The two chapels are likely the same location, redressed, but the exterior shots we're given show they're supposed to be different buildings.
@MylesRyden That would just come off as a humblebrag to be fair #monsterdon
@yatsu Well, she's not around to make him change his clothes any more. #Monsterdon #TheLastManOnEarth
@strangefour but can she go back to the weird society? She is cured and not wearing all black? I guess we will never know. #Monsterdon
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#monsterdon hmmmm.... 4.5/5 faggy grenade throws is my rating for tonight
Yβall are watching zombie vampires and no one called me? Rude! #monsterdon
It is interesting to compare this to the Will Smith "I Am Legend" which had much less interesting things to say #Monsterdon
#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*.
As this was made in Italy, I can't help think that it was partially a comment on their struggle with fascism. #Monsterdon
Sometimes we get to watch an excellent movie for #Monsterdon
Next week, schlock returns! Probably.
Half zompires with matching uniforms! #Monsterdon
Thanks to @Taweret for leading us into the dark once again! π§π»ββοΈ
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?
@MylesRyden Here he is, then https://www.qrz.com/db/K0KW #monsterdon
I've liked Matheson's short stories, but I don't know how well he did as a novelist.
Closest I can come is in Damon Knight's book In Search of Wonder. He discusses it in the chapter "Half-Bad Writers".
"...it's a theme perfectly adapted to Matheson's undisciplined, oh-my-God style, and he has developed it, in many places, with great ingenuity and skill. The book is full of good ideas, every other one of which is immediately dropped and kicked out of sight."
I'm surprised people found this one disturbing, it felt like a 5/10 on the Twilight Zone bleakness scale
I guess the inverse bat theory makes a certain kind of sense given that he turned out to be a reverse-Zompire π€
@apLundell@octodon.social the virus also turns people a bit Fash #monsterdon
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
@Taweret Bad news when the triffids come along. #Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe "Bloody Mary cures the sick" and fights Fascism as a sequel #monsterdon
That's a wrap! The monster is dead, just not who we were expecting at the start.
Big thanks to @Taweret for hosting - this was one of the tighter movies we've had.
#Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth
I didn't catch how he got his hands on so many smoke bombs #monsterdon
enjoyable movie, and great company (unlike Moooorrrgaaaannn), thanks all β:A_BlobCat_CozyWave:β
#Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth
Of course, under this new world order, post Vincent Price biting it, there's some multinational zombie corporation making a fortune off the daily anti-zombie juice injections.
Yep, the symbolism with the ending fits in with the novella.
Definitely one of the better movies we've watched.
@jonny I think the moral is "don't be the prepper guy who denies the pandemic, we live in a society"
@apLundell They were issued black shirts by the government for reasons #monsterdon
If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie event. See the post at the top of this thread for more info:
@jonny Turns out he was the prepper guy all along
So the final scene invokes Christian martyrdom AND has a Tod Browning reference? A lot going on there, very good, seal of approval. #Monsterdon
as there was no closing theme i will now provide one
The Last Man On Earth (1964): 5/5
"another actually good movie for #monsterdon and i will accept it"
See also, 2006's "Fido" with Billy Connelly and Carrie-Anne Moss, where, once again, the humans are the real monsters. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/
i need to like... take a long shower and have me a think after that one #monsterdon
I do really miss these tight 90-100 minute fillums.
Thanks for another #monsterdon @Taweret !
Good movie, if a little bleak. Put on a silly sitcom or eat some ice cream to decompress. #Monsterdon
That was one dark mamajama of a movie, that's for sure
And I don't just mean the bad lighting
The zompire stock market is thriving! We're all safe!
I've never read the book, but both the Vincent Price version the Charlton Heston version end on out-of-nowhere religious imagery.
Can anyone who's actually read "I Am Legend" let us know if the book is like that?
Thanks @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon
That was great, I loved it. Vincent Price the Un-vampire. Awesome :D #Monsterdon
No seriously did they get bored and decide to just stop making a movie right there
#Monsterdon #TheLastManOnEarth
I don't watch the movies, but the toots are priceless.
