@paco @TerryHancock Hey vampires gotta survive capitalism somehow

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... Well, I've at least got to watch Liza Minelli's core workout

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A lot of people are surprised when they find out whitley strieber wrote horror novels before he became a ufologist

And a lot of people aren’t surprised

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they were only kept at bay by their tuition bills taped to their foreheads.

#monsterdon #mrVampire #wrongHunger

wow, grad school is TOUGH in ancient China

#monsterdon #wrongHunger

@skatem Yes it was.
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at least the beginning of the movie was horny, though

well, I would certainly have turned that off if I'd watched it alone, so I'm glad to have gone through it with everybody

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@hollie she won't be the first, nor will she be the last #Monsterdon

YAYY BARBICAN!
My favourite building in the London, she's living the life!

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So, vampires can't die, except from things that kill ordinary humans? Stab in the throat, fall from a height, presumably a runaway Chevy Nova

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aw, whoops, can't fly after all. what happened to the whole bat thing, Miriam?

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@hollie @SRLevine omg yes please

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maybe Doctor Sarandon can figure out why it only lasts about 100 years though. i think there's still hope for her.

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OH AND SHE TURNS THE TABLES OH THERE'S A SUDDEN FLURRY IN THE CORNER SHE CAN'T GET AWAY #Monsterdon

"Yeah baby you're all right, here, let me hold you RIGHT up close to my aorta aaaaaaaand... die." #Monsterdon

"Met a lesbian, got on the H....how are you?"

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The trailer really oversold this film.

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Downside of being a vampire: you can no longer hail cabs.

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Chekhov’s Hickey

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oh he's gonna think she's preggers, isn't he?

*with an alien

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Smoking next to optical equipment >.<

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"the woman I met this afternoon gave me jewellery, but our relationship is fine..."

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okay the fade to a steak being cut is worth some points

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There was Blood, but now There’s Steak!

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THEM ART TITTIES

Sure.

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Vampires living in a time when anything can be faked and nobody believes them that it's actually them hanging out in Paris in the 1920s in those photos

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"It's 2000 years old."

Yeah, but I can do better now. #Monsterdon

Hedaya was in Blood Simple right around this also. #monsterdon

#monsterdon This is slow. So slow. I have some staying awake issues but so far, it hasn't gotten in the way of watching the movie.

@amyfou "Anything but deal with this shit..."

crawls into coffin
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Ha! Miriam looking at her like, "yeah, you'll do." #Monsterdon

@JoeWynne Good. What a miscairage of justice. #monsterdon

oh wow. that makeup.

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I guess the student snack didn’t help.

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@klu9 that's what I was thinking off! Lords of COBOL! #Monsterdon

OLD BOWIE TAKE A LOOK AT MY LIFE

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I like that the aging process somehow included rotting

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oh okay so if you don't sleep the bacteria that rot your corpse also experience time faster

or something

we're about half an hour in and I guess the whole movie is just like this huh

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WATCH BOWIE AGE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES

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"He's aging at a rate of five years per minute."

He's breaking the speed limit all right. #Monsterdon

Given all the premature aging, Bowie's going to have a problem finding any young American's, young Americans. There are no young Americans.
Alright.
There are no young Americans.

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Perhaps, if we lived for centuries we'd stop making the same mistake every 70 years.....just putting that out there....

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@Axiom there's always the #Monsterdon Replay as well, if you're into that!

https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/

But there will be other Sundays 😸

Urge to buy a JVC VCR rising.
#Monsterdon #TheHunger

More Hunky less Dory please

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#monsterdon This has hoity-toyty cinematography written in lipstick, all over it.

Do Vampires fart in bed?

Truly a test of humanity

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What is it with '80s vampires and billowy lace curtains?

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So far the movie has the gravitas of a laundry-detergent commercial.

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i think this might actually be a NIN music video
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Yeah, tempera paint can be a bugger to clean up. #Monsterdon

I think the first few minutes of this movie are funded by Phillip Morris.

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Please tell me you disinfect the counter beforehand >_> #Monsterdon

I keep explaining to my wife we should take up the Vampire Lifestyle like this....

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Tonight's #Monsterdon is The Hunger was required viewing for all the goth kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_(1983_film)

"be-la lugosi's dead"

taps foot

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Oh, Make Up Illusions, huh? Oh we're in for a time. #Monsterdon

this is so beautifully goth though....

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Club scene! Oh we're starting strong here. #Monsterdon

The only thing that could make this movie better is if David Bowie was in it, and Bauhaus played the opening song.

