He’s alert. He’s a Lurch. #Monsterdon

We advanced to the medical lab, where Victor is sitting in a chair with a sun lamp and evincing a zombie like expression. Quarty and a doctor are investigating him via sunlamp when his girlfriend shows up.

By shining the light on Victor we learn that...
1) his skin looks weird
2) his face looks like a zombie
3) he can't talk

#monsterdon

Perhaps a glass of space juice might help?

#Monsterdon

this is the kind of astronaut that doesn't tell anybody when he's been bitten

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment #SpaceZombies

@amyfou lol

#monsterdon

For one second there I thought he'd let someone change his mind.

#monsterdon

"I'll inject him full of Mountain Dew syrup. Maybe that'll work"

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe LOL omg! I hear it works best with an egg beater.

#Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment 🎥🍿

Damn, his heartbeat is my jam! Crank it up!

#monsterdon

I lived in London for 10 years. This is exactly how they perceive Americans. 😃

#monsterdon

#monsterdon

A real man shaves with his slide rule.

Look, I didn’t turn on #Monsterdon for a maths lesson

#monsterdon “I know where the ship went... it was the leader, it went before the Event Horizon!” Muhahahahaha!

@paco i would consider shaving to be a private thing you do at home, in your bathroom...

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Yup, that's a Rotary Phone! ✅ #monsterdon #monsterdonbingo

Penetrating into enemy territory. I think that's what I'm going to call Pegging from now on. Under certain circumstances.... #monsterdon

Quatercask-mass more like it

extra sorry

#monsterdon

"Help me"

As opposed to all the not helping that was going on otherwise

actually wait, that's right...

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Continuing his plotline of being Heedless of Human Life, Quarty wants to rush into the ambulance and interrogate the injured Victor to find out whatever space mystery has swallowed the other two astronauts, but Victor can't really talk other than whispering "Help Me!" which is a reasonable thing to say inside an ambulance I guess.

#monsterdon

An early example of the trope to dickishly interrogate the critical medical patient who cannot be allowed to fall unconscious because they have completely unimportant information to advance the plot somehow. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment #Quatermass1955

I guess there doesn't need to be anyone smoking in this movie, the rocket's got it covered

#monsterdon

This looks like one where they made some super complex explanation for what happened to them and absoultely nobody watching gives a shit. #monsterdon

somebody got hangry up there (whistling...)

#monsterdon

New petition against tax!? AGAIN?? #Monsterdon

Why is the astronaut wearing... armor? Football gear?

#Monsterdon

I love me a nice…

long…

countdown.

#Monsterdon

@LingLass

Narrator: He, in fact, did not know what he was doing.

#monsterdon

Today I learned: You can respond to any medical emergency with oxygen, morphine, and glucose. #Monsterdon

I guess the main character is Quartermass, who I'm just gonna call "Quarty" because I'll remember it wrong anyway.

Quarty is a rocket scientist who is rather blase about his astronauts dying. He's also in charge of the recovery and can give orders to the army people.

#monsterdon

@kshernandez #monsterdon

idk if dailymotion has no ads, or if it's just my adblocker working

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p a d d i n g

#monsterdon

"You stand up.
You sit down.
You walk over there
You sit back down."

#Monsterdon

Why do you assume anyone inside the rocket is still alive?!?!

The impact should have killed them

#monsterdon

The firemen unravelled their hoses....

#Monsterdon

Quick, do everything I told you not to do earlier.

#Monsterdon

Look at the big fancy hats our firefighters used to have...loved those as a kid

#Monsterdon

Quatermass: Move fast and break things, dead men will be hailed as heroes, see here I've got this "crypt o currency" I'm selling next week.
#monsterdon #quatermass

"I launched it and I brought it back! That's quite an achievement, I think! Of course, I blew up the Moon and three dozen asteroids, and jettisoned critical cargo into Jupiter's atmosphere, but such risks are all in the name of SCIENCE!"

#monsterdon

THAT's how you pronounce it?

#monsterdon

blake is annoying (af)
#monsterdon

Now rest the rocket ship out of the oven for 2-3 hours

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

So what *was* their plan for landing the rocket?

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

#monsterdon “Blimey! Someone ought to FLOCK me, right here, in the field, that's right! I don't care who sees us FLOCK. We'll flock hard, flock all night, flock until we lose our minds!

"i'm a scientist, Jim! not a fortuneteller!"

#monsterdon

Don't worry, the cars will only start driving by themselves if AC/DC is playing.

#monsterdon

How do we know we're in the UK? First aid is a mug of tea.

#monsterdon #Quatermass1955

These were pre-siren days
#monsterdon

“Nothing to see here folks… nothin’ ta see”

#monsterdon

#monsterdon The fire company is screaming Final Destination catnip.

This #monsterdon starts with some clouds and words; then some teenagers are plotting to canoodle in a hay stack. However, their plans are foiled by a loud noise which scares them back to the girl's dad's farm house, which partly collapses. Anyway, there's a collapsed rocket in their yard now, I hate it when that happens.

The rocket crashed in Old Farmer Cleanboot's field

#Monsterdon

No worries my daughter, I've got my rifle for the thing that just fell from the sky. #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment 🎥🍿

Quartermass and The Pit (1967) is the third film in the series, but is the best of the three

#monsterdon

Just realized I've been spelling this wrong. Maybe I'm part of the Xperiment

#Monsterdon

Oh wow, Thora Hird! Non-Brits won't know who she is but she was somebody...

