I'm sorry, if someone sent me a massive hat I'd be happy man
#monsterdon

lol, @ oversized Mexican hat appearance

#monsterdon

After this we get an evil conference where the Black Dragon, who is dressed kind of like a chef if chefs wore silk pajamas that were shaped like chef clothes. Also, he has a fu manchu mustache to show that he is evil and an orientalizing stereotype that the ghost of Edward Said is probably frowning at, even though Edward Said was Palestinian and not Chinese, he'd probably not like that.

#Monsterdon #WrestlingWomenVsAztecMummies

So after we get tired from our wrestling fight, the wrestling women get a Quest from a Quest Guy. I guess the Black Dragon guy is trying to steal an ancient something or other... I think it's an Aztec codex, and he's been killing people to um... get it somehow. Anyway, then a spy for the black dragon kills the Quest Guy I think with wizardry, which is Shocking!

#Monsterdon #WrestlingWomenVsAztecMummies

@foolishowl I would like a movie version of Grim Fandango

#monsterdon

The evil genius is kind explaining the process of how social media radicalizes people

No need for orbs or injections

#monsterdon

I'm not sure about the guy voicing the Chinese/Mexican villain. Sounds more like a California-based comic-book enthusiast.

#monsterdon

Okay I know we're all gonna make fun of The Dramatic Envelope but you can't tell me you don't react to important mail like there's a full brass band sting every time you open the mailbox. #Monsterdon

@Taweret The score is having strong feelings about that envelope.

#monsterdon

Okay, so the Juggalo archaeologist is killed by this Fu Manchu lookalike, who I guess is the evil "Black Dragon" and is some kind of problematic supervillain. His job is to cackle and kill people with sorcery I guess.

Anyway, we are then given like 5 minutes of women wrestling. Despite my expectations, these were not muscly luchadoras in cool scary masks but more like generically attractive 1960s women actors.

#Monsterdon #WrestlingWomenVsAztecMummies

¿y por qué el cholo boss está hecho en la China?

#Monsterdon #LuchadorasVMomiaAzteca

I love when a character in an old movie lights a candle and the lighting guy has to bring up a spotlight at exactly the same moment, it never looks right and it's charming

#Monsterdon

If that candle sheds that much light, maybe we don't need LEDs, we can just light every set in Hollywood with a handful of candles

#monsterdon

"Uncle Tracy escaping? But why?"

Luchadora #1: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#Monsterdon

"Let's all live here. Together. Until this is done. Just me, three beautiful women, and some stuffy old professor. And all this alcohol."
#Monsterdon #WrestlingWomen #AztecMummy

las güera gringa sabe varias palabras en español, 'dito

#Monsterdon #LuchadorasVMomiaAzteca

I like how involved the lady characters are in the plot, refreshing.

Are we with a chance of a Bechdel?

#monsterdon

"Go to their deaths" sounds entirely too much like "go to their desks"

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon mayo! On a sandwich! Spread thin. Let’s not blow out the calorie estimate.

#Monsterdon 1964 Studebaker Clown Car.

Dr Sorbet was forked and frozen?! #Monsterdon

It's the oily head mob

#monsterdon

@rallias I'm starting to think this might not be as rigorously verified as we had been led to expect!

#Monsterdon

whoa whoa whoa infodump guy, slow down

#monsterdon

lo jodido de esta pelea es que la cholobbit le llega apenas a las rodillas de la gringa güera contrincante. y claro, con la überchola que es su cuate, les ganaron feo en la batalla. ni apenas sudaron.

#Monsterdon #LuchadorasVMomiaAzteca

I expected a mummy not some black dragon TBH
#monsterdon

Gosh honey they were really rough on us!

You and I almost didn't make it!

And we've passed the Bechdel Test.

#monsterdon

If we can get an Aztec mummy into the ring now, this whole thing could wrap up in about five minutes.

