#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

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

Manimal spotted!

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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

#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?

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

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Christopher Lee is just a man out of time, huh

He's like a Sears catalog Frankenstein, he doesn't fit in here, he belongs in Middle Earth or Transylvania

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This movie and many of its songs hold a special place in my heart because when I was in Wicca the HP of our coven would incorporate some of the songs into the holiday celebrations. The maypole song for Beltane, fire leap for Midsummer. Some coven members had costumes for ritual inspired from this. It's like hanging out with the gang again. #Monsterdon

christopher makes some good points

im moving to this island

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#monsterdon Parthenogenesis, so they're Gyaos, this IS a kaiju movie, splendid!

Ok. I get it. Pagan. But if they're pagan, where do the foreskins come from? Do pagans circumcise? #monsterdon

"Shocks are better absorbed with the knees bent" I've heard THAT one before. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

this cop would have a heart attack at any furry convention

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Sgt Howie clearly has a lot to learn about jumping over fires. #monsterdon

#monsterdon I was just quoting.

#Monsterdon Our hateful cop goes to complain to the Justice of the Peace about lack of Christian conformity.

Justice of the Piece, more like…

"Have these children never heard of Jesus!?"

HOWIE. :/ #Monsterdon

"Naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on!" LOLOLOL

Also, _holy crap_ the hair on Christopher.

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Lee's hair is easily the scariest thing in this flick. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

"we're a deeply religious people."
yes i can see that. (^_^)
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dang i wanna do the naked jumping over the fire ritual #monsterdon

@Lazarou It might depend on who's doing the naked jumping

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#Monsterdon Jumping the fire is pure Celtic though. Syncretism!

But how are the corn rigs, I must kno— ah here's the update, they're still bonny 😌

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And now you know why he built the house there. #Monsterdon

Interesting Childbirth class.

But, they must be freezing. I gotta assume Scotland in May is not warm

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Everyone on this island continues to be impressively well trained on the ceremonial dances

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I've been doing yoga ALL WRONG apparently. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

This baby ritual song is one of the strongest impressions this movie left on me in my first viewing.

And this copper is just like "man, I have a job to do"

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There appears to be an excess of fertile unattached women on this island

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We get it, you like corn rigs. Jesus. #Monsterdon

It was fall when they filmed the movie, so all the blossoms you see were glued on.

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So the movie is really an allegory on the idea of "normality" and "sane" when an outsider reaches an isolated region where he is no longer the norm, and the norms make it the "other" #monsterdon #wickerman73

Was that the girl? Surely you remember her face. "It was only eight months ago."

Please, I can't remember faces I saw eight minutes ago. #monsterdon

#monsterdon wow there's a bush.

he is so punchable #monsterdon

Classic film technique, smash cut to the jar of foreskins. #Monsterdon

Frogs? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Just dropped in for a jar of foreskins.