OMG sheβs getting a plantationβ¦ thatβs now invaded by a vampire. i hope this turns out as if Roger Corman had read Octavia Butler.
Okay I'm allowing myself a little wrapup post, as a treat.
Thanks @JoeWynne for the amazing cocktail, @cherizilla for the bingo card, @Taweret for hosting tonight's #monsterdon, and everyone else who joined in on this Ester edition featuring "The Monster that Challenged the World"
We saw:
- Dr. Worm's acting debut.
- Seamen, on a boat.
- A movie self aware/prophetic enough to know better than to tack on an environmentalist message.
- Monsters see men on a boat.
- A pro-document archival and curation message tacked onto the movie. Vote YES on proposition 14 eyyyyy.
- (monster) semen, on a boat.
- The Salton Sea before it became a world famous sweltering fart box.
- Cameras doubling as siesmographs.
- Expy Frankie and Annette without Toni Basil around to make them look good dancing or save them from an angry giant Dr. Worm.
- Flesh suits by Healthways.
I'm logging in late and the #Monsterdon posts are like: "They killed a snail with a gun! An ordinary gun? How shocking!"
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Did we ever find out what happened to the one-eyed monster? Seems like he should've had some revenge motivation.
Maybe the sequel features a monster tartigrade with an eye patch.
Actually, one more thought. A lot of what reduced the threat of the monsters is that this is a 50s movie. The authorities are helpful to random civilians and cooperate with each-other.
A 70s version of this movie where people hate one another and institutions are dysfunctional would give the monsters actual room.
ah #monsterdon, how i have waited for you all week, the oasis of peace where i can get extremely stoned and laugh at ludicrous things that should never have been created but cause no harm. a respite from laughing at ludicrous things that should never have been created but cause a great deal of harm.
Sunday, April 5, 2026, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)
IT'S #MONSTERDON
we will be watching:
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
"An earthquake doesn't just shake up Southern California -- it awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails are gobbling up anyone who sets foot in the water."
its streaming free on tubi
please watch and live post it
with us!
"That movie is somebody's favorite movie"
Look, I'm not saying that it's impossible that someone's favorite movie is CRITTERS 4
But I would not be surprised if that person worked on CRITTERS 4.
At least these guys are very open about "yea it's a budget flick as part of a deal"
In space, no one can hear you use reverse psychology.
Dang, this is a good one. Iβm too busy watching to catch most of the posts.
Iβm especially struck by how well the stops-motion is incorporated into the story and the live action. It has much less βset piecesβ feel than βJason and the Argonauts.β
Sunday, Mar 22, 2026, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)
TONIGHT
IT'S #MONSTERDON
we will be watching:
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
"Sinbad's adventure pits him against a master magician who's trying to reach the Fountain of Destiny on the lost land of Lemuria in a bid to be crowned the new leader of Marabia. Sinbad and his crew must battle an array of monsters before finally coming face to face with his foe."
its streaming free on tubi
please watch and live post it
with us!
Tonight's #Monsterdon wasn't getting anywhere near a Bechdel test.
Medea proving women are always the collateral damage in war
and Poseidon fucked off into the sea, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOVIE.
J&TA is breaking so many Monsterdon conventions.
I don't see how he can possibly have leverage with his lower half being a fin but whatever it's fine what are physics anyway
let me tell you something, when Thalos moved its head, we all screamed in that movie theater.
I like how she can close her eyes when the movie gets too ridiculous
Pissy guys who want to go to war: "We've no time for riddles and symbols, just tell us who to kill"
Oracles everywhere: <rolls eyes>
I jumped the gun and watched #JasonAndTheArgonauts tonight because I wonβt be able to watch it tomorrow during #monsterdonβs regular time slot. What a ripping good movie!
I would say more, but I donβt want to be spoiler guy for anybody who hasnβt seen it before. I have it on DVD, so I was grateful for the excuse to watch it. Have fun, monsterdonners!
Sunday, Mar 15, 2026, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)
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!
