And Swamp Thing fucks off into the swamp, the end. The dialogue was cringe-worthy, the rubber suits were generally not good, but at least there was never a point where we were sitting around asking, "I wonder what Swamp Thing is doing right now?" Goodnight Monsterdon and thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
swamp juice has attribute effects that are dependent on alignment. if you are a friend of the swamp you become huge and buff, if you are a right wing militia guy you become a cute little deer #monsterdon
swamp juice doesn't always turn you into a huge buff swamp thing it also sometimes turns you into a little deer guy, i would take swamp juice #monsterdon
Boy, that is the most someone has ever been on fire. #Monsterdon
"Swamp Thing" stars Dick Durock in an amazing-for-the-time monster suit, Louis Jourdan as the evil scientist who of course is French, and Adrienne Barbeau's boobs.
Well, the rest of her, too, but when she's tied up
I'd better stop there
And yes, I saw this in the theater, first run.
And I read all the articles in Fangoria.
I was there, yo
@Taweret #Monsterdon Grizzly stans, I respect your hustle and will be voting for Grizzly along with my top pick (if any) until you are victorious.
Leery as I am to accept results from general web search these days, I consulted Green's Dictionary of Slang, both print and online, in hopes of finding an explanation for the phrase "rain on the/your rhubarb" as heard in the 1960 film "Little Shop of Horrors." Leonora, a streetwalker, accosts Seymour several times before finally getting his attention. She asks him if there will be rain on his rhubarb (or perhaps it's "rain on the rhubarb," as my memory is poor). Say what?
"Rhubarb" is 20th century slang for "genitals of either sex.."
Absent finding the specific phrasing, it still seems logical to me that this sense is applicable. It feels akin to "getting one's wick wet" (where "wick" rhymes with "dick").
We may never know for sure, but this feels right to me.
Edited because I misremembered the vegetable in question. Luckily, the correct one is indeed still sexual slang.
if you are a flower shop whose business depends on one carnivorous sentient plant, you should quickly try and pivot away from said carnivorous sentient plant to one of the many other prestige plants as soon as you have in influx of capital #monsterdon
It's incredible that someone in this movie is more Jack Nicholson than Jack Nicholson is
Edit: oh wait I got confused. The character that I thought was out-Jack Nicholasing Jack Nicholas is just Jack Nicholas.
PAIN magazine in a dentist's office is fucking hilarious I'm sorry this is actual comedy
i don’t like this plant. i’ve never liked this plant. i don’t like vampires and i don’t like audrey jr.
i generally agree with @Louisa , the 80s version with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis is better. I just wish they'd left in the 1982 stage musical's ending number, Don't Feed The Plants. (There is bootleg footage of the original ending out there, check it out - legendarily put onto early DVD copies which were all recalled because producer David Geffen hated it!)
I bet @JoeWynne knows this trivia.
microdosing Mothra to power up
🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️
💥 ALL-OUT TRIVIA ATTACK 💥
During Godzilla's detruction of the harbor earlier, this poster is shown. It's a pic of the real Lucky Dragon, the Japanese fishing boat that was contaminated by radioactivity in mid-1954. That event was the main inspiration for the original Godzilla in 1954.
huh, a neat little nod to reality - in the command centre, looking at the camera view as being actually broadcast, it's like... 4 frames per second? in other words, the pack she plugged the camera into is frame-slicing for bandwidth reasons.
i mean, that's still better than you'd've been able to get at the time over 2G, but at least someone thought of it
#monsterdon Godzilla hates visitor centers and educational pavilions. And don't get me started on his blood feud with gazebos!
#Monsterdon 🦖 🐉 🦋 🐢 🐍 🤖 😱
"If you're sure about it, why don't you put it on your website?!" <-- my new motto
if i'm ever having a bad day just wrap my ass up in a space blanket and send me straight to the hospital #monsterdon
Instantly blocking any account who abuses the Monsterdon hashtag to spam our eyes!
So many #Monsterdon reactions made me keenly aware that a lot of people didn't know how influential this movie was on comic books and other movies and animation.
I was reading a Dr. Strange comic when #TheRaven came on a Saturday morning Creature Feature and it blew my mind. I looked at Vincent Price and thought, hey, that's Dr. Strange! It wasn't, but I could see how it *could* be. I loved it. Still do. It's not a great movie or even a good movie, but it's a *fun* movie!
Oh, by the way, the producer James A. Nicholson (one of the founders of AIP) has no relation to young Jack in this film.
this movie woulda made a great 10-minute comedy sketch at a Renaissance Faire
Me, awaiting this weekend’s #Monsterdon.
OMG! You must be jokin'!
No, the people, they have spoken.
We'll watch The Raven, to be sure.
Click the link and nothing more.
Tonight's #Monsterdon makes me think. There should be a project that finds all the vampires that have been staked with wooden stakes and replaces the stakes with a non-biodegradable plastic.
