“Allow me to introduce myself, I’m Sergeant Yuckyouryum” #monsterdon

Walking outside and there's just a big ol' orgy going on, AWKWARD! #monsterdon

Oh. British food. How... appetizing :(
NO APPLES!?
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

So a young girl is missing on a heavily pagan island, and there's no food.

Okay, yeah, I see where this is going. #Monsterdon

"Food isn't everything, you know!"

[Conan the barbarian starts to wind up his speech]

#monsterdon

#monsterdon the bartender is giving him the eyes,. It's a bit strange. But whatever.

This scene does have the vibe that a bunch of the actors decided on their own they were going to make the film a musical and didn't tell anyone else. #Monsterdon

or a wee and a drink
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This pub is my favorite part. All these old folk are great. #monsterdon

Honestly it would be fun to go to a sing along showing
#monsterdon

"The Landlord's Daughter" would do big numbers on Tiktok, you know #monsterdon

Please don't mention my daughter in a song about strumpets #Monsterdon

a nice reminder that i do not miss the days of smoking (or accordions) in pubs even a little bit
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wow GREEN MAN INN we are not going for subtlety are we xD

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@Lazarou Is that a bingo square this week?

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SHE'S A HARE oh no it's that kind of movie. I picked the wrong night to give up hallucinogens.

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Green Man Inn, starring some previous #monsterdon protagonists.

“There’s only 20 people who live on this island, and I completely forgot about May!”

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon I love tea

Post office and sweets? Unsettling looking sweets.
Goat heads for the Great God Pan. Weird human effigies. So many rabbits. Skulls?
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

Corn rigs and barley rigs... and corn rigs!

#monsterdon
#TheWickerMan

So far, the only thing that's happened in the directors cut is commuting. #monsterdon

@wohali

Corn Rigs refers to a drainage system which was achieved by dividing fields into ridges around three feet high, and then ploughing then from end to end, the resulting furrows would drain excess water from the one above it.

got it so like the irrigation is pretty. #monsterdon

@fabio it is a good island, despite what people say... #monsterdon

#monsterdon Why can't these people just say what the fucks up?. BE HOnest!

#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon This sweet shop isn't creepy at all. Nope. Not at all.

Turtles? Turtles candy? I like turtles!

#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon

Send him the fucking dinghy already!

#Monsterdon

It's not well known, but the injustices
Edward Woodward experienced at the craft service table during filming later inspired him to play The Equalizer. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon "I told Seamus to de-list that fookin' AirBNB."

A circle of old white guys, very trustable.

#monsterdon

ACAB includes your seaplane-flying Scottish uncle #Monsterdon

The Eye of Dinghy!

#monsterdon

And now, please enjoy the stylings of the Scottish exchange-equivalent of John Denver

#Monsterdon

Now I want a dingie!

#monsterdon

Evil Eye dinghy?

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Damn everybody is so mosey in the neighborhood lmao.

#monsterdon
Can ya hear me? Can feel me near ya?

#Monsterdon “Have you lost your bearings?” People ask me that all the time.

lmao i love the glee with which the islanders are just fucking with this cop right from the start

#monsterdon

Those responsible for the titles have just been sacked. We will now commence with titles in an entirely different style.

#Monsterdon

And we're here, with the singularly uncooperative Summerisle harbor master. Police officer throwing his weight around.

#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

“I’d like a dingy please.”

Such a weird line. #Monsterdon

… and we’re taking off on the plane immediately after the very short church sequence, with some drone pipes and folk singing. #monsterdon

having that extra bit on top makes a great target for later in the film, Chekov is absolutely going to target that later in the film

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#Monsterdon CORN RIGS IN EFFECT.

I'm starting late with the Internet Archive-hosted extended version of the movie, let's see how this goes. #Monsterdon

This movie seems to be of high quality. I’m not sure how I feel about that. #Monsterdon

corn rigs ARE bonnie

that's true

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@strangefour would visit
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ok so i'm all geared up to be like the christians are the bad guys meddling with and interfering with the local religious practices of the area right #monsterdon

I swear, credits music might be diegetic.

#monsterdon

This movie already smells extra pungent #monsterdon

corn rigs and barley rigs time #monsterdon

@brooke Maybe if you join the constabulary they'll let you use theirs #monsterdon

seaplanes are also just those things that land down on the lake all day xD

#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon

British Lion presents ...

Wait, there's gonna be lions in this?

#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

Doon't go oon the mooors! #Monsterdon

Watching the chaos that is federated posting with simultaneous viewing is half the fun #Monsterdon

Britt Ekland fan club here. #monsterdon

Airplane sighted

#monsterdon

Seaplanes were always synonymous with adventure in my childhood. I always wanted to go on one. #Monsterdon

Sunday the 29th of April 1973

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there are soo many versions of this and i think we're all watching different cuts so this is gonna be chaos

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british lion, as opposed to those other, less cultured lions. #monsterdon

Tonight's race is between people watching different cuts of The Wicker Man.🏎️ #Monsterdon

5..4..3..2..1 GO

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#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO!!!!

