So after #Monsterdon was over I started watching a romcom I've never seen before, called The Jane Austen Book Club. It's from 2007 - only 18 years old!

The whole first five minutes is a montage of overwhelming hectic urban daily life, the central focus of which is everyone on their cell phones. Not their smartphones. Their hinged flip phones. Everyone is ACTUALLY TALKING on the phone, it's so quaint!

These poor people have no idea what's coming.

The marine in 5 minutes. #monsterdon

The whole house has been painstakingly molded from rich milk chocolate

#Monsterdon

Yeah the casket was LESS THAN A FOOT LONG

HAhahahaha

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Tea is GO
Cheeses are GO
Crackers are GO
Preserves are GO
Carrot cake is GO
Alligators are LIKELY TO GROW so
Pets down the toilet are ALWAYS NO
#monsterdon is GO for launch

#alligator1980

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, Nov 16, 2025, 8PM CT (2AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching:

Alligator (1980)

"A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu."

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_f3-h4tGFQ

WAIT DID THEY JUST STAKE VAMPIRE HITLER WHAT IN THE SAM HILL IS THIS MOVIE #Monsterdon

more people need to be eaten

not enough eating of people yet

#monsterdon #critt3rs

"there's this long tailed reptilian alien demon that we all know about that can be summoned to murder a set of designated people. we call it pumpkinhead, it's sorta cute that way"
#monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

 🧛‍♀️🧛   TRIVIA HUNGER 🧛‍♀️🧛

Ruined Ending

Studio execs changed the ending to keep Susan Sarandon's character alive - for sequel purposes. She said later in an interview,

"The thing that made the film interesting to me was this question of, 'Would you want to live forever if you were an addict?' But as the film progressed, the powers that be rewrote the ending and decided that I wouldn't die, so what was the point?

(quotation continued)

Things #Monsterdon Loves:

*Lovingly crafted practical effects
*Songs that describe what happened in the movie
*Sweaters

Blue crocodile-lizard with many legs for #monstober day 2!

Made in gouache and coloured pencils.

#art #illustration #mastoart #october #inktober #monsterdon #gouache #colouredpencil #blue #fediart

we better get a giant baby at the end

#Monsterdon

Swamp Thing is bloomscrolling.

#Monsterdon

i have eaten the villagers

that were in the clown car

which you were probably saving for breakfast

forgive me

they were so

#monsterdon #VampireCircus

Hey, #Monsterdon! Start revving your engines for tonight's film: Maximum Overdrive. 🍿 Tonight's bingo card has 54 possible tropes from Stephen King movies. Thanks to everyone who sent in ideas!

Generate a unique bingo card here: 👉 https://bingobaker.com/#6875ecfe8bb75d1a

Event information from our host: https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/114880801151690480

Good luck, players!

#monsterdonalert #monsterdonbingo

Good morning, as of today Saturday 8/2/2025

NEED MET!

TYSM to all who uplifted me whoever you could.

I ask my #disability #Queer #Pride #BlackMastodon #Writers #Poetry #mutualaid #Caturday #monsterdon communities to come through for me.

Shares in kinds spaces are ok.

TYSM to all who care.

🥹

#housingcrisis @mutualaid @disabilityjustice

A Futurama Entertainment Corporation production!

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

#Monsterdon

wait that's it???

Oh well. I had a genuinely great time watching this with y'all. Lots of fun and laughs, and super weir drandomness. It all worked for me, somehow.

Thank you all for coming to #monsterdon ! Special thanks to @Taweret and to @JoeWynne for the trivia, and @Cherizilla for the bingo!

See you next week, and be sure to be here tomorrow for the next vote!

Hey, #Monsterdon! Here's a bingo card for tonight's film: Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. 🍿 Tonight's card has 49 possible tropes from 1960's monster movies.

Generate your unique Bingo Card here (click squares to play in browser) 👉 https://bingobaker.com/#686ab7c56e2548f7

Event information from our host, Taweret: https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/114807216107269916

#monsterdonalert

Looks like a lot of #monsterdon adherents have not seen Clash of the Titans (the original).

