Was he....attacked by shower gel?

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I love how the camera focuses on his watch face for three seconds and then he also says it's a quarter after ten

Something tells me the time will soon be important

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This scene on the power of these creatures and the plan to keep them out of the canal system gives me #MonsterdonBingo. I'm counting "Sympathy for the Monster" because of the sympathy I've seen on the feed for this Gorgo type scenario.

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So why... are these creatures any more dangerous than any other creature that might harm humans? Why wouldn't their growth rate be bounded in the same way as any other species, by the duration of the gestation period and the rate at which they can metabolize? These things aren't any scarier than razor clams or ankle-nibbling ducks.

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@ramsey the KRAYken

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I wanna be in a Radio Shack. :(

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#monsterdon A civilian is dead and your cover story is going to be routine bomb tests?

You might want to re-think that.

Are y'all watching The Monster that Challenged The World? I watched it a week or so ago. The monster is pretty good, but it doesn't exactly challenge the world. More like it bothers a small town.

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This is my new fave monster after Son of Godzilla #monsterdon

It’s an inflated trash bag, over. #Monsterdon

I like this in the same way as I like THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD. I don't think it's *quite* as good, but it's definitely reminding me of it.

Needs more coffee, though.

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Steven Spielberg: Okay you know that movie The Monster that Challenged the World? It's like that, but with a big shark.

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#monsterdon Every single coroner in fiction eats in his lab and doesn't understand why anyone thinks that's unusual.

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Yeah, all that could cause a stroke is ANGER or FEAR.

That's some pretty great horrified reaction there.

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"Meanwhile, in the secret laboratory next door, scientists are hard at work on new fruitcake rations"

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Katie just found popcorn in her bra.

...and our title card is in German OH NO

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There better not be any dogs involved with this media. #Monsterdon

For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about The Monster That Challenged The World (1957) but not the second, Wrong Frogs feature, because there isn't one this week.

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@apLundell Hah I was going to make a joke about all the many many smokers accidentally blowing the survivors of the monster attack up, right until all the guns started going off and I was like "guess it's not the gas feed for the lab?"

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@diazona @Taweret @ryan of all the trauma bonded couples we've seen on Monsterdon perhaps this relationship has more promise than most?

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Ah well. At least we got something *approaching* a denouement. Anyway, as always, one last task:

Was THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD (1957) the WORST #Monsterdon movie of the year?

"We're definitely not traumatized by that entire experience!"

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oh cool I guess the whole monster is on a rolling cart or something so they could back it away and turn it, nice

also, y'all, we already clearly established that the creature's skin is not easily penetrated by *polearms*, do you really think an axe will be effective

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We're not exactly challenging the world here.

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"I read 18 foreign languages....and I hate them all"

Getting Lovecraft energy off this dude

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Monster's lair's gonna be an ancient aztec cenote

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Mostly they come out and bite... mostly

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Man, nothing good will come to you if your job occupation is something ominous like "gatekeeper"

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YESSSSSSSSSSSS lmaooo

the costume is pretty good but the attacks are hilarious

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Well this is going swimmingly

HAhahaaAAhh

heh

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OOOHHHHH THE KID'S GONNA TOUCH THE KNOB

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Chekov's Knob

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Someone get this man a Document Room! #monsterdon

Just blow up the whole valley, nuke it from orbit, you know you're going to anyway

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This kid is making Speedy Gonzalez look like positive representation. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon "How's Connie?"

"She's fine. It's been a whole day since her husband was tragically torn to shreds by a monster.."

"From the instant they're born, they're hungry."

relatable

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STOP SAYING CRAY-KIN

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We learn secretary #2's tragic backstory, her husband died doing something some years ago. She tells the Navy Commander he's easy to talk too, allowing the audience to check the "tepid love story" on their bingo card.

(if they didn't already check that box for the romantic swimmers)

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Maybe... just maybe... if we made the water MORE radioactive...

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okay first of all, rude

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so is the bug's motivation just that it's like in the salton sea and needs some water to drink and it can only get it by sucking it out of people's skin #monsterdon

"I've got a reading of some numbers that totally mean things."

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It's "highly radioactive" well then I wouldn't want to be pointing at it and standing less than a meter away, but what do I know, my radiation worker certification lapsed a couple of years ago.

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"Commander, did you find out what killed all those men?"

"No, I've been in the car park helping a little girl find a ladybug"

"Is that sarcasm?"

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It's ok, the Commander just hates adults, not children.

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I looked up this KLM Scheveningen legs poster and it was probably a real travel poster like this 1954 one:

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https://chetvergvecher.livejournal.com/2377911.html

WWII stock footage has become almost soothing, a sure sign that i'm about to see something that makes no sense but definitely has a ton of guys enunciate like they're trying to chew the dictionary stuck between their teeth. #monsterdon

my god, a title card! the horror!

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GO GO GO GO

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@jivens @klu9 @JoeWynne @paco Yes, it's been 3 years (https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/the-giant-claw). Long enough to forget about Dr. Noymanns Electronic Analyzer.

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I think the spunk monster had already been pretty much cooked (steamed) by the time the guns showed up.

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@ottaross *starts throwing office stationary, belt and shoes.....still no axe

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Another fantastic dive into 50's creature cinema! Thanks again to @Taweret for hosting and to the #Monsterdon mollusks for all your concerning emissions. 🤍 I'm going to go find an axe to ignore.

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Damnit, Gail is too pretty to die!

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I give "The Monster That Challenged the World" 3 out of 5 vials of radioactive snail juice. It was not really *good* but it had boats in it, and side characters being weird and I didn't really hate it.

Despite the title the monsters did not really challenge the world (being very vulnerable to pointy sticks) but were exploded anyway by capricious humans. At least it's safe to go swimming now.

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"You can go swimming for about 20-30 years and then it becomes a toxic zone you'd want to avoid, because Sandy...'Man is the real monster' "

ABRUPT ENDING

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The Monster that Challenged The World (1957) - 3/5

+ monster
+ drained guys
- coherent
- undrained guys

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I hope the sequel is about a big mutant ladybug 🐞

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ITS ON THE GODDAMN WALL
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no you fool poke it poke it slightly!!!! #monsterdon

throwing random beakers?!

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*monster chews through the door* heeeeere's Johnny!

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COFFEE, YOU SAY? :blobfoxcofeowo:

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the monster is barely challenging this broom closet door let alone the world #monsterdon

So glad we have underwater scenes to really kick this movie into overdrive.../s

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jesus that's a lot of plastique

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"First we crack the shell! then we crack the nuts inside!"

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Look the obvious solution is call the French and gather up a shit ton of garlic and butter.

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I like how these old movies do have music as an accent but there's a lot of silence in the soundtrack.

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I laughed out loud when the snail got the old guy.

I'm sorry, I really am enjoying this, and I love the monster and all, but it's a fucking 12 foot snail. If it sneaks up on you, that's kinda your fault. #Monsterdon

Good thing that cop car didn't crash, driving around in that inky darkness like that.

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"Do we have a car in that area?"

"Sure. Nobody inside it, but the car's right there."

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I do wish we had more of the monster, but I admire the mileage they are getting out of their monster

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oh he got GOT, nice

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Kids will unleash the wackiest horrors from the deep

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They should have at least put a note on the knob that said "Don't touch! Makes monsters happen!"

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Well that was the adult's fault for not guarding that weird egg better...

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NOT THE KNOB

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Sandy is a fine little actress, she's got multiple lines, she's hitting her cues, good job kiddo

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BUNNIES!!@

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Mom mom I know mom no mom that was Thomas Jefferson mom no that's the formula for New Coke mom mom I know mom

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I like to think this discussion around canal patrol logistics takes place in a world where every other monster movie scenario is happening at the exact same time, and the US Navy has to stretch its resources between protecting the canal from cow-eating snails, fending off a Kaiju attack and searching for multiple werewolves, vampires and frankensteins.

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“If the canal moves, shoot it.” #Monsterdon

jesus, the peso is strong

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Wait, are they popping over to Mexico for supper? Talk about a different era.

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See lads, Twillinger didn't go off his nut with the rejection and it all worked out for him in the end.
Patience and Respect

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This operator reminds me of Annie Potts playing Janine in Ghostbusters.

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UGH settling in for an entire restaurant scene means there are probably like 10 whole minutes until we get to come face to face with bug, our beloved #monsterdon

The mating dance of the giant 50s sedans.

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This guy sure came to his complete theory rather quickly....I suspect he's in league with the snail!

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"If these creatures should hatch, they could threaten the world with sequels."

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“From the instant they’re born they’re hungry”

You mean like most young creatures everywhere?

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this seems like really good stock footage for 1957

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#monsterdon "You believe there's more than one of these creatures?"

Well, yeah. That's how animals work.

snail sex :blobfoxblushmore:

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i hope the snail closeup scene never ends #monsterdon

mollusc sex party

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maybe tape some note next to the knob saying "don't turn the knob or else monster" idk #monsterdon