#monsterdon I made a Vincent Price design for you this year, if you haven't seen it

https://thediremushrump.threadless.com/collections/monsterdon

Paint me like one of your French Zombies.

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100%!

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the writer's barely disguised fetish dot txt capturing a wild woman from the wasteland and bringing her back to your cave of science #monsterdon

This movie is really quite good

why are we watching it?

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what in the fuck is "universal disease" are diseases otherwise personal and come from grudges or curses #monsterdon

See, if I had a voice like Vincent Price's I'd have just spent my life narrating cheesy paranormal documentaries. <3

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Giving a woman a wreath of garlic is the the MOST ROMANTIC THING ON EARTH

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Plot twist: You're the ASSHOLEST man on earth, Vincent

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Vombies? Or zampires?

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Wait, this started in Europe? Are you telling us it came from GERMany? eh? eh?

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Okay, this is making me nuts, and I know I shouldn't care, but… bacillus is a bacteria, not a virus.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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“Morgan! We've Been Trying To Reach You About Your Car's Extended Warranty!”

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This movie is, like, brutal emotional beats surrounded by stiltedness and illogic

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After all, what is a vaccination needle but a tiny stake?

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“Babe, what’s the matter? You barely touched your lathe?”

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I'm sorry, there's no way this character's name is Morgan, it's Vincent Price, and that's that

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it is fucked up to make the zombies still able to talk. they are barely zombies at that point they are just kinda thuggish guys #monsterdon

THE STATION WAGON, WORKHORSE OF THE POST-APOCALYPSE

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Does

* The last man on earth
* Have a conversation with himself
* About something other than a woman

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HE'S THE BAT I KNEW IT

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Apparently the plague also killed basic civility.

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That was a LOOOONG flashback.

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A couple of years ago this movie hit particularly hard because of the early days of COVID and the lockdowns being so fresh in our memories.

In this viewing the pandemic themes still hit and resonate, but there's another aspect too: a professional scientist, skeptically grounded in consensus reality, surrounded by colleagues who one by one seem to be peeling away from sense and reason...

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I can see why this movie's been re-made so often, it's a great premise.

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Anyway, vampire society quickly spirals into a fascist haze as those in power use the stabilizing vaccine as leverage to control the populace and Ruth runs an underground resistance using her antibodies to convert guerilla fighters who can continue to kill vampires during the day. Have a nice night!

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"You maniacs! You blew it all up!"

- Vincent Price

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you had years to hit up this armory there is no way i'm going to have any sympathy for you now #monsterdon

"Fire pit's too banal for you. I know of a nice house with an acid bath in the basement."

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"You wanna stop for coffee? Oh right, you're dead. ...Well, still, though, right?"

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it's a virus that causes vampires. a... vampirus #monsterdon

The solution here is clearly billions of tiny wooden stakes, injected via vaccine

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The whole world is working on the problem of how to cut that cake.

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Whoops, movie within a movie. We got movieception.

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Uh, look, Vincent, I know that garlic doesn't grow on trees, but it DOES grow, you don't need to get it from the grocery store

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everything looks 27% more creepy in black and white, that's just a fact

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And that's a wreck! Nobody fucked off into the sea but Morgan, twisted by years of isolation and grief, found himself unable to rejoin a society he found unrecognizable and which he had unwittingly been terrorizing for years; that society, for their part, perforated the only Morgan they had ever known, their mortal foe, leaving them a broken world in which to rebuild and find humanity again, or make it.

Thank you for hosting, @Taweret ! Thanks, #monsterdon , for another fun Sunday evening.

anyway vaccinate your kids and yourselves and tip your @Taweret

i'm going back to bed, g'night! BLEEEEUGH

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shit is honestly totally fine and vincent price never even tried to join a postapocalyptic gang or have a motorcycle with a bunch of sawed off shotguns strapped onto it so i don't count his attempt as a legitimate attempt at postapocalyptic survival, exempting him from sympathy. #monsterdon

"They were afraid of me!"

All I did was spend three years randomly murdering them and those like them, why were they so scared?

>_>

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oh my fuck is thsi the movie that has the best grenade throws of all time #monsterdon

Vincent is naturally camoflaged in grassy tweed.

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vincent price is making all us scientists look like assholes. the murder, yes, but mostly the posture #monsterdon

"Out of every generation, one old white man is chosen..." Vincent the Vampire Slayer

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I mean, you may not be a vampire, Vince, but you're still a dude in the 1960s.

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She's got a point, Vince, you've been a lousy host.

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Have we done a #Monsterdon watch of this movie before? I don't remember but parts seem very familiar. I may be thinking of the book, though.

Back in the days when you could set an entire hillside on fire in California and it was just fine.

