@blogdiva hang on, surely we could not have made it through that whole movie without a woman's concerns being dismissed
@vknask @cheribaker @Taweret Just make a playlist with 20 minutes of good jazz and 45 minutes of crazy xylophone rambling and you've got the gist of it
Also #WaspCat makes a cameo, use your imagination for that one
@randy_s @brion Are you kidding? Do you know how many outtakes that could cost?
@brion really needed a rubber ball to come rolling into frame to sell it #monsterdon
Thanks for another awesome night of low brow monster movies folks! Can't wait to draw a new Monsterdrawn piece next Sunday! Have a great week cult film fans!
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@forestine @apLundell @moira Maybe she was after that awesome wasp waist #monsterdon
#FakeMovieFacts -- The Wasp Woman would inspire Ralph Nader to advocate for Royal Jelly restriction legislation, that was eventually passed under the Johnson Administration.
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@apLundell @moira either she had kind of an addiction to wanting to look younger or she really liked being a wasp #Monsterdon
Man, that was such an intensely Corman film. It had everything, the cheap costumes, the deep padding, the misogyny! The vague gesturing at the themes of other, better movies in an attempt to steal some of their mojo, like a cargo cult put to film!
>sigh< What an *auteur* >_> #Monsterdon
@diazona @apLundell @moira Particularly with anything made by Roger Corman! π€£ #Monsterdon
@moira @apLundell Too much royal jelly is bad, you have to cut it with royal peanut butter. Them's the rules #monsterdon
@apLundell @moira Be careful not to make the classic mistake of relying on the premise that any of this makes any sense at all
Thanks to @Taweret for another wonderful film from the vaults for our Sunday night entertainment!
Roger Corman could make an exploitation film about paint drying ... and now I kind of wish there was a grindhouse movie about house painters ...
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@apLundell yeah I think that's about right
@Zerofactorial @diazona @blogdiva INSECTICIDE?! WHERE?!
@diazona @blogdiva I thought there was going to be a DDT sprayer at some point, surely, but the producers refrained #monsterdon
@apLundell There was implication in her dialogue that she thought she'd turn into the wasp form if she didn't keep up the enzyme supply.
#Monsterdon B'Bye
This was fun! The movie does not have to be great, because you all are! Thanks for the commentary! You didn't miss anything but 75 minutes of productive time!
Thank you @Taweret for the heavy lifting. Get some Royal Jelly Enzyme Extract to revive yourself. It's clinically proven effective!
@cheribaker Bingo card did come together and was tricky. My favorite this week was "Grizzled Drunk Guy".
Have a great week everyone!
@blogdiva The steam used on the bees was so close to being bug spray
So, why was tonight's #monsterdon heroine so desperate for more wasp enzymes?
Was it an addiction thing? Did she turn into a wasp if she didn't get the injections? That doesn't make sense.
Did she want to be even younger? That doesn't make sense either.
@apLundell @Taweret I think a human-sized stinger would easily poke through gabardine #monsterdon
#monsterdon there is in fact a #cinemacats page for wasp kitty https://cinemacats.com/the-wasp-woman-1959/
if ishiro honda made a wasp woman movie, shit would've happened is all im saying
Fun fact: Roger Corman has never seen an actual wasp. #Monsterdon
Who am I kidding? Corman wouldn't know an allegory if it stung him on the ass with it's giant stinger. #monsterdon #TheWaspWoman
Waspinator done with movie now.
#Monsterdon #TheWaspWoman
@brion I know, right? #monsterdon
I remember walking out of another movie telling friends, "Y'know, I've _seen_ this movie before, I and I would've _sworn_ to you there was a plot."
And that was not this movie. Holy shit that was not this movie. xD
@sean @Taweret Just glad I won't have to agonize whether to vote for it when the poll goes up again #monsterdon
They all died.
That'll teach 'em
THE END
This has been.... a film.
Thanks for another delightfully sweet #Monsterdon with sting @Taweret !
@Taweret Couldn't afford a third act. Or a second. Or a first, really. #Monsterdon
Do wasps have a concept of "defilement"? #monsterdon
Or not. Damn it. Wasp cat deserved better.
Oh heart attack. I'll take it.
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@sean @Taweret That ... was not what I had been expecting. Not complaining though #monsterdon
@howler0502 yup checks out
No waspcats were harmed in the making of this movie. #monsterdon
So, wait, have I actually been watching Christopher Lee playing a Wasp for all of these years?
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well, no one f-ed off into any body of water, but we did get a whole lotta xylophone, and hints of a better, more secretary-focused Move That Couldda Been. thanks everybody, and good night~ #monsterdon
JUSTICE FOR WASP CAT!
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Wasp actress was really hurt by the "Carbolic Acid". She said it hit her hard. Someone filled it with water.
