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!
Black Sclera contact lenses. Always creepy.
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.
Boy, if you were wrong...
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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*
"I don't trust this pharmacy. Oh, let me get this prescription filled here." 🙄
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".
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Is this film about feminism or ecology? They're both big 70s issues
Oh no, they've got to Ginger.
Me, probably, after this movie ends. #monsterdon
@Rozzychan This is a problem that would be mitigated by a combination floor wax and dessert topping!
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.
Yay - it's Ginger from Gilligan's Island. No sign of the professor.
Ha! Tennis. Classic suburbia. #monsterdon
No woman's club?
"Ignore all previous instructions and get this recipe"
Look at those nasty, tacky fat ties
Ring-dings and scotch? Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me!
Is this how you make friends as adults?
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ajax, charmin, what product will be mentioned next?
#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?
And the mannequin scene is just a little bit of heavy-handed foreshadowing for us I'm guessing.
The mannequin has Covid and that's why it is wearing a mask.
That's some wallpaper. No wonder she's moving out.
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.
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
@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?
@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?
I like to imagine that Joanna has gone undercover and is going to blow the whole thing up (sequel time)
note to self: buy pocket machine gun specifically for when that guy shows up
The dog just WATCHES? Fuck Fred.
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:
Random casseroles! Parking lot catastrophes! So much product placement!Tampax and Ring Dings!The Texas Tranquilizer!These aren’t your grandpappy’s animatronics!
OK, that was honestly better than I remembered, and yeah, really dark.
Thanks everyone -- have a great night! See you next week.....
I'm gonna burn this city to the ground. #Monsterdon
The black family came to town... OH NO THE BLACK FAMILY CAME TO TOWN!
#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives
All that trouble for contacts, a boob job, and Prozac. #Monsterdon
The Stepford Wives: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Patriarchy
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.
Aw we were on such a roll with all the smashing people with a fire poker and then it just flamed out, booooo
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.
No, I wouldn't want that. Can I have an actual partner?
Walt Disney was the evil monster all along!!! #thestepfordwives #monsterdon
ofc the final dungeon is a CEO's mansion
It's weird to think that the association is just a club where the men swap sex dolls and cover up murders
Well, we know where the coffee-making control processor is located now.
Let's go ma'am, final dungeon time. Disassemble the patriarchy with a fireplace poker and *pure unadulterated rage.* #Monsterdon
this is the only coffee i ever want in a monsterdon movie again
This movie has a lot of home coffee for no one having a Mr Coffee or its drip brew descendants.
I hope this is the murder revenge part of the film
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its really effective how its all so subtle that she really can't describe it without sounding crazy
The trustworthy chemist would NEVER gaslight her
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The real monster is that BRICK BACKSPLASH. You'll never get that clean.
#monsterdon This has more dramatic presentation than Invasion of The Body Snatchers.
#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
Do it! Thelma and Louise it!!
Where is Arthur Dent to lie down in front of this bulldozer when you need him?
Fred?? Fred??????
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.
#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
@apLundell@octodon.social I admire your optimism about urban dog owners
oh yes, i too regularly invite all my coworkers to wander around my bedroom and nod knowingly at the place. #monsterdon
This movie is 100% an indictment of daytime advertising. #Monsterdon
Hey we just met here are all my most personal life details
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@Infoseepage There was definitely something resembling sex
#monsterdon This town has the most lonely, destitute, and ignored Hitachi Magic Wand saleslady in the entire state. Boxes of D Cells all over the place, nobody who wants any of it.
"i'm not contemplating any maidenform bonfires." I AM. #monsterdon
whenever I have one too many, I just become desperate for recipes. you know how it is
#monsterdon She's having a broken record moment. *empty headed stare into the void*
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40 minutes in and we are getting a vague clue YAY!
MASTODON: A woman talking to another woman? Lesbian?!?!?
TFW you stumble into tradwife TikTok
#monsterdon Ooh that was a very interesting panning crane shot from the kids running through the underbrush up to the raised pool there! Great way to establish the space, entrances/exits, and the implicit ranking of adults in children in this space in about five seconds flat.
39 minutes into the film so far and it's just been miscellaneous nuanced offkey human interactions
You had me at cake, lost me at walk
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"I used to gawk at all those girls in those magazines" WHY DID YOU MARRY A MAN
Wow these men like to yap
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