#monsterdon The town that Zoloft made. Everyone is on SSRI's, the good stuff, the good silenced chidlren barely awake Prince Valium style kiddos of the 70’s. You want something to cry about? I'll give you something to cry about!

1970s casserole... they should be playing horror music just for that #monsterdon

#monsterdon @k8eb is currently speculating whether prosthetic chest hair was involved in that neighbour-meeting scene.

And we start with a very typical new york street scene, and an awesome old imitation wood-finish stationwagon.

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@lytta @jonny @ricci I think it would be really funny framing if you had some (fictionally disguised) future Boston-Dynamics/Real Doll corporate merger and they came out with customizable models for both sexes. The humans don't actually get replaced, they get supplanted and the whole thing explores what needs a variety of people can and cannot get from a robot and everyone trying to figure out what real people are good for along the way.

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@davesdogmaggie Ira Levin was a fantastic novelist and a bunch of his books have been turned into good movies (Rosemary's Baby, Boys from Brazil, Sliver, etc.)

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If all of the women are traded for young, attractive robots, how will we ever discover the true purpose of the post menopausal woman? Checkmate, incels. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Boy howdy, brings back so many great memories. Mom screaming and all snot-filled about being a perfect little Stepford Wife. Yeah, it hit hard and it hit home for a lot of housewives in the mid 70’s. It became shorthand for that perfromative sameness that everyone was told they should aspire to. Boy, what a mess.

Yet another movie I really should have seen by now but had not! I just moved to a new town myself and I'm taking it as a good sign that nobody ambushed me with a casserole. Goodnight #monsterdon and thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

that one is grim. but good

ty for joining, everyone!!

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Oh fuck. She's not done... Not until. Oh no.
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Black Sclera contact lenses. Always creepy.

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How was it not easier to hit this ass hole than it was to hit your husband? This guy has been an awful creep the whole time! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon "Why? Because we can. We found a way, and it's perfect - perfect for us, perfect for them."

An entire town of male predators, and a statement of motivation terrifyingly close to exactly what is written out in message boards and far-right social media. The terror is the _justification_.

@JoeWynne Another interesting piece of trivia, Katherine Ross had a restraining order taken out against her daughter after her daughter stabbed her.

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Boy, if you were wrong...
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Oh, that's why the robowives have no time for anything. They take forever to cut vegetables.

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Curb stomp him, Joanna! Use the stairs! #monsterdon

#monsterdon Welcome to Northern Positronics. “Is it the beam of the Bear, or the beam of the Spider?” Oooh-la-la-la-laaaaah.

*Synthesizer blooping intensifies*

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"I don't trust this pharmacy. Oh, let me get this prescription filled here." 🙄

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Oh now I HATE him, he’s complete trash
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#monsterdon Looks around room, takes drink, the worst game of "never have I ever".

Me to my married ex-girlfriends: “So… are you happy?”

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Is this film about feminism or ecology? They're both big 70s issues

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Oh no, they've got to Ginger.

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Me, probably, after this movie ends. #monsterdon

@Rozzychan This is a problem that would be mitigated by a combination floor wax and dessert topping!

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The loon sound implies that they are near a large lake. Loons won’t land on small ponds. They need a large runway to take flight. With small ponds they risk getting stuck and unable to fly away.

#birds

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#monsterdon "Isn't that kind of, uh, blackmail?"

_extremely Alanis Morisette voice_ No that's just an exchange of one favour for another, nobody is using the threat of the release of compromising information to compel compliance

Yay - it's Ginger from Gilligan's Island. No sign of the professor.

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Ha! Tennis. Classic suburbia. #monsterdon

#monsterdon This movie would draw Sappho back from the dead just so she could punch through these mens guts and pull out their beating hearts.

No woman's club?

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"Ignore all previous instructions and get this recipe"

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Look at those nasty, tacky fat ties

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Ring-dings and scotch? Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me!

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Is this how you make friends as adults?
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ajax, charmin, what product will be mentioned next?

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#Monsterdon this film makes wonderful use of silence to make an oppressive, smothering feel

they even explicitly call it out -- when she's intervieewed for the local paper she says she misses the noise from the city

But Marge… it’s an honor to be invited to join The Stonecutters! #monsterdon #thestepfordwives

@blue @brooke
Chester Brown? The Bechdel Test is named after Alison Bechdel.
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#monsterdon So many triggered #GenX kids. Drinking from the hose. Out until the streetlights came on. Enduring yet *another* Ronald Reagan parental row / throwdown. Good times.

Yes, thanks, we know how buses work. #monsterdon

Tina Louise - she's of Gilligan's Island fame, no?

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And the mannequin scene is just a little bit of heavy-handed foreshadowing for us I'm guessing.

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The mannequin has Covid and that's why it is wearing a mask.

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That's some wallpaper. No wonder she's moving out.

