@liferstate I think this is longer than the other version I saw too, but not _too_ much longer. And really nicely weird and not at all weird at the same time, depending upon which lens you're looking through at any given moment.
And that's a wrap. Both better and weirder than I remembered (though that's probably because I'd only seen the theatrical cut before). #Monsterdon
π¦#MONSTERDON Goodbye!
π₯ What a night! After excellent hosting by @Taweret, we have fantastic movie and hilarious Bingoing by @cheribaker ("Horny and confused":π ), then we had most entertaining input from the Real Time Film Analysis Squad...
And, as a bonus, a guest tooter @Ooze to answer questions! What have we done to deserve this?? Loved it! π
Toots still flowing...will have to leave soon. Told my wife I would show her my bonny corn rig.
Remember: in 1973 a lot of people were disgusted and scared at hippies, drugs, neopagans, rock music, folk music, sexual liberation, feminism, civil rights for anyone not white and/or Christian, anarchism, etc. There's a dog whistle for everyone there in this movie. And yes, I've enjoyed it.
I definitely need a palate cleanser after that #Monsterdon but not for the usual reason
thanks @Taweret for hosting and thanks @Ooze for providing context and information, another genuinely good movie for #Monsterdon and i continue not to mind it <3
@Lazarou
#monsterdon But he gets to go out a martyr so.... π€
great film, loved pagan christopher lee. goals
My favorite part was the Barbarella acid jazz guitar chase music. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
thanks @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting #Monsterdon & thanks everyone for the company β:A_BlobCat_CozyWave:β
If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched THE WICKER MAN (1973). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:
The head falls, the sun sets, and the credits roll (extended cut ends)
Many pigs were roasted that day.
I've never seen Christopher Lee sing so merrily before.
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
@RobynGoodfellow the cheerful singing is super creepy! #Monsterdon
Wait. Is Christopher Lee's big bushy wild hair intentionally like that to evoke a Green Man mask? Or is his really bad hair day just coincidentally perfect.
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
Another #Monsterdon is in the can!
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
Tonight's feature, #TheWickerMan, from 1973, didn't have uncomfortable furniture or bees, but it did have,
- Creepy confections!
- Frisky snails!
- Frog medicine!
- Fun day masks, and costumes!
- Mock beheading!
- A toasty little bonfire party!
And the next year all the apples tasted better than ever!
this death is going to be genuinely cathartic
anyone want to start an island community with me? #monsterdon
Livestock: "Why do we have to be in here with this assh*le?" #monsterdon
And then the sun fucked off into the sea. What a wild movie! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting! #monsterdon
So they put a bunch of pigs in the wicker man because everything's better with bacon? #monsterdon
i guess he did finally understand the meaning of sacrifice :^)
That is a good wicker man! A+ for production! #Monsterdon
an after credits scene showing christopher lee enjoying a fresh baked apple pie. #monsterdon
Only just now dawning on this guy that "sacrifice" means they're gonna kill him
#monsterdon "because I die unshriven" Well there was that whole big jar labeled "Foreskins" earlier in the film you could have just
Was this the first burning man?
#Monsterdon
I know it'd be futile, but I'd be resisting alot more violently than this guy.
All Cops Are Burning
#Monsterdon This is a little more literal scapegoat than Iβm comfortable with.
Maybe the real Rowan Morrison was the friends we made along the way. #monsterdon
wooden bender off to the side drinking all the ale
@CactuarJoe Always look on the bright side of life!
Turns out the real monster is crop failure.
they did keep telling him to leave. #monsterdon
A cheery tune to burn a man to death with π₯° #Monsterdon
#monsterdon He's at the end of his wicker appointment now.
that poor chicken, it didn't ask for that. #monsterdon
@CactuarJoe Oh man. "Get in the robot Shinji" just got WAY darker. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
i can't tell whether the movie wants me to be scared for the cop or think he's pathetic but i sure know how i feel #monsterdon
Pork BBQ #monsterdon #thewickerman1973
I mean the Greeks used to eat the animals they sacrificed by burning so it seems only reasonable that they'd carry that on
which naturally implies basting
#monsterdon Instead of being normal people, they wanted a sacrifice for their failed harvest.
