As a species, we should do a 'King for a Day' on idiot billionaires

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so the mean rock guitar is telling us the script was written after various acid trips, right?

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and circumcision!
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"don't be afraid, I'm a Police officer"

hmmmm

Love the funky guitar for the chase

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ooh mr pleesman they're gonna hurt me

Welp

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if this movie doesn't end with Howie as the sacrifice, the 1970s will have been a failure. #monsterdon

Christopher Lee in a dress with a sickle and holly is transition goals

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#Monsterdon The May Queen is being “rescued.” I’m sure there’s no trickery involved.

good escape tunage

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#monsterdon Is Rowan manipulating him too? I wouldn't put anything past her either.

This part is just the most fun, everyone else is having such a wonderful time messing with Howie. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon this is tense.

"Don't you have hand candles on the mainland?"

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Well of course! Scotland, land of the furries #Monsterdon

anthrocon '73

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#monsterdon Lol I was right, he is the fool.

Hitting Punch is too ironic, at least stab him man #Monsterdon

Honestly though, I love being called a 'Heathen'

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#monsterdon They're purposely sending him on the runaround and having fun doing it.

The wise salmon is a real thing, known as An Bradán Feasa

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#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon "And my neighbor is the Trout of Athleticism."

It's like they took a bunch of rituals and legends from all over the British isles and put it in a blender

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Oh I spoke too soon about the fish people. Furries and scalies oh my.
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Assembling the squad

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I'm loving this violin music chase scene.
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@YsengrinWolf wait you mean there's *another* not-having-sex-through-a-wall scene in your version?

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@diazona the engine is on top, because they knew you would be watching this tonight #monsterdon

HAH! You can't be sacrilegious if it's not consecrated Christian ground. Heh.
And now it's almost as if there was no crime of murder on this island since there is no proof.
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So the title character would be a man made of wicker?

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I made honey-lavender-vanilla ice cream! 🍯🪻🍦

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They all eat canned food

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@blogdiva when the camera panned out i ghasped #monsterdon

He also sweats
A LOT
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Now I'm also remembering Woodward as part of the town cult in Hot Fuzz

FOR THE GREATER GOOD

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#monsterdon I would've GTFO Thar island long ago.

#monsterdon Rowan turned into a Hare?

#monsterdon A hare, oh wow.

@jonny There's organized religion for you

(as I'm sure you know)

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Jumping through fire with clothes on - too dangerous.

Jumping through fire with 1970s bush - completely safe.

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naturally, its much too dangerous to jump throught he fire with your clothes on

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@blogdiva imagine if the Pagans had won.... #monsterdon

now we know what henges are for

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Wait did the corn rigs song show up earlier? Because I definitely did not remember it

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is that a mini Stonehenge they have there?

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#monsterdon and I won't say anything else because duh.

This sort of thing actually goes on around stone circles now. usually there's a sound system and lots of drugs though

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Foreskins and... snake oil?

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ABNORMAL DO NOT USE. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

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#monsterdon Why the HELL did she force the girl to eat a frog?

One creepy groundskeeper

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Oh. Did she self mute "dead" or was it the soundtrack?
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The snailstone protects the newly born from the weird woman.

OK, I get that.

Still don't understand the singing.

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"[the penis] symbolizing in religions such as ours". For some reason I didn't realize that they were explicitly pagan, and thought it was supposed to be vaguely secret.

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#monsterdon Despite the movie being about a sex cult, the music is really good. I'll give it that. But holy shit lmaooooo.

Wondering if we chased off the Christians then would the British Isles have terrorised the world in the name of coin and Christianity?

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#monsterdon this woman is kinda crazyyyyyy

#monsterdon it's the cult mating call.

is... is everyone just... having sex... outside...?

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Watching the proper cut of #TheWickerMan is great but it's even better to get to see all the reactions of you first time watchers on #Monsterdon

#monsterdon everyone is on acid? I think? Idk? But the music is good?

Nope nothing that requires police investigation here, time to move along. #monsterdon

@rogue_corq yes indeed, tonight's film on #monsterdon

Crying naked by a gravestone, ahhh, youth.

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People fucking on the pub lawn after hours is an accurate representation of the UK today.

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1. the innkeeper's daughter is kind of an overused trope
2. ...
3. this one has her own song and dance, clearly well-rehearsed, all these drunks know their individual parts... what in the world is going on here

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The soundtrack of this film reminds me of that scene in Animal House when John "Bluto" Blutarsky smashes that guy's guitar. #monsterdon

that cop's weekender bag... i needs it, i wants it, precious, precious!

