Saddle up boys, we're a-goin' Goo Huntin'. #Monsterdon

Zoo Closed Due to Absorption

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Subtitles: <audience yawning>

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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.

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

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

😬

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@davesdogmaggie at night she feeds...

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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...
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"Famous Astronaut Molests Children"

sigh

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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.

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It’s shaving time again!

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

"Maybe it's a cactus monster...."
"Shut up."
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Stop handling these infected corpses with your bare hands, ffs!

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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.

It's life, but not as we know it

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@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!

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

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Why is she stealing her husband from an infirmary and smoking in the car
and offering him a cigarette
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Mmmm, fake orderly jerky.

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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.

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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

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

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🦖#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
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this is the weirdest amateur porno i've seen

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

automatic prism!

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all i want is a print!

me at the anthrocon dealer's den

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@trixter RIGHT? <tears out hair>

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassExperiment

"What's the next move?"

Well, you've decided to lie to the government and hide the truth, I think the next step is breaking into the Watergate. #Monsterdon

The Laserblast Xperiment

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

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

It's Tuvix all over again

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

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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!)

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

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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?

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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?"

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Looks like he's mutating into Iggy Pop #Monsterdon

So, trim and shave today, sir? #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment 🎥🍿

"Penetrating into enemy territory" 😛

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

I'm glad somebody gives a shit about the other two crewmembers

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

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment #DoctorWho

Oh god is this movie Event Horizon's grandpa

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

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

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

Giving the astronauts the Gallagher welcome home. #Monsterdon

Quatermas comes between Michaelmas and Christmas.

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

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this is kwatrmess kwatrmess #Monsterdon

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

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@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.

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He calls his VW bus “The Quatermachine”

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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.

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1500 miles into space, huh

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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.

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Move along, nothing to see here but a crashed giant alien spaceship. #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe oh we're in the mirror universe, got it. #monsterdon

According to the credits, someone is in charge of continuity?

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassExperiment

OK, this feels kinda high-end to me. Anyone else feel that way?

Let's see what this is about... #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment 🎥🍿

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

Okay technically this is a different Ghidorah. But there's like a half a dozen Ghidorahs now, and they all use a variation of the classic roar... except this weirdo.
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra

@SRLevine @josh0 For a moment I misread that as a cross between "forearms" and "biceps" 🤦

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

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

@ottaross

Hive mind?

#Monsterdon #TheQuaterMassXperiment

The monster killed a leopard and lion? Oh f**k this Victor guy, we need to burn down London!

#Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment

There is a third secret tiny twin fairy. And she's a hot goth.
#Monsterdon #Mothra1

@hollie "Typical Tory Government!" #Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

❤️ Thank you @Taweret for hosting this - it just made me Xstatic!

🅱️ and thanks @cherizilla for the Bingo card! I always love "Rotary Phone"

🎞️ and more thanks to @paco for data analysis and @combatwombat for the replays.

🦖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

#monsterdon #quatermass

The End
Wow, the film maker really dragged that out.

#Monsterdon #QuatermassXperiment

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 🤷

thanks again everyone for a lovely #Monsterdon !

#TheQuatermassXperiment

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."

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#TheQuatermassXperiment
This was kind of neat. Especially since I watched John Carpenter's The Thing for the first time yesterday.

Pretty ... ok, sort of!

Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

And to all the #monsterdon folks!

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.

#Monsterdon

Murder is never the answer, unless you are a colonialist power that hates space octopactuses.
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Could have just poured acid on it

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And Quatermass learns nothing.

The END.

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He fucks off into the astral sea

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Hrm, technically this was how they killed The Thing From Another World, wasn't it?

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it just looks like a squid got REALLY lost.

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Not Rootes! #Monsterdon

We must communicate with it. Quick, someone fetch Amy Adams!

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Thanks for nothing, simple mcshavey

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