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This #monsterdon was a remake of a BBC teleplay that was broadcast live and never recorded.

I wish we could reach back into the past and watch those old broadcasts.

The BBC also did a live version of H.G. Well's "The Time Machine" that was supposedly really good, but no recording was made, so who knows.

Every movie we see from the 50's makes me think bras of that era were literally designed to put an eye out

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(Aside: I am really enjoying this film. The paranoia and slow burn of the investigation and chase, the growing horror of what Victor is doing and what is happening to him at the same time, the implied back story of what infrastructure and organizations are behind Quatermass to have made the experiment and this ensuing damage control possible at all... it's really doing a good job of showing just enough to fire the imagination. This is great.)

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We would like you to stay for tea and cake... FOR EVER AND EVER AND EVER

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oh wow, absolutely seeing how this influenced John Carpenter's THE THING here

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HE SAID IT

HE SAID THE THING WHAT THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE IS

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Cut it out with the bunsen burners left lit and unsupervised!! That is terrible practice, not to mention wasteful!

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did the wife just die from seeing the cactus arm??? where did she go!?!!? #monsterdon

Thank you, @Taweret , that was great! And surprisingly chilling and timely.

Thank you for the bingo card, @cherizilla !

And thank you for another delightful Sunday evening, #monsterdon . Good night, and good luck to us all.

Thanks for a great Monsterdon everyone, and to @Taweret for hosting!

Goo forth and multiply....or something

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In my simple Bible way, I kind of enjoyed this movie. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I guess the moral here is don't have the hubris to self-fund your own space agency, name it after yourself, and then launch without regulatory approval.

That's a lesson we can all stand to learn.

Somebody’s seen Frankenstein, that’s for sure. #Monsterdon

So Doc Quatermass ignored rules and approvals, and went ahead with his experimental flight,.

It went horribly wrong, resulting in the deaths of many innocents and the loss of all the astronauts.

So he's the hero who gets to give it another shot on his own terms, and try it all again? Stay tuned!

This movie is very 2026.

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And with that, Quatermass fucked off into the night.

That was fun guys. I adore the Quatermass movies. Let's watch another movie next week, what do you say?

Thank you, Monsterdon buds! Take care of each other. Be kind, spread love, watch goofy monster movies.

Owlbear out! #Monsterdon

"Well, this time you won"

Yes this definitely had all the hallmarks of a successful mission

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#Monsterdon Suggestion?

Judith may want to remarry

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Kinda wild to think how ubiquitous car lighters were when I was a kid

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I'm afraid he has acute Willem Dafoesis

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That pronunciation of “metabolic” was even weirder than “Quatermass.” #Monsterdon

He stopped tapping when they told him he was in England, I don't blame him one bit. #Monsterdon

Man recently on fire: "Don't you start fussing too, I'm just a bit singed, that's all"

British person represented successfully

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We get a lot of boinking in our Monsterdon movies but we don't usually see people literally rolling in the hay

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if a hideous agglomeration of alien cactoid zoo creatures absorbs the royal family, does it become the rightful ruler of the british empire #monsterdon

GIN GOBLIN

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This is an intersection with a different movie about a possessed little girl

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Aliens are just naturally good at evading the police, it's instinctual. #Monsterdon

Aloe is filled with goo, like his FRIENDS ARE FILLED WITH GOO

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"Do you know what you're saying?"

"I know what I'm thinking.... jelly goes great on scones"

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"I don't watch science fiction. I'm a plain, simple bible man."

You know, a moron. #Monsterdon

Why haven't SpaceX invented the wheel that you turn to make the craft upright? Checkmate!

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The first member of Daft Punk is now emerging! #Monsterdon

They really did long tailored coats well in 1955

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You'll feel better after this medicinal cigarette.

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This was some suspenseful and mournful 50’s monstering! But in my memory, the other Quatermases weren’t so... capitalist? American? Am I misremembering? At any rate, thanks for the film @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne. Stay warm and goo-free, everyone! #Monsterdon

having to rewind to see how they killed the alien because i totally missed it zoning out thinking about the alien. they just like zapped it and problem solved? the goo can absorb all terrestrial life but is vulnerable to electricity? #monsterdon

Quatermass as he's shooting more people into space as part of an experiment: Maybe I should make them watch a movie this time.

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#Monsterdon and this CONCLUDES tonight's program of the restoration of westminster abbey 🤣

He's gonna start again, and we're the test subjects this time!

Well that was a lot of fun, despite being a low budget 1950s sci-fi film.

Thanks everyone who made this a blast, especially @Taweret for hosting, @JoeWynne for trivia, @cherizilla for trivia, and everyone else for great comments!

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No no no no no no no poor sweet space cactus octopus monster

@hollie Yeah, I doubt their vows were "in sickness and health and transformation to a life absorbing monster" and that last bit is really important if you want to stay married long term.

