That girl's seen some shit.
The sheep that left these droppings must be reeeeeeallly sick #Monsterdon
@nev happen? In #Monsterdon ? π€£
#monsterdon Psst while we're here, go grab https://ca.7digital.com/artist/little-richard/release/the-girl-cant-help-it-13332767 and cue up track 13
It's the 1950s, everybody knows rock is from the devil #monsterdon
Sleeeeeep! In heavenly freeze frame!
Let's all touch the weird space rock!
On the other hand, we now understand where the 70s craze for pebble dashing came from. #Monsterdon
Well, finally a movie that really does a pitch black night scene
#monsterdon
Dave and the teacher are chaperoned on their drive? Oh and the kidβs β¦ okay? #monsterdon
Iβm pretty sure itβs just lubed up charcoal lumps #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957
@stellarskylark It's a virtual movie watch party. We choose a movie each week and watch it in sync (ish) while riffing on it here on Mastodon. This week's movie is The Monolith Monsters (1957) which is all about weird space rocks or something.
If you want more info and/or to get involved, I suggest following #MonsterdonAlert, and that way you'll see the polls and announcements.
I told you, kid. Rock wasps!
And my excuse for a romantic driver is that a little girl might be welded by a space obsidian chunk. But relax, it drowned, so Jenny is safe. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon π πΏ βοΈ π π΅ π±
Oh no the wet rock has pebbled Ginny's house to death!
Seamless transition from serious "we've gotta get to the bottom of this terrible mystery" into flirtation
Smooth operator
#Monsterdon Tomorrow's headline: "Are there wedding bells for Dave and his sweetheart? You should've seen the rock!"
@ottaross but they wonβt.
is this where hitchcock got the idea for the birds?
Wonder where they got all the obsidian for this movie from #Monsterdon
jeez, what have these rocks got against structures. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon rockathon! Rock on Little girls
It's like the birds, but they don't move! If you can't escape this, that's on you. It's not even the speed of lava.
Maybe don't hold onto the killer rock so tightly?
I often feel like I have been welded into a solid mass.
#monsterdon The ocean's just a desert with all it's salt in a less ridiculous place. π΅
"Dave ... I don't like what you're thinking ..."
Local geologist: :rockfact:
#Monsterdon π πΏ βοΈ π π΅ π±
Well we have zeroed in on the rock as the murderer right away so that's good news
Lol we had a realtor.com ad and Paul exclaimed, "those fucking house prices?! 600K plus!! What millionaires are watching The Monolith Monsters?!"
FIELD TRIP!
Shoutout to the lady's death stare at the dude doubting her ability to identify
A ROCK
^^b #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon everyone have a lick...
So some alien kid's crystal growing went snafu #monsterdon
#Monsterdon back!
Wow - fifteen minutes in and they've already nailed the rocks as the culprits. They can wrap this up quickly.
It genuinely does not look that strange.
I will say, Universal International delivered a consistent product with its movies. Not necessarily a *good* product, but you knew what you were paying for. #Monsterdon
i can't tell if it would be better for the rocks to have some elaborate world domination ideology or for them to just be rocks and they just turn people into rocks for no reason and there is never any antagonist at all #monsterdon
His body temperature was igneous
I suspect this had something to do with Ben's death. I've been carrying it in my underwear. #Monsterdon
I sure hope that was in his pocket
Jenny Simpsonβs family is in for a big surpriseβ¦.
Ben's just extremely buff, that's all #monsterdon
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#monsterdon it's just a bunch of fuckin slag
I don't know what #monsterdon is but everyone's talking about rocks so I assume it's something geology /j
Why doesn't the rock react to the moisture in skin? In the air?
newspaper men have a strong history in #monsterdon, and this man is keeping up that fine tradition quite well, I think.
Some wise old man should have been around to tell that kid never to feed her rock after midnight and, under no circumstances, should it come in contact with water.
Revenge of the Big Rock Candy Mountain #Monsterdon
Fucking Ministry of Truth "the truth will make them panic!" bullshit in the all these 50s movies.
#monsterdon the expanding rocks reminds me of these:
Something is running loose. #monsterdon
Kids: "If you love rocks so much, why don't you be one already?"
Geologist: "Hold my beer"
#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters
Doing the autopsy with a hammer and chisel #monsterdon
Bechdel dialogue all over the place, it's dizzying #monsterdon
Damn bitch, the kids already doing what you told her to do, shit
Well now her pet rock is drowning. Look what you've done, girl's mother? #monsterdon
Is this the start of the Pet Rock craze?
@diazona You gotta get that compulsory heterosexuality in somewhere.
Magical rocks that react vigorously with water? Isn't that just sodium?
#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters
@ottaross It really does look good. And the geologists are kind of hot! Well, the one left alive, anyhow, but the dead one wasn't bad (before he died). #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters
#Monsterdon π πΏ βοΈ π π΅ π±
It might be the origin story of Pop Rocks (tm)
Listen to it fizz #monsterdon
#Monsterdon holy crap how many kids are in that car?
Breathing rocks now?
#Monsterdon
and now for a series of unfortunate events
So this is must have been what was on the table on Led Zeppelin's Presence album.
#monsterdon Aaah so THAT was active carbon
Did the kids all take rocks with them?
#Monsterdon
Kid you can't just take weird rocks home.
I took a weird rock home once and it turned out to be a damn wasp nest. True story.
#Monsterdon (missing a few minutes for food delivery brb)
This kid is the surprise star of this movie.
YESSSSSS, in the WATER BUCKET, PERFECT #Monsterdon
Just add water, kid #monsterdon
#Monsterdon distressing scenes of rocks wrecking up the place, and also that guy
I just can't read these actors' emotions.
Too stone-faced. #Monsterdon
Uh oh, Jenny, what did she tell you. ?!
Lizards die together when they get lizard married but also get killed by space obsidian. #monsterdon
@steggy @SRLevine the first time an archaeologist told me that they lick the samples i was like "how are you not all profoundly cursed" and their answer was just that they were and it was part of the job #monsterdon
#Monsterdon yeah, take that, Jenny
#Monsterdon π πΏ βοΈ π π΅ π±
(I finally installed an ad blocker and we are not 5mins behind anymore!)
@annathepiper@mastodon.murkworks.net Now that would be an awkward polycule.
#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters
"He's never gonna marry you, y'know. He's got three other wives already!"
The recurring danger theme for when the rocks are on-screen is great. Simple, but well-executed and contrasted well against the rest of the score.
#Monsterdon sheesh Jenny, shut the yapper
Attack of the geodudes #Monsterdon
Ok kids, :kaboom:
I donβt think she should confide anything in that kid. She canβt keep a secret to save her life.
Lizards getting freaky. Wasn't expecting that #monsterdon
Rocks. Not even once.
"Why don't you and Mr. Miller get married?"
"Well, sweetie, just between you and me, I rather prefer _Miss_ Miller, his sister..."