#monsterdon #critters2

7:02 Good morning 👋
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#porto #portugal #photo #photooftheday
#Fotomontag #Monsterdon #photography #streetphotography
#streetscene #travelphotography

Hey, #Monsterdon! Here's a bingo card for tonight's film: Frogs 🍿

Generate your unique Bingo Card here 👉 https://bingobaker.com/#67bbadde4684117d

You can play in a browser, print your card out, or grab the sample below.

Event information from our host, Taweret: https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/114054439880483803

THIS MOVIE IS NOT ON TUBI. Beware the peril of #WrongFrogs

#monsterdonalert

#monsterdon SKELETOR DIDN'T DIE AFTER ALL and he just threatened us with a sequel, unacceptable

But on the plus side he did apparently fuck off into a sparkly pink sea of some kind, so we'll always have that at least

Okay, looking at everyone else's posts, I think I enjoyed #InvasionOfTheStarCreatures about 500% more than everyone else doing this #monsterdon

Granted, I didn't actually enjoy it, but most of yall are tooting like refugees fleeing a war zone and quietly bemoaning the loss of your family dog and also several years of your lives.

Mother of hell, I want to delete this from my drive immediately, but I can’t, because I’m going to make my father watch it and explain 1962 to me. #monsterdon

Had to go to the tags to see if this was #monsterdon or #uspol

it’s blowing my mind James Cameron designed this and the teen from the Waltons is the star of the movie.

what’s even more mindblowing is that the interior of the ship looks like the ship in Star Trek, The Next Generation; and Wil Wheaton is just a doppelganger of Richard Thomas.

#Monsterdon #BattleBeyondTheStars

this robot reminds me of something…

#monsterdon #DevilGirlFromMars #TeamDevilGirl

Hey, #Monsterdon! Here's a #MonsterdonBingo card for tonight's movie, The Giant Spider Invasion.

Event information from our host, @Taweret@octodon.social : https://octodon.social/@Taweret/113658006471506863

This is a 70s movie, so I'm hoping to see some ✅ Excessively Wide Lapels! Good luck to us all.

#MonsterdonAlert

NOW I HAVE TO WATCH THE WHOLE TRILOGY!

the Aztec Mummy returns to fight a Robot and a Vampire. then later on there's a kinda new Aztec mummy with El Santo. and El Santo fights the mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula, wolfwomen and vampire women.

and i now want to watch The Mummy because sweartagawd that second part of this movie is the whole premise of The Mummy but with the story of Xochtl and that's kinda bad ass.

well done #Monsterdon

today was awesome

"We've tampered in God's domain"

Bring it!

#monsterdon

People do in fact steal bulk food commodities, but I'm now wondering whether the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist was actually by a remnant population of Them!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist

#monsterdon

aaaaaah! the era of no safety belts and leaded gas. no wonder Boomers are like they are.

#Monsterdon #THEM

My wife closed the film by saying to the child “See, the takeaway is that anyone can make a movie, and when you think you’re not good enough just remember this” #monsterdon

Just me and the cats heading to the couch for #Monsterdon #LastManOnEarth

i've missed the shenanigans these passed couple of weeks and am feeling it in my bones.

#monsterdon is love
#monsterdon is life

you are why the fediverse sparks joy

love y'all 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖

@Taweret@octodon.social @cheribaker @joewynne @Louisa

So in summary, what the director was saying - is we need to smash the patriarchy from within, like Dave takes down the binary stereotypes of Henrietta's formalism, and re-invent the proletariat as a gender fluid, anarcho-syndicalist structure, with Penny representing a new take on ground-up democracy.

Very thoughtful film.

#monsterdon

it's Peter Pan and his Lost Boys' reenactment of West Side Story in the 23rd century 1970's future

#Monsterdon
#LongansRun

am telling ya. all American fascism and their monsters really come down to real estate.

#Monsterdon
#GodMonsterOfIndianFlats

least believable plot: rich white man won't sell to a rich Black dude —in the 1970s— because the property was visited by Ulysses S. Grant and he's a Unionist enthusiast.

#Monsterdon
#GodMonsterOfIndianFlats

huge difference between #Gojira and #GodzillaMinusOne is that the new one doesn't have the tech fetish. they don't need geiger counters to know when the kaiju is coming. all they have to do is look at the water for the dead deep fish.

that's one of the many ways the movie is an ode to Luddites and i loved it for that.

#Monsterdon #Gojira

right off the bat, these opening credits are so awesome for nothing visual at all. it's the bestial sound and the music that keeps you hooked without ever showing you the monster.

have i told you how i consider this OG Gojira a masterpiece?