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"There is nothing to see, everything is FINE, go back to your HOMES, there is NO GIANT GOO MONSTER" #Monsterdon

Okay now I want a movie about Gin Goblins.
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"I come here to complain about something what I sawr" Hain't we all, ma'am, welcome to #Monsterdon

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This film does have its moments of effectiveness, but it's all tied up in interminable scenes of bland white men talking over each other in blank white rooms. #Monsterdon

The real horror in this movie is the atrocious way zoos used to be designed :/ :/ :/ #Monsterdon

Ohhhhh, so he's Kirby? He sucked up the cactus to gain its powers?!

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Are they gonna HEIST THE INFECTED ASTRONAUT??? #Monsterdon

The terrible secret of Quatermass

Do you have stairs in your spaceship?

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“I’m home!” #monsterdon

Here's what's on the film!

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My god, man, get yourself some bookends! #Monsterdon

No one will be seated during the SPELLBINDING SHAVING SCENE #Monsterdon

As a former VW bus owner I'm so confused because his engine should be back there

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For tonight’s Monsterdon of The Quatermass Xperiment I’m going with physical media.

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Can't light it on fire because it'll just spread its spores around

except you just lit it on fire...

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Quatermass like, yes I turned two men into jelly and a third into an octopus, LET'S DO IT AGAIN #Monsterdon

Do not give this man another pound of government funding

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I like how old monster movies seem to have a civil emergency button where a scientist can just be like "we got an emergency there's a space monster!" and then the government, army and media are all like "oh shit its a space monster!" and then they all polarize immediately to try and contain the otherworldly threat.

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...Why do they always show this guy shaving? Is this some 1950's meme I don't understand? #Monsterdon

Maybe you guys SHOULD watch science fiction, this is a pretty typical sci fi plot. #Monsterdon

@moira suggested #monsterdon like story line: the soviets send Laika (canine cosmonaut) into space, but with facilities to return her instead of on the historical kamikaze missions. She returns, then bites people and those people she bites turn into werewolves. We'd probably have to have her crash into an English village.

Oh my god all the books on his shelf are angled halfway over and my head is going to explode

HE NEEDS TO PUT THEM UPRIGHT....AAGGHGHGHGH

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Quatermass is so demanding, jeez. Take a chill pill, dude. #Monsterdon

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"Space Rocket 1/3 Successful!"

That's right, put the water on AS you open the door, everyone knows returning astronauts deserve a welcoming shower!

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Yeah, we'll kill SCORES of men for science! And they'll THANK us! #Monsterdon

"It's been, who knows how far? There isn't a word."

That word is "distance"

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"Members of the general public are ordered to stay away. I'll repeat that, because SOME OF YOU heard that as 'go and gawk at it'." #Monsterdon

Exclusive Films, natural enemy of Polyamorous Films #Monsterdon

The temptation to watch more Mothra on @miru is very strong

But alas, I have shoveling to go attend to.

However, YOU, dear #Monsterdon reader, may like to partake:

https://miru.miyaku.media/

who the hell is quatermass and why does he have his own space program!?!?!? #monsterdon

Don't feel bad for the alien. Remember that it killed a bunch of cats.

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"Screw you guys, I'm QUATERMASS" #Monsterdon

"He learned... Too late... That man.. Is a FEELING creature..." #Monsterdon

Remarkably little fanfare for electrocuting a monster. #Monsterdon

"yes men, your orders are to scour through the sewers looking for a huge cactus bag of zoo creatures" #monsterdon

so this dude just treats living creatures like caprisuns?

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You sit there by this unexploded German bomb and I'll make the tea
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the found footage is a pretty creepy really, well done!

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Just fling your patient into the bed, I’m sure it’s fine. #Monsterdon

Quatermass: “You’ve GOT to watch this film!”

[hands him a VHS tape of Rocky Horror]

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Man, good thing they didn't quarantine the obviously ill man or anything. #Monsterdon

@moira oh damn it i want gummy bears now.

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everyone: this rocket shit is weird! look at how this guy's skin is!

victor: 👁️ 👄 👁️

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Everyone knows air has two sides

This side and the other side

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@CactuarJoe

"Rosebud"

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Astronauts hate getting wet. They surrender immediately after getting sprayed

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Dammit Jim, I’m a scientist not a fortune teller

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I want that VW microbus, damn it.

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Okay, yeah, so I misspelled oscilloscope on the bingo card. I was under caffeinated at the time and my grasp of the language was wiggly. #monsterdon

@rebeld I think it's a recurring theme in the Quatermass series...imagine that in real life though! oh wait...

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@paco I think, today in 2026, if the police had to go round in a car with a speaker on top telling everyone to 'remain calm' some very terrible thing must have happened

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The 90s Mothra trilogy are very much for the kids. Not that 90s Godzilla was dark and edgy for adults only, but Mothra had a younger target audience. But still really good monster effects.
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The Quatermaxx Xperiment (1955) - 3/5

They had cactoid alien that eats a zoo and becomes a library of biological form in the palm of their hands and they fumbled it.

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@JoeWynne Wonder if the files come back to haunt him? #monsterdon

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you forgot the part where he almost killed all of London, and ruined a perfectly good BBC show.