Quartermass invades Greenland. #monsterdon

@SRLevine Especially to an astronaut who seems to run a lot of...experimental missions.

"I promise to love you, no matter what alien life form might ever take you over....."

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassExperiment

from the cactoid's point of view, it is just an ARG player in a game that is baslcally pokemon except you invade non-galactic planets and try and absorb all their different species before they can kill you #monsterdon

luckily for us mister crab monster kind of ignores all the electric wires being set up, so when they dramatically switch on the electricity he catches fire. Unfortunately, I don't see the whole Abby burning up, which would be a fun thing to add. Instead there's just a big... um... smoked goo monster lingering on some scaffolding.

#monsterdon

So is Quatermass a mob boss, or

#Monsterdon

they turned off big ben during the bongs, so you know it's serious

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

That escalated quickly

#monsterdon

I can't believe they will get this all cleaned-up in 7 minutes

#monsterdon

Ooooo, that power station is now a shopping centre and community hub, it was one of the reasons why people were choking to death with pollution in the 50s.

It's a pretty cool location now, Battersea Power Station

#Monsterdon

Soundtrack is writing checks that the monster design can’t cash

#monsterdon

Tell Quatermass to get his burly arse in here

#Monsterdon

Why am I expecting the thing in the case to start singing show tunes?

#Alien #Spaceballs

#monsterdon #Quatermass1955

@JoshuaACNewman I have it as a poster down in the garage with my bike and little workbench ^_^

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

“I washed me hands and face before I come, I did.” #Monsterdon

"I'm young enough to be your mother. Though what respectable person would want to be I don't know." That's a pretty good burn.

#Monsterdon

That is a damned depressing zoo. #Monsterdon #Quatermass1955 #QuatermassXperiment

Guys, you already got an X-rating, you might as well show it :/ #Monsterdon

I’m calling his reaction to the tea party ‘heavy skepticism’, which makes a bingo! #Monsterdon #Quatermass1955 #QuatermassXperiment

#Monsterdon it figures that the girl with the creepy doll would want to play tea party with the man who looks like a zombie

Oh! We thought you were a rat!

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Fun fact: the title of the film is Xperiment because it’s rated X

#monsterdon

@SnoopJ I said all he really needs is a good moisturiser

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

oh goodness, i didn't realise that was a child with a baby doll and nearly had a heart attack

#monsterdon

This girl is aggressive

#Monsterdon

This guy is a real prick

#Monsterdon

GET YOUR NATIONAL HEALTH PRESCRIPTION #Monsterdon

Lomax spends an inordinate amount of time shaving.

#Monsterdon #QuatermassXperiment

#Monsterdon and THAT is what you get for opening up after hours

haven't you ever seen a man with cactus arm!?!?!? why are all the doctors in this town such amateurs #monsterdon

the guy surviving the alien invasion was actually just a coincidence and unrelated to the real plot, which is how people who to go space can come back and gain cactus power #monsterdon

the detective saying the thing that the wife was horrified was how his hand was gray and cactuslike does nothing to disprove my theory that he smashed the cactus to give his hand life draining powers #monsterdon

ow WOW what a kill for 1955

#Monsterdon

wow, bloodless but still grisly, not bad

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

he just needed his emotional support aloe vera, which is understandable

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

he craves that aloe vera

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Pretty sure my wife would bust me out of hospital if the need arose...

#Monsterdon

I love watching movies of people watching movies. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Kubrick stole this shot!

#Monsterdon

your husband is turning to jello and that's cool as fuck! can you not see that, you woman? hysterical!

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

he looks pretty non-jelly to me idk

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

That bunsen burner is WAYY too high. You are referred to remedial health and safety training. #monsterdon

something happened in here

:neofox_gasp: no fuken wai

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Bunsen burners mean Science

#Monsterdon

@bstacey Quatermusk made a big fuss over the fact that they took the fingerprints when the man was unconscious and he didn't like that.

#monsterdon

"Mightn't I" isn't a phrase you hear much anymore.

#monsterdon

Oh neat, we have GOO! #Monsterdon

Dude’s got a bad case of timpani-heart

#monsterdon

dramatic camera push-in

"Thanks."

Thanks for that shot, numbnuts

#monsterdon

Maybe he's transforming into David Bowie?

#Monsterdon

"There's been a change in his bones, I'm convinced of that."

"Well, we DID make him faaaabulous with extra high cheekbones!"

#monsterdon

Chief Inspector Lomax speaks for the Trees?

#monsterdon

lol Quatermass is such a dick!

#Monsterdon

Successful mission. Depending on how you define successful…and mission.
#monsterdon

who the fuck trims at their desk anymore? or, like, ever?

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

"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

Quatermass swinging FULL mass out here. #Monsterdon

"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!

"Members of the public are advised to stay home and watch Heated Rivalry"

#Monsterdon

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

And that's a wreck!

Qatermass's unchecked arrogance ended the lives of two of his crew but commandeering the power of a city grid was required to end the life of Victor, or whatever Victor and the alien he's hosting had become. Nobody at all fucked off into the sea, but Quatermass's second experimental crew fucked off back into space; and Quatermass, our avatar of villainy, learned that with nothing and nobody standing up to stop him, discovery and disaster beckoned irresistibly.

#monsterdon

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

wait what happened? #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

@SesameSquirrel Jackson Pollock, the fake crab meat painting? #monsterdon

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

INTER GALACTIC PLANET ARY

#Monsterdon

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