Long live #Monsterdon !
So ends another #Monsterdon. As always, our heartfelt thanks to @Taweret for hosting and to all the posters and lurkers. And remember #Monsterdoners: You're freaks, all of you!
well that was a better film than i expected, fucked up movie would recommend
god what a ROLLER COASTER #monsterdon
"Your new society sounds charming."
"The beginning of any society is never charming or gentle."
This must be some definition of "safe" I have never encountered before
#Monsterdon Whew. Gonna need a minnit here. That was shockingly good.
Thanks @Taweret for hosting!
HAHAHA
"We're all safe now, don't cry. It's not like he created another one of him in his last hour on earth, right? When you kill the main vampire you NEVER have to worry about the spawn, right?" #Monsterdon
okay, well i am hip deep in a Discworld re-read, but i may interrupt myself if its gonna be this good. #monsterdon
whelp i mean zombie society seems to basically be the same as regular society they just have to take medicine so, actually nbd #monsterdon
I've officially lost the plot
wow really just leaning into being the asshole at the end #monsterdon
...and also there was a BABY. THE END!!!!! #monsterdon
That looks like it hurt.
well he finally found out who was using those iron spears #monsterdon
Sure, Vince, piss them off
Itβs like if a political party spent years calling everyone freaks and degenerates, and someone suddenly called them weird and they couldnβt take it. But with impalement.
I'm impressed with how he kept the city electric grid running with all the staking he's been doing.
Ok, Last Man On Earth hits completely different after living through Covid. I used to laugh at how silly so much of this movie was. Not so much now, but still enjoyable.
so, Ruth is now The Last Woman? does her cure stick? can she cure the others? #monsterdon
"FREAKS ALL OF YOU FREAKS" IS NOT WHAT I MEANT #monsterdon
cornered by new wave band members β:BlobCat_Pensive:β #Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth
@moira OUCH. #Monsterdon
use your WORDS MAN #monsterdon
Not quite sure what those cherry bombs he's tossing are meant to do.
#monsterdon
This movie is aching to be re-dubbed. #Monsterdon
They... brought the kids to the monster fight? #Monsterdon
That better be the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch #monsterdon #TheLastManOnEarth
A whole freaking army brigade survived??
So, the cured vampires can be killed just with an ordinary pistol?
That sucks. I think I'd rather be a immortal zombie-vampire if I was going on a dangerous mission like trying to kill Vincent Price. #monsterdon
Gee if she starts t eat raw garlic it will be really strange...
#monsterdon
I'm not much of an architecture person but that's a sick-ass church
@RamenCatholic @strangefour Pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but his cookbook is legit
Now those are the good throwing pop firecrackers.
what is he doing with thooooosssseeeeeee lmaaaaoooooooo #monsterdon
Are those holy water grenades? #Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth
vincent priceβ¦vanish! #monsterdon
#Monsterdon Yes, let's just leave a trail of smoke for them to follow.
Are those garlic grenades?
Sure, looks legit. #monsterdon
It's been too long since I read this (several times). I don't remember how it ends.
The armory is in an office?
"We! We?"
Vincent doesn't want a cure. he wants to take out all these filthy vampires.
He is the legendary monster who hunts by day and kills the those in society! BWAHAHAHAHA!
#Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth
#Monsterdon βFreaks! Mutations!β Youβre not winning them over here, dude.
breaking into the armory and running from a horde of zombies in a police station. based on how my own last Project Zomboid run went, this may not end well for Mr Price. #monsterdon
again failing the quicktime challenge here by saying nothing about being the antidote and you must be kept alive for it to work and shooting instead #monsterdon
Even zompire cops are bastards #Monsterdon
I'm glad that armory was so secure. #Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth
I cured you with a blood transfusion, but you might have an STI now. Sorry.
@Elleaster oooh, good point, there clearly ARE still MiB, so clearly you can't just steal that flying saucer