Never before have so many great actors been handed such a cheesy script— or looked better on Mt. Olympus (yowza)!

While Jason & the Argonauts is a better movie overall (die/hill, not arguing) Clash is clearly the right choice for fediverse purposes.

And today is also Ray Harryhausen's birthday, so [chef's kiss] the Fates must have decreed this turn of events!

#ClashOfTheTitans #Harryhausen #animation

#monsterdon

How many of us are watching Jaws tonight?

It's such a good film, so well put together.....being on Monsterdon you see so many examples of people doing everything wrong making a movie, it's a delight seeing it done right.

lol, that Mayor is every political figure currently in power really....

#Jaws #Cinema #Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

Thank you @Taweret for hosting this Exceptional Exercise on Sci-Fi Filmmaking! Someday I will have the words to adequately explain how much this event means to me.

and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! My card had "sharply parted hair", and I could hardly focus on the movie after reading it.

And THANKS to the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: Superb tootstream! I'm afraid we may find the next movie to be much lower quality in comparison to this one. If we're lucky.

when you get its health down to half it goes into its second phase

#Monsterdon

The planet Altair IV is mentioned in Star Trek episodes and movies over and over. Even Altair water is canon.

🪐 But where did that planet name come from originally?

Because Gene Roddenberry was heavily influenced by FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), he used the name of the planet from that movie.

But that's not the only connection between Forbidden Planet and #StarTrek.

More tonight on #Monsterdon 🦖 where we enjoy FORBIDDEN PLANET.

Details:
https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/114569468601935373

#AllStarTrek

Hmm. Seems like our protagonists have gotten themselves into a real...

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🐌 🐌 🐌 💀 🩸 😱

You guys next up in my Tubi recs is something called 'TICKS' and it's about ticks and no no nope nope nopety nope

#monsterdon

this movie is soooooooo about the 1980s gringo satanic panic OMG.

that’s why all those kids grew up to believe in QAnon and became MAGA am not even joking.

#monsterdon #theGate

Good day, from Porto! 👋 
#Fotomontag
#Monsterdon
#MondayMotivation
#PhotoMonday #photography #porto

Yeti Movie Pros and Cons:

PRO:
* weird tragic plot line
* characters I could tell apart
* surprisingly mostly good soundtrack
* includes fun 1970s hardware, like "giant computer", "retro jitsi machine", "yellow cop car with two sirens like a star destroyer's scanner globes" and "awkward yeti oxygen machine"
* horny

CON:
* I'm confused what the evil plot was
* rampage scenes were awkward and strange
* why was the yeti screaming
* poor yeti
* horny

#monsterdon

#monsterdon #chud

*Jabs finger in producer's face* You're real lucky I like looking at Frogs and shirtless Sam Elliott or I'd kick your ass! #monsterdon

it's an honor to be bitch-slapped by Sir Christopher Lee

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

In honor of this week's #Monsterdon film, Tentacles, I'll be sharing a fun octopus fact every day. 🐙

Octopuses are super smart! Scientists have found that they can solve complex puzzles, plan for the future, and escape enclosures. They apply what they've learned to future challenges. One captive octopus, Otto, used his siphon to squirt water at an overhead lamp he found annoying, repeatedly shorting it out. 🧠

Video: Octopus vs Maze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7__r4FVj-EI

our detective #monsterdon

Japanese George Harrison is the anti-Oppenheimer; questioning the ethics of letting politicians' grubby hands on his Gojira killer. seriously, this is as antiwar as a movie of that time could get.

#Monsterdon #Gojira

COME BACK HERE AND SAY THAT TO MY FACE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

#Mothra #Monsterdon #Mothradon

On this day (November 4) in 1988, John Carpenter's THEY LIVE was released.