This movie was made. People worked on it. Someone decided to spend money making it. How. #monsterdon #hercules1985
This is based on Roman myth the same way Lucky Charms is based on Celtic myth. #Monsterdon
"The Black Lotus... Its nectar numbs the mind... Makes you pay $3 million for a piece of cardboard..." #Monsterdon
Daedalus is really just Rita Repulsa. #Monsterdon
bechdel pass! bechdel pass! #monsterdon
THE RAINBOW TO THE GATES OF HELL!?!?!?!?!?! #monsterdon
WHEREAS, the 1983 film Hercules is a triumph of cinematic artistry,
WHEREAS, the gods have some labors that need doing,
WHEREAS, we have some sci-fi models left over from the last movie we filmed,
THEREFORE, let it be resolved that #monsterdon shall commence in 2 hours, at 7 PM MDT!
i went to war against the daleks and all i got was this fabulous Ziggy Gaydust cape
These are the least combat ready Daleks in the history of Daleks. This city must be where they send Daleks that wash out of basic Dalek training.
Iβm calling that βhomeopathic Doctor Who.β It was a movie made from the memories of great Doctor Who episodes, but they didnβt remember them very well.
As always, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, @JoeWynne for #MonsterdonDrink and #MonsterdonTrivia, @ryan for #MonsterdonStream, @paco for #MonsterdonData at https://gallery.don.monster, and all of you for making it awesome!
the reason why the "goodbye" scene is so hollow is that not only did they not characterize any of the twink colony, they didn't even characterize any of the leads to give a hint as to why they would give a shit about any of this #monsterdon
Daleks got their number font from a Greek restaurant. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon STAND. ON. THE. HEXAGON.
dog you are getting inside someone else's wall-e pod where they live their entire life, you can just smell the fuckin film of life paste over every button and joystick #monsterdon
if only the daleks had equipped their protective personal tanks with weapons instead of a whisk
the city of cute twinks that are also floating glowing rocks has let their diplomatic knowledge lapse in their pastoral forest existence, so now they are totally credulous to the most basic machinations of the mutant robot mech race that they used to live alongside in a state of constant conflict #monsterdon
it is me or is the boyfried cosplaying Dick Van Dyke βwho, btw, is still with us at the tender age of 100.
the moral of the story is pay and credit your workers equitably so they feel comfortable coming forward with their life force draining brainwave reactor without fear of being scooped #monsterdon
We made it! And now we're all a little older
Thanks for the laughs everyone! :D
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
Let's all go have root beers and enjoy our solidity
OH LINDA KILLED HIS ASS, GOOD JOB! :D
Legit good creative decision movie, I heartily approve! :D :D :D #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Guy's got a completely blank award on his wall.
Okay actually I can say two nice things about this movie: the soundtrack *is* good. It's not a good choice for this movie, but the music is good.
This movie shouldβve been named Guys And Dolls
Hugo laid helplessly in a hospital bed.
Marianne lies helplessly in her own bed.
We lie helplessly before this movie slowly bleeding out.
#Monsterdon Inside this boring full length movie is a boring short film.
THE SPIRIT GUM IS DIEGETIC!?!?!
"Wherever you are you will come" *cough* #Monsterdon #DevilDoll
Exciting #monsterdon news. Thanks to @combatwombat who has a database of all the toots from all the old monsterdons, I am able to retroactively run my analysis on old events. Take a look at the oldest event he had: Mothra (1961) from Thursday, 24 Mar 2022. (It was on a Thursday??)
Only 119 posts in the entire event? Hell, @Lazarou does that many alone these days! π
A histogram showing posts per minute on Thursday, 24 Mar 2022. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 101.0 minutes long. There were 119 posts during the event with an average of 1.18 posts per minute.
The busiest moment was at 22:00 from the start with 6 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 0:00 from the start with 0 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.
Alright, congratulations everybody, you survived. Good job.
Now. Was PLANET EARTH (1974) the WORST #MONSTERDON MOVIE OF THE YEAR?
This is embarrassing on a *number* of levels. #Monsterdon
Stop it with the horny oboe music, movie. You have not earned it.
Itβs got Temu Raquel Welch!
Ok, Monsterdon fans, are you willing to allow a spyware visible search on Amazon for a novel titled *βMelania: Devourer of Menβ* in the interest of the greater good?
Itβs currently selling for $6.53 on Amazon.ca if you really want a paperback copy but the ebook download is free.
Reddit has proposed an effort to get this trending.
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Cut it out with the bunsen burners left lit and unsupervised!! That is terrible practice, not to mention wasteful!
Shoveling is DONE
Laundry is DONE
Stew dinner prep for the week is DONE
Soup for dinner is DONE
Snacks are AT THE READY
"The Quatermass Xperiment" (1955) is AT THE READY
All right, #monsterdon : your move.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111559626333338587
SURPRISE FUCKERS!
