@rebeld @Taweret
I learned a new racist slur - apple! For a conservative indigenous person - red on the outside, white on the inside. 🤦‍♂️😖

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood wannabes?

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Well heck. This is one to turn off the sound for, and just enjoy the visuals. The script just kind of interfered. Thanks, @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne for some great urban landscapes #Monsterdon

Is this the same Christopher Lee character as the alien priest in that #monsterdon movie the other month?

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Oh this movie is going to be bad bad.

Still watchingnfor Christopher Lee squirming at the rock show

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Mr. Costco?

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This is a much greener movie. #monsterdon

Anonymous violence, unlike the the good old days when you got killed by a skilled craftsman in a very intense personal encounter.

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There was absolutely no chemistry between Dewey and Rebecca, who decided that they should f**k?

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#Monsterdon So the bit about bad livers, was that misdirection?

Or a metaphor for thinning the herd (of humans)?

By why diseased livers in particular, then?

None of the wolves I've known have had any strong opinions on urban architecture.

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Well, there were some nice shots of actual wolves. Also, some terrible shots of wolves getting shot. Movie, what were you thinking? At any point?
Racist gibberish mumbo-jumbo, terrible haircuts, bad sex scenes, but wonderful location shooting. Decent special effects. Generally good cinematography but too many scenes of cops standing around with cigars in their mouths.

Another fine mess that @Taweret got us into.

Thanks all @monsterdonians for your pixellated feedback and digitized noises.

Hold the fuck up. This isn't even a sequel to howling 1. It's based off a novel howling 2. #Monsterdon #Monsterdon2 #Howling2

🦖 MONSTERDON Goodbye!

A werewolf movie not about werewolves? Doesn't matter. All you in the Real-Time Film Analysis Squad saved the day with your posts!

❤️ And thank you @Taweret for hosting tonight's Woeful Wolf One. There's always hope for next week.

🅱️ and thanks @cherizilla@hypertext.monster for the Bingo card! My favorite: "Feeling wild. Feeling strong!"

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holy shit i went looking for "urban renewal south bronx 1970s" and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_South_Bronx_building_fires

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Bad news,

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Charles Bornstein?

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@nev It's back to writing the lesbian slashfic for me

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Huh bits of the score were used in Wrath of Khan and Aliens. No wonder it sounded familiar in places. #Monsterdon

Well that was actually watchable! Thank you @Taweret
I think the real monster was that horrifying apartment
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@SesameSquirrel I believe the climax (of the wolves crashing in through the ·penthouse· windows) confirms my "flight" theory 😜

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@steggy THIS! IS! #MONSTERDON!!!! *kicks him backwards into hell*

Thanks all for a fun #monsterdon with you all

https://miru.miyaku.media/ if you wanna watch The Howling II

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WHAT the entire and complete fuck was that #monsterdon
Everyone go and watch Ginger Snaps or Dog Soldiers at your earliest convenience

@Louisa maybe he's looking for his car keys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9kqhzQ-8Q

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File > Delete

Well that was a racist and eugenicist pile of crap. Glad to have suffered in such great company though!

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Thanks Twaret and Miru and thank y'all. That was fun. I'm out.

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Film's end should've been Olmos stopping Dewey and telling him "you've done a Wolfen's job, sir. I guess you're through, huh?"

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An anti-gentrification #monsterdon !

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In arrogance man knows nothing of what exists...

A fitting ending monologue to this movie, which thinks it's profound but is in fact spouting gibberish.

I know we just saw the captain die, but we're alone in this penthouse and we might not make it out...

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OK so the woofens are cool with Dewey now that he symbolically smashed the richy's models and will leave him alone. After all that other stuff. Hmmm, yes. That is the ending. OK.

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All I can think is a bunch of well-known actors were about to become free agents if the studio didn't put them in a movie within a specific time frame, and this is what the studio came up with at short notice #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

i would give them competent stuntwork on the bridge i guess, but if the actors do it is it a stunt?
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y'know I let myself get my hopes up for this one and _that_ was a mistake

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#monsterdon so the Dutch settlers with their devil themed windmill and church was a misdirect, that would be fine IF THEY EXPLORED THAT POSSIBILITY AT ALL

@paco they clearly had to fly to spy on the [utterly inexplicable] sex scene, so…🤷

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Really feels like a ran-over-budget ending
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Whoooooooooooooooooo!

normally it's about real estate deals but this time it's just "nope, these tower blocks don't FUCKING WORK, start over"

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With the Wolfen appeased for now, the movie is... over I guess? And we're... going to feed the poor and destitute to the Wolfen? I guess there is a lesson? Also Professor Ferguson was never found? Anyways, this is the end of a watch thread for the 1981 movie Wolfen. #monsterdon

@cherizilla
The buildings were going up on their "hunting ground".