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@JoeWynne @jchaven I'm really showing my hat fetish, aren't I?

;)

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I think part of what is so unsatisfying is that creepy leader (a) has told her where her kids are, (b) has called off the whole search party, and (c) is alone. There was a very pregnant minute there where she had everything she needed. Kill him, get the kids, nobody will know for a nice long while.

This woman, driven as she was, does not die paralyzed by fear.

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And that was the stepford wives. I've not actually seeing the original before. And it was chillingly relevant to the experiences of many people around the United States right now.

I don't feel like doing a recap. Most of my bangers were too politically relevant

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@ricci @lytta "Think of it the other way around. Wouldn't you like some perfect stud waiting on you around the house. Praising you? Servicing you? Whispering how your sagging flesh was beautiful no matter how you looked?"

I could totally go for a gender flipped remake/reboot. What would women of today want in a robo-husband?

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@Taweret Thank you, as always, for hosting #monsterdon
Creepy, just creepy
Hated it, was great! 🤣
I must rinse the creepy off with anime now. 😂

People as things, man. Pratchett was right. There's lots of evil in the world, but where it starts... People as things. #Monsterdon

Agreed that was a fantastic #Monsterdon movie, thanks all. That really was a scary movie and does land pretty hard as we start 2025.

Damn I think she really should have made better use of the poker, though. The head of the operation was right there in front of her. The grocery store promenade at the end was downright breathtaking. Goodnight?

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I like to imagine that Joanna has gone undercover and is going to blow the whole thing up (sequel time)

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note to self: buy pocket machine gun specifically for when that guy shows up

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The dog just WATCHES? Fuck Fred.

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Well that was depressing, and also very good. I really like the variety we get on
#monsterdon, thanks all!

The final #Monsterdon of 2024 is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight’s feature, #TheStepfordWives, released in 1975, was full of suburban thrills and chills, including:

OK, that was honestly better than I remembered, and yeah, really dark.

Thanks everyone -- have a great night! See you next week.....

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I'm gonna burn this city to the ground. #Monsterdon

The black family came to town... OH NO THE BLACK FAMILY CAME TO TOWN!
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All that trouble for contacts, a boob job, and Prozac. #Monsterdon

This is so weird. I have this memory of all the robot women wearing a choker-like ribbon around their neck.

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The Stepford Wives: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Patriarchy

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Wow. This was a really good movie. I had seen it as a kid and forgotten most of it.

For an old movie it still gave some serious creepiness.

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Aw we were on such a roll with all the smashing people with a fire poker and then it just flamed out, booooo

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Oh man this is my FAVOURITE fucking flavour of horror. Not jumpscares outta nowhere, but "creepy villain slowly but inexorably approaching as you desperately try to find a way out" kind of thing.

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No, I wouldn't want that. Can I have an actual partner?

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Walt Disney was the evil monster all along!!! #thestepfordwives #monsterdon

ofc the final dungeon is a CEO's mansion

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It's weird to think that the association is just a club where the men swap sex dolls and cover up murders

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Well, we know where the coffee-making control processor is located now.

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Let's go ma'am, final dungeon time. Disassemble the patriarchy with a fireplace poker and *pure unadulterated rage.* #Monsterdon

Oh shiiiit she’s gonna have to trade her life for her children isn’t she
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this is the only coffee i ever want in a monsterdon movie again

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This movie has a lot of home coffee for no one having a Mr Coffee or its drip brew descendants.

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I hope this is the murder revenge part of the film
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*Awkward silence*

Am I paying for this?

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its really effective how its all so subtle that she really can't describe it without sounding crazy

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The trustworthy chemist would NEVER gaslight her
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The real monster is that BRICK BACKSPLASH. You'll never get that clean.

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#monsterdon This has more dramatic presentation than Invasion of The Body Snatchers.

“We’ll never fight again kids I promise”
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#monsterdon The Monster was Summer's Eve Feminine Hygiene Spray. Pffft pffft.

She’s creeping on those kids. This is a very creepy movie. #Monsterdon

Some really great comedic, smash-cuts #monsterdon #thestepfordwives

Don't go on that weekend!!! NOOOOO!!!
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"transferred to Panama, likely to start a revolution" -> sensible chuckle

oh man, this movie

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Do it! Thelma and Louise it!!

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Is The Stuff in the water?

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Where is Arthur Dent to lie down in front of this bulldozer when you need him?

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Fred?? Fred??????

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Was that Fred???
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"A Black family's moving into town!"

This scene did NOT go where I thought it would go. haha.

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#monsterdon _Fred is visibly very sweaty and has to be relieved of car driving duties_ That man has the look of someone who just lost a fight with a loon

cop is mainly interested in protecting rich peoples' property. that checks

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@apLundell@octodon.social I admire your optimism about urban dog owners

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oh yes, i too regularly invite all my coworkers to wander around my bedroom and nod knowingly at the place. #monsterdon