#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."

CW: dogs apparently die in this one

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it with us!

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

they set half of their Critters movies in a stairwell and didn't even give us a scene where a bunch of critters come rolling down the stairs like an avalanche

#monsterdon

They are MORE TART than I expected. As in, the filling has more tartness than when it went into the oven. I'm very surprised by that.

What this means is that I went back and put on another layer of icing because not only was my (relatively thin) initial layer not excessive, if anything, it was a little _shy_ of what you want.

Something to keep in mind. Get more tartness out of the filling than you expect.

Maybe the crust rising eats some of the sugar.

Anyway, it's good, you can do it, and we're done in time for #monsterdon ^_^

#baking #poptarts #TheYeastWasTheRealMonsterAllAlong

the pumpkinhead displays a great deal of creative joy in its murders, rather than simply killing them and returning to the pumpkin platform, it hits the library, learning about the technological developments since its last summoning so that it can pull sweet jokes like removing the chain from a dirtbike when the moment calls for it #monsterdon

@clickhere In Germany it's even 3am *-*

That's why I built https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev to watch the movie in my own time and replay the timeline. You can find all past #monsterdon movies there.

Of course I never use it since I'm nocturnal and participate anyway... but a european watch party for similar movies would be nice, yes.

well now i guess it really is a horror film

every ex in the same room at the same party

plus pigeons for some reason

#monsterdon #TheHunger1983

This isn't how polyamory works, just saying

#Monsterdon #TheHunger1983

<George Takei voice> Ooohhhh MYYY

#