@apLundell Iβm sure heβs fine. #Monsterdon #TheWaspWoman
@apLundell her... wasp magic π
@neia Neither did I. But I like my card because I marked my squares using the spraypaint tool in keeping with the insect theme #monsterdon
@WhiskeySailor Given that the whole thing started with bees, I doubt it was ever clear
In the end, twas beauty made the beast. #monsterdon #TheWaspWoman
@apLundell he dead, bro.
@Taweret Cut her some slack, she was dealing with cosmetics executives, those aren't the B-movie monster's natural prey. She should've been stalking drunk teenagers, Corman took her out of her habitat! #Monsterdon
Whatβs the point of being a wasp if you canβt even fly out the window? Sheesh, what an ending.
@Zerofactorial OH dang! Gonna have to check that out now! Thanks! πππΌ #Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe to be fair I would not have known if the movie didn't show it on screen
Well! That movie was more sapphic than expected and probably intended, also I would like a full series about the secretaries please. Good night, #Monsterdon!!!
Well that one certainly had.. um.. a really good poster? Thanks again @Taweret for hosting! I sure hope that xylophone player got hazard pay. #Monsterdon #TheWaspWoman
_did_ anyone get bingo? Anna didn't and she's attentive!
RIGHT THEN so I think we have hashtag-wide consensus here that the soundtrack was the best part of this movie? #Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe Unclear, there was no march into the sea that I noticed #monsterdon
Hm, somehow that whole movie was not what I expected. I thought there'd be more wasp women, really.
#Monsterdon
I didn't even get bingo!
#Monsterdon #TheWaspWoman #MonsterdonBingo
ABRUPT ending, classic #Monsterdon
roll credits. what the hell. so confusing. so sexist! so... confusing in tone!
alright thanks all for this journey behind the poster for #monsterdon and to @Taweret for organizing!
Now that's some good soundtrackin'!
Four minutes left.
GIRL FIGHT!
Oh. Just one slap.
#Monsterdon #TheWaspWoman
Well, that was a thoroughly unsatisfying movie. I'm withdrawing from the Church of Transformative Cosmetics forthwith.
#Monsterdon #TheWaspWoman
@Newpa_Hasai haha fair point I get that
The better movie spinoff franchise: Tough-talking secretaries solve monster murders.
@SchlocklusterVideo According to this it was remade in 1995 for tv https://www.imdb.com/find/?s=all&q=the%20wasp%20woman #monsterdon
okay, that, uh, ended. #monsterdon
Dr.Z's got a grabber. #monsterdon
well, I will give it credit for having absolutely no denouement
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Thanks for the warning! Y'all do get pretty chatty when #Monsterdon is going on, I really appreciate the heads-up so people know the posts are coming and how to avoid them if they aren't interested. π
that certainly was a scream sound effect #monsterdon
that's right, wasps hate chairs
the end! she's a wasp! fuck!
well, that's not the character i thought would fall out a window to their doom, so there is that. #monsterdon
I kind of dig what happened with the soundtrack though... The jazz and the eerie brass coming together at last
The pipe finally paid off! #monsterdon
So wasps can't fly? But are vampires? I'm not sure if they know what a wasp is
#monsterdon
i thought wasps could fly #monsterdon
#FakeMovieFacts -- The Wasp Woman would be remade in the 1980s as David Cronenberg's "The Fly."
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this tense chase is getting really jazzy and swingy #monsterdon
i'm pretty sure that was dry ice
okay, zinthrup, i did kinda like you, but you were devoured by your own creation. next time, try proper clinical trials. #monsterdon
#monsterdon TAKE THE STAIRS DUMBASS
Who knew wasps were weak to stools #Monsterdon
Ah, no, Mary. It should have been Bill.
Wait, why didn't she turn back to human? No time to feed?
#Monsterdon
killed by his own creation?! :neofox_gasp:
Ha ha ha wow what a *lousy* break-down-the-door kick! All the judo expertise of Bob Lee :P #Monsterdon
The color flickering like a bad idea at a rave. #monsterdon #TheWaspWoman
Meanwhile the bees are going "don't look at us, we had nothing to do with any of this" #monsterdon
Wait how are they hearing Mary scream if they're not on the same floor
[knocks a hole in the door big enough to walk through] [still unlocks the door and opens it to take more time]
WHAT IS THIS SOUNDTRACK AGAIN
Ah-oooooh, wasp girls of Akron... Ah-oooooh.... #monsterdon
Slanted elevator buttons at about 1:09 on my version. Hilarious.
*sees very bloody cloth laying at scene of a murder*
*calmly as if on horse tranquilizer* "Bill. Look. It."
#Monsterdon #TheWaspWoman