#Monsterdon #Gojira

as a GenXer, this is the only St. Elmo's Fire i know of...
#monsterdon

@Taweret@octodon.social

and remember everyone. If you dont watch #monsterdon. Butt frog will be exposed to radiation and attack Tokyo accordingly

"The United States of America wishes to announce it has found life outside of Earth, brought it back to Earth, tortured it, then killed it. Thank you"

#monsterdon

I used Whisper to create a SRT formatted subtitle file for the movie "It Came From Beneath The Sea" - available on archive.org

Whisper mostly works very well - but muddy audio + underwater noises produced this accidental art.

#Monsterdon #LLM #Whisper

free reaction gif from last night's #monsterdon

@Taweret

I have a new policy. From now on, I will always vote Reptilian, until it is picked or the heat death of the universe occurs.

In other news, I am now taking bets on the heat death of the universe happening before Reptilian.

#Monsterdon

We have the DVD of tonight's #monsterdondoublefeature #HerculesReturns1992

#monsterdon

Pretzi needs to take a walk down in the meat packing district, so he can find his true self in the Chelsea YMCA

#Monsterdon #HerculesInNewYork

Thank the gods it's finally over, that was a Herculean task but we got through it (mostly)

Thanks for the laughs, everyone!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

#Monsterdon #HerculesInNewYork

Grampa Zeus watching Fox News.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon

This bingo card is funnier than anything in the movie

#monsterdon #EinaPlobe

The problem with this movie is the high Straight People Relationship Bullshit to Cool Monster ratio. #Monsterdon

Yeah, the ridiculousness of the Abductee scenario is part of how easy these people can be funneled into high control groups. When no one believes you, it's really easy to glom onto people who say they do. #Monsterdon

The strife is a weird choice too because according to Strieber, even when their marriage was strained and Anne needed time away, she was still understanding the fact something was wrong with him. At this point he had a history of depressive episodes and she understood he wasn't "failing to be an adult."

Also he never fired a shotgun in a place with his wife and son. He did have a rifle in the cabin but never fired it.

I can see why Strieber hates this movie so much. They should have gone with an "inspired by" if they were gonna make such weird changes.

#monsterdon

So the plot of the movie was basically some aristocratic woman got depressed, went on a trip, and brought back a witch and a dracula back with her so that she could steal his vampirism and kill him to live forever with the boy she had been in love with since childhood, and the boy responded by burning her in her coffin before she had even done anything to anyone #monsterdon

why would this movie be called son of dracula when there are no sons and not bride of dracula when there is a bride who is the main driver of the plot #monsterdon

#Monsterdon
Upon reflection, gotta give the 50's credit for understanding that a creature eating the entire global ecosystem is a problem, even if you *can* shoot it.

"The monster that was easily overcome with conventional small arms fire" #monsterdon

Instead of poking out its eye, how about some scritches #monsterdon

There's a second Mario movie coming out soon. Got me thinkin' about the distinction between good and bad movies.

Thinkin' about how by most objective standards, Mario's a better movie than, say, Starcrash. Mario's plot makes sense, its got coherent characters, they spent a mint on animation and it shows, etc. While Starcrash is goofy, incoherent, and cheap.

And I've seen Starcrash dozens of times, and Mario *once.*

#Monsterdon

huh

anyway, ty for joining, everyone!!

#monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, Mar 29, 2026, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching:

Critters 4 (1992)

"After being cryogenically frozen and waking up on a space station in the near future, the Critters aim to have the unwitting crew for lunch."

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it
with us!

https://youtu.be/j0x2w15yHRg

Wow! Two great Harryhausen movies in a row. I don’t know if I can take this many good movies in #monsterdon. It could be habit-forming.

My wife came home late, so we’re going back to watch the Kali swordfight again. Thanks for the funsies, Monsterdonners!

#goldenvoyage1973 #TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad

Mysterious monsters wandering around a pond distributing crowns is no basis for a system of government. You must be elected by a mandate from the masses. Not by some farcical aquatic voyage.
#Monsterdon #GoldenVoyageofSinbad

Sinbad beats Star Wars once again

#monsterdon #thegoldenvoyageofsinbad1973

Holy shit, this skeleton animation is _so fluid_. Especially (deliberately?) in comparison with the Talos fight from earlier in the film, this feels so much more fluid. There is motion, mass, momentum, all the character eyelines are in the right place even in the middle of the melee. This is world class work. What a scene.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963 draw me like one of your Gallic girls

I've had a few new folks follow me and it's time to warn you that in ~15 minutes I'll be participating in a thing called #Monsterdon, which is where a bunch of us get together and co-watch an old movie and make fun of it. It's a real good time. Feel free to join!

