@srol I'm not knocking him, I'm just in awe of his style. the velvet scamp he is! #monsterdon #VincentPrice

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #TheLastManOnEarth, from 1964, is based on the 1954 novel "I Am Legend" by the brilliant Richard Matheson, and stars the equally brilliant Vincent Price. Amidst the post-apocalyptic ghoulies and beasties, we also had:
- Garlic and stakes!
- Vampire Jazz!
- Burn pit backstory!
- The biggest old timey radio set ever!
- Bat man antibodies!

well, that was the darkest movie we've even done

really good tho and proof that Vincent Price could carry a whole ass movie all by himself

ty for joining, everyone!!

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Welp that's what happens if you are naturally immune

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That was indeed, much bleaker than the Heston version, and better for it I would say

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lady fascists too, following a few steps behind their male overlords of course

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got up to get something to drink. do we know why he has been immune all this time?

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"I fucking LOVE this garlic now!"

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"Shhh, don't move, I'm just injecting you while you sleep.....it's nothing creepy"

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they do seem to have an endless supplies of cigarettes in the apocalypse

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The world's first rapid vampire disease test - limited accuracy

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so he found the last woman on earth?

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Garlic assault!

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the dog's a trap, isn't it?

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"Single man meets first new woman in months"

RUN LADY! RUN!

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uh-oh... what has the dog been eating though 🧐

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Was not expecting such an adorable pupper after The End

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#Monsterdon It would be amusing if when you pulled the vamps off their kebab skewers, they’d get back to shambling. That would have been a cute twist.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

but at least we now know his name is Robert.

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@berniethewordsmith es que todavía andamos en medio de una pandemia. no se ha terminao

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"Aww shit, they took my daughter to the flaming body pit"

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"I'll get the ivermectin" #monsterdon #TheLastManOnEarth

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This film has a.... Tenuous grasp on the scientific method

@ricci breakout character "Flaming pit of bodies" #monsterdon

They have body pits and they were about to send the kid to school?

Yeah, that figures....

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"With the whole world trying, there must be a solution"

But what if lady, they just didn't bother applying the solution? Just let it burn instead? Imagine....

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#Monsterdon Morgan! Your car insurance has laaaaaaapsed Morgan!

Are they passing the 'mirror test' because that asks some ethical questions of the Last Man's cleansing of them block by block

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Bless Vincent, but he fights like a man who was always destined for Theatre

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I do actually like how this film makes surviving the apocalypse seem like hard and tedious work, instead of a fun and exciting adventure. #monsterdon

but is it really a dystopia if you still need to the gas station?

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All dressed up to waste some more vamps. I like his style. #monsterdon

the wreath of garlic at the door 👀 is that foreshadowing?

i purposefully never read about the movies before watching them so am totally clueless as to what it is about.

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OMG is this another one of those weird Italy/USA film collaborations?

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#Monsterdon there’s a lot of fuel on the side of that gas can. The place appears to be made of oily rags. This can be an OSHA video.

The locals are assuming a very laid back posture.
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@RufusJCooter @apLundell@octodon.social that meme about all those 20th Century dystopias in a Venn Diagram and we're living in little bits of each #monsterdon

"Don't cry. There's nothing to cry about. We're all safe."
The beast is dead. society is safe once again.
Holy hell that was great.
And the flashbacks are WAY darker now. Oof.
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Yay #Monsterdon. That was a surprisingly good one, but still had some fun awkward or dated bits for heckling.

that IS ACTUALLY THE moral of the story is that vincent price was actually not worth saving and you don't need a true antidote because being a huge piece of shit was the real disease #monsterdon

dystopia where compliance is given by receiving treatment for the Virus.

Bleak

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so they finally got their stakeholder society then

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Vincent's doing the Ninja disappearing act thing

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Love how Vincent Price throws grenades

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@ottaross multiple red flags there Vincent.... #monsterdon

#monsterdon Look, Morgan, whatever else you're going to do in this situation, you should give her the injection you prevented her from giving herself.

"Your New Society wants me dead?! I just buried a puppy this morning, what is this?!"

Accelerationists take note....

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#Monsterdon these zombies could be great for yard work.

some people are just allergic to garlic, you know #monsterdon

#monsterdon Vincent Price runs like me chasing a laser dot after three days of insomnia

The mushroom shaped building was Il Fungo, in Rome.

https://www.romethesecondtime.com/2012/03/il-fungo-romes-mid-century-modern.html

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New character: Franca enters the chat:

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why is he immune though?

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HE KILLED FLUFFY!!!

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Wait a minute. She's not very zombacious.

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Well, at least she didn't choose the quilted housecoat. #Monsterdon

Bear or Vincent Price? #Monsterdon

Those exteriors are all filmed in and around Rome.

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Holy cow. People can cover serious territory on foot in this film. He drove for ages before he found the grave site for his wife. She got out and got back home quite quick. #monsterdon

it's the LA Riots, but make it zombies.

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"Morgan" - establish your audience
"We're going to kill you" - deliver a clear message
"Do you hear?" - ensure the audience understands

Solid communication

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Zombie number 12 is really getting his dislike of rear car seats out of his system.

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"Honey I'm home"

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Oh man, did his undead wife follow him home like a lost dog?

OMG, she did!

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Oh yeah, the Heston version of this story is a lot lighter in comparison. He just got sad over missing Woodstock

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Slowly the camera pans over to a half-hidden sign, reading..."Pet Sematary." #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon it appeared that for a brief time, Virge was on the verge. She is no longer on any verge. Anymore.

Wow it just keeps getting darker

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she called the doctor, then bad things happened - some MAGA thinking going on here

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How many body pits does it take for the Governor to declare a Disaster?

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Oh, the burn pit already existed.

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"Maybe you better not send her to school today"

That 20th century parenting....

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The dude is going to have to stake his wife and kids, isn't he? That's a tough one....no wonder we went nuts

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A plague? Inject some bleach or snort some horse de-wormer! #Monsterdon

He's still maintaining that stache, gotta hand it to him #monsterdon

Your hair could withstand an a-bomb lady

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#Monsterdon My first thought was that this was the stock family that comes with every tin of movie film. And then I stopped and thought of picture frames. LOL.

oooo, he does a good 'descent into madness' there, doesn't he?

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"Single man looks at neighbours home movies without their consent"

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zombie/vampires are actually much creepier when they know your name

points for that, movie

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Gotta say, those zombies don't put up much of a fight. He did pretty well with a few slaps and aggressive pushes.

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#Monsterdon and we’ve finally got solid sighting of the #SuddenStringSection.

Waking up with a resigned "another day" is so relatable

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06:30 Dawn
06:35 Stake whittling

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"Morgan, come ouuuttttt" from the neighbours as he drinks all night listening to Jazz.
The Single Man Life

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ROTISS-O-MAT
BAKE-O-MAT
STAKE-VAMPIRES-O-MAT
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The original "Burning Man".

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I would totally have gone to auditions for the part of zombie corpse number eleven.

That's some quality acting

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Excuse me while I turn a few stakes on the lathe. #Monsterdon

He's keeping himself busy with some projects, that's good. A good sign. Perhaps a walk will help?
Poor single man...

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You know the apocalypse is bad when you can't even enjoy coffee or garlic.

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Special guest - Sophia Loren

Tonight's episode "Ring of Fire"

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People take nap time very seriously in this city. #Monsterdon

@skatem that would work for sure I bet Scott Thompson has seen every single one of Vincent's monologues on the Hilarious House of Frightenstein show so he knows the subject well

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@Lazarou @apLundell Kinda wild when #Monsterdon turns out to be a documentary filmed half a century before the events it depicts, isn't it?

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"Pass the salt Vincent"
*he cheekily lobs a gas grenade instead

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Hot damn, that was good!

I guess what I took away from this one, was, if there's an airborne disease killing millions across the world, maybe you should... wear a mask?

#Monsterdon #TooSoon ?

Also: In a bizarre, ironic twist: Price's cookbook waaaayyy lowballs how much garlic you should use

https://archive.org/details/a-treasury-of-great-recipes-mary-price-vincent-price

Thanks for watching along, y'all! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week, see ya next sunday!

#Monsterdon Grading #LastManOnEarth is… that one student who Understood the Assignment.

Vincent Price: A++++++ and not just because of my bias. (That hysterical laughter… eep.)
Science: A, testing hypothesis like garlic and mirrors
Biology: B-, knew the difference between bacteria and viruses at least.
Screenwriting: A+ adaptation, genuinely creepy and dark.
Acting: C+, some chewing of scenery and fellow actors
Irony: BOY howdy.
Plague parallels: damn eerie.

Think this one taught *me*.

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Favorite scene in this one:

Vincent Price, in black and white and gasmask, casually tosses a grenade into a pit full of bodies he just dumped there, like a post-apocalyptic hipster boss.

The moral of the story is that if you think you're the main character in a Hero's Journey plot you might just want to check your assumptions #monsterdon