@davesdogmaggie well yeah, they needed 'em all to make the man

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Plenty of female characters with names talking to one another about diverse subjects here #monsterdon

Howie, I don't think evangelizing from inside the actual wicker man is going to go over well. #Monsterdon

the shot of it burning down zooming into the sunset? perfect. 👌

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PRAISE THE SUN!
That's a monsterless Monsterdon wrapped.
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@Taweret lololol how did I not think of that

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#Monsterdon “Just step right into this wicker rocket. It’ll take you to Mars.”

🎵 Credits are icumin in, loudly sing cuckoo
Thank our hostess with the mostest @Taweret , please do!
Sing cuckoo! 🎵

And thanks to everyone else for sharing my favorite movie with me. We might not have all been on the same version but it was like having everyone in my living room. 💜
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@Infoseepage Pagans have always hated Rome #monsterdon

ritual sacrifice compares very favorably with the contemporary climate change grifts of carbon capture and whatnot tbh where the sacrifice is of our public body to be gobbled up by fossil fuel industry proxies #monsterdon

@dirtyoldtown Seems like a good idea to me. Can't be too careful #Monsterdon

The moral of the story is when you're staying in a strange place and the person next door is banging around a lot you should consider whether it might be an urgent coded message to heed #monsterdon

this is a fun ceremony, the music is so lovely :)

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Was not expecting an electric guitar as part of this soundtrack. #Monsterdon

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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
👯👯👯👯💃🕺👯‍♂️👯‍♂️👯‍♂️👯‍♂️👯‍♂️

Let the Olympics begin :birdsite:

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Are we sure they shouldn't burn a few more cops, just to be sure?

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i always wonder if they had a back up plan in case he did decide to have sex with the woman when she sang to him

was there a back up virgin cop running around the island we just never saw?

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#Monsterdon "the lord is my shepherd"
big Marge Simpson trying to improvise a song against the Bawdy House vibes

SUMMER IS A-COMIN' IN 🎵

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@diazona The cop was the monster #monsterdon @Taweret

@srol Wicker Man engineering is actually pretty difficult. I've seen some go down pretty awkwardly

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@socketwench@hackers.town The islanders controlled his every thought from the moment he stepped onto the isle. Lord Summerisle said "martyr" and that's all it took for the sergeant to take the role of the martyr.

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#Monsterdon listen dude at least it isn't a Mumford and Sons song or something

RIP bozo

Another #Monsterdon in the bag, it was great fun sharing the experience with people who'd not seen it before! Have a nice week y'all

AWAKE YE HEATHENS

they are awake and sacrificing you, you dumbass

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huh

Well, that was a weird movie, but usually there is a monster I can cheer for in my weird movie, all I got today was a bunch of creepy people. Can the goat be the monster?

In any case, thanks for hosting @Taweret and thanks everyone for posting, it was definitely an experience 😀

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These LARPers were wild back then #monsterdon

If you want to read about actual Druids then I recommend Ronald Hutton's Blood and Mistletoe. It has everything we actually know about the Druids.

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I'm awakeing
I'm howling

go on

Such an odd movie. Thanks as always to @Taweret !
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@Ooze so showing the sacrifice as being of an unwilling person like this is part of the propaganda you were talking about where the colonizers wanted to make them look as bad as possible #monsterdon

Classic movie, love it.
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Thanks @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I rate this 5/5 wicker men

"Others have figures of vast size, the limbs of which, formed of osiers [wicker], they fill with living men, which being set on fire, the men perish enveloped in the flames. They consider that the sacrifice of peoples guilty of theft, or in robbery, or any other offense, is more acceptable to the immortal gods; but when a supply of such people is wanting, they have the right to even sacrifice the innocent.”

-Julius Caesar

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ah! a clockwork orange! that's where i know the gravekeeper from. he played Alex's probation officer in A Clockwork Orange. #monsterdon

🎵 Summer is icumen in
Loudly sing Cuckoo
Grows the seed and blows the mead
And springs the wood anew
Sing Cuckoo!
Ewe bleats harshly after lamb
Cows after calves make moo
Bullock stamps and deer champs
Now shrilly sing Cuckoo...
... Cuckoo... Cuckoo
Wild bird are you! Be never still Cuckoo! 🎵
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It's the titular! He's here!
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@dirtyoldtown Maybe he's upset they didn't say anything about a carbon offset #monsterdon

If killing cops to fight climate change is wrong, I don't wanna be right #Monsterdon

that must smell awful
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"The willing King-like Virgin Fool." Hahhahaha.
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"How did they know that my weakness is wicker? I will never escape this rickety cage of twigs and thin branches." #Monsterdon

"I BELIEVE IN JESUS"
"that is good, believe whatever the fuck you want. we are still going to kill you."