So if you suddenly see me posting once every 5 minutes, be aware that this goes on for about 90 minutes. You can either mute the hashtag if you don't want to see any Monsterdon posts, or mute my account for a few hours (if you click on "options", you can "mute for 6 hours" - I assure you I will say nothing remotely useful for at least that length of time).

Tonight we're watching Jason and the Argonauts, free on Tubi here:

https://tubitv.com/movies/674726/jason-and-the-argonauts

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, Mar 15, 2026, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

TONIGHT

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching:

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

"The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece."

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it
with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ZQGRM7GW0

Just once I'd like a Hercules flick that doesn't try to turn Herc into some kind of paladin for Truth, Justice, and The Athenian Way. Show me the boozy Hercules who got assigned the Labors as penance after getting sloppy drunk and killing his own wife and kid. #Monsterdon

HEY

HEY THIS IS #MONSTERDON

YOU FUCK BACK INTO THAT SEA RIGHT NOW

#monsterdon Well, I enjoyed that. It was good fun.

I am a little disappointed though. I've heard many times that this film was "Completely different" than Doctor Who. ... but really, this was a remake of the second episode of the TV show.

So, not completely different at all, almost shot-for-shot identical.

so a godlike grandpa scientist blunder into a random time and space, militarize its inhabitants and precipitate a stable truce into open warfare, there are no characters, not even the doctor is a character, and the most peril actually experienced is how one of the guys got stuck in like a one meter wide ravine #monsterdon

you can tell this was created in a time white people never ever dreamed of being under surveillance by the state. it could only be done by aliens.

#Monsterdon #DrWhoAndTheDaleks

wow two brothers, one who is the world expert on making impenetrable metals and the other is the world expert in penetrating things. their mom has to be so proud #monsterdon

BUT ANYWAY

baguettes are cooling
tea is in the pot
cheeses and preserves are in the fridge
and the movie is in the hole

now we just relax and wait for #monsterdon

and that’s why sunday is the best day of the week. ^_^

#baking #baguette

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, Feb 15, 2026, 8PM CT (2AM Monday UTC)

TONIGHT

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching:

4-D Man (1959)

"A scientist discovers a formula enabling him to pass through solid matter but he loses his life-force and rapidly ages which forces him to kill humans in order to reverse the aging process by absorbing his victims' energies."

its streaming free on tubi and it looks like its on YouTube too

please watch and live post it
with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4IBMTy8WEk

I wonder if anyone at Tubi runs analytics and wonders why 6 PM PST there's suddenly a bunch of people simultaneously watching the same terrible old movies #monsterdon

and round two

these are definitely “wait to cool” cookies, I tried one hot and one 15 minutes cooler and cooler was much better, texture _and_ flavour

anyway lots of cookies ready in plenty of time for #monsterdon

#baking #cookies

#Monsterdon not beating the "we just pick the oldest movie" allegations

@Taweret Shock Waves: “aquatic Nazi zombies!”

“The film is about a group of tourists who encounter aquatic Nazi zombies when they become shipwrecked. It stars Peter Cushing as a former SS commander, Brooke Adams as a tourist, and John Carradine as the captain of the tourists' boat.”

#Monsterdon

I had only middling expectations for “Planet Earth” but it really underwhelmed them. That was terrible to begin with and has aged poorly since.

Worse yet, I have nobody to blame but myself, since I voted for this terrible thing.

Now I need to watch “Destroy All Monsters” to cleanse the palate.

#monsterdon #PlanetEarth1974

Based on the small clips I saw to make a bingo card, tonight's movie looks like absolute trash.

Team, I suspect we've outdone ourselves. Strap in. 🏆

#Monsterdon

We would like you to stay for tea and cake... FOR EVER AND EVER AND EVER

#monsterdon

Folks it is now ONE HOUR until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party. If you want to avoid a bunch of goofy toots about a cheesy monster movie, best set up a hashtag filter.

If you'd like to join in, this week we're watching THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955), which is full of British astronauts. Gonna be either hilarious or awesome, either is fine by me ^^

The flick is free with ads over on Tubi right here: https://tubitv.com/movies/100051543/the-quatermass-xperiment

Or you can download from archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/the-quatermass-xperiment

Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along. See you there!

#movies #cinema #cinemastodon #horror #scifi

He-man should be a bunch of hippie goblins running around saying things like ARE YOU THE TONE-MAKER while a hammy skeleton dances around with a slice of beefcake in a homoerotic fight scene where it's unclear how much of the subtext is intentional. And I stand by that. #Monsterdon

Saw the trailer for the new He-Man movie. Doesn't look *nearly* stupid enough. #Monsterdon

Why can't I get a car that looks like this in 2026? Modern electric powertrain, but exactly this styling. Fins!