Did a recent rewatch of this recently and it holds up. Disturbingly accurate as to what's still going on in the world today (and maybe has always and will always go on in the world, with corruption, greed, etc.)

A fascinating, terrifying film.

#TheyLive #horror #SciFi #JohnCarpenter #film #films #ClassicFilms #ClassicHorror #ClassicSciFi #80sMovies #Monsterdon

am sitting out #Mastoween #Monsterdon today because am a weenie when it come to medical gore.

also, i just had #fuckCancer micro-surgery and have had so many needed and metal rods stuck into my boobs that... am just gonna not.

but am here to enjoy all your shenanigans, LMAO

How does an octopus hit?

He throws a sucker punch!

#Monsterdon

Will some fashion designer PLEASE bring back the matching shirt & scarf
#monsterdon

@Taweret

"In Hercules in New York, our demigod hero faces his most formidable foe yet!"

#Monsterdon #PizzaRat

Someone should come up with a thing where we all watch the same bad monster movie on a Sunday evening and live-toot inane jokes about it.

Oh wait! It already exists! #Monsterdon!

Watching "Son of Dracula" (1943) tonight.

Click the hashtag to learn more!
Mute the hashtag to learn less!
Copy and paste the hashtag to flood your stream with hilarious hot takes.

See you at 9pm EDT.

I'm sad for the bunnies, and the ladybug, and the prehistoric giant molluscs

but thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for bingo, and @JoeWynne for the trivia!

Most importantly, thanks to all my fellow Monsterdonians for making it fun!

#Monsterdon 🏜️☀️🌵🫨🦪🐚🐌🦐😱

Me: [on the phone] "Hello 911? I need to report a crime. I was forced to watch Critters 4 by a bunch of cyber bullies"
911 Operator: [muffled sounds]
Me: "Well... yes... I voted for Critters 4, but... "

#monsterdon #spacemadnessthemakingofcritters4 #monsterdondoublefeature #monstermiru #miru

the creatures were all very cool

ty for joining, everyone!!

#monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, Mar 22, 2026, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qrRSQ7ZJE8

i saw this movie in an old town theater en Mayagüez with mami and baby bro sometime in the 1970s.

it’s one of my favorites for two reasons:

- the monsters terrified me so much, had nightmares for weeks.

- shortly afterwards Star Wars came out and changed everything and one of the selling points of the movie was that a big chunk of the FX crew had worked or been mentored by Harryhausen.

Ray Harryhausen is still the best.

#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts

so was the story of that movie how this scientist king had enslaved the phoenix inside of a mountain to be his power plant and so the gods spawned hercules to stop him but also made him fall in love with the woman that one of the gods had promised to sacrifice to refuel the power plant except another woman who stole the talisman from the core of being gave him a ride there and he was going to be married to the daughter of the evil scientist king but he kicked their ass back into space the end #monsterdon

So I did the whole #monsterdon from an airplane... on the ground. My 6:20 flight took off at 10:30, right after the film ended.

#monsterdon DALEK. FONTS. ARE. SUPERIOR.

Now this is REAL Doctor Who -- running down narrow corridors from a monster constructed from precisely 72 pence worth of components :D #Monsterdon

Blue Daleks are from the Science division, red from Engineering. #Monsterdon

My weekend was all tedious, only chores, and now I get to end it by watching a movie about a 4-dimensional man absorbing everyone's life force to stay alive? Thank you for this gift, #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?

The thing about Godzilla (1998) is that it was bad in a way #Monsterdon movies usually aren't.

Usually when a Monsterdon movie is bad, it's because they didn't have the budget to pull it off, or their concept was just weird, or their technical or artistic skills just weren't up to it.

Godzilla (1998) had all those things in spades and more, but it still sucked. Because it was just *bland as shit.*

When a Monsterdon movie is bad, it's usually bad in an INTERESTING way. The tricks to doing something on a low budget are neat, or the weirdness of the concept is compelling, things like that.

Godzilla (1998)'s only passion was in tallying up how much branded ice cream they could sell if they added in ANOTHER scene that reminded people of Jurassic Park.

How compelling :/

Things we learned:

1. Jean Reno can really complain about coffee

2. Matthew Broderick saw that scene where his character is buying a bunch of Godzilla pregnancy tests and still thought this film was a good idea

3. Madison Square Garden holds many secrets (and gumballs)

4. Hank Azaria can make any role good, it is The Power of Hank

Thanks everyone! And thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

:)

#Godzilla1998
#Monsterdon

"I'm a woman scientist but I will remind you in my first ten seconds onscreen that I'm also very sexually attuned to my environment"

- every 90's movie

#Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon

kaijus roasting on an open/libre fire
#mosstodon nipping at your nose
@devilgirlbot carols being sung by a #Monsterdon choir
And folks dressed up like #JohnMastodon

And, so, I'm offering this simple #AltTxt phrase
To kids from one to #asstodon
Although it's been boosted many times, many ways
Merry #fedimas to you

@RobynGoodfellow @SnoopJ

OH NO WE'RE THE FINAL BOSSES OF THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS

We didn't just fight in the war on Christmas - we WON. We SAVED it. Christmas belongs to #Monsterdon now

starbucks? defeated

Day 5! And holy cow! What a day for #MonsterdonSavesChristmas !

Today we raised another $2433,60!! That's almost the entirety of last year in ONE DAY!! Unbelievable!! Thank you SO MUCH to all of the donors that helped make this possible! You're beyond amazing!

We also added some new charities! Egale, My Grandfather's Cat, and Brave Space Alliance!

This is full stop going to be the best year ever. And don't forget, @paco and @steggy are matching all donations to Rainbow Railroad, Trans Lifeline, and The Trevor Projcet! So those numbers going to be even higher at the end!

The current total donations are an outstanding, $4333.66!! Y'all are increadible! I'll be blown away if we can top this before Sunday. (But it would be even more awesome if we did!)

#Monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

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

#MonsterdonSavesChristmas !!

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 👀) make a donation to charity, screenshot it (scrub your personal info! we don't want it!) and DM the screenshot to:

@xoagray

(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!

Only 2 weeks left in 2025. A quick note to the hosts and supporters of all the watch parties I wander in to: My life was better this year because of you. Thank you. #mondayactionmovie #laesoterica #tvmysteries #catitstu #muscoment #westwed #retroview #leveragetv #fridaythrillerclub #kungfusat #actionmatinee #stewarama #iliketowatch #symsat #sundayfunnies #whatpatheard #harryorwell #baroquesun #monsterdon #comedon

#thanksgiving #MST3k #TurkeyDay #Monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, Nov 23, 2025, 8PM CT (2AM Monday UTC)

TONIGHT
TONIGHT
TONIGHT

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching:

Space Master X-7 (1958)

"A fungus brought from space threatens to grow and spread, devouring everyone in its path.."

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it with us!

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

cops came in firing into a dark room

seems about right

#Monsterdon

okay that was fun. very halloween

ty for joining, everyone!!!

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon🧛‍♂️ 💞 🧛‍♀️ 💞 🥧 🍩 😱

"Going to Switzerland" is gonna be my new euphamism for climbing into a coffin in the attic with some white doves

We're watching The Hunger tonight for #Monsterdon and it has David Bowie and Susan Sarandon, and like...vampires or something. It's the 80's so probably a lot of leather jackets and boobs.

Me: I'm just watching this so I can ogle David Bowie

Greg: Fair enough

For new followers, Monsterdon is a weekly thing where we all watch the same movie toghther, and make cracks about about it. It starts at 6pm PDT (two hours from now), and the movie is free on Tubi (see link).

https://tubitv.com/movies/100045171/the-hunger

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

 🧛‍♀️🧛   TRIVIA NIGHT 🧛‍♀️🧛🌔

What the heck is going on with the reccurring apples?

Chris Sarandon (Jerry Dandridge) developed a backstory for his vampire character that included "fruit bat" in his ancestry.

#FrightNight1985

Man, I did not think this movie could get any weirder before the microbiologist revealed that a giant rat siege makes her horny. #Monsterdon

oh my fuck the monster actually is the privatization of public land #monsterdon

in order to properly fuck off into the sea, you must have sea things left to do, or else exist in a universe where you can just go and bide time at the bottom of the ocean until you are needed again like godzilla. the swamp thing fucked off into the swamp despite having renounced the central goal of curing hunger, so this sea fuck off can be categorized as a "fucking off into tragedy" as the coordinate pillars of the fuck offer have dissolved and the medium that is fucked off into represents an abyss of purposelessness #monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #SwampThing , from 1982, was the second veggie movie in row! However instead of a hangry house plant, we had,

The magazine in the dentist's office waiting room is "Pain".

Wow Jack Nicholson.
#monsterdon

For consideration for a future #monsterdon: Incubus, a 1966 horror film starring William Shatner that was the second ever film to be made entirely in Esperanto.

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, August 10, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching

Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

"A reporter, notorious for working on pseudo-documentaries, must uncover the legend of the three guardian monsters who must rise to defend Japan from the vengeful spirits within Godzilla."

its streaming free on Tubi and plex

please watch and live post it with us!

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

@Taweret #monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, July 20, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH39mKBrrP4

I didn't get a chance to mention it at the time. But... dude can see what card is next and he's wearing suspicious, gigantic black sunglasses inside. Nobody from the casino comments on THAT? They are baffled at how he sees things they can't see? They have NO theories?
#monsterdon

Hey, #Monsterdon bingo buddies!

I'm still processing and uploading old cards, but I'm happy to say we now have a website and bingo card archive. 🎉

👉 https://monsterdonbingo.neocities.org

✅ Cherizilla makes a website

#MonsterdonBingo

@rebeld Couldn't resist, and it turned out not to be too hard

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon

Weird how some of these B movies really have two plots that barely touch.

The story of the air force Frankenstein who gets damaged could have been its own movie.

And so could aliens coming to earth to steal women.

But somehow they used both of those ideas, and still had to use mountains of stock footage to pad the film out to feature length.

According to imdb trivia, As the destruction of Argos begins, heavy winds blow the tunic of a man pulling a donkey on a rope to reveal a pair of modern-day gym shorts underneath.

Yup.
#monsterdon

#monsterdon

He has to solve a RIDDLE to get the babe? Oh Perseus, my dude, this does not bode well

#Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

#MonsterdonAlert

What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?

what if the movie just keeps going forever?

#monsterdon

@chirpbirb same; #Monsterdon is something that makes me look forward to surviving for another week.

@Taweret

@Taweret i want to echo this sentiment. #Monsterdon is a great place for me to relax and enjoy some fun monster movies while turning my brain off. genuinely one of the best communities on the fediverse. i love y'all. 💚

The old week is dying. The new week struggles to be born. Now is the time of #Monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, June 1, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

"The Earth Defense Force are locked in battle with a number of monsters attacking cities around the world, when a mysterious race of aliens known as the Xiliens arrive on Earth. Reviving Godzilla may be the EDF's only chance to save the planet."

its streaming free on tubi. please watch and live post it with us!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXNM802ip-Q

Every time those doors to the Krell lab close, I hear the Get Smart theme.

#Monsterdon

The moral of the story, kids, is that any problem can be solved by blowing up a big enough thing. #monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

"I hope you don't think I could have gotten that stiff in 5 minutes"

HAHAHAhahahahaha

Who is writing this movie? It's gold

#Monsterdon #TheForbiddenPlanet

No dark fantasy world would be complete without some freaky creatures, aye?

#sketch #sketching #drawing #horror #darkfantasy #horrorart #monster #monsterdon #doodle #zeichnen #art #myart #artist #artofmastodon #artistsofmastodon #Konaa #Kmac #macNessa #Konaa