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#monsterdon
your crops failed because uhhh
uhhhhhh
uhhhhhh

Well. That was something

Thanks @tawaret and friends #monsterdon #thewickerman1973

@davesdogmaggie Funnily enough I just had BBQ for dinner like two hours ago

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I don't remember the sergeant ranting so much from before, I think I'd watched the theatrical release then #monsterdon

"It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man."
That is a sound clip I have heard hundreds of times mostly because of the October episodes of a bad movie podcast.
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This movie needs a sequel that just talks about the crops of the next year. #monsterdon #wickerman73

Hahaha, big vibe switch w/ the 70s groovy chase music

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Okay. But how did the crops do? I was only half in on this one, but I just couldn't stay away. Thanks again to @Taweret. I have the weirdest craving for bacon now. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan

pity the pigs, but not the pig

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Okay, so they didn't eat the cop. I guess you can't have everything :/ #Monsterdon

So! Who wants BBQ?

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#monsterdon Have a good night everyone lol.

And Tubi follows with the Blood of Satan's Claw. #Monsterdon

I am sincerely considering Lord Summerisle as a hair inspiration. #Monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon. As always, our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and to all the folks who post and who lurk. And remember #Monsterdoners: Cheer up; food isn't everything in life, you know.

#monsterdon Lol this movie was fucking crazy, thank you guys for recommending it, it reminded me of midsummer.

Gotta love island sunsets #monsterdon

The grinning as they watch the cop burn
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Only a little bit of mustard? I mean that's a good dry rub for a pig, but use more folks.
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The original Burning Man!

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"i am a christian"
that won't help you here!

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*sniff sniff* anybody else smell donuts and coffee? #Monsterdon

so why was he shouting about Daniel? #monsterdon #wickerman73

There are a lot of verses to the human sacrifice song

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even my black kitten hobie came out from hiding after getting scared of furniture being moved, just to watch the wicker man burn

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Like Dr. Atkins slipping and dying and having wished he ate more carbs and less red meat, but it’s sex. #Monsterdon

honestly, thank god they're gonna kill this guy lmfao

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Damn Daniel #monsterdon #thewickerman1973

The ritual daubing of yellow mustard #monsterdon

#monsterdon I feel like this is stretching free will

L + ratio + touch salmon + burn a horrible fiery death to help fix my crops
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A community that sways and slays together, is a tight one indeed.
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Lee sounds so *delighted* with the phrase "our most dreadful sacrifice" #Monsterdon

uh, i think you've already been delivered into the enemy's hands, sir. #monsterdon

I'd be making a bit more of an effort to escape personally.

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Oh such joy
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This thing has two supports, both of which are now on fire, get some side-to-side action going my dude. #Monsterdon

There are a lot of terrible ways to go, but hearing these folks sing as the last thing you hear? That's pretty awful. #monsterdon

OK I'm bored, time to get on with burning this guy

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But if they kill him, who'll get to keep the cool seaplane? #monsterdon

@allanb ... --dad #monsterdon

I'm just saying, use this as your template going forward as cop cars burn

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#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon "The beacons are lit! Summerisle calls for aid!"

and he gets to listen to The Village Pops Feat. Chris Lee as he burns alive, so that's nice. #monsterdon

Ahahaha... Knew it #Monsterdon

"Welcome Fool. You have come of your own free will. To the appointed place. The game is over."
Oh wow this is more involved than I thought. He is the perfect sacrifice. An adult sacrifice. Hahahaha!
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@srol the G.O.A.... nevermind, nuthin! #monsterdon

Nice that he gets to rant at them one last time, tho #Monsterdon

They gave Sgt Howie every chance to not be the sacrifice. Willow tried to tempt him out of his virginity, people told him to go home and when he didn't, to stay indoors. More than fair I'd say. #Monsterdon

@ramsey I take that back, I don't hate the goat

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uhhh uhhhhh I totally fucked in a past life, y’all don’t know me #monsterdon

@moira something based on spicy mustard

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@ramsey TBH I kind of hate everybody at this point

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Huh, the cop is a suck ass Punch, whoda guessed?

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