#monsterdon

I know America has done a bunch of things to be ashamed of but this movie is one of them

#monsterdon

@Taweret yes plz
#Monsterdon #Godzilla

@apLundell Oh! This is another movie that could be improved by having a Muppet cast.
#Monsterdon #Gino

"how can HE be preganant?"

oh, baby, pull up a chair, and let me explain

#Godzilla1998 #monsterdon

So if someone kills the president with a car, they become president and they can appoint their grandmother-in-law as the Secretary of Homeland Security?

#monsterdon

35 minutes to go.. #monsterdon #deathrace2000

I finally got around to watching Devil Girl from Mars. It was a nice balance of goofiness and surprisingly high quality. At the climax I was waiting for the spaceship to explode, fully expecting the special effects to be horrible, but it was actually very clever and beautiful. I feel certain the effect was made underwater, with a cloud tank. Overall, the movie felt like a radio drama. #Monsterdon

Alright, folks, that's all fifty two movies we watched on #Monsterdon this year! Tell me which movie you thought was The Best, The Worst, and The Most Fun To Monsterdon, and I'll take the top three from each category and put up a poll.

And at long last we will have a definitive, democratically-ordained choice as to Which Movie Sucks More! Let me have it :D

Mind if I join in?

#monsterdon #motivationalMonsterdon

to be continued??? lmao

anyway ty for joining, everyone!

#monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, Dec 28, 2025, 8PM CT (2AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching:

Time Walker (1982)

"A mummified alien unearthed at King Tut's tomb runs amok when a university professor exposes it to radiation."

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-WTXghUiSE

okay time to announce the winners of the #MonsterdonSaves Christmas giveaway!!

@xoagray has has a numbered list of people who donated

I'll be picking random numbers 

(I can't see who has what number. that seemed like the fairest way to do this)

and @xoagray will tell us who won! and the people donating the items can DM them for their mailing addresses and all that

#monsterdon

See, this is an infinite loop because a 70's man is NEVER EVER gonna learn not to try to backseat drive for a woman. #Monsterdon

so the sequence of events is

#monsterdon

Thanks to #monsterdon I still cannot chop romaine lettuce without thinking of Slugs.

@Taweret #monsterdon

@Taweret if we watch She-Creature we can all sing she-shanties! #Monsterdon

Okay, so these two un-shrunk, perfectly normal-looking people will go to the police.

*Monty Python Holy Grail voice*

People: "He turned us into dolls!"

Police Sergeant, skeptical: "Dolls?"

People: "Well we got better."

#Monsterdon

At least this guy won't lose his job to AI.
#monsterdon

haven't done #Monsterdon in a longass while but when i saw that the director made a movie titled Empire Of Ants, i immediately thought of @futurebird, i took it as a sign of sorts; to park my ass with the rest of y’all

https://archive.org/details/bert-i-gordon-complete-collection/1977.+Empire+of+the+Ants.mp4

need to be real careful with immortality. myth of Tithonus I'm tellin ya

#monsterdon

Is it too much to ask that this movie just kind of take a left turn and become about the immortal guinea pig

#Monsterdon

The writer’s barely disguised fetish

#miru #thexfromouterspace #monsterdon

When this post is about one hour old, it will be time for #MONSTERDON!

This is an event where a bunch of folks get together and watch movies with monsters, aliens, robots, zombies, frankensteins and their monsters, terrible human beings, real estate transactions (with surprising frequency) and lessons learned along the way.

The movies are always streaming for free.

SO you can:

1) Do nothing and get a barrage of people snarking about a bad move you aren't watching (which is its own kind of reward, really)
2) Join in! Check the #MonsterdonAlert hashtag to see what we are watching! It's free and no one can stop you!
3) Mute the hashtag, which makes John Mastodon cry, but you didn't care about his feeling anyway. In the Mastodon web UI, for example, this can be done by clicking on the hashtag anywhere it appears, like right here -> #monsterdon <- picking Mute, and making a new filter for it.

Surprisingly good creature effects this week, even if everything else was pretty standard late-70s schlock. Sadly Ramon did not live to fuck off into the swamps.

Goodnight #monsterdon, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, I'm gonna make some dinner and then... maybe watch some more Millennium?

For anyone else coördinating post-errand rendezvous timing with their partner, the text messages "I rented an alligator" and "I rented Alligator (1980)" convey materially different information. #monsterdon #WrongFrogs #WrongAlligator #WrongWrong

Oh no. My cat has scratched the frame of my #Monsterdon print.

The scratch is pointing at the weird ice robot from Logan's Run. If that means anything. Maybe it's a sign!

extremely promising

#monsterdon