#monsterdon Welcome to the ferny farm.

okay fine the maggots on the corpses were a good touch

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Damn, this is Ben Gardener's boat. #monsterdon

We had to switch from Plex to Tubi because the stream was stuttering like mad and now I think we're behind.

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Wow, maggots already? It's only been a few... hours? Maybe? Is that feasible? I don't know, I'm not an entomologist. #monsterdon

"...yeah, fairies wear boots, and you gotta believe me"

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WHOA NICE DEAD BODY VFX

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Again, what's with the RoF with these gunshots? Are the men enforcing the roadblock armed with bolt-action rifles? Is it actually 1910?

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He's got lights on his KNEES????

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The clown wears lighter clown face by day?
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Wow, granny went all floppy in death #Monsterdon

You've just seen 3 corpses. One is already decaying and has worms in its eye socket.

What is your impulse? Is it to... bite the knuckles of your balled-up fist?

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So, do you guys think they foreshadowed that Dora was going to show up enough, or should they have belabored it some more?

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But of course Dora for really no good reason tries to run the blockade to get to her dad and boyfriend. #Monsterdon

Maggots grow very fast, apparently.

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Is this Dora out exploring?
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Bat themed acrobats? Dick Grayson's ancestors?
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Okay the eyes into the boot buttons fade was pretty cool actually

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okay, we've got running damsel trope... #monsterdon

Okay, so the girl who wanted so badly to go to the circus was Rosa. If her mom has a name (Dora?) then we have a Bechdel pass in their scene earlier #monsterdon

@starkraving666 By the big kitty? I mean, paws were involved. 😆
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*sniff* *sniff* I know, I know… *sob* my daughter's a skank

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The burgueimeister looks like Harry Potter',s uncle.
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#monsterdon "That will keep the others from trying to leave."

How's that going to work? The others will just think those three successfully left.

cut to shot for Dora, very safe and very much in the city.

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Rosa’s mom: “She was out all last night, with that man from the circus. … He wasn’t the first.”

Why are you saying this to this young dude who might even potentially have feelings for her?

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@Louisa I think there is a vampire clown contagion but I'm not sure.

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He wasn't the first circus guy?

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"He isn't the first" <-- 😱

@lytta Same.
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Continuing their plan to destroy the sad village, the little person in clown makeup leads some ladies into the woods, then a panther puppet eats them. A spooky voiceover explains that this will scare the villagers into not leaving.

Next, we learn that Mayor Burger is not dead, he's just sick from seeing too many mirrors, but he probably will die because he giggled too much.

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So... these folks more or less believe in vampires, killed one 5 years prior, and think this circus act of animals turning into people is "entertaining"?

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@Newpa_Hasai 👏

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These parts with no dialogue and no actors are my favorite. #monsterdon

"Now rest. Now rest. Now rest." Politely telling boogermeister to stfu.

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Rofl, these effects!

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#monsterdon Fantastic.

I really hope the clown hiking guide scene does not devolve into heavy petting.
Oh, a panther mauled them. That's much better.
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fred there's really wishing he'd stuck with the rest of the scooby gang instead of tryhing to be a doctor

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The panther puppet doing all the killing has teeth at least twice as large as the real panther ... and really, really fake eyes.

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RIP Burgermeister Meisterburger

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Man that cat puppet is going nuts

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I feel they should be entitled to a partial refund on those coins they paid #monsterdon

Not the dripping red #FF0000 paint!!!

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The kitty is playing with red paint!

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I gotta be honest I don't know what's going on, I don't even know why the town is quarantined and I've been sitting here in front of the TV the whole time

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I've kinda lost the plot. Why did the sick old lady and her entourage wander into the woods and just sit there to be eaten?
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@cd0 hah that was literally my same thought

(maybe except the one with the underwater lab)

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That hall of mirrors is clearly what the interior of the White House is modeled after.

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my, what comically large teeth you've gained, cat. #monsterdon

It's a vase

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*smirk* Yes, Hammer, it was a vewwy vewwy scary panther puppet

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"There's a Predator up in the tree behind me, isn't there?" #VampireCircus #Monsterdon

In all reality I am a big fan of Skip Martin, the little person actor. He's great in Masque of the Red Death and he's in Horror Hospital, a British horror film from this era that makes Vampire Circus seem downright lucid. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Oh dear, that puppet was BAD

HA HA HA HA HA HA

oh my god I haven't seen a panther puppet THAT bad since Apocalypto! :D #Monsterdon

@apLundell gotta pay your Uber #Monsterdon

they made the teeth on their vampire panther doll extra big

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Mirrors are hilarious, y’all! #Monsterdon #VampireCircus

Ah yes. Carnies. Noted for the trustworthiness honor and integrity

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@amyfou Critique of capitalism?

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hahahhaha the panther puppet and the tempra paint. amazing.

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10:1 this woman will have her cloak off and tits out in less than 5 minutes
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Ow well now. I wasn't expecting any more bare breasts until maybe the third act. But you do you movie.
I guess the Manther always gets the girl.
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So help me it looked like the little clown was wearing the Sensory Nightmare collar.
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Attacked by killer puppets! Vampires wasted a lot of blood there #Monsterdon

"don't bless me, pay me!" might be the best line we're getting here.

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With fronds like these, who needs anemones?

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As fake falls go, that certainly was one

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"Don't bless me. Buy me!"

Trying to live in 2025.

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#monsterdon "Don't bless me! Pay me!"

Good line.

a tiger? in ferndale?

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This dwarf clown is the scariest sh*t in this movie! He really gives me the creeps.
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Leave it to a clown to know how to flip somebody off using a fern frond in his mouth.

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Did he just call them circus people? So woke.

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fern forests look too nice to be spooky

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Ringmistress is giving me young Maggie Smith

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Did that clown look woolly? Is he a were-sheep? I wouldn't put it past this bizarre movie. #VampireCircus #Monsterdon

needs more vampires

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Never underestimate the entertainment value of reflective mylar

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and WHAT exactly is that herb in his mouth?

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In those days, even a movie like this could benefit from things that would only have been in avant-garde cinema a decade before.

#LyricalShots

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Mmmmm, ferns.

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Ach, burgermeister, so befuddled.

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"Don't worry, I've arranged it with the circus people"

Title of my sex tape.

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...what did they even expect to happen with that mirror

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he's no pennywise but honestly the clown's working it

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Gonna guess that the Circus Announcer Lady is the Vampire Rockstar's Girlfriend from before. They might have explicitly said that, if so, ignore this toot and pretend you learned it from watching this movie.

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Ok, the people/animal transformations are actually pretty fantastic. #Monsterdon #VampireCircus

I just remembered that the little chef from Burger Time is also named Peter

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@cocaine_owlbear this was before the internet tho. #Monsterdon

Okay, they made the previously silly dwarf mime ominous. Good bit.

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UNtropes in #VampireCircus

🩸Everyone but the hero believes in vampires
🩸Vampires are "only" seen in mirrors
🩸Vampires don't hide, but present themselves as entertainmant

(per TCM article by David Kalat)

#monsterdon Overconfident mirror announcements ...

Panther panther panther panther panther panther panther ah fuck it's just you >:(

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Oh, it's the mirror of homoerotic doom #Monsterdon

I mean, "I fell in love with the first panther man who came with the circus to kill my family who saw my boobs," isn't the WEIRDEST relationship origin story

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I've heard there's a sucker born every minute, but this is ridiculous! #monsterdon #dudleymoore #onceinyourlifeyoufindher

Suddenly and without warning, the Burgermeister was whisked away over the rainbow.

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