We did it, #monsterdon - we conquered that which would have been "Too Long, Too Much Boring Shit" for MST3K
this is. THE POWER!
now let's never talk about Godzilla 1998 again.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Radioactive lizards off the coast of French Polynesia. I watched tuna fish glitter in the dark near Central Park. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Love it. Email in 1998
#monsterdon
Ferris Bueller now works for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, this seriously tracks
#Forkiverse residents.
A Warning
In less than an hour we will start one of the largest events on the Fediverse. It is called Monsterdon.
At 8pm CST on Sundays we watch a cheesy monster movie together. At this time, your feed may fill up with strange posts comment on what is going on.
This week's monster is the American Godzilla 1998
If you want to watch with us, follow the #monsterdon tag. If you don't, you can mute it. Or stay offline for a couple of hours.
JOIN US! It'll be fun.
@Taweret wait, nukes are the *French's* fault somehow? I haven't seen this movie, and I head heard there were some problems with it, but the country with the most nukes made a movie about the downsides of nukes and it's *someone else's fault*??????
Choose the Fediverse
Here's what we get when we choose freedom and authentic connection.
when I got up this morning I didn't expect "shot of david carridine's armpit" while people chant "Frankenstein! Frankenstein!"" to be a thing that was going to happen today
π¦#MONSTERDON ποΈ
πΈ Low Budget Film School
Don't sweat the details. Like in Death Race 2000, where fixes for vehicle problems were solved during shooting.
Part 1
πΈ The cars are actually kit cars, rebodied chassis. They were driven on public streets often to save money.
πΈ Stunt drivers refused to drive them on public streets because they were not street legal.
πΈSo Roger Corman drove sometimes.
Is it just me or has Euthanasia Day become too commercialized?
I DECLARE IT APPLE BREAD
WEIRD
FOAMY
APPLE BREAD
It's weird by itself but you put some blackberry preserves on it and all that kinda vanishes
gotta try cheese
but first gotta get ready for #monsterdon
The polls are now closed! The results are in and the Best, Worst, and Most Fun #Monsterdon movies of the year have been chosen!
With an overpowering 63% of the vote, FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) wins Best Movie! Those excellent special effects and that brilliant color really pop, huh ^^
The vote for Worst Movie was a little closer, but VAMPIRE ON BIKINI BEACH (1988) managed to edge out the other two for a decisive win! I can only assume the completely nonsensical dialogue and incomprehensible climax pushed it over the edge. The gold statuette will be awarded by a hazardous waste official in full gear, congratulations!
And finally, the Most Fun Monsterdon movie has been won by DEVIL GIRL ON MARS (1954)! Congratulations to Nyah on finally achieving a victory where she blows up in a POSITIVE way at the end!
Thanks to everyone who voted and as always to @Taweret for hosting the best movie watch party on the Fediverse. See you again on Sunday! :D
Inspired by @RobynGoodfellow's fun posts:
Stealing an idea and suggestion from
@combatwombat and @diazona
These are amazingly fun to make
this is the weirdest story from the alien mummy's perspective
> come down to earth
> there's a fungus?
> egyptians are dickheads to me
> get mummified
> wake up three thousand years later
> those dickheads stole my crystals
> get crystals
> get unmummified
> turn into crystal
> refuse to explain
"Perhaps YOU???"
Look dude, I got no wife to cheat on, I don't drive, I don't own real estate, and I was never in the military. And I make it a point to never buy obviously cursed idols, though I admit to still being a little confused about that one. Is antiquing a sin? #Monsterdon
Pretty sure this is the same guy from A Clockwork Orange. #monsterdon
Ten-ish minutes until #Monsterdon! Get your food set up and your filters cued!
Wait. Hold up. Backwards.
Get your filters set up and your food cued!
No. The movie gets cued. The food gets, uh, prepared.
Oh it's VERY four days to christmas around here @_@
Sunday, Dec 21, 2025, 8PM CT (2AM Monday UTC)
IT'S #MONSTERDON
we will be watching:
Tales From the Crypt (1972)
BECAUSE
it has an evil Santa in it and this week is
Monsterdon is raising money for charity this week and you can win some cool stuff that monsterdonners have made!
its a giveaway. (not a raffle) we're not collecting money or selling tickets or anything
how it works:
any time this week before monsterdon (or like now if you want π) make a donation to charity, screenshot it (scrub your personal info! we don't want it!) and DM the screenshot to:
(NOT to ME. we want to keep the tally straight)
we are recommending as charities the Trans Lifeline and the Rainbow Railroad but you can give to a different charity if you want
donate any amount you like (also if you can't afford to donate you can still be entered. you will have the same odds of winning something regardless, one entry per person, void where prohibited, etc etc)
deadline for donations: the end of the monsterdon movie on Sunday night!