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I'm looking for a cadaver cake, do you have any? #monsterdon

Islanders are half a beat from going "Come back with a warrant!" #Monsterdon

This cop was belligerent and snooty with the Islanders, very Colonial

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🎵 It was upon a Lammas night when corn rigs are bonny beneath the moon's unclouded light I held awhile to Annie the time went by with careless heed til 'tween the late and early, with small persuasion she agreed to see me through the barley

Corn rigs and barley rigs, And corn rigs are bonny, I'll not forget that happy night among the rigs with Annie 🎵

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I love that 70s movies are always so leisurely with the opening credits roll.

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#monsterdon he wants a thingy? What??

I see he can pick up the easy listening station in his seaplane. #monsterdon

#monsterdon the music isn't half bad lol.

are we actually hearing some kind of digital pipe music?!?!

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GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO

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@aprilfollies Yeah. I’m ready for another Werewolf of Washington or Godmonster of Indian Flats. Need a palate cleanser. 😀 #monsterdon

#monsterdon - Still catching up on comments, this was actually a great movie! Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting The Wicker Man (1973). We had:
- Nearly Nick Cage as Captain ACAB
- A great combination of "Evil Village meets outsider", "The most Dangerous Game", and "I am curious: whatever color snails are"
- More butts than you could shake a maypole at.
- Christopher Lee! as Rod Stewart! as Ricardo Montalbon!
- Creppy Confection inspiration just in time for halloween.

Question for #monsterdon users: can I watch it on catchup because 1am is a little inconvenient for me? 🤔

I don't get the trend about #Monsterdon. Is it Mastodon for Monsters? No clue.

@yatsu ooooh I remember him now

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Duncan

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+ Howie, on the other hand, flies into the harbor, and immediately starts being a dick. When that doesn't instantaneously get him what he wants, he takes out a bullhorn, and starts being a dick, but louder.

At every opportunity, he's rude & disrespectful, makes no effort to earn anyone's trust or learn anything about local customs or traditions outside of 'these people are different from me, and therefore, bad'

The extended version really highlights how authority, divorced from +

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@ranjit @jonny @steggy @Taweret I personally read an implication that this was one of those communities that had held on to a lot more of the old celebrations and rituals of the past, and built on that - I mean, you're not imposing that sort of changeover from the top, you really aren't. But if it's already there (even if thin on the ground) you can certainly encourage it.

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oh wait, no, THIS is what i was remembering the Gravekeeper from! Captain Golgafrinchan! #monsterdon

@steggy @Taweret the exposition was like 'we bought the island, but then things went south so we mostly encouraged the people that were living here to bring back their old beliefs' and then also 'my grandfather centered himself in that and facilitated it as a way to keep order' so it's like... both i think #monsterdon

@jonny @Taweret This might have been my favourite scene #monsterdon

Kiiiiiinda feel like the twist ending of the wicker man was foreshadowed a wee bit by the title. #Monsterdon

Very interesting to me that the writer's pitch for a sequel involved the cop getting rescued at the last second and being the protagonist of the second film. Regardless of how you feel about cops, it feels like if that character doesn't die it makes a lot of that movie have no reason to happen. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon one thing that stood out for me this time was this girl in the classroom. 12, going on 40.

@moira Even if he didn't he'll never be the same. That much rattan will break anyone! --dad #Monsterdon

Wait. So, did they plan for him to knock out the tavern owner and steal his costume? Was the whole “let’s put him to sleep with incense” thing just a ruse?

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The hair though. I can't get over the hair. He does not look right when he is dressed for whatever contemporary year he is in, basically ever.

He did do a pretty good 70s Dracula, but he just wore a suit.

Daytime Lee, Nighttime Lee, 1973

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@CactuarJoe I was kind of assuming they were setting up to do this every year

Somebody would definitely eventually notice all the cops going missing but there's no room for that kind of thinking ahead in #Monsterdon (although this movie seemed to be trying to be more intellectual than our usual fare so who knows)

Anyway nice work team, thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^

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Excellent dread at being burned alive at the end there, I've had that fear

But the movie mostly made me wish I had occasion to make a papier mache hat

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Big thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's #Monsterdon - it was such a entertaining look at the quaint habits of the fair folk of Summerisle.

Christopher Lee never came across as ominous in this film. He was a bit different from other characters he’s played, IMO. I liked it.

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