An amulet and a dip. That’s all you need to shift.

#Monsterdon

Are we going to be racist about indigenous people too? #Monsterdon

@OldRustBucket or maybe bunnies?

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So. We're doing this.

We're really gonna do this, movie.

(fucking hell)

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Is this going to be a three-wolfen moon shirt? #monsterdon

Survival of the Shiftiest? 😆

We could use more plot but the dialog has its moments.

#Monsterdon

Oh right, the moon. I forgot. #Monsterdon

You guys seen any Wolfen around here? No? Ok #Monsterdon

"That's just, like, your opinion man" - Fergie #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

i think this fergie guy is probably tripping all day every day

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"Shape shifter... skin walker... tamagotchi" #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

WELL IT AIN'T WENDEL WILKIE

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@cptbutton congrats!
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Bronx parts. Just like your mom used to cook. #Monsterdon

Way too much of this movie has been spent on one werewolf murder spree

We are overdue for another werewolf murder spree to keep things fresh

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

We go back to the Law Enforcement Fusion Center to check Original Headband's record and Different Headband learns that he installed some surveillance equipment for law enforcement and also was on the bridge when the dead rich guy was driving by.

#monsterdon

@SnoopJ ok sure that fits in with the rest of my understanding of the plot of this movie which is a series of random disconnected events punctuated by wolf cam #monsterdon

@cd0 i'd say this was based in the 70s but like: yes, absolutely.

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@moira
I think it's a pearl

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Because Original Headband is a construction worker, the only place he can be interviewed is on top of a perilous steel support pillar.

Different Headband asks if Original Headband is doing any radical politics. Original Headband answers "no but I do shapeshift into animals sometimes", then wanders off.

#monsterdon

and look. this movie is more racist than that interpretation but it can't stop me from interpreting

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@allanb aluminum foil hat would be better! #monsterdon

W/ as much aerodynamic drag as that coiffure offers, he is right to not jump into the air #Monsterdon

Getting sweaty palms just watching this.

#Monsterdon

I'm with Mitchell here, get me off the fuckin' bridge. #Monsterdon

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⁉️ WOLFISH TRIVIA 🐺🩸

Wolfen lost money at the box office. An American Werewolf in London and The Howling, two other wolf-themed movies released that same year, had much smaller budgets and were more financially successful.

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Hell of a location shoot. #monsterdon #Wolfen

Not going to lie, I've always wanted to walk up a suspension bridge #monsterdon

I'm sorry, is his line of hypothesis that this guy turns in to a wolf at night #Monsterdon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SesameSquirrel/116910166288994479

So wait -- Albert Finney is a cop.

I totally missed the woman's profession? Reporter? Another cop?

TIA,
Still Coveting Her Apartment 😭

#Monsterdon 🐺 #Wolfen

We figured out the killer probably isn't human so we visit the Animal Expert in the zoo and show him some hairs we found at the bodies. He identifies them as wolf hairs, which matches the title of the movie.

Explaining that wolves don't attack people, the Animal Expert bemoans the destruction of ecosystems and the genocide of indigenous peoples, so Different Handband decides the American Indians are to blame and goes to meet his next suspect, Original Headband.

#monsterdon

@moira Did something like this once as a tour thing up the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Would recommend.

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Yes, this is totally how this works. If you come to talk to a guy who works at the top of the Brooklyn bridge, the foreman just invites you to strap on the stuff and walk right up.

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I think with all the 9/11 memorial bullshit around, we often forget just how breathtakingly UGLY those things were. #Monsterdon

waiting for Q THE WINGED SERPENT to pick off Dewey

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okay, i would _pay_ to do this. at least the climb part.

#monsterdon #Wolfen1981

That's a good shop steward; protecting the worker while he's on the clock. #Monsterdon

Killed an apple? Damn, iPhone really pissing people off huh

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Well, that's an offensive comparison :/ #Monsterdon

who's gonna tell this chap that native americans still exist...

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I like the hippo sculpture. He's playing a violin!

"As in Viet?"

uhhhh

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this is mostly about giving lengthy screen time for actors and writers.