Don't worry, the goose was also a king, a fool, a virgin, etc. They put it through all the same tests. #Monsterdon
All the music and naked dancing aside. This ending GOES HARD. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
nice fireman carry, bigman
"If you kill me now, I will become more powerful than you can even imagine."
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
Huh, it's a pagan Gundam #Monsterdon
#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon Wow, this season of The Traitors is a lot weirder than the last.
"I'm sorry. It was worse than I remembered it."
Oh. OOOH. HAHAHAHA!
So it wasn't her that failed last year. It was who they got last year that failed.
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
Crossover reference. #monsterdon
#monsterdon Lol he turn in to Joseph Joestar for a minute.
Now he gets it. He finally finally gets it. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
Sometimes I wonder if this film isn't just a drama, but the screenwriter's inner conflict. Look him up.
Here's his gravestone:
"...what do you mean, right kind of adult"
"welllllllll ..... you see ...."
next time i wanna creep someone out, i'm gonna get me and my friends to just stand around a person and HUM at them. A+ creepy. #monsterdon
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I hate this film
Christopher has some crazy hair there
#monsterdon
@Lazarou HOWLING
That barrel effs off into the sea #monsterdon
Lo-fi beats to get made the fool to
I forgot about the awesome 70s chase music. #monsterdon
starring Chris Lee as Pontius Pilate! #monsterdon
#Monsterdon Apparently they didnβt teach cops basic self defense in the 1970s.
Who set out this list of requirements for an ideal sacrifice anyway?
Did y'all get the ocean god too drunk one day?
AW SHIT Y'ALL HE IS A VIRGIN
#monsterdon
When you grow rich, say the bells of bowditch. #Monsterdon
"You have come of your own free will to the appointed place. The game is over" OH SNAP #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
Interestingly enough, this kind of echoes the tradition of "misrule". The ones with less institutional power getting to take the piss out of a powerful representative of the state for a day. Of course usually in Misrule the powerful guy is in on it. #Monsterdon
The music in the scene where heβs searching the houses and shops sounds a bit Tubular Bells-esque, with the Sailorβs Hornpipe and then the guitar (?) at the end.
This guitar is really hitting a sweet spot. Just all the right kinds of too much. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
Christopher Lee dressed as a girl swinging an axe was not something I ever expected to see #monsterdon
I absolutely love the procession!
Howie, I think you're about to be made a fool of again. For like the thirtieth time in the last hour and a half. #Monsterdon
What else in the way of ritual might we see in rl and are not seeing in this movie?
okay LMFAO that one kid acting like she was dead and falling over just to fuck with the cop is FUNNY
"Here Poseidon, have a drink on us." #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon Sword Star of Death! - no, only kidding.
Did he try turning the plane off and back on again? #monsterdon
C Lee in this getup is a MOOD. #monsterdon
The Salmon of Knowledge!
Quick someone film the Shadow Over Innsmouth but the fish people are all pranksters.
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
Russian roulette with swords
I feel like the copper is REALLY going to regret disguising himself in this outfit π
This is the porn version of Alice in Wonderland #monsterdon
getting very midsommar vibes here. someone saw this movie when they were little and wanted to make their own. #monsterdon
Okay, my dude, if you didnβt realize that people were messing with you before, a child corpse-falling out of a wardrobe as a joke really shouldβve tipped you off. #monsterdon
Y'know... has it occurred to anyone to sacrifice a cake to the pagan gods? Maybe they just want cake
MVP OF THE MOVIE IS THE LITTLE GIRL IN THE WARDROBE #monsterdon
Sgt. Howie doesn't understand the Prime Directive #monsterdon
Wait until he discovers that this is the costume for the person who gets their foreskin ritualistically taken off and added to the jar. #monsterdon
CUT SOME CAPERS, MAN!
those stairs are some inverse fawlty towers vibes
Howie doesn't have much emotional fortitude if a folk song and a little bit of wall-rapping can make him nearly lose it #Monsterdon