolf transformation, this is a... B-? It's got some good bits but it's uneven and starts bad.
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You really could have done that at any point in that transformation. #Monsterdon #TheHowling
My goodness, Doctor, what big ears you have! #monsterdon
Sorry, I just imagine a small mouth coming from his mouth like in Aliens
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i...that was holy water somehow? idk what else that could have been
Fangtastic creature effects. #Monsterdon
only group therapy can save you now Karen #Monsterdon
@hollie π
Werewolves don't take well to baptism I guess #monsterdon
a-and I cannot emphasize this enough-woooooooo
What liquid did she throw at him? Frontline?
#Monsterdon oh ew the snot dripping into his mouth, yuckyyyyy
Jar of urine: Perfect weapon against a werewolf
THERE we go, ma'am, finally figured out you're not actually immobilized. #Monsterdon
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Picardo came up with the line "I want to give you a piece of my mind" (then removes a bullet from his head) on his own!
Seriously though why did he bother getting dressed again
And a doctor about that....
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Amazingly, this isn't the most painful looking werewolf transition put to film in the 80s.
*eyebrow waggle* #monsterdon
She could just run during this transformation though. It's like half an hour to become a wolf #monsterdon #thehowling
I love practical FX but even for me this seems really, really drawn out?