QUATERMASS: KNOCK FOUR TIMES #Monsterdon

what's it taste like guys!?

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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?

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We can't stop now, Brisco Kid!

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

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He's fine
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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.

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Space madness!

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

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.

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Huh, unraveling the duck hoses. #Monsterdon

"They're talking inside, but they refuse to say 'over' after their sentences so we're ignoring them."
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Quatermass is an asshole
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"let us out you bastards!"

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This is what we like to see on #monsterdon!

I seem to recall some of the early radar experiments were done in a microbus or small truck like this, with a mounted radio in it.

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Quatermass is rockin' a VW bus. Is that Scooby Do in the back seat?

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For the first time a rocket has taken three men to space. You can’t expect a smol little experiment like that to be perfect.

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Looking forward to what AARO has to say about this one #UFO #UAP

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This #monsterdon takes place in 1950s, a time I have heard of, and Britain, a place that I have also heard of.

How much do you get per meteor these days anyway? Ah well. The meat's a little gamey but it's good for stew. #Monsterdon

lawn dart
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And it hits all 3 of them

THE END

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launching my #monsterdon thread for "The Quatermass Xperiment", a movie whose title my brain reads as "The Quartermass Experiment". I don't know what it's about.

Anyway, monsterdon is the thing where we watch an old monster movie every week and provide choice commentary. Follow the hash tag if you think that is fun; mute the hash tag if you think that's lame.

Ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha

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"The British Interplanetary Society!"

Still a thing too!

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💡 TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS 💡

(where applicable)

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I'm about to fill my metaphorical elevator with toots for #Monsterdon so if that's not your speed, now is a good time to disembark and mute me and/or that hashtag. See the rest of y'all there 😊✨

I love the original Ghidorah design, but...
quadruped Ghidorah > biped Ghidorah
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra

@josh0 Really makes my giant forceps (12") at work seem like weak sauce.

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@saucerlost
I knew this would be a good movie from the description, but I was surprised at how good. Only lasted an hour and 20 minutes, but it's quite a ride. 👍

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I love that the universal takeaway from watching #QuatermassXperiment appears to have been that we all need extendo-grabbers. (I’m trademarking that, by the way.) #Monsterdon

The wrong frogs double feature for #monsterdon is pretty out there. Mothra just became a kids movie.

@apLundell hopefully aliens 70 light years away are picking it up....

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Mothra is a stuffed toy.
(I wonder why?) 🤔
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#monsterdon Removing the ancient seal from it's socket in the stone is not just good archeology, it's praxis when you're in Kaiju country.

I've already mostly forgotten what the movie was about. Something about a bunsen burner.

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@mdhughes @strangefour he really is! he's a much better person in "and the Pit"

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The scariest thing in this movie for me was the creepy girl with the dolly down by the canal who insistently wanted to play tea party with the greasy and disheveled hobos.
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@PastaThief

Usually. Bing Crosby had a hand in creating videotape so things could be shown on the west coast without him having to do a second performance. That helped a lot with production costs. So did reusing the same videotape over and over. One of the reasons so little of early Dr. Who tv shows exists.

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that was fun! thanks again @Taweret for hosting! and thank you #monsterdon folks for the company and commentary!

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and all of #monsterdon .. The usual suspects have done their great work. Good luck to those watching the second creature feature.

@combatwombat Yeah, that was it. Now I feel much better.
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Well hey, that was a pretty good movie, even if the titular character was kind of a techbro dick who should never have been given funding. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting, see y'all next week, and wish me luck driving home from work. 😬

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Bingo :)

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@jonny he is... Bible Cop. Simple Bible Cop. #monsterdon

In some ways this felt more like an American film than a British one (probably because it wasn't constantly in a pub).

Anyway, that was a fun movie.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@devilgirlbot/115959247557750729

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Quatermass2 is starting now on TubiTV but I think I've had enough Quatermass for one evening.

Thank you @Taweret for hosting and everyone for joining in on #Monsterdon !

Oooh a matte painting. #monsterdon

What has happened to him!? He is American but he's not saying anything. It's so frightening....

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This was before Hammer ended every film with a fire

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Okay, now you need to just burn the building down to be safe. It's really the only way to be sure.

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The matte shot of everyone leaving the abbey could stand to be a bit… steadier.

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maybe it tastes like caviar

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That's it.... I guess? That was an xperience. Such a monsterdon ending.

Thanx everyone for joining and @Taweret for organizing. Very 50s sci fi.

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everyone in japan is counting on you, shinji!

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That was actually quite enjoyable! But what happened to the wife?

Thanks #Monsterdon friends. #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment 🎥🍿

So ends another #Monsterdon with the classic, #TheQuatermassXperiment. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and for everyone lurking and posting. And remember #Monsterdoners: There's no room for personal feelings in science.

Oooh... They're NEVER gonna get the smell out of there. #monsterdon

When a loud speaker says "There is no cause for alarm" there is ALWAYS cause for alarm. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@emma pigs on the wing!!! look!!! lol

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Nothing to see here folks
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This movie is proof that the end goal of every life form is either an octopus or a crab. #monsterdon

oh, it's That Power Plant

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All the electricity in London?

Are you sure about that?

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“There is an emergency. You saw it. I don’t know what it is” #Monsterdon

Electricity counts as an improvised weapon, right?

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I emitted a very hushed, not very frightened, but still actual scream when we saw the monster

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'Twas voltage killed the Beast

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20x fucking power!
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"Fuck it, we'll do it live"

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⁉️ THE TRIVIA XPERIMENT ❌🚀

What's with the unusual spelling of Xperiment?

It was related to getting an 'X' Certificate from the BBFC, restricting admission to persons over the age of sixteen. The rating was used as a marketing ploy - successfully.

Market research showed that audiences liked the horror part of this film better, and so Hammer Films adjusted and became synonymous with horror as we know it today.

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In the days before tape delay, live TV production was subject to the occasional dead body.

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"Remember that time we cut live just as they were discovering the corpse?" #monsterdon

"Well, do we go on with the programme?"

Stiff upper lip, cor

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I like how they know all about the monster's reproductive cycle in the hour or so since they learned it was a goo monster in the first place

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the show must go on!

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don't look up gentlmen
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I heard "flamethrower" Ish about to get real! #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment 🎥🍿

@gnomon It doesn't quite deliver for me, but it's far from the worst #Monsterdon movie we've seen

The Honorable Detective Inspector Gadget, M.B.E.

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@floatybirb perhaps the real speculative fiction was the functioning governments we observed along the way

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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) letterboxd review: invisible space cactus ruins everything, cockney lady provides commentary 7/10

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Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure! #Monsterdon #Quatermass1955

What, no, London, the monster's fine.

“It’s not a question of how many, it’s a question of where are they.”

Sir. Sir. How many is kind of important if they’re Ginormous Self-Expanding Digesto-Blobs!!!

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I think we can all agree it's both about how many there are AND where they are.

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@chirpbirb gotta make the little slugs!? #DadMissingThePoint #monsterdon

These guys are BAD SCIENTISTS. There. I said it. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Bunsen burner - Drink!

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warn the street waifs
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At night in the lab the goo ball decides that it wants to become a tentacle monster, so it breaks out of its cage, eats a few poor mice then evolves to its starfish form and takes a nap on the floor.

We inspect it with a Mr Bean extendo-arm and conclude that its about to reproduce, which would be bad because there are probably other goo balls around London already.

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@josh0 The zoo in Cat People (both versions) is similarly depressing.

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Is this like that bit in The Thing (1982), but with mice instead of dogs?

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“I think this time you really saw it” #Monsterdon