WE GOT WICKER SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGN (and it's very well made wicker, too!)

#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon

Also: other movies starring Ingrid Pitt (for those who might be interested, and possible future #monsterdon options)

Countess Dracula: a Hammer version of the legend of the Countess Bathory
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065580/

Vampire Lovers: a Hammer version of the story of Carmilla
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066518/

Sorry for hogging the local TL today everyone. if u can see this and aren't sure what #monsterdon is, we just watched the wicker man together, so if you don't want your feed to be cluttered with out of context movie posts, u can mute the hashtag or join us next week. more info here: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

@FE78MLT A bunch of us get together and watch a movie together, _mostly_ a monster movie, and comment along using the hashtag.

It's every Sunday evening and you can get notices by following #MonsterdonAlert

#monsterdon #TheWickerMan

+ community, is a travesty.

Any way, I've probably rambled on too long. Long story short: ACAB, Scottish sweaters = good, inn-keepers daughters = hot, masks = fun, we don't have enough henges any more.

Thanks everybody for watching! Thanks @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week, see you next Sunday!

#monsterdon

For those joining this feed already in progress, we are bringing another Sunday’s #Monsterdon to a close. As you go farther back in the timeline you’ll see lots of mad movie commentary. Feel free to (a) filter out the #Monsterdon hashtag, (b) mute me as long as you feel necessary, and/or (c) keep an eye on #MonsterdonAlert for the next opportunity to join in!

ETA: https://meow.social/@YsengrinWolf/112946850632464485

apparently he was also in the late 1980s Beauty and the Beast TV show, so i'm sure i saw him there, coz i watched ALL of that, and IMDB tells me he played someone named Duncan in Babylon 5, so i must have seen him there too, but i don't remember that. #monsterdon

@Louisa perhaps you need a #monsterdon viewing mask

perhaps we all do

@steggy @Taweret i'm reading david graeber's "pirate enlightenment" rn and it has some echoes with the malagasy pirate societies that were a combination of european pirates actually being pirate kings and native peoples sort of coming to some equilibrium of power where the spoils of piracy were good and we sort of fuck around with these pirates to make them think they are kings #monsterdon

@jonny @steggy @Taweret I thought from Lord S's exposition that his grandpa pretty much invented the religion when he took over the island, and he would've just assembled it from whatever bits and pieces he liked.

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Pretty sure the first time I heard about wicker men was playing Nethergate: Resurrection - great game if you like Celtic age Briton with a magical turn based combat game with a lot of reading, and basically any game from Spiderweb Software I recommend (love the G.I.F.T.S.!) - because the Celtic side opens with a sacrifice like that.

Didn’t know they also stuck animals in there at the same time. If the main point is the human sacrifice, what are they, like side dishes? #Monsterdon

@justabean s'funny i thought that woulda been the most swedish

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@steggy @Taweret i think both - like it was a contemporary cobbling together of traditions, some from the area and others not, as the few-generation indigenous religion in the universe of the movie #monsterdon

#monsterdon the most eire part of this to me was how much some of the actors looked like they were in ABBA

@CactuarJoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r3XjiftkEM

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@moira The frogs didn't work, so they imported giant african toads #Monsterdon

@morganmay i mean, really, no thanks, but i did watch the #monsterdon movie with all the bees and didn't die. i might put up with a few shots of bees for some hilariously bad Nic Cage...?

#monsterdon hello

(anybody check to make sure the cop actually died?)

https://youtu.be/jLaCqrisEac?si=jpS21zCXK_TOToEZ&t=22

#monsterdon #TheWickerMan

@Taweret yeah its an old dehumanization trope, despite christianity having exactly the same kind of sacrifice rituals. like i thought that the twist ending was going to be that 'it doesn't mean literally sacrificing someone's life' bc of the way they kept splicing in the sacrament scenes #monsterdon

@Taweret i want to go back and see the exposition scenes in the full cut real quick #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @Taweret Ah yes, the gateway drug to frog legs! #monsterdon

@chirpbirb Lhude sing, cuckoo!

#Monsterdon

@Taweret The back up involved frog licking #monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie IKR?! #monsterdon

@moira @davesdogmaggie I thought clothes made the man (no you didn't) no, I didn't #monsterdon

so... should i watch the nic cage version? #monsterdon

final cut version of the movie will stay up here for a few days if you wanted to download a copy, but i'm gonna probably take this one down since there seems to be active copyright enforcement

https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/a5VLVAy5fpDHwtur4PCqKG

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*Clap clap clap* really enjoyed this movie! Now I am curious about the remake. I watch #Monsterdon on my own but I know a few friends who will surely enjoy this movie!

Always thankful to share my Sunday with y'all

#monsterdon So how did this go over in the 70s? Were people more on the cop's side?

I guess I have family who wouldn't think he was overdoing it with the religious disgust even today.

I love a happy ending

#TheWickerMan #monsterdon

@jonny Sorry for my technical ineptitude at the start. If anyone has any questions feel free to ping me anytime. @Taweret

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