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

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In this part we wander around the rich guy's penthouse financial dome and assess his tastes in art. His wife painted a picture that was surreal. We learn he was planning a big real estate project, probably in the slum that is being demolished.

Then we get a phone call from the crime lab to tell us that there are more bodies that were found in the demolition area, so we go drive there to bother the homeless people for clues.

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WERE-POPE

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Stealin gold chains when the cops ain't Wolfen

Boogie down Bronx boogie boogie boogie

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A note for younger people: when this movie was made, the sort of Wolfenvision special effects could not be done by a device in nearly everyone's pocket.

—o!, and some sane people still devoutly believed in hair-analysis.

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I see, these rich assholes were killed because of that hideous apartment. #CrimesAgainstInteriorDesign #Monsterdon

The untapped sexual magnetism of Albert Finney #Monsterdon

are we supposed to plug trump into one of these fictitious NYC real estate moguls who is allegedly all-powerful?

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I refuse to believe THIS guy is an expert on hair!

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They ain't human AND they're in New York? Um, it's stock brokers, isn't it? #Monsterdon

Are they going to assume it's giant rats first?

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Pauline Kale Trish Van De Veer

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In honor of tonight's movie I will be feasting on grocery store sushi. Grocery store sushi - its own little horror show! 👍

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Why is the guy in the painting holding four one dollar bills?
(Washington was president, and was dead at the time of this film.)
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@SnoopJ @cptbutton @cherizilla Yeah I saw someone else make that point too, that about 12 micrometers is typical IR wavelength for the peak emission at human body temperature. I hadn't thought about that. But it's still kinda nonsensical to use a micron as a unit of temperature or heat energy, since it's not a linear scale.

Definitely more reasonable than is typical for either 1981 or #Monsterdon of course!

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"you guys wanna see a dead body" #Monsterdon

y'know seattle had a revolt against freeway-driven urban renewal and we didn't get a werewolf out of it

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wait is this a movie about a communist werewolf?

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Albert Finney’s hair deserved a sequel.

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Man, that whole conversation was something else. #monsterdon

I think what bugs me about the cop hero is he tries to sound like Humphrey Bogart
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"why are you a cop"
"i like to kill"

the 80s sometimes went harder than i remember.

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@cherizilla I was wondering about that too, so I looked up infrared on wikipeida (and double-checked "micron")
micron is a micrometer (10^-6), and that's within the wavelength-range of IR. So I ·think· somebody lookd somethign up inthe encyclopedia, way back in '80.

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Welcome to rump's America, dude. #monsterdon

This guy is a haircut and a mustache away from demanding pictures of Spiderman.

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@SesameSquirrel IKR? I guess it's 'cause it's an Orion pic and I keep expecting it to be playing like a Cannon / Corman pic.

Imagine if they had Arnie running around pretending to be the son of Zeus instead.

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I need this guy to go away tho

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okay some of the monster stuff in this is nice. the POV is weird and different and they put some effort into the gore

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Just some dude got ate I guess so we know that the wolfen are still hungry?
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Was this structurally fucked building safe to film in?
Great location, though..

This is why Drugs Are Bad, M'kay?

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@trixter I bet it even has more microns than that.

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@diazona @cherizilla

I was assuming they meant the infrared radiation wavelength.

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#monsterdon I'm getting the feeling Whitley Streiber loves fast-talking, too-cool, deep-thinkers who can't ever speak clearly

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Multiple oscilloscope sighting! Yes.

Oh he traded it for SAN restoration. Smart barter. #Monsterdon

couple million in state of the art polygraphic equipment
"I think she's hiding something maybe"

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@bstacey

Both.

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#Wolfen1981

"It's actually what we used to create the Wolfen vision effect for da film."

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@cocaine_owlbear probably IR wavelength, I'm too tired to invert to do the frequency conversion

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Once more, Do Not Talk To Cops without Your Lawyer!!
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Getting certain this guy is going to eat his way to a solution to this crime. #Monsterdon

"The cock and balls, they stuffed them in the victim's mouth." Enjoy your hot dog! #monsterdon #Wolfen

"...I'm trying to sell hot dogs here lady"

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@cptbutton Yeah, I just found a TV setting that made a big difference. I hate modern TVs.