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Goodbye diet dogfood?
#monsterdon

So you are saying they were killed by a WereBuffalo #Monsterdon

Statue of hippo playing the violin: so far my favorite character in this movie

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@MatthewTitus88

not snirred

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I wonder how long they were trying to get that snake to eat the rat. How many takes and you got lucky for a few seconds

#Monsterdon #Wulfen1981

Is that a ripoff of "Alien", of vice-versa?

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#Wolfen1981

The rat dies.

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RE: https://techhub.social/@jerzone/116909560504067109

this popped into my feed just when the cat reappeared

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just holdin' my cat with my gun #monsterdon

Thanks, @cherizilla

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#Wolfen

@Violinknitter That's not unusual for werewolf fiction.

They're not predators who just get hungry for people-meat every full moon.

They've always been depicted as bloodthirsty engines of uncontrollable hideous gorey violence.

#Monsterdon #Wolfen #Wolfen1981

Hey, she's got an actual weapon! Good girl. #Monsterdon

@bstacey @SnoopJ
When I heard the soundtrack, I immediately thought it was James Horner. 😆

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

They had also apparently just invented film that worked okay a night.
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#monsterdon werewolves are usually characterized as fast

By which I mean, a bit faster than a person, not able to whip someone's head off in under a second

@kcarr2015 You're watching a 1940s choreography of a German composer born in France? #monsterdon

WERE-ORANGE-CAT

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#monsterdon to be fair this might be the earliest sparkly infrared posterized I've personally witnessed. In a year or two it would be in 2/3 of music videos on MTV

Look, let's just focus on the kitty for the next 10 minutes. I guarantee it's better than whatever this film has planned.

#monsterdon

@klu9 "Waitress, we asked for the non-smoking section, not the non-conscious section."

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kitty

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hi kittyyyyyy

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do NOT eat the kitty

#monsterdon #Wolfen1981

OMG, they took out Pauline like Martha!

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Ooo decent stunt fall, thank you stunt coordinator. #Monsterdon

The wolfen does *not* approve of your working class lunchbox.

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fuck that welder in particular, I guess #monsterdon

"what do you think it was?" i thought she was sad and rejected and resentfully asking about why he didn't think it was a date for a solid five seconds there

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God he's so attractive, the way he drinks 😏🥃

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he has almost the same haircut as she does

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why is this guy the star of the movie tho

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I feel like at any moment they're gonna run into vampire David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve

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Pack of feral cat girls...

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Tom Waits on the jukebox!

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@SesameSquirrel

I recognized his voice (and dome) before I even saw his face :D

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Run fast from the building!
Drive rapidly down the expressway, the wolf has got a car now and he's in hot pursuit!

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I love the quick shot of the eyes on the stairs. :)

#Monsterdon #Wolfen

"I pulled you close & felt you up because that WereWolf was just about to assault you!"

Which WereWolf

"Oh that one I pulled you away from just now, we gotta go" #Monsterdon

I like the wolf vision stuff

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Scarf provided by the costume designer for The Breakfast Club.
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I can’t imagine Dustin Hoffman playing Dewey at all.

https://mstdn.plus/@JoeWynne/116910047603265621

#Monsterdon

these POV scenes are building so much suspense and mystery: how bad is the wolf going to look when we finally see it?

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The baby is crying because it wants the plot to get moving.

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⁉️ WOLFISH TRIVIA 🐺🩸

The predators' perspectives were simulated with the use of a Louma crane and Steadicam camera.

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

@RobynGoodfellow I'd love for this to be the story of a coke-loving werewolf who has to eat humans who are high to get his fix.

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That baby cry reminds of the Appalachian folklore- If you hear your name called in the woods, no you didn’t. #monsterdon

(which is probably an actual movie)

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#monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Weekdays: School for Scoundrels.
Sunday: Werewolf Church.

Okay, the ruined church is cool, but will the symbolism mean anything?

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

@Binder

The first one was a former tonton macoute, so I didn't shed a tear

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Can werewolves kill on Holy Ground?

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I’ve never seen a guy try to woo a woman with seething cynicism before #Monsterdon

@lytta WHICH ONE

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Do not go into the werewolf church #monsterdon

"take a look inside?"
no thanks, the actor's insurance won't let me in the structure, it's not safe.

#monsterdon #Wolfen1981

This is the kind of movie that makes you think: "You know I really oughta put a movie on."

#monsterdon

Can you believe an American city, NYC, once really did look like that?

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