Wood doesn't last forever even in the best conditions, and crypts are not the best conditions. Wooden vampire stakes are basically a ticking time-bomb.
#Monsterdon this circus is just one big dysfunctional polycule, isn't it
Jellicles are and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles would
Jellicles would and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
#Monsterdon
#Monsterdon guy who believes in germ theory of disease vs the rest of the town council
fuckin hell you're killing me
Hey #Monsterdon here's tonight's bingo card!
What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?
#monsterdon Good thing the aliens didn't think to take over "Russian weather satellites"
This movie triggered Godwin's Law. This movie *triggered Godwin's Law.*
WHO GAVE PAPA SMURF THE FUCKING ROCKET LAUNCHER??? #Monsterdon
So we all agree the newlyweds' car hasn't turned on them because it's their third, right? #Monsterdon
🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️
🚚 TRIVIA OVERDRIVE 🚚💥
Many trucks you see have logos from actual businesses that existed in Wilmington, NC at time of filming.
Firstly, why is a motorized turkey knife hanging out next to the flat-top grill at all?
Secondly, malevolent motivation aside, why is it able to exert any cutting force at all without any mass or leverage behind it??
I am starting to get the feeling that there may be some holes in this plot
Sunday, July 20, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)
TONIGHT
IT'S #MONSTERDON
we will be watching
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
"After a comet causes a radiation storm on Earth, machines come to life and turn against their makers. Holed up in a North Carolina truck stop, a group of survivors must fend for themselves against a mass of homicidal trucks. A diner cook, Bill Robinson (Emilio Estevez), emerges as the unlikely leader of the pack, attempting to find an escape plan for himself and the survivors, who include his boss, Bubba Hendershot (Pat Hingle), and a newlywed couple."
its streaming free on Tubi, Pluto and plex
please watch and live post it with us!
apparently Maximum Overdrive and Blue Velvet were being shot at the same time, in the same location, and the cast and crew would hang out in the evenings.
source: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83618/10-sentient-facts-about-maximum-overdrive
I actually liked that one, though again, they could have done a little trimming and made it a solid Twilight Zone episode. Goodnight #monsterdon, stop doing that thing that's hurting you, and tip your host @Taweret !
This guy is about to look at a lot of boobies
I'm gonna miss them.
Goodbye Dr Nadir.
Adieu Princess.
#Monsterdon #FrankensteinMeetstheSpaceMonster
@WhiteCatTamer For the moment I can offer you some choice screen captures
Your missile attacks interrupted their tea time chit chat session.
#Monsterdon #FrankensteinMeetstheSpaceMonster
#Monsterdon well that was silly fun. did what it said on the tin, more or less, and kept us all amused and/or horrified in the right ways
A+ selection, monsterdon voters :D
We haven't had a movie this charmingly bad since Devil Girl from Mars, have we?
#Monsterdon #FrankensteinMeetstheSpaceMonster
#monsterdon So far the "Mars needs women" plot and the "lost airforce frankenstein" plot aren't really connected.
It's like we're flipping between two movies.
#monsterdon He's really smug about how horrible it is to die from nuclear war.
@Taweret Dr. Nadir has potential. #monsterdon
I won't make tonight's #Monsterdon, but have a great time, everyone.
@jmjm @ohiofi I don't think we had an official mascot but if we did it would probably be baby Godzilla
Devil Girl might be the closest thing to an "official" meme of #Monsterdon though
And medusa's head fucked off into the sea
It'd be better if her boobs turned guys to stone so the only ones who would survive would be the ones interested in her sparkling intellect
#monsterdon "Even lovelier than the goddess"
You think people would have learned not to say stuff like this back then.
AAAAAAACK AM LATE FOR #Monsterdon! good thing i watched this movie recently.
It's always so hard to get old boyfriends to stop calling you. She's got my sympathies :/ #Monsterdon
I really thought the back of the shield was gonna have a face in it. Not like just a chroma key, but an actual face embedded in it like the Betazoid gift box from Star Trek #monsterdon
Sunday, June 29, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)
IT'S #MONSTERDON
we will be watching
Clash of the Titans (1981)
"Perseus (Harry Hamlin), son of the Greek god Zeus (Laurence Olivier), grows up on a deserted island. His destiny is to marry Princess Andromeda (Judi Bowker), who will someday rule the city of Joppa. But as long as the satyr Calibos (Neil McCarthy) -- who uses a giant vulture to kidnap Andromeda's soul every night -- is alive, no one can marry her. Perseus travels to Joppa, where he must defeat Calibos and other mythological monsters to rescue Andromeda."
its streaming free on tubi
please watch and live post it with us!!
the bad movie is over for now... yes, the wheel may yet turn... in a week's time, some dark force may show its face... but for now... we can... rest #monsterdon
#monsterdon The real casualty of this film was Physics itself..