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there are STILL buildings with that ugly textured concrete wall design #Monsterdon 🐺 #Wolfen

@allanb 👀

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@rebeld So they know where to send the helicopter taxi with Detective Dick Wolfen in it so he can fight transnational terrorists.

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@paco

OK for me there.

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NYPD having massive spy files, most believable thing so far
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We've got OCR typeface!

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actually rly like the driver was ex-papa-doc secret police, that's an absolute fucktonne of backstory written in on him, on the whole corporate culture and the CEO, nice

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Computer font

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@lytta It's Whitley Streiber, we'll be lucky if the werewolves are wolves :P #Monsterdon

beep boop 80's computer movie noises beep blorp

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Give me the stats on 20, and reboot the commodore 64.
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i'm starting to think no one involved with this movie knows what voodoo is

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If any of the eating cops have to run they are gonna have a heart attack.

the werewolf is republican

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There's a lot of eating in this movie.

Also, I'm counting one of these as "coffee is served"

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A Shakespearean reading of “They decide to boogie”

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What was that? Are the fukkin?
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@allanb @RobynGoodfellow FYI @cherizilla for future reference

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So when do they say "It's Wolfen time!"
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"What's a matter with you, you bored?"

....too easy.

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What? I don't think that's true. It's gonna leave micrograms of metal behind, you'd never pick that up on a normal x-ray -- surely???
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“Good dog”

IDK, I’m kinda liking the writing #Monsterdon

ZING that's the kind of comedy timing you pay for when you hire top tier talent like this. #Monsterdon

right now i am imagining this is taking place in the same new york as Q: THE WINGED SERPENT (which came out just a year after this)

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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

⏳ 30 MINUTE POLL

Dustin Hoffman was rejected from being Dewey Wilson in WOLFEN despite the fact that he fought to be in it.

Why was he rejected?

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I'd be angry at "guy eating in the morgue to show how inured he is to death", but the filming of it has consistently been good so it actually works so much better than it deserves.

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"yeah we need to make sure to get shots of these corpses' genitals as we pan across the room"

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A lil' full frontal from the corpses. #Monsterdon

Good gods he's eating again
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BEHOLD. NAKED DEAD PEOPLE.

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Now there's a bit role for you.
"You'll be laying naked on a table"
"No thank you"
"You'll get fifty bucks?"
"Okay, where do I put my clothes?"

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Just eating my cookies in the morgue, as is my custom #monsterdon

eating in a morgue, of course

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It must be 1980s NYC… super cynical!

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Couldn’t he have stopped for groceries in his way home instead?

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Dicks Out for Wolfen. #Monsterdon

If you want to be a coroner you need a minor in clown arts, that's just the rules.
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okay but how am i supposed to take this detective seriously after he said pentagrams and goat symbology are indicative of voodoo. HOW?

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"How would you like to see your own body and know you're dead?"
"No. Thanks. I'm good."
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So, Dutch occultists?

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"Metallic creaking" is the new "ominous music" #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

This investigation of the first scene is like waiting for a city bus to show up.

DO SOMETHING.
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Whitley Strieber, e/o, the master of lightening up a morbid scene w/ a physical comedy bit we don't actually get to see. #Monsterdon

"Gimme a nice death in bed. Preferably with a partner."

Autoerotic asphyxiation? #Monsterdon

Be careful with her...

THUD

...head.

Haha!

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this is no human ball bearing

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This is some sort of pre-forensics era of NYC policing?

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Heads will roll for this, mitchell!

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No I've not seen that

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I guess I have to learn the werewolf rules again. Took the brains?

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Typical Guillotine Enthusiast. #Monsterdon

Pentagram and a goat, and with the other symbolism around, this now looks like an occult thing.

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Let's give that guy a hand

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Yes I too drink coffee with one hand whilst holding severed limbs in the other.

Yeah, sure, just dribble some of your coffee into the evidence bag...

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