"did you get it?"

"yes sir"

fully expected him to pull out weed

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Victor looks steamed

AAhhahahaha

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassExperiment

"Can you hear us? You've landed in England. Hope you brought your own food."

#monsterdon

Quatermass is a bit of a Tech bros really...

#Monsterdon

I miss the days when everyone smoked pipes at disaster scenes

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassExperiment

"I'm a scientist, not a fortune-teller..." -- I'm adding this to my business cards.

#monsterdon

Dammit it Jim, I'm just a country scientist!

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon I'm not a doctor, I'm a bricklayer!

This movie is setting a record for bell-ringing density per 5 minute opening sequence. #monsterdon

"Please return to your homes, come on now, please."

that cop couldn't have been trying less hard

#monsterdon

I like how the rocket landed like a giant just threw it at a dartboard

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassExperiment

Very quiet house collapse. #Monsterdon

Script so far: “HA HA HA HA HA HA HA” #Monsterdon

"These people will be discussing issues that are Teen's Issues." #Monsterdon

what?!?

not Xclusive films?

#monsterdon

Mosura! Mosura!~
*headbangs to fairy rock*
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra

@paco #monsterdon

Or as we say round here: no use throwing good money after bad!

This concludes my #monsterdon thread for um... whatever movie this was. The Quarter Mass Xchange. The grumpy scientist cop movie. The cactus punching zombie.

Anyway, thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Having maybe seen this once as a kid and not rememebring much aside from the basic plot, vs how Quatermass is in and The Pit, I did not expect Quatermass to be the villain of this movie.
#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Quartermass will return to space again with Dr Who.

Maybe.

#Monsterdon

So obviously The X-Files was heavily influenced by the Quatermass tv show and films

#monsterdon

That was The Quatermass Xperiment! Thanks to @Taweret, the Quatermass of #Monsterdon , and all the Monsterdonners for merging into an unstoppable rampage of comedy. 🩶

I'm going to go shave and watch Keeping Up Appearances. 🪒

and then they gave him another rocket because he was white

the end.

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

I was tempted at the very start to place this into the same category as THE THING FROM OUTER SPACE, and now having seen it and how much both movies influenced Carpenter

YEA, WOW.

#Monsterdon

i hope everyone likes shocked squid.

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

The grumpy characters come to stare at it. Lomax reminds the audience that's a simple bible cop. Quarty walks away ignoring everyone, except one guy that he says he'll need to help so he can start his experiment of sending people to space again (risking more goo monster invasions and astronaut deaths) and the last shot is another old timey rocket ship going up. Uh oh.

#monsterdon

Um, that's not the way current works.
Attach a cable to the scaffold and it just shorts out and… oh never mind.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🦀 historic architectural restoration program meets giant slimy crab 🤣

Impressively confusing to look at giant goo octopus Thing.
#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

"these walls are really neat, huh? please do not phone in about the dead man you saw on camera 2 a bit ago."

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

I like how quickly they put a plan together though, you wouldn't get that now....

#Monsterdon

Salt! Get a big salt shaker in case the slug comes for you!

#monsterdon

"It's a Gamma Metroid, one more mutation and it'll kill us all!" #Monsterdon

it's a TV show within a movie!
#monsterdon

Sad octopus is sad

#monsterdon

Really? Just a huge unattended flame? Its a wonder all of britain didn't just burn down. #monsterdon

"so, guys, we're looking for a huge slug man thing? listen, the higher ups on the radio did not want to repeat themselves. just keep walkin' and don't touch anything weird."

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Just because there's a dead body on the floor doesn't mean the show needs to stop

#Monsterdon

"Okay camera one, we'll be on you in five seconds... Try not to transform into a werewolf this time..." #Monsterdon

Nice camera shot at lesat

#monsterdon

Zoo Closed Due to Absorption

#monsterdon

Subtitles: <audience yawning>

#monsterdon

I don't think I'm ever going to check off "Reasonable Precaution" on my Bingo card.

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Outside the context of the story being told by the film for just a moment, those animal pens in this zoo scene are heartbreakingly cramped. Those poor creatures.

#monsterdon

Ed. note: "Simba" means lion in Swahili (among other languages)

#Monsterdon

Uh oh. Should we have checked #DoesTheHyenaDie, #DoesTheLionDie, #DoesTheLeopardDie..?

😬

#monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie at night she feeds...

#Monsterdon

I don't wanna criticise anyone's parenting skills, but why is there a little girl wandering around alone next to a river?

Oh, wait, never mind. Kid's creepy as fuck...
#Monsterdon

"Famous Astronaut Molests Children"

sigh

#Monsterdon

We get a new character, the little girl, who is having a tea party with her doll in a junkyard by a boat. Fortunately or unfortunately, victor decided to fall asleep in one of those boats after shambling around murdering people. The little girl politely invites him to a tea party, which he reacts to by decapitating the doll. Super rude.

#monsterdon

It’s shaving time again!

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

"Maybe it's a cactus monster...."
"Shut up."
#monsterdon

Stop handling these infected corpses with your bare hands, ffs!

#Monsterdon

how to make space monster, according to this #monsterdon :

okay, so there's energy in space and its alive, and if you fly a rocket through it in infests the people on the rocket and turns them into plant/animal hybrids that shamble around and punch people until they explode. Or at least they do that to one people and disappear the other two. Makes perfect sense.

@JoeWynne #monsterdon

Internet is out? do you... see any downed spaceships?

A hand being all grey and cactus like? That would surely drive a person out of their MIND!

#monsterdon

I think we found the guy that's making trees explode all over North America this frigid Sunday!

#monsterdon

Why is she stealing her husband from an infirmary and smoking in the car
and offering him a cigarette
#monsterdon

Mmmm, fake orderly jerky.

#monsterdon

Ma'am, that was a long series of extremely bad decisions. #Monsterdon

Eep, did Victor just...

...oh, yep, he definitely did.

MONSTER SMASH, momentarily post facto.

#monsterdon

Curse you, cactus! Misery take thee! *smashes pot to flinders against the wall*

#justiceForCactus #monsterdon

he just lies and stares

average night on some gummies ngl

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Become one with plant

#monsterdon

these hysterical women with their 'my husband is mutated and catatonic'

#monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ THE TRIVIA XPERIMENT ❌🚀

👀 Watch for a scene showing the three astronauts in space, we see one of them walking up the left wall of the circular cabin.

❓ Does it remind you of the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) where the stewardess walks on the wall of a circular corridor? Maybe not a coincidence.

#TheQuatermassXperiment

nah, man, they've actually been changed into mannequins so we don't have to pay the actors more

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

there was a great big flash, everything just changed!
their molecules got all re-arranged!

close enough, welcome back danny phantom

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

It's a movie within a movie
#monsterdon

automatic prism!

#monsterdon

all i want is a print!

me at the anthrocon dealer's den

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@trixter RIGHT? <tears out hair>

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassExperiment

The Laserblast Xperiment

#monsterdon

Maybe the astronauts were jelly before they went to outer space?

#monsterdon

Not too close Quatermass, she's gonna stab you with those pointy things. #Monsterdon

It's Tuvix all over again

#Monsterdon

one of these days he'll drink a sample instead of his cup of tea and then he'll be sorry...

#Monsterdon

Laboratory workbenches with open flames at bunsen burners just make my hair stand on end. Terrible safety discipline.

(I am really enjoying the mood this film is setting so far!)

#monsterdon

Incorrectly running bunsen burner and a vintage optical microscope. Nice.

#Monsterdon

hand me the samples spoon from the box

me at coldstone

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Weren't they already looking at his skin? Why are the fingerprints a revelation?

#Monsterdon

Oh dear, someone's about to get eaten. #Monsterdon

"look at the contour of the face"

yeah, his makeup is shit

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

"Shouldn't he be in a hospital? Why am I doing Marylin Monroe?"

#Monsterdon

"Penetrating into enemy territory" 😛

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

actually he said "hey! who turned out the lights?"

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment #DoctorWho

Oh god is this movie Event Horizon's grandpa

#Monsterdon

He said, "The Moon's got ghosts..."

#Monsterdon

"The camera can't tell us anything. Cameras don't talk"

#Monsterdon

Oh thank god, they found the camera controls. #Monsterdon

Giving the astronauts the Gallagher welcome home. #Monsterdon

Quatermas comes between Michaelmas and Christmas.

#monsterdon

maybe his name is actually 'crater mass' but he talks like elmer fudd

#monsterdon

this is kwatrmess kwatrmess #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe between that and for the economy i'd take it but i'd prefer neither, please

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@diazona #monsterdon

1. go to outer space
2. discover advanced civilization
3. ask them how to land rockets
4. PROFIT!

Notable events:

I like how two bobbies stopped to have a debate on whether the rocket was a bomb and whether they should pour water on it.

The ministry of defense drives one of those volkswagen busses that hippies like. But a ministry of defense seems like a very unhippie-like institution.

Amused by the girl talking lustily about how far the rocket ship traveled.

#monsterdon

He calls his VW bus “The Quatermachine”

#monsterdon

After watching all the people ring bells at the spaceship, a radio announcer tells everyone to stay calm or something. Then a government clown car is driving along to investigate; it turns out the poorly-landed rocket is an earth rocket that was sent into space and has 3 people on it, and we need to check if the people are okay.

#monsterdon

1500 miles into space, huh

#Monsterdon