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon

Exclusive Films..
don't you mean XClusive Films?

Xclusive films present...

#Monsterdon

Sayaka YAMAMOTO, who plays Lora, was just 16 when this was shot. She also had no idea she'd be in this film two weeks before shooting began. Pretty good acting! (Not that the producers were looking for academy-award-winning performances from anyone here.) #Monsterdon

@ColesStreetPothole She didn't want to play with the snotty girls who wanted to buy new clothes and wanted her to ditch her sweet old doll and get a new one! She explained all this to her sweet old doll! So of course Mr. Dishevelled comes along, she'll show him and everyone she's no snob! Let's have tea! #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

The whole scene of the monster in the abbey is kinda spectacular. 👍

#Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment

I forgot how long the in house fight was. It's a great setting for a tiny magic fight but dang. It's like the finale of Mr Vampire in here.
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra

An early tech bro, I guess 🙁. Still, a good moody film. #Monsterdon

@xerozohar Quatermass and the Pit is SO MUCH better than this one. I hope we can do that one some day. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@turgon Interesting question! But not one I'd know.

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@diazona Mini Mothra is pretty neat. #monsterdon

I guess Re-Animator, but Herbert West again means well, and Jeffrey Combs is funny.

The Dunwich Horror? Dean Stockwell's the most charming weirdo, and is legitimately evil and summoning his Other Father.

Dr Quatermass: Possibly not as bad as the worst two H.P. Lovecraft villains, but less charming.
#monsterdon #quatermass

Trumpy you can do stupid things.
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra

Wait they aren't all the same age!? Not even the two twins??? Whut.
#Monsterdon #RebirthOfMothra

costumes looks nice
#monsterdon

I like this old girl, Rosie, she knows her rights, damnit!

#Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment

Thanks for a great monsterdon everyone, that one was weird. What are we voting for on Monday? :D

#Monsterdon

@JoeWynne @maunmaun ikr

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@Violinknitter oh yes! #Monsterdon

@Terencio

Yeah, take that Alf! And weird octosquid space thing.

#Monsterdon #TheQuaterMassXperiment

Meanwhile on Wrong Frogs double feature from @miru
It's Mothra! FOR THE 90s!
#Monsterdon #Mothra1

@strangefour Right? He's objectively the worst person or monster in the film.
#monsterdon #quatermass

Last time #monsterdon did Rebirth of Mothra (not as a double feature) was 2022 with 122 toots. https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/rebirth-of-mothra

Thanks for a lovely #Monsterdon, a rare opportunity for me in the winter 😊✨

Thanks @Taweret as always for organizing.
Thanks for a lovely stream @miru, time to browse #MutualAid

Love y'all 💖

#TheQuartermassXperiment

And so ends the short and slightly goopy life of the Cactopus.

Thanks as always to @Taweret for putting all of this together, and to @miru for the stream!

That's another #Monsterdon in the can!

#TheQuartermassXperiment

Well, that was fun! I'm not a fan of the old B&W sci-fi usually but this was charmingly sincere and British. With bonus evil cactus! Thanks for the laughs, everyone. #monsterdon

What we have learned is that being able to punch things and absorb their essence is a sweet superpower

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! That was delightfully weird. Now onward to Rebirth of Mothra, otherwise see you all next week!

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

well that was a film alright... i think...
Lots of #MonsterdonBingos...

Appriciating the almost [Adult Swim] intermision vibes on @miru@social.miyaku.media
#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@kshernandez IMO: the rich techbro had her stuffed into a mental institution so she couldn't tell her story and diss him more. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

That's a wrap. A lettuce wrap full of gelatinous aloe octopus goodness. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment #Quatermass1955

THE HAMMER IS MY PENIS.

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassExperiment

The definition of Quatermass is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. The end.

#Monsterdon

Oh this WAS actually a HAMMER film! No wonder it had shades of the 1958 "The Thing" in it. :)

#Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment

"GONNA START AGAIN!" And so Quatermass, the real monster, f's off into the sky. #monsterdon

Quatermass is obviously going to skip town before they throw him into prison. #Monsterdon

GOD I LOVE SHORT MOVIES ON A SUNDAY NIGHT!

#Monsterdon

What's with all the walking through shadows.

Don't tell me this is just gonna keep happening every month with a new rocket.

#Monsterdon

@MatthewTitus88 ...starts sobbing #monsterdon

ah. gonna start again. so our protagonist has learned nothing, and we are guaranteed a few sequels. the studio must have been thrilled.

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Actually went, "Oh, come on!" out loud at that ending.

It's a great ending though.

#Monsterdon

Notice his hands are in his pockets. He's got those cactus hands now, doesn't he?
THE END
#Monsterdon

Weren't the blobs all over the city? How is frying one of them solving all the rest?

#monsterdon

They don't reply because they are possessed by The Alien.

#monsterdon

Is Quatermass going to fuck off into the sea now?
#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

#Monsterdon 🚀 🪐 👽 🚀 🌍 🥼 😱

oh good lord simple bible dude stop saying simple bible stuff

I wonder what it smells like in there now #Monsterdon