Oh yeah! For one last #Monsterdon post, I feel strongly that I should link this:

https://youtu.be/wd3bulGaQQM?si=Ww35qVK0VtT1kBHp

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

@Taweret I wonder what it is about animal masks that seems so sinister. they also got used later in like heist movies and like hotline miami but that seems to be an old fear #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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@Taweret its complicated right like they didn't paint the cop in a sympathetic light at all but they also did lean into the "superstitious natives are wrong about Science" trope which isn't great. it felt like they wanted to paint a very sinister picture of the people on the island even if that mostly failed and it just seemed like people Having a Culture. cults are bad because they hold people against their will and have systemic abuse and etc. but this just wasn't that and so like the decision to make them sacrifice the cop against his will anyway seems odd, esp. since their other rituals included mock sacrifice like the blade ritual. #monsterdon

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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@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.

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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

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

🔥 What a night! After excellent hosting by @Taweret, we have fantastic movie and hilarious Bingoing by @cheribaker ("Horny and confused":😆 ), 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! 😍

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.

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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

Y'all really need to see the absolutely batshit remake with Nicolas Cage "

The Bees!"

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@Lazarou
#monsterdon But he gets to go out a martyr so.... 🤔

great film, loved pagan christopher lee. goals

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My favorite part was the Barbarella acid jazz guitar chase music. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

@Ooze @Taweret oh no definitely not, the cop was probably the least monster-y character in the whole thing

(maybe unless you go by the rest of the world's definition of "monster" but even then he hardly stands out)

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thanks @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting #Monsterdon & thanks everyone for the company ​:A_BlobCat_CozyWave:​

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:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

The head falls, the sun sets, and the credits roll (extended cut ends)

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Many pigs were roasted that day.
I've never seen Christopher Lee sing so merrily before.
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@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.
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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!

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this death is going to be genuinely cathartic

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anyone want to start an island community with me? #monsterdon

Livestock: "Why do we have to be in here with this assh*le?" #monsterdon

@paco all cops are bacon?

just confused about the whole pig thing maybe?

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And then the sun fucked off into the sea. What a wild movie! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting! #monsterdon

I'm not sure about the "there won't be any trace" plan for getting away with the murder. One doughy guy from the mainland basically figured out your whole society in two days and that was with the orgies keeping him all night. #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 :^)

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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

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#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?
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I know it'd be futile, but I'd be resisting alot more violently than this guy.

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All Cops Are Burning

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#Monsterdon This is a little more literal scapegoat than I’m comfortable with.

Maybe the real Rowan Morrison was the friends we made along the way. #monsterdon

Fuck this
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wooden bender off to the side drinking all the ale

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@CactuarJoe Always look on the bright side of life!

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Turns out the real monster is crop failure.

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they did keep telling him to leave. #monsterdon

A cheery tune to burn a man to death with 🥰 #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

"...here we call it a yellow nurple"

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Pork BBQ #monsterdon #thewickerman1973

I mean, if sacrificing a cop here and there is good for agriculture... #Monsterdon

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

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#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

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"If you kill me now, I will become more powerful than you can even imagine."

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"I believe in the life eternal...."

"Yeah, whatevs"

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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.
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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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shaffer_(writer)#/media/File:Grave_of_Anthony_Shaffer_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg

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"...what do you mean, right kind of adult"
"welllllllll ..... you see ...."

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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

I hate this film

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Christopher has some crazy hair there
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@Lazarou HOWLING

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Oh to be on a beach with Christopher Lee as he gives a barrel of ale to the ocean god.
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That barrel effs off into the sea #monsterdon

Lo-fi beats to get made the fool to

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I forgot about the awesome 70s chase music. #monsterdon

starring Chris Lee as Pontius Pilate! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Apparently they didn’t 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?

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AW SHIT Y'ALL HE IS A VIRGIN
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When you grow rich, say the bells of bowditch. #Monsterdon