I'm putting garlic on my timeline just to be safe. #Monsterdon

NO DOCTORS! but the scientist is not working with doctors to find a cure? like WTAF?!?! you're a bad scientist Vincent, you are a bad scientist.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Man, the small details really tell a story in this one. That Morgan drives up to the lab and doesn't bother locking his car door, or even rolling up the window...

"i may look like a girl but im not im a cyborg!!!"

#monsterdon #BestOfMonsterdon

#Monsterdon I give #TerrorOfMechaGodzilla 5 out of 5 cyborg hearts. It precisely matched my expectations by leaving me deeply confused. I'd rate the characters but they confused me also.

Dismayed that the mad scientist didn't also have a redemption arc, or maybe he did but I missed it? Who can say?

Anyway, thanks to @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting!

#monsterdon Anyway, that finishes the Gargoyle movie. It was really kind of a bummer, what with all the genocide. I award it 3 giant fuzzy eggs out of 5, mostly because it was strange.

characters in decreasing order of likeability:
makeshift bikini girl
motel milf
designated egg petters
them 50 bloodhounds
the yazirian
doctor sniffles
wizened hat guy
captain demonology
wrongly accused motorcycle dudes
all other characters

dad showing off his dadbod. doesn't spark joy.

#monsterdon

It's hard to tell the typical dysfunctional 1950s family from the alien invasion dysfunction.

#monsterdon

I think we can all agree that the real hero of the story was the floral centrepiece. It provided the backbone to the plot, and was solid all the way through.

#Monsterdon

I give tonight's #Monsterdon a 4/5. The characters were mostly just there, but they discovered some weird underground shit, and that's neat! I love me a good subterranean ocean and some rando dinosaurs.

Party members in descending order of usefulness:
* Mr Whittle Pipe (does almost everything)
* Cave Aragorn (helpfully explodes)
* Bellhop Twink and Rock Lady (splash and look at things)
* Professor Muttonchops (almost gets everyone killed several times)

props to @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting!

#monsterdon HE THREW THE BOOK AT HIM

YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE ELEVATOR DURING AN EARTHQUAKE YOU DUMMY! #Monsterdon

my lonely Black mans has a bit of a Trinidadian accent there. SPACE AFROCARIBS REPRESENT!!! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon This movie is such a good antidote to Project Moonbase from last week. The same cold war era paranoia, but turned to starry-eyed idealism instead of cloak and dagger spy plots.

Plus the rubber monster suits in this one were so much better.

"Welcome to Earth!"
*angry posse of white people

#monsterdon

WAIT! WAAAAAAAAIT! HOW DID I MISS THEY WERE PART OF THE USA SPACE FORCE?!?!?! WE ARE INDEED FUCKING TRAPPED IN A HEINLEIN TIMELINE!!!

#monsterdon

OH SNAP! i realized am not watching BLACULA but am watching SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM.

what the hell. does anybody else also got this mixed up?!?!

#Monsterdon
#Blacula

BTW in my family we didn't practice vodoun, we practiced Lucumí, better known as santería

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa

#Monsterdon
#Blacula

"Constitutionally....there's nothing to say the President can't be a werewolf...."

#monsterdon

i lost my eyebrows to #cancer but the president's daughter lost them to fashion

#monsterdon

BTW i haven't laughed this hard with all the post-movie commentary. y'all fucking awesome.

#Monsterdon
#GodMonsterOfIndianFlats

OOH! OOH! THE MUSIC!!!
i call this the "people fight back" suite and it's used to amazing effect in the new #GodzillaMinusOne movie. like you totally get there's all these visual and aural languages being created in this movie. it makes it a contained, cohesive world with its own internal logic.

#Monsterdon #Gojira

Top stuff!

#monsterdon

the movie is really great at setting up a visual language for characters and places. that older guy with the glasses became kind of a cliche for the public intellectual in these movies

#Monsterdon #Gojira

OH! i also found at Internet Archive this #Godzilla special edition of Life Magazine

https://archive.org/details/life-godzilla-2021-a

#Monsterdon #Gojira

Feels like being part of some kind of radical future downloading a torrent of Godzilla from the Internet Archive and it all being legit.
I'm a dedicated 'preserver of culture' but it's nice not to have to feel like a pirate for using the Internet as it was promised

#monsterdon

well, that was more fun than the standalone Mothra movie i remember seeing.

added bonues: i learned how to stream 4k from the Archive with the added subtitles from OpenSubtittles.

total gamechanger!

thanks @Taweret@octodon.social and to the #Monsterdon shenaniganders for these wonderful shenanigans.

am so glad to be back enjoying these shenanigans with you all 😘

Capitalist-on-Capitalist violence 🥰

#monsterdon #MothraVsGodzilla

#monsterdon Did Godzilla... just get its tail stuck in a tower, then panic a bit, and when the tower fell over on Godzilla it freaked out a little bit?

...is Godzilla a cat?

Aww yiss #monsterdon

Gonna go rent Mothra vs. Godzilla on disc from the local video store for #monsterdon this weekend!