Do you want to win this poisonous mushroom set I made? You could! Details here https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/115724942939849797
See them in motion! https://youtube.com/shorts/N4tCUoFPQ3M
And the She-Creature fucks off into the sea after far too little screen time. Less creepy hypnotists, more She-Creature, movie!
And that's it for #monsterdon! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting and see y'all next week!
moral of the story: don't cast women back into their primoridial sea monster form to kill your enemies and force them to fall in love with you, because they will turn against you and kill you instead so they can release their soul in the present from the life of torture you made them endure #monsterdon
hypnotizing this woman until she believes she can do an irish accent, we'll make billions #monsterdon
Thinking about last night's #Monsterdon, the lonely toy-maker sure could have made a fortune selling miniature pets.
You make existing pets tiny, like that cat. That'd be fun to have a tiny cat you could keep in a doll house.
And you could make giant animals pet-sized. Elephants are naturally friendly. Imagine if they were cat-sized!
That toy maker could have been the richest man on earth. And that's before you consider military or space-program applications.
The abrupt ending, as ALWAYS! ππ
@Mallow : "That's IT? No resolution?"
Me: "That's the quintessential #Monsterdon experience."
@Mallow: "I feel cheated!"
π
oh no how did I get tricked into another American International joint
Hey #Monsterdon! Here's a bingo card for Attack of the Puppet People. :godzilla_cool:
Good luck, players!
Anyone who has been interested in jumping in on #Monsterdon I recommend trying it tonight. The movie is fairly OK as far as B movies of this era go, there's nothing gross or really upsetting. This director doesn't always know how to pace things but he's turned in worse.
Fans of #MST3K will remember Bert I. Gordon's other films "Earth vs. The Spider", "The Beginning of the End", "The Amazing Colossal Man", "War of the Colossal Beast", and "Village of the Giants". He liked making big things small, and small things big. You'll also recognize John Agar, John Hoyt, and June Kennedy.
Join us at 9PM EST tonight.
WHAT IS #MONSTERDON ?
it's a weekly watch party
every Sunday at 8PM CT (2AM Monday UTC)
every week we vote on a B movie, usually something with a monster or at least aliens
the movie is always something available on a free streaming site like Pluto or Tubi or such
we all start the movie at the same time and post about it with the hashtag #monsterdon
also follow the hashtag #monsterdonalert for polls, updates and announcements
The guinea pig is okay and that's the important thing.
Still suffering with the Extended Cut of The Asphyx here. I am in agony.
I will do early thanks to @Taweret for running our event, @JoeWynne for the trivia and @cherizilla for the bingo!
Meanwhile..... kill me please. I can't deal with all of these death scenes.
We've replaced the cobalt chloride crystals with Folger's Instant Crystals.
Let's see if our victim notices!
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Look. If you're immortal you can definitely figure out the combination of a combination lock. You literally have all of time to do this. You can try every possible combination.
Okay, I do believe we have fully crossed the line from Troubled Doctor to Mad Scientist. #Monsterdon
Don't think if it as tubercYOUlosis, think of it as tubercOURlosis
Sunday, Nov 30, 2025, 8PM CT (2AM Monday UTC)
IT'S #MONSTERDON
we will be watching:
The Asphyx (1972)
"English country squire Sir Hugo Cunningham searches for immortality by literally 'bottling up' the Spirit of the Dead, or Asphyx."
its streaming free on tubi
please watch and live post it with us!
think I'll get some mileage out of this one, thanks @paco for the screencap #monsterdon #wrongfrogs
You know, typically, one writes an ending for a movie, just a thought
So they're bringing the cab driver in for decontamination, and they're _burning his cab_, but not asking who else he might have picked up or where he lives..?
I don't know, this feels like both an over-reaction and an under-scoping of the task at hand.
(Did you know this film only ever got a physical disc release in Germany, according to my local video store? They put in some real work to track it down!)
Hey #monsterdon! Here's a bingo card for tonight's film: Space Master X-7 :godzilla_cool: