Yes I’m late but this is the Sunday I finally do #monsterdon

anyway thanks to @Taweret as always for hosting ^_^

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It is interesting to compare this to the Will Smith "I Am Legend" which had much less interesting things to say #Monsterdon

@apLundell I wouldn't say the religious imagery came out of nowhere. The chapel in the final scene is likely the same chapel where Vince stays too late earlier in the movie. And "my blood is the cure" is a straight-up Christ analogy.

There are probably other Christian elements I didn't notice because I wasn't watching for them. Vampire movies always turn Christian, because that's a specifically Christian monster.

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It was a good movie but if #monsterdon were a steady diet of this kind of thing we'd soon be wrecked

@Louisa If I had been valedictorian that would have been my entire speech. #monsterdon #TheLastManOnEarth

I guess the flashback scene with the little girls and Verge during happier times might have passed the Bechdel test perhaps #monsterdon

they are gas grenades but those are still HOT and EXPLODE and usually YOU don't want to breathe the gas #monsterdon

@Louisa Even at the time, she said _some_ of them were still "living people," which implies that not all of them were, which could be taken to mean that the ones hanging outside his house every night were the kind that don't count.

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OK BUT: the big reveal, from Ruth to Morgan, was that he was killing people who could be helped, and could live a normal life like she did with daily injections

But then the people from her society rolled up and just started killing all the zombie people, who looked the same as the ones Morgan killed

So why aren't they also murderers?

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vincent price received absolutely zero direction in how grenades work and i love it

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@ottaross Yeah, my sister and I were shouting at Virginia to talk to her poor little girl. #Monsterdon

🦖 #MONSTERDON GOODBYE!

Thank you @Taweret for making this tremendous movie part of our weekly fun! I live for this event.

and to @cheribaker for the Bingo card (Dramatic creaking noise 😆)

And to the Real Time Film Analysis Squad for missing nothing and calling out everything...even Moooorgan. Some comments are still filtering into my TL.

hahahahahhahahaa aaaaaaa so good

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i think the moral of the story was "this guy was like jesus who was also a mass murderer but his friends got to tell the story so don't trust that shit"

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@blogdiva I really appreciate the Tod Browning reference here. And Morgan comes to a bad end, much like the character who delivers a similar speech in FREAKS. #Monsterdon

The new society has chased the monster into a church. The fleeing beast bleeds in the holy place like some abomination to the religious symbolism on the walls. Cornered the legendary monster lashes out and screams at the people.
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Every good villain is the hero of his own story and few people were as good as Vincent at playing the villain. Thanks again @Taweret for hosting. Time to queue up "The Omega Man" for further watching. #monsterdon #TheLastManOnEarth

@CactuarJoe "Bloody Mary cures the sick" and fights Fascism as a sequel #monsterdon

well i would love to stay up and process my feelings with all the other #Monsterdon folks but I'm old and I have to go to bed. g'night all

Excellent movie, may need to properly sit down and rewatch it without trying to keep up with all the equally excellent commentary. Thanks to @Taweret and goodnight, #monsterdon!

@gnomon "I have safety glasses, they're in my pocket!" Someone I know IRL, and Vincent Robert Morgan. #Monsterdon #TheLastManOnEarth

@srol *colorised #monsterdon

I wonder why the vampire zombies all decided to dress head-to-toe in black.

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So how long y'figure it takes the woman to start "turning" others? :D #Monsterdon

@Lazarou "The Velvet Scamp" does sound like the name of one of his movies #Monsterdon

Vincent Price's shitty neighbor is no more. That'll teach Kramer to come barging through the door every day.
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Fin
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"I'm the last man! Because I got bit by a bat when I was in Peru!"
So how about the people in Peru...? Anyway. Overall a really solid movie, truly more chilling than I expected #monsterdon

Okay that was awesome. One of the best "good" movies we've seen here on #Monsterdon (not that there's a whole lot to choose from lmao)

Thanks @Taweret for hosting, as always!

Is Monsterdon turning into a book club? Oh the power of Vincent Price.
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So wait, are we all like the descendants of these vampire zombie hybrid humans? #Monsterdon

That was a great story, definitely going to read the book now.

Thanks, all!

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"The last—man—" oh no he died before saying the name of the film. Damn shame. DAMN shame. #Monsterdon

He uses HIS BLOOD to turn one of THEM into ONE OF HIS KIND. He is a reverse Dracula! HAHAHHA!
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"Don't kill me, you morons!" #Monsterdon

Why are there women and children coming up in the military operation? #monsterdon

He wasn't able to overcome the dramatic value of dying in a church. #Monsterdon

Morgan's basically the cop from Wicker Man, Good Bye #monsterdon

"FREAKS ALL OF YOU FREAKS" IS NOT WHAT I MEANT #monsterdon

"they were afraid of me"
dude, you killed like 100s of them.
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@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza They were going to church, I think. And the cured zombies apparently all dress in black?

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They... brought the kids to the monster fight? #Monsterdon

Can only wear black in the New World Society #monsterdon

Quick! To the Confessional!

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Y'know, I was gonna make a joke about him throwing these dinky smoke bombs half a foot in front of him, but they actually do seem to completely inhibit the soldier's ability to shoot him quite effectively. #Monsterdon

I'm not much of an architecture person but that's a sick-ass church

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So the un-undead have hipster uniforms?

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#Monsterdon Talk about killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

Pew pew...dadadow

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Wow, just.... wow.

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TIMESTAMPING TO GO BACK TO CLIP THAT GRENADE THROW #monsterdon

Heh, Vince has such a fey grenade throw :D #Monsterdon

This really is the 1950's if the police armory door is completely unlocked

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That zompire death moan was pretty sad. #Monsterdon

Wait, you can just shoot them?

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Would believe the Police leave the Armoury unlocked

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this tommy gun shoots wood bullets! #Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth

aaand everyone ignores the one woman who knows the truth, thank you 1960s. #monsterdon

Vamp on vamp violence. Always so sad. #Monsterdon

Vincent was inspired to become a virologist because he was bitten by a bat? Man.
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#monsterdon They actually filmed two endings for the Will Smith version of this film.

One where the zombies are just mindless zombies, and one where they turn out to still be alive.

I think for the theatrical release they decided to use the boring uncomplicated ending.

also he has to contend with the fact that he killed like hundreds of people and he should have been going around with a syringe rather than a stake this whole time and maybe he should have never been staking people at all since he can easily repel them with multiple reliable means #monsterdon

"My blood is the cure!"

I mean the last thing this movie needed was more Christ imagery, but whatever. #Monsterdon

I can eat Italian again!

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The guys in black are a little too "fascist militia" for my taste...

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Why didn't he do that in the first place??

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ok hold up robert maybe be a little coy about the antidote being your blood because you are teeing yourself up to be taken hostage as a bloodbag #monsterdon

what's going to kill her first, the disease, the other vampires, or graft-vs-host? #Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth

Monoclonal Antibodies?

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Even though I don't participate in/with #Monsterdon, it's always fun to see friends Toot along enthusiastically!
So, while at times the time line is flooded with these toots, I would not wanna mute it...
It's good to see friends be so engaged and have so much fun!
Enjoy it everyone! 🎬

I like this city map, where he's marked off the areas he's staked all the zombies.

That is a LOT.

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I hope his blood type is compatible with hers. #Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth

Why doesn't he just give her the shot?

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This is too real #monsterdon #TheLastManOnEarth

I was bitten by a bat. I'm now something of a, bat-man, if you will

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She's gonna be the Rosalind Franklin to his Watson and Crick. #monsterdon

holy shit. I. LEGEND. dude. i have GOT to read this novel! #monsterdon

Wha?

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society has already reorganised itself and found an Other to blame things on....

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She was right!

Also, "if I could find him" - the guy who shows up at his house every night - "I would destroy him." Seems unlikely.
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Vampire Ben at the door: Card tricks... caaard triiicks.... #monsterdon

Yep. https://strangeobject.space/@yogajedi/112867344288735164

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He keeps hitting the hoardings. They keep falling off. But the hoardings seem to remain. #Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth

DOGE!
Wait no run away! Run for the hills pupper.
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Bats actually do harbour an astonishing number of viruses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/10630/ #Monsterdon

oh hell yeah we're gonna have a blood-off like in John Carpenter's The Thing #monsterdon

You're a monster to them -- she's not wrong.

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oh maybe I saw this film before

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@yatsu works for me! #monsterdon

oh

he's batman

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he was protected by the power of being Vincent Price, that's why he survived. #monsterdon

oh god he's actually patient zero aaaaaaa
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You can’t go out there now, I’ve been oh so lonely. #Monsterdon

He could have just made her a dish with some garlic? Perhaps a nice shrimp scampi? I guess the garlic assault was more theatrical

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Your husband must have been torn to pieces by different vampires than these, because these guys couldn't tear apart a Cinnabon. #Monsterdon

man these 1960s symbiotes were massive, they got way smaller by the 23rd century

https://mstdn.social/@davesdogmaggie/112867331134011372

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"Do you wanna come with me or do you wanna face THEM?!"

Well Mr. Price, we have to assume she *also* survived 3 years of the apocalypse so she can probably take care of herself!

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My garlic baby. #Monsterdon

He's serving coffee from a tea pot.

It is the end of the world

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