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They could have at least listed the wolves in the credits.
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@cptbutton I was idly wondering if this film was one of the inspirations for World of Darkness…🤔

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I think we can track the exact point this movie lost the plot.
And it was when Whittington got eaten out of his sniper's perch.

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#monsterdon fuck you Whitley Streiber!

And so the dogs go doin' what da dogs gonna do. and also MITCHELL. Thanks @Taweret for hosting, miru for streaming, and all the usual folks.

ENERGIZE *whoosh of active transport*

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Hashtag MutualAid intermission
Do it for Gregory Hines. #Monsterdon

So Dewey indicated his understanding about the construction and, I guess, indicated that he is okay with the Wolfen continuing to prey on our most vulnerable.

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I think that was an abrupt ending, and yet it was kinda wrapped up.

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you say potamo, i say

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The best thing to come from this film was James Horner, the composer.

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@apLundell they're jealous of our opposable thumbs and our power of speech #monsterdon

Well I gotta hand it to Whitley Strieber. He managed to write an entire movie with no anal probing but still managed to sneak in Edward James Olmos's butt. I can definitely see how that ending was written by the same guy though. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! #monsterdon #Wolfen

So make sure there are plenty of people on the fringes so the wolfen have prey?.... 😬 Did we think this through? I'm a little worried they thought this through....

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The movie cares less about its plot than even the audience #Monsterdon

Reginald Vel Johnson as the morgue attendant!!

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well, this movie was bad and everyone involved should feel bad.

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OH BOY A NEW AGE-Y VOICEOVER ENDING

I gotta head off before all the credits but uh that sure was a stylish yet weird and racist movie. But there were good puppers! G'night #monsterdon!

And

-fin #Monsterdon #Wulfen1981

@Binder THATs a euphemism?! #monsterdon

The real enemy of the Wolfen was gentrification.
And pill-popping derelicts.

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that was a fucking awful movie by the way. the real monster in this one was the racism

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this movie was so bad i almost wish i had stayed in bed being depressed

the only saving graces were some fun actors and competent filmmaking (albeit not script).

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Yes, your camera technology IS exciting, I'm right there w/ you. But, like, a story could have made that camera work so much more potent. #Monsterdon

y'know i'm willing to go with the idea that the writer here had a story to tell and a point to make but fuck if I can find it

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I like how these wolves can cause your hand to go flying off just by jumping at you

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David Attenborough voice: And so the wolfen retreat to their natural habitat....

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cop on the edge uses destruction of scale model

it's super effective

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And they all ficked off into … you know what? I don’t even care anymore
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Oh, I guess we get a model log as an end instead of just an abrupt ending for once


In this case I would prefer the abrupt ending please. #Monsterdon #Wulfen1981

Wolfens taking the fair over to brooklyn, but now they are stuck on another island
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PUPPIES!! #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

"What happened up here?"

Something... Intensely stupid. :/

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You call that an ending? W/ practically e/o white still alive? #Monsterdon

Arrest Wagner.

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"What the hell happened up here" literally nothing #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

So we're back to the conclusion that werewolves only kill minorities and druggies.

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I TOLD you they could fly! they came in through the exterior ·penthouse· windows!

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I am not at the elevator scene..

I was one "Hammy Acting" away from a bingo 😢

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What? #Monsterdon

what a move, to film the hero's triumphant final blow in such horrid heat vision that no one can tell what he actually did.

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There is no shooting in the funhouse #Monsterdon

i tuned in for just the last few minutes of monsterdon and ooh those are some pretty puppies i hope they don't get hurt

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Inside you there are two wolves... and they are both bored #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

okay now you have to also quit being a cop so they don't kill you

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So, Dewey will now become an acolyte of the wolves.

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have mercy! when have cops ever been an enemy of the environment!

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And there was a bridge for some reason

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Did you notice, Dewey is looking at them in "Wolfvision" in this stand off scene?

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THE EYES OF MITCHELL

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@eigen Because audiences love explosions. And lots of broken glass on slo-mo apparently.

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Aaaaaaand.... kiss #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Oh no, the Wolfen's only known predator, helicopters. #Monsterdon

Lame ending in 3. 2. 1...

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If I had a giant wolf jumping through and shattering a window in my movie, I'd include every single camera angle too

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finney's accent is fine, but (not to be racist) he just LOOKS british

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now i wonder what this would have been like if Walken had done this instead of COMMUNION

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