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

#Monsterdon

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!

#Monsterdon

Thanks for nothing, simple mcshavey

#Monsterdon

The Slime Of Us

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@CactuarJoe The Brits have always been good an maintaining their composure. #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment 🎥🍿

"We'll need a miracle to stop it now."

"We've got flamethrowers"

#Monsterdon

Actual close-up shot of an octopus looks out of place compared to the sad cactupus costume

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Finally! A reasonable precaution. Wheee! #monsterdon

OK, who's going to go up and lick Victor's game-port?

#eXistenZ #Cronenberg

#monsterdon

okay so there's a big goo monster in an abbey now and it looks less like a starfish and more like a crab. so the dissonant music goes up to 11.

quarty devises a plan, which involves routing a lot of electricity to the crab monster in a church so it will burn the monster down, and also the church I guess.

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe *metroid scree* #monsterdon

@chirpbirb I think we've all touched something weird? #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe

Gordon Jackson, Hudson from "Upstairs, Downstairs", and also in "The Great Escape."

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It's not a gin goblin?

#Monsterdon

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.

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OH NICE GOO MONSTER :D :D :D #Monsterdon

A young Conan O'Brien

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is he a fuckin' slug now?

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tubi captions 'djinn goblin'. #monsterdon

Cor blimey

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I want a sequel: "Rosie Meets The Lost Weekend"

#monsterdon

Rosie reminds me of Monty Python’s “Pepperpots”

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Just leave the Bunson burner on 24/7

#monsterdon

rosie is actually the most believable character in this movie

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Snail trail of aloe

#monsterdon

On his big fat fleet.

...

On his big fat *fleet*.

#Monsterdon

@leece

Cactushand foot and mouth disease

#monsterdon

It's a strange ol' Quatermass, innit guv

#Monsterdon

@log #monsterdon

ikr even Devil Girl from Mars had a half-decent fistfight.

so victor wandered into a zoo and I guess punched some poor large cats to death. then he punched a rat and a monkey, then I think turned into a slime ball. or turned a rat into a slime ball. either way his terrifying ability to create gooey balls is now a threat to every life on earth.

#monsterdon

"You'd better say natural causes for now"

We love to hate this guy, don't we folks

#Monsterdon

Well, they killed a leopard
and something else
and an antelope
and a lion

All for this film
#monsterdon

I'm reading this #monsterdon as a riff on Pandora's box where Judith let Victor out of the hospital and now we have problems.

...or alternately, where Quarty sent Victor into space and now we have problems.

"This is exactly as the keeper found them."

My god, he's TAXIDERMYing them! #Monsterdon

@jonny He can gab like a grifter, but he has the diaphragm of a cactus. It's torture, that's why his face is always agonized.

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Some dollies were decapitated in the making of this film. #monsterdon

Hammer marketed the film in the United Kingdom by dropping the "E" from "Experiment" in the title to emphasie the adults-only “X” Certificate given to the film by the British Board of Film Censors.

https://horror.fandom.com/wiki/The_Quatermass_Xperiment_(1955)

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Dear this little girls parents,

This is why 'stranger danger' education was invented.
#monsterdon

...the lion is named Simba

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they're getting a lot of mileage out of this weird shriveled hand glove prop

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oh wow that whistle comes out of NOWHERE

#monsterdon

[hits blunt] …what if it was like Laserblast, but like with a cactus?

#monsterdon

PURE ENERGY

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"this guy's hand is like a weird cactus, over."

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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.

#monsterdon

"Well that takes care of my supper tonight!"

so British, bless

#Monsterdon

@Ranjit for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee, cactus!

#monsterdon

#monsterdon That hairstyle is all Rizzo from Grease

Is that a cactus in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

good screaming lady

#Monsterdon

Cactus may have been a poor choice of decorative plant
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@CactuarJoe

Screaming and cigarettes, it is the 50s for sure.

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Nice minimalist SPLAT there, that was good :D #Monsterdon

CACTUS

#cactus

#monsterdon

The Quatermass Xperiment soundtrack is available on blank sheets of paper at a store near you!

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe the heist guy is giving me Danny Kaye vibes

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The most interesting character so far... has no name 😔

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I love the hospital sconces. #monsterdon

A young Stanley Kubrick saw this movie and was inspired to do a bad job writing women characters

#monsterdon

Side note, if anyone wants a good "She came back…but wrong!" story, I recently read Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea and quite liked it, despite it being of dangerously literary quality.

#Monsterdon

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

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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.

#monsterdon

You can bet the automatic prism cuts out the cruicial scene. #monsterdon

They are technically watching a snuff film. #monsterdon

Can’t riff… this scene is too good!

#monsterdon

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.

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

panic! near the crash site

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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.

#monsterdon

*penetration* of cosmic rays, huh

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@hollie THOSE POOR SPINES

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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

#Monsterdon

I'll just leave this open flame unattended...

#monsterdon #Quatermass1955

Doctor's just about anyone capable of out-jackassing Quatermass #Monsterdon

Bunsen burner!
Everyone take a drink!

#Monsterdon

QUATERMASS: KNOCK FOUR TIMES #Monsterdon

what's it taste like guys!?

#monsterdon

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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?

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

We can't stop now, Brisco Kid!

#monsterdon

We introduce a new character, Inspector Lomax, who speaks for the trees, I mean, um... the bible. He's a cop. He doesn't go for this nonsense science fiction stuff.

Anyway, he invites Quarty to his office so they can bluster at each other. Lomax wants to treat this as a crime because two people are missing and Quarty wants to treat it as a science experiment.

#monsterdon

I'm still stuck on quatermass being pronounced like christmas or michaelmas

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He's fine
#monsterdon

Scientific experiment successful? That man is effed for life! #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment 🎥🍿

After watering the rocket the door opens and a confused astronaut stumbles out and collapses. We know his name is "Victor" because his female companion embraces him as he passes out and calls him that.

Heedless of any dangers, Quarty and friends decide to rush inside the rocket, which looks sideways from the inside and diagonal from the outside. We are missing a couple astronauts and their pressure suits.

#monsterdon

Space madness!

#monsterdon

Grabs the wheel, it won't turn
"Quick the manual control"
Grabs an identical wheel.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon He's BONELESS! Someone tell Tyson Chicken Company!

Bad rocket! Don’t make me turn the hose on you again!

#monsterdon

This is now reminding me of those "fill the balloons by firing the water pistol" games at the carnival #monsterdon

#monsterdon Don't douse me with wimpy english firefighting water and tell me it's raining.

We tried calling the astronauts but they wouldn't answer so instead our only recourse is to open the rocket door by spraying water at it.

#monsterdon