DON'T ANY OF YOU JERKS RENT IT BEFORE I GET THERE

flying saucers or rogue roombas?

#monsterdon

#monsterdon "I didn't tell you that once you eat a mushroom you become one too"

"You see, it is no longer mycelium but ourcelium"

🍄

#monsterdon

LOL hearing "Venus" as a bad American pronunciation of "Venice" is an incredible bit 🤌

#Monsterdon

FYI #Monsterdon monsterdonians: it seems like a combination of

UBlock Origin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Privacy Badger
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/

and @protonvpn killed Tubi ads for me. had not one at all. my set up skipped all ads completely.

Death even gave the kid a puppy.

"that's life" said the elf and Death is like, "BUT I AM NOT".

fuck yeah, you tell them.

#Hogfather #Monsterdon

so... am making sure i get set up for #Christmas #Monsterdon and am seeing streaming services i've never heard of. when you look at the fine print, they're all some mix of Viacom, Universal, WB/Paramount, FOX, Disney, SONY with Google or Amazon as assists.

so they're segregating movies into "demo" targets; making it look like there's competition; but money is going to the same handful of behemoths.

if billionaires have no right to exist, neither do oligopolies.

break them up.

ALL OF THEM.

and just like that, neocolonialism has been defeated if but for a day.

thanks @Taweret@octodon.social and @cheribaker for another wonderful #Monsterdon and #MonsterdonBingo

this made my #COVID19 isolation a bit better

You should never go down into the orchestral instrument storage room alone. #Monsterdon

NEGL am now obsessed with the embroidered button-down shirt under a boat-neck wool sheath look

#TheWaspWoman
#Monsterdon

well done, Ms. Capitalist Boss Lady, well done!

#Orbite #WPAP #ART #ARTE
#ARTWORK #minimalism #monster #style #illustration #graphics #elegance #lowpoly #friday #monsterdon

There's a mortuary across the street from the medical supply lab and cemetery.

What, is the zoning in this neighborhood set to "creepy"?

#monsterdon #mastoween #ReturnOfTheLivingDead

New #Godzilla Minus One image. #Monsterdon

Looks like Mastodon is going to break 14 Million Users, today.

Congratulations!!!!

#Mastodon #Monday #Monsterdon #LaborDay #mondaymotivation #montag #Twitter

Wikipedia, bless them, have the creepiest John Saxon pic they could get their hands on

#Monsterdon
#QueenOfBlood
#PlanetOfBlood

THEY: it's the end of the Big Bird.

ME: 😭 😭 BIG BIRD 😭 😭

#TheGiantClaw
#Monsterdon

Today I learned Arnold Stang, who played Pretzie in #monsterdon 's "Hercules in New York", also did the voice of classic cartoon character Top Cat.

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

And so Herc fucked off to Olympus, and Zeus fucked off to Staten Island.

Fam, this was a lot of fun. The movie was absurd and badly acted, the plot was laughable, and the cinematography was worse.

But damn if I didn't love it.

Take care of each other. Be kind, spread love, watch fun movies.

Goodnight everyone.

#Monsterdon

this is fucking preposterous what is even happening #monsterdon

OMG it occurred to me, we still lived in #nyc in 1969. toddler Liza (was 3 years old) could have been playing with mami on the El Barrio side of the park (we lived blocks away).

#Monsterdon #HerculesInNewYork

🎵 When the mob boss comes along, you must whip it! 🎶

#monsterdon

automat!!

#monsterdon

I can't be too mad at any movie that has fun practical effects creatures in it tho

#monsterdon

Oh man. It’s hard to sum up how awkward that all was. Many readings can desperately be made, but none of them make that any better. Thanks for sharing the pain, #Monsterdon gang. And thanks @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne for pulling us all together.

my partner looked up and saw Walken standing in front of a wall and he said, "is this the part where Walken apologizes for the movie?"

also i've wandered off to make pasta at this point

#monsterdon

This is all a bit "I got drunk and teleported to Waffle House/ rather than deal with my problems" isn't it?

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon

Hit the target and win a free divorce. #Monsterdon

See the problem with a lot of horror movies is they stock the cast with assholes and then expect you NOT to cheer when they get eaten by Creatures. #Monsterdon

Grizzly bears can be as big as a Volkswagen, and they can go as fast as 30 miles per hour, also like a Volkswagen. #Monsterdon

Okay #Monsterdon, I don't think we have any UFO-focused movies in our bingo archive yet, so I'm starting from scratch this week.

What are you hoping to see on Sunday? Hit me with your best UFO/Alien tropes of the 1980s. :blobcatcoffee:

OMG, I happened to be derping around on Steam's store page and noticed THIS. Manos: The Hands of Fate turned into a platform game. 🤣

Tagging #Monsterdon as I feel this is indeed highly relevant to our interests!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/350780/MANOS_The_Hands_of_Fate__Directors_Cut/

and technically, Dracula fucked off into a swamp. so it’s a solid #Monsterdon movie

#monsterdon

Honestly they didn't ignore that he could hear them talking...

really my major issues with this film are just Lon Cheney Jr.'s acting and a little bit of the premise

it doesn't have to be Dracula, the book

#monsterdon

"He's as nutty as a filbert."
Ah I love hazelnuts and their silly second name.
#Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943

"Don't say that word, Frank! The algorithm will demonetize us. Instead call us.... unalive."