#Monsterdon

"I was saying 'BOOO-URNS'"

#monsterdon

ah yes if you chop someone lightly on the shoulder they will collapse unconscious. it is known

#monsterdon

las tiritas de sangre en la cara como si tuvieran una escasez de koolaid

#Monsterdon #LuchadorasVMomiaAzteca

What is that Chinese character doing to that man, I thought it was Aztecs we were dealing with?

#monsterdon

and we have some racism

#Monsterdon

Filmed on-site at a real aztec temple! (maybe)

#monsterdon

Funny that doesn't look like Florida

#monsterdon

dripping letters in the title card, always a good sign

#Monsterdon

ah, young america, when the forests were still verdant, and the democracy still functioned. #monsterdon

That pyramid is Mayan, isn't it?

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Here we go!!

And away we go! #Monsterdon

@floatybirb Wrestling Women versus the Undead Aztec Librarian?
#monsterdon

@jonny Heavy "Friends" vibe, in their shared apartment base camp, so no one told me life was gonna be like this, or whatever the lyrics are, clap clap clap clap clap clap clap #Monsterdon #TheWrestlingWomenVsTheAztecMummy

@floatybirb I thought it would just be that $250 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe back from the dawn of the interwebs

#Monsterdon

@Infoseepage ....majestic....

#monsterdon

@floatybirb I love that you are still trying to create a better movie.

#Monsterdon

Was watching cartoons this morning and saw someone familiar.

#Monsterdon #Blacula

@blogdiva Hard agree

#Monsterdon

I am still reading the #monsterdon thread and just DYING. My roommates are concerned.

@floatybirb Our women wrestlers lost the first round, then won the next two rounds, and the match. #Monsterdon #TheWrestlingWomenVsTheAztecMummy

#Monsterdon 🤼‍♀️ 🪶 🐲 🤕 😱

Thanks, everyone for another very weird cinematic experience!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @JoeWynne for the trivia and @cheribaker for the bingo card...

...but most of all, thanks to you #MonsterFriends for making it fun!

Food for thought: The Wrestling Women series as the Sharknados of the 60's

#Monsterdon

I think Loreta and Golden Rubi share lines after their first wrestling match to give us a Bechdel pass #monsterdon

@hollie @foolishowl Here you go! https://thediremushrump.threadless.com/designs/monsterdon-doodles-color (fortunately the link popped right up in my browser history)

Unfortunately I can't remember who designed it - it was one of us regular participants - but I'm sure someone else will know

#Monsterdon

@floatybirb
Somebody contact Netflix!
#Monsterdon

anyway good job team and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting

and always remember

#monsterdon #WrestlingWomanVsAztecMummy

@Lazarou It'll be in their study forever. #Monsterdon #TheWrestlingWomenVsTheAztecMummy

@Taweret please please can we 👉👈🥺
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050717
#monsterdon

@hollie @foolishowl Ooh actually that would be pretty sweet to have more #Monsterdon T-shirts with text slogans or references to specific movies

(if you haven't seen, someone designed a #Monsterdon T-shirt which has a drawing of dozens of different monsters from the movies we've watched)

I’ve never done a #monsterdon but it makes me happy to see people I love Doing The Internet in one of the only good ways that remain

@cainmark oooh well this would be a really good one to use the nifty new replay site with

Do not attempt to watch this movie without a hundred people alongside you to make fun of it

#Monsterdon

@foolishowl 😂

Please put this on a #Monsterdon t-shirt

@north I was just kind of overwhelmed with nonsense by that point

#Monsterdon

I did like the wrestling women, but I don't think they can carry the lead weight of everyone else in this film. The mummy did his best but basically he's just some minimum wage mook that the elites are exploiting for their own ends #monsterdon

la momia se quiere tirar a la güera. todos los machos son los mismos, vivos o muertos o zombis o momias regeneradas.

#Monsterdon #LuchadorasVMomiaAzteca

@floatybirb
You missed the part where mummy turned into a bat, and then the bat flew backwards out the closed window because of the sunrise?
#Monsterdon
#TheWrestlingWomenVsTheAztecMummy

Big thanks to @Taweret for introducing us to what I assume is the pinnacle of 1960s Luchador vs Mummy film making. Could have used a bit more wrestling *with* the mummy, but it pretty much delivered as expected.