#monsterdon #MrVampire #wrongHunger

In the category of Perky Nipples get a Starring Role, I give The Hunger 6/10. In 90 Minute Moody Music Video, 10/10. In the category of Watch Me Closely Or You Won't Have A Clue What's Going On and No I Won't Tell You If it's Worth it, I give 11/10.

The movie spends the longest hour ever slowly aging David Bowie in a waiting room like the anteroom to Limbo to show us what a raw deal this young vampire gets when eternal life turns out to not include eternal youth. This may or may not have something to do with researchers studying monkeys with premature aging or maybe it's sleep or longevity or --- ahhh, who cares?

When we see Susan Sarandon falling into the same trap, the movie turns in a taut 30 of her realizing what's happening, seeming to accept it, only to reject this bargain she never asked for in a bloody climax. With the help of some pigeons, the vampire queen's 4000 year collection of wizened lovers take their revenge.

You know what? I think the payoff was worth that long, slow walk. The beautiful soundtrack of mostly classical music helped me with the wait. I hope there's a full list somewhere, didn't see one in the credits.

Thank you, #monsterdon for an arty vampire movie that I ended up liking.

he looks like he just watched the previous movie...

#monsterdon #MrVampire #wrongHunger

@diazona #monsterdon #MrVampire #wrongHunger

at least he's not in a pigeon-infested attic in Brooklyn...

@klu9

Yeah, this MOVIE slaps. and apparently it has a good PLOT too!

#monsterdon #MrVampire #wrongHunger

@georgieboy @Taweret
...and so Sarah fucked off to a posh skyscraper apartment in London, and stood in its breezy curtains alone forever.

The End?

#Monsterdon #TheHunger1983

@klu9

A corpse cowboy? Wow I can think of at least 5 movies based on that concept...

"starting with The good, the bad, and the ugly... CORPSE COWBOYS!"

#monsterdon #MrVampire #wrongHunger

@CactuarJoe now that I would watch by choice

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So Sarah gets to be out in the day. Miriam is the one in the box, and all the failures got to disintegrate.

Well, okay then.

#Monsterdon #TheHunger

And so they fucked off into the smog #monsterdon #TheHunger

it's like Frogger but with zombie-vampires.

#monsterdon #mrVampire #wrongHunger

I love that whitley strieber inspired this gay ass movie

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so many pigeons...

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@springdiesel Is that an island of lost toys reference? #Monsterdon

Well okay folks, that certainly was a movie we watched. I think there was a plot. Bowie was fantastic for the five minutes he was in it, and it was fun to see baby Dan Hedaya.

All that said… it's a gonna be a no for me, dawg. That was some nonsense wrapped up with a fancy bow.

But hey, the people I watched it with are rad as hell, so I'll be back next week!

Goodnight!

#Monsterdon #TheHunger1983

@Taweret yep there definitely feels like a lot of gaslighting and abuser emotional energy from Miriam

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@SRLevine I haven't!

Hahaha I love the phrase "relentlessly heterosexual"

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"Monkey Effects"

3 cheers for those dudes.

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Tubi queues up cabaret which I guess shows how much it's not our normal monster movie.

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I'm extra confused now, I thought Sarah was dead?

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Not that I watched it or anything, (because I was playing Megabonk in another window), but I WAS listening, and my VFJDW theory (Vampire Films Just Don't Work) is ageing well.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting, and congratulations to everyone who paid more attention than I did!

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#TheHunger1983

Take a moment and process things in front of your green screen

Hashtag mindfulness

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@stragu Powerful sexy women vampires should only keep men in their attic and let their women lovers keep their autonomy.

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@diazona As you should

#Monsterdon #TheHunger1983

ha, allegrezza is about to have A Time.

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okay, so the original dies, finally the rest can go, but like, how does a fall down the stairs kill her?

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"the party is over, everyone get out"

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@allanb honestly who can tell at this point

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Yuppies vs Zombies

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we just had this eternally bonded conversation #monsterdon

Vampire Regret, with MEGA BASS

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OH! OH WHAT!

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And those fabulous curtains and that self-satisfied smirk have gotten me a #MonsterdonBingo #Monsterdon

But she doesn't look very Egyptian...

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MUNCH

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So I took a gummy at the start of this movie, and between that and the pacing, this has now turned into the longest movie I've ever seen

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Vampies feeding on the 1%
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Oh man, they can't bump off this guy fast enough.

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If I was a vamp I'd deffo prey on wankers, I'd lie to myself I was one of the good ones actually...like the humans do.

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this movie is a solid decade behind of its time with the zooming. every time it happens it's like watching 70s schlock

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I know vampires can't be seen in mirrors, but apparently Susan Sarandon can't be seen in traffic.

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