"You have come of your own free will to the appointed place. The game is over" OH SNAP #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

"Now to the beach!"

dropping some bangers, get the party started

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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 he’s searching the houses and shops sounds a bit Tubular Bells-esque, with the Sailor’s Hornpipe and then the guitar (?) at the end.

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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!

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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

@Ooze

What else in the way of ritual might we see in rl and are not seeing in this movie?

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okay LMFAO that one kid acting like she was dead and falling over just to fuck with the cop is FUNNY

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"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

when you get a photographer for your human sacrifice

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The Salmon of Knowledge!
Quick someone film the Shadow Over Innsmouth but the fish people are all pranksters.
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Russian roulette with swords

I feel like the copper is REALLY going to regret disguising himself in this outfit 🃏

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"Use your bladder! Play the fool!"

the parade takes a kinky turn

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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 didn’t realize that people were messing with you before, a child corpse-falling out of a wardrobe as a joke really should’ve tipped you off. #monsterdon

Y'know... has it occurred to anyone to sacrifice a cake to the pagan gods? Maybe they just want cake

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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!

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those stairs are some inverse fawlty towers vibes

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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

#Monsterdon Cop is not amused by your Hand of Glory. Insufficiently glorious?

#monsterdon A hand candle. A _handle_.

Wait, hand of glory? That's not how they work in D&D or that one Charles Stross series

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"I'm slicing the cake. Want a flower?"

"I'll take the crotch."

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Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer. #Monsterdon

Oh, wow! The girl who falls out of the wardrobe, feigning death, was amazing! Troll the cop!

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slashed doublets and a codpiece. nice. #monsterdon #wickerman73

#monsterdon Just noticed the apple crates on the ship had the Nouda (or however it was spelt) sun logo on it, same as the flag from earlier in the rally they were having.

sleeping in your hotel room with the door open is certainly A Choice #Monsterdon

Love that single braid. Also I want to have drink with that innkeeper. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

@SnoopJ They just are really into dingies #monsterdon

It's a local dish. "Caskets and gravy." #monsterdon

#Monsterdon From creepy folk songs to creepy nursery rhymes, they’ve got it all!

OK POPPING OUT from behind the wall wearing animal masks is an incredible power move i am so stealing that #monsterdon

The salmon of knowledge? I feel bad for having just eaten salmon then. #monsterdon #wickerman73

i like how this film plays up her dancing and rhythmic smacking but irl we would be like "SHUT THE FUCK UP I'M TRYING TO SLEEP"

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@blogdiva And when he reaches the climactic portion of his reading, the librarian looks up at him like she heard him! #Monsterdon

Manimal spotted!

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#monsterdon this town is nuts.

#monsterdon lol the twin furry lmaooo.

This plot feels a little like the Shadow Over Innsmouth. Only instead of a bookish antiquarian you have the most uptight cop. And instead of fish people it's just some slightly odd but very nice pagans.
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I'll have what she's having

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Well! I'll just have to find Rowen Morrison myself!

Which is why I came here in the first place, now that I mention it.

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Can the idyllic past we harken back to be the one where we danced tits-out at home alone for a good time? #Monsterdon

I have to imagine that parking your airplane in the ocean overnight is not great for the engine

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I'm taking a lot of notes from this week's #Monsterdon for the #CultOfRamenCatholicism

* The "clothing is optional" rule shall be amended to include, "unless you are jumping over the bonfire - get nekked, dumbass"

* Orgies will NOT be mandatory.

* When the cops show up [redacted]

STOP TELLING THEM YOUR PLANS DIPSHIT my god he's so bad at this #Monsterdon

@SnoopJ Can't go too long without banging that wall #monsterdon

Britain and Chicago share that checkerboard band on the cops cap #Monsterdon

Oh. They're furries. NOW it all makes sense. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

tbf im really bad at knowing when someone is flirting with me, this would go over my head too
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#monsterdon lol now they're on the furry bullshit.

@Taweret Someone went to a lot of trouble #monsterdon

Bingo!
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Remember, that's a stunt muff, a stand-in vagina.

Imagine having that credit on your CV

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how nice of him to read aloud for the elderly members of the community. #monsterdon

the songs are good actually

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Chekhov's Innkeeper's Daughter!

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#monsterdon They're mad, madder than the mad hatter.

It's fun how so much of this story is specifically set up to drive the brittle, power hungry, chest thumping christian cop bonkers.

And also how so much of dark implications he's finding are from sources affirming of his worldview.

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this cop is so fucking mad roflmaooooo

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The Rowan tree was sacred to the Celts. One was forbidden to touch it other than for ritual reasons. It was protective against evil forces and was used on funeral pyres.

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Seems like all of us watching different cuts of the film are still in sync so far, even with ads. A miracle! #monsterdon

pagan christopher lee is super cool and goals tbh

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I for one would stay for May day.

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Ah yes. Tell them your plans to get them in trouble. Always smart #Monsterdon

I wonder if it's true what Lee don't wear beneath his kilt? #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

“Gave them back their joyous old gods” he says to the “Christian copper“. I am loving this 😄 #Monsterdon

christopher lee's delivery of "heathen" is priceless

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Don't throw dead animals at people while they're singing, dude! That's just rude

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@Lazarou He's quite driven

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Yeah baby! #Monsterdon

Here the Old Gods aren't dead! Ia! Ia!
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@qui_oui Christopher Lee with the best line so far! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Dibs on #PaganBarbarity for a band name.

I love the inflection Lee puts on "~foul play~" #Monsterdon

"I hope you don't think I can be made a fool of indefinitely." We'll see about that. #Monsterdon

dude tosses a dead hare at people and wonders why people don't like him. howie. sir. #monsterdon

This film is sheer punishment

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Rowan (I'm assuming) is a remarkably well-preserved hare for supposedly having been there 8 months

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That hare looks great for being dead for 8 months! #monsterdon

"Barbarity?! In the 20th Century?! NEVER!"

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Graveyard keeper gives me Richard Simmons vibe.

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oh he is MAD lmfao

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Surely it's better to exhume graves in daylight? #monsterdon

basically a commercial ownership of the land went belly up and so they instead did collective ownership of the land and encouraged the people who lived there to revive their original customs and things seem to be going pretty good????? is this a land back movie?????? #monsterdon

the slight quiver in his face as he demands why some people aren't Christian #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Parthenogenesis and the Old Gods. Who says science and religion can’t coexist?

Wait, the fancy new fruit cultivars thing feels like we're SF adjacent. Which is on-brand for monsterdon.

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@wohali@octodon.social that air of total authority while talking the most outrageous and incorrect bollocks #monsterdon

The grandfather, now *that's* a proper Christopher Lee, beard and all

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