#Monsterdon #WrestlingWomenVsAztecMummy

@Infoseepage Only in our dreams tonight. Only in our dreams.

#Monsterdon

@Infoseepage Just because they're wrestling women doesn't mean *all* they do is wrestle. They can clamber through dark caverns in pumps, for instance #monsterdon

And can't forget @randy_s who was instrumental in tonight's recommended cocktail!! Just what the archeologist ordered!

#Monsterdon

"also remove the content files"
you. bet. your. ass.
#monsterdon

I'm proud¹ of you #Monsterdon. Nobody even giggled at "breastplate".

¹ disappointed by

i need to read more about like this production company or this era/area of filmmaking because i have just so many questions about all of it
#monsterdon

@k8eb hey #monsterdon, I think Katie here is lamenting that Elphaba isn't going to suplex an aztec mummy until next year at the earliest

"The ancient texts say shamans could turn into bat puppets, or a single tarantula we only see for 7 seconds"

#Monsterdon

@raindrops_and_roses @aburka I mean, I'm accepting this only because I'm pretty sure if I spend any more brainpower trying to figure it out I'm going to hurt myself

#Monsterdon

@Louisa the real serpent/jaguar was the mummy/bat/spider we met along the way

#Monsterdon

<sets up #Monsterdon as weekly event in calendar>

Goodbye everyone! <parade float wave> Have a lovely week!

Don't forget to return your breastplates!

#Monsterdon ave Maria! It’s blessedly over. The end. Don’t know. Don’t care. It’s over. Yay!

I like that they mentioned the Aztec shamans could also turn into serpents or jaguars but the movie wasn't about to show any serpents or jaguars, they're not made of money

#Monsterdon

The men were so incompetent in this movie you could almost argue that it was a pro Woman film for its time

#Monsterdon #WrestlingWomenVsAztecMummy

[runs back into the theatre] NO YOU FUCKS TURN IT BACK ON I AM NOT LEAVING UNTIL THEY WRESTLE THAT GODDAMN MUM-

#monsterdon #WrestlingWomanVsAztecMummy

the way i feel after a good #monsterdon like this one is the same way i feel after eating something extremely spicy or doing a really strenuous static exercise like pilates or yoga: my body hurts from laughing and my mind is cleared because what in the fuck was even any of that. i want to watch it again immediately #monsterdon

@fabio yeah seriously

I am definitely adding it to my collection

Although I will say, it's the kind of bad that you don't realize until the end because while it's going it looks like there is potential for it to be better. As opposed to something like Turkish Star Wars (my "favorite") which is just utter nonsense at every moment so you do not feel let down at all

#Monsterdon

YOU LEAVE THE FREAKING BREASTPLATE THERE PLEASE!!!

#monsterdon
#WrestlingWomenVsAztecMummy

Ugh, Typical boomers. Make a mess, bury it, and leave it for the next Generation to deal with

-FIN

#Monsterdon #WrestlingWomenVsAztecMummy

wat

I just... wat

Thank you @Taweret for hosting and everyone for posting! I think I needed this today

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon the wrestling women vs a big spider!

@apLundell yeah we all just shrieked WHAT?! here

#monsterdon #WrestlingWomanVsAztecMummy

Sudden ending as is tradition #monsterdon

New title for the film: The Wrestling Women. Eventually, an Aztec Mummy.
#monsterdon

Huh it IS a vampire mummy, what do you know #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #TheWrestlingWomenVsTheAztecMummy

My theory on the abrupt endings we’ve all come to know and love is the unforeseen and shocking end of the production company’s budget.
#Monsterdon

"We appreciate the efforts of the Mexican Anthropology experts to distance themselves from this film."
#monsterdon

@yatsu I'm calling the cops. This was fraud, this was *malicious fraud* #Monsterdon

WELP
#monsterdon

i have two questions:

#monsterdon

This is script is bad even by our (low) standards. And it had such potential. #Monsterdon

@moira I REMAIN UNCONVINCED #Monsterdon