LEAPING INTO SPACE!!!! COME ON!!!!!! this is the best movie of all time #monsterdon
See, the thing is, Elle would be a thousand percent more tolerable if he wasn't humanoid. If he were a little trashcan with inarticulate limbs and a hoverskirt his Texan accent and overconfidence would be *hilarious*. #Monsterdon
the score has now entirely given up and left the movie #monsterdon
"By sunset, I will be the new Emperor"
bad deadline to give yourself when there are no sunsets in space
HALT THE FLOW OF TIME hahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhuawhaahuidwlhefhielh how does this movie keep getting better #monsterdon
My kingdom for one long-haired woman in a movie to tie her hair back before doing literally anything
Wait why is Christopher Plummer in this movie? Did he lose a bet??
This movie is built out of old sci-fi magazine covers isn't it.
#Monsterdon #StarCrash
That transparent double-bulbed spacesuit helmet is _one hundred percent_ a repurposed jello mould.
Just needs little chunks of pineapple and ham floating around in it in a wobbly bucket of goo.
Christopher Plummer is like my favorite part of Starcrash, he *understood* the assignment :D
Pathos... And! Gravitas. Save the joviality for the half-dozen margaritas waiting at the poolside after shooting. God the things you do for a vacation in Rome. #Monsterdon
There are some non-Monster movies I'd like to watch with folk from the #Monsterdon crowd someday:
* The Naked Gun trilogy (& Police Squad TV series)
* The Airplane series
* Mel Brooks flicks like Young Frankenstein (ok, it has Monsters), the Producers, & Blazing Saddles (which would need all sorts of CWs)
* Anything Rodgers & Hammerstein
* Cats, Butthole Edition
What are some of your favorite non-Monster movies?
Poster for BOG does go pretty hard, tho
I am deeply disappointed in the lack of peat in this movie.
How can such a peaceful scene hold such danger, it BOGgles the mind
AAAHHAHAHAHAhahaha
I'm tired
Portrait of a 70's guy in his natural habitat
Grunting in a recliner. #Monsterdon
Damn scuba divers. They went down and stole Bog monster's Capsela toy collection.
#Monsterdon #Bog
come on, monster, where are you? we need you
This is like Married With Children except the characters are even more unlikeable. Really a remarkable achievement, actually. #Monsterdon
Fan. Fucking. Taststic. We've got the go ahead from the landlord and #monsterdon is getting projected on the side of a building for the neighborhood to enjoy.
This Sunday at 9pm Eastern, it's #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! Come join the rest of the Fediverse as we watch a skin-peelingly bad flick!
This week we're watching BOG (1979), in which witless fishers revive an ancient evil hungering for human blood! Even Leonard Maltin, who famously gave Laserblast a ★★½ rating, thought this one sucked :D
It's on Tubi, or you can download in advance over at Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/bog_20220803
#Monsterdon 🧛 ⛓️ 🧟♂️ 😱
I appreciate you #Monsterdonians very, very much. Thanks for making this week's ... item ... hilarious in spite of itself.
and thank you @Taweret @Cherizilla @JoeWynne we'll see ya next week I hope!
country doctor came to an AI fight with a folder full of papers… cuz that’s what technocrats do.
but notice how he didn’t go after the gringo who caused all the mayhem 🤨
oh well, we’re done.
welp.
that was sumtin.
thanks to @Taweret and all the #Monsterdon for this weeks hot ass mess. seems… timely.
okay peeps, you have til Tuesday to make your best Monsterdon #HappyBirthdayLiza crossover meme 😊
I think I need to burn my house down because just deleting this piece of shit from Plex isn’t going to cut it. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Doctor Frankenstein's plan was terrible.
His plan was to threaten to kill Dracula to "control" him, while Dracula accumulated an army of slaves?
There's no way that would work. You can't control someone long-term by threatening to kill them, because that's an all-or-nothing threat, and eventually they're going to call your bluff.
Besides that, having an army of slaves loyal to a man you're holding prisoner is also a bad idea it you think about it for the tiniest fraction of a second.
Even if Wolf-Man hadn't shown up, Dr F's plan was really stupid.
I remember as a little girl watching movies where every time something scary happened, the woman in the scene fainted, and I thought fainting a lot was definitely something I'd have to deal with when I was older
(see also: quicksand)
Ten minutes into every Mastodon movie I have this moment of panic, like, "Okay I know these are supposed to be bad movies, but EVERYONE I THINK THIS MIGHT REALLY BE BAD, DO WE HAVE A PLAN B?"
Like oh god, what did we get ourselves into
Usually this feeling fades about halfway through when it's like, "Oh phew, okay, it's about as bad as average"
stop making that noise immediately
Hi, for tonight's #Monsterdon , Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972) I simply cannot be bothered to type out "Frankenstein's Monster" over and over again (in large part because I always misspell the damn thing) so his name is canonically Frank.
Thanks, let's have fun
i just want to point out that i was literally correct about this except for the mothra part
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/114611496793821245
Ah, I love that stupid, ridiculous movie. Thanks for the fun time, everyone!
How can it be the beginning of a new war, it's literally called "Final Wars"!?!?