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plague movies continue to hit differently these days

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@ricci @paco
from Wikipedia article (because I was surprised as well):

"The form Excellency was used for the governors of most of the original Thirteen Colonies, and the practice formally continued after independence. For example, the term was formerly used in Georgia on the state governor's letterhead, the text of executive orders, any document that required the governor's signature, and informal settings. However, in most states the practice fell out of use (or was never introduced) and the title Honorable is now used instead.[31]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excellency

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Somehow this is RFK Jr's fault. #Monsterdon

Remember to hang your garlic out or Dracula won't leave any presents.

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even in this most tame kind of apocalypse where things are mostly fine and you can make it by just hunkering down and harvesting from the grocery stores i would probably make it like 3 days before giving it up. no fuckin way am i going to try and bury everyone else in the whole world
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SCHOOOOOOOOL'S

OUT

FOR

EVER!!

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hell yes it is!!!!

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/112867451911276080

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"It's a shame she won't live. But then again, who does?"

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Yes! I can finally have decent pesto!

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"Oh my god, I can eat lasagna again! This is the BEST DAY OF MY LIFE"

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Never fails, y'meet a new girl and she turns out to be an undead fascist.

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Dude, whoever else is out there making stakes is WAY better at it than you, Vincent

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We joke, but this is a really great scene :D

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@davesdogmaggie @Taweret If mosquitoes were infected with vampirism, how would we tell?

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Starting up #Monsterdon late because I had other things afoot earlier today. So I’ll probably just lurk late in the comments without too much chat of my own. But #TheLastManOnEarth looks like another worthy entry in our Vincent Price festival.

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"No way that COVID is airborne, dipshits"

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Uncle Ben! With great power comes great BIRTHDAY PRESENTS!! #Monsterdon

@log He's a well-known member of a community, you don't throw that away just because the neighbors wanna desanguinate you. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Here comes the jazz zombies, vampires, whatever…

I thought he opened with "it's been 3 years" and then he went to the grocery store, finds garlic, and says "it's still fresh"?

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After a lot of analysis (including that by director George A. Romero himself) tonight's feature is known as a "graphic blueprint" for Night of the Living Dead (1968).

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Love Vince's casual torch-throwing arm in his tweed blazer and undershirt.

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This place is THE PITS! 😂 😂 🤣 🤣 😭 😭 oh god it hurts

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If *I* were the last man on earth, I'd take the plates off my car, FTP

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This is just what I look like Monday morning before running errands. Check the cabinets and the fridge, make a list, kill a zombie, yadda yadda.

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Still, ham radio enthusiasts keep the open web alive.

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Hey Vince! Everybody say hi to Vincent Price :D

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Society died as it lived.

In a ditch.

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(Wait, was Vincent's portrayal of a wounded Morgan retreating into the church door there a motion reference to Nosferatu?? It seemed reminiscent of it!)

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...Vince I don't mean to be picky but you're supposed to HIT people with those things. #Monsterdon

"We're going to need guns. A lot of guns"

- Vincent Price

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Kill anyone not wearing a black turtleneck!

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Oh great, the villagers are here with pitchforks and torches 🙄

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girl i feel the same way without my insulin

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"I see dead people"

- Vincent Price

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"Perhaps I was chosen."

VINCE, HOLY AVENGER

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Welp, another night another show. #Monsterdon

ok can you make an exception to the "never change your clothes" rule to put on a big white labcoat with "i am not a zombie don't arrow my ass" painted on it when you go out from now on
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Edit: What is a hearse if not a goth station wagon?

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THE LAST MAN ON EARTH digs it

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"Don't worry, Verge, I'll let you spook me two scenes from now."

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Oh there's the haunted Vincent Price face we love :D

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"Mankind won't be destroyed."

Creation is a kind of destruction, doctor.

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"Why are they only seen at night?"

Too much Smashing Pumpkins?

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"There are stories being told, Bob"

And this is one of them.

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#monsterdon This scene hits so hard post COVID

I wonder how Will Smith is doing

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Vince is not a great zombie survivor, didn't even get an actual weapon. He just pushes zombies down like they're toddlers.

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if we haven't already we are due for a spate of movies in which the aliens/monsters/etc. use LLMs to attract and capture humans where normally we would figure their shit out immediately by how all they ever say is "braaiiiiiins" or whatever #monsterdon

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See that scene where Vincent is lifting bodies into the back of his car? He insisted that they use real extras so that he could show clearly how grueling it was for his character to survive.

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VINCE WAIT THAT ONE'S JUST A HOBO

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Regular gasoline has a shelf life of three to six months, premium or high-octane fuel should last close to nine months, while diesel can last up to a year before it begins to degrade. #gasfacts

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