#monsterdon

married by this kirby maybe

#monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943

Just based on other posts I'm seeing, the Count's accent is a Rorschach test. Everyone hears a different bland US regional dialect.

#monsterdon

this movie feels like the test reel for a film noire involving a detective vampire hunter

#monsterdon #SonOfDracula

So dracula now gets to live in his legally acquired plantation estate, bury his poor deceased wife, and they put that other guy in prison for murdering the wife. no conflict detected #monsterdon

Harry, calm down. You're Jimmy Stewarting all over the room.

#monsterdon

Frank is doing a bit of a discount Jimmy Stewart in "It's a wonderful life."

#Monsterdon

If you can be frightened to death can you also be bored back to life

#Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943

#monsterdon

Bram Stoker's Gone With The Wind

#monsterdon

I will likely miss #Monsterdon, so I will throw this out now. The very first thing that strikes me in Son of Dracula is the gorgeous "A UNIVERSAL PICTURE" intro. Considering that the film itself stars Lon Cheney Jr., I suspect that the intro logo is the peak, and it's all down hill from there. I wondered if it had been animated, but that would have required a maddening amount of calculation. I did a search and found this. Wow. Six months in the making. A labor of love. https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/128020/how-was-the-universal-pictures-1936-opening-logo-created

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, April 12, 2026, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching:

Son of Dracula (1943)

Count Alucard (Lon Chaney) comes out of a lake in his coffin and makes a Southern belle (Louise Allbritton) his bride.

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it
with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0rPaeTHJmY

Big thanks to @Taweret for our special has-nothing-to-do-with-Easter Monsterdon Easter movie. Classic 1950s radioactive mutant animal(s) film.

We had smoking. We had coffee. We had a lot of exposition, little stock footage, and more than one monster. Monster(s) generated large amounts of spunk. Death count of nine. Minimal subplots. Reasonably dramatic final battle.

Aside from the titular monster, most memorable actor was the museum curator.

#Monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld1957

And now we fuck off into the Salton Sea, where we definitely will not die of pollution.

The creature effects were surprisingly good, though I am unconvinced anything that chitinous could be a mollusk, and also I don't know what it has to do with the cray-kin.

Goodnight #monsterdon, give a nod to @Taweret for hosting and I'll see y'all next week!

That was everything I expected it to be.

But what I wasn’t expecting was for the Bechdel test to be passed multiple times.

Thank you everyone for your toots, and as always thank you @Taweret for hosting and thank you @cherizilla for the bingo cards.

Till next week’s #monsterdon it’s now safe to go swimming.

#Monsterdon
"Challenged" is a strong word. "Concerned," maybe.

I give the movie a 👌 on the scale of #Monsterdon -ness

You can go swimming again. Right after we play in traffic.

#monsterdon

He's gonna go to the fire axe, take it down, then slowly unscrew the mounting hook from the wall and throw it at the creature.

#monsterdon #challengedtheworld1957

Water flowing underground!

#monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld1957

"I don't want to alarm you unduly, but we're all gonna die."

#monsterdon #challengedtheworld1957

Color version of a tiny percentage of the film. https://www.chisholm-poster.com/posters/CL2879.html
#Monsterdon

Love those little critter guys

#monsterdon #critters4

I don't know why that computer sequence has a cute heart in the middle of it.

#monsterdon

TIL that @miru has a merch shop, AND that one of the things in that shop is a "Don't blame me, I voted for CRITTERS 4" sticker

https://miyakumedia.threadless.com/designs/dont-blame-me-i-voted-for-critters-4/accessories/sticker

It's the end of an era! We did it!

#Monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?

#monsterdon That was good fun.

The sword fights were better too. They got better at getting the actor's movements to look like they're really interacting with the stop motion.

And we end with a proper fucking off into the sea! Well, for the crew, not for any monsters. I admit I was a bit distracted by this mamacat needing scritches but I appreciated the flappy fellow and the monster fight.

Goodnight #monsterdon and see y'all next week!

#monsterdon rn

Statue guy just hoping no one notices him 😬 #monsterdon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116236481422571135

Okay, my timeline is often completely overtaken by a #Monsterdon rewatch that I am not viewing, but it is rare that I know the movie so well I can almost watch it Scene-for-scene through timeline comments.

#JasonAndTheArgonauts1963 has some very classic #harryhausen stop motion, I studied that movie.

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️ TRIVIA AND THE ARGOS ⛵🌊

Animation of Dem Bones - By the Numbers

7 skeletons each with
5 appendages
35 things to move for each frame, at least
13 to 14 frames per day for difficult action (half a second of film)
4.5 months approximately to film

#JasonAndTheArgonauts1963

Jason and Medea
Sittin' in a tree
F-L-E-E-C-E

#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts