As is realistic, the crashing rocket has summoned a crowd of farmer folk and other locals, who have opted to gawk at it from one side of a fence. We then summon the fire department so they can ring bells at it, and an ambulance for some reason. I guess if the rocket has a hurt passenger.
Move along, nothing to see here but a crashed giant alien spaceship. #Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe oh we're in the mirror universe, got it. #monsterdon
OK, this feels kinda high-end to me. Anyone else feel that way?
Let's see what this is about... #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment π₯πΏ
His ability for fly with the added mass of more legs and a way bigger torso is dubious, but dang it Death Ghidorah just looks like an evil dragon god.
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra
Meanwhile on rainbow pride airlines.
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra
Antman ripped off this fight.
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra
Belvera is like an even more petty and silly version of the Witch Bandora (Rita Repulsa).
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra
Quatermass and the Pit is *so* much better and Q is at least 50% less villainous in it. He has the biggest Mark Zuckerberg energy in Xperiment. I've never seen a film so blatantly make the main character, whose name is in the title, just an unloveable soulless experiment-until-dead-then-study-the-corpses parody of a scientist.
Dr Frankenstein *does* have a moral turn. Brundle in the remake of The Fly? Charming old John Hammond means well.
#monsterdon #quatermass
The monster killed a leopard and lion? Oh f**k this Victor guy, we need to burn down London!
π¦#MONSTERDON Goodbye!
β€οΈ Thank you @Taweret for hosting this - it just made me Xstatic!
π ±οΈ and thanks @cherizilla for the Bingo card! I always love "Rotary Phone"
ποΈ and more thanks to @paco for data analysis and @combatwombat for the replays.
π¦And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: I could not keep up with acknowledgements, but this filmscroll was Xceptional!
Monster: NO KILL I, MY BABIES
Quatermass: THROW THE SWITCH.
Copper: In my simple Bible way, I contributed nothing.
Quatermass: I have learned nothing either. I need more dead spacemen.
<Rockets>
THE END
The End
Wow, the film maker really dragged that out.
quatermass was weird. very abrupt finale, the rocket ending was weird. like, okay? am i supposed to be in suspense? whatever lmao. the slug stuff could have been cooler if they would have leaned into it more.
3/10, wouldn't watch again π€·
thanks again everyone for a lovely #Monsterdon !
It's like the director's parking meter was about to expire and he didn't feel like putting another dime into it. So he's like "Ok, boys. That's enough. Let's wrap."
#monsterdon
#TheQuatermassXperiment
This was kind of neat. Especially since I watched John Carpenter's The Thing for the first time yesterday.
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Honestly, walking stiffly away from the creature's remains and refusing to talk to anyone should have made people way more suspicious given the rest of the film.
Murder is never the answer, unless you are a colonialist power that hates space octopactuses.
#Monsterdon
He fucks off into the astral sea
Hrm, technically this was how they killed The Thing From Another World, wasn't it?
it just looks like a squid got REALLY lost.
Not Rootes! #Monsterdon
We must communicate with it. Quick, someone fetch Amy Adams!
Thanks for nothing, simple mcshavey
The Slime Of Us
@CactuarJoe The Brits have always been good an maintaining their composure. #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment π₯πΏ
Actual close-up shot of an octopus looks out of place compared to the sad cactupus costume
Finally! A reasonable precaution. Wheee! #monsterdon
@CactuarJoe *metroid scree* #monsterdon
@chirpbirb I think we've all touched something weird? #monsterdon
Gordon Jackson, Hudson from "Upstairs, Downstairs", and also in "The Great Escape."
It's not a gin goblin?
Mic. MIC! Your mic is off Mr BBC man. Damn it. Like watching a tired vtuber here.
#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment
BBC really needs to get some LARGER microphones.
OH NICE GOO MONSTER :D :D :D #Monsterdon
A young Conan O'Brien
tubi captions 'djinn goblin'. #monsterdon
Cor blimey
I want a sequel: "Rosie Meets The Lost Weekend"
Rosie reminds me of Monty Pythonβs βPepperpotsβ
Just leave the Bunson burner on 24/7
rosie is actually the most believable character in this movie
Snail trail of aloe
It's a strange ol' Quatermass, innit guv
ikr even Devil Girl from Mars had a half-decent fistfight.
Well, they killed a leopard
and something else
and an antelope
and a lion
All for this film
#monsterdon
"This is exactly as the keeper found them."
My god, he's TAXIDERMYing them! #Monsterdon
Dear this little girls parents,
This is why 'stranger danger' education was invented.
#monsterdon
...the lion is named Simba
they're getting a lot of mileage out of this weird shriveled hand glove prop
oh wow that whistle comes out of NOWHERE
[hits blunt] β¦what if it was like Laserblast, but like with a cactus?
"this guy's hand is like a weird cactus, over."
Judith is apparently uninjured but was left screaming in her car seat, reporting that Victor had a gray hand that had cactus needles in it.
@Ranjit for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee, cactus!
#monsterdon That hairstyle is all Rizzo from Grease
Is that a cactus in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
good screaming lady
Cactus may have been a poor choice of decorative plant
#monsterdon
Nice minimalist SPLAT there, that was good :D #Monsterdon
The Quatermass Xperiment soundtrack is available on blank sheets of paper at a store near you!
@CactuarJoe the heist guy is giving me Danny Kaye vibes
The most interesting character so far... has no name π
I love the hospital sconces. #monsterdon
A young Stanley Kubrick saw this movie and was inspired to do a bad job writing women characters
Well that solves it. It was a wooshy light that went round and round. Mystery solved. #monsterdon
and this is what happened to the Original Power Ranges.
#monsterdon
#TheQuatermassXperiment
Nice, the automatic panel reading had a transition effect.
Eventually we set up a home movie to view the camera's film, which shows the astronauts puttering around inside the rocket. I think they're supposed to be in zero-G, which the actors have emulated by moving slowly and awkwardly. Every now and then we see an instrument panel cutting in over the room camera footage.
At first things are normal, then the temperature goes up, and then we start seeing the rocket interior glow for a second then go back to normal.
You can bet the automatic prism cuts out the cruicial scene. #monsterdon
They are technically watching a snuff film. #monsterdon
Canβt riffβ¦ this scene is too good!
Oooh, it's a MOOOOVIE within a movie. #monsterdon
Always make sure to leave a note to the film lab about any unusual requirements, like developing film from a space rocket.
panic! near the crash site
Okay, he can go to the hospital, but NOBODY CAN TREAT HIM. He has to stay in the waiting area. #monsterdon
The gulf between this first Quatermass film and the last one (or even the intermediate ones) is so significant, I forgot about that.
*penetration* of cosmic rays, huh
@hollie THOSE POOR SPINES
Ah so the other two WERE liquefied. As well they should be. #monsterdon
"It's harmless, it's organic, it's jelly." Now that's what I call a marketing slogan
I'll just leave this open flame unattended...
Doctor's just about anyone capable of out-jackassing Quatermass #Monsterdon
Bunsen burner!
Everyone take a drink!
QUATERMASS: KNOCK FOUR TIMES #Monsterdon
what's it taste like guys!?
#monsterdon
#TheQuatermassXperiment
I am the Lomax. I speak for the police.
@Violinknitter I'm glad to know how to pronounce Quatermass at last, but I hate this guy who doesn't care about safety because he's impatient, is arrogant because he thinks he's so smart, his rocket crashes with 2/3 crew missing, resists letting the shocked astronaut go to hospital and harangues him, and yet is lionized in the press as a hero and the mission called "successful". Bleah! A technocrat who hates regs, is unsafe and harmful to worker safety, and thinks he's smarter than everyone else. Precursor to Elon Musk and his ilk. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment
rocket radiation? is that a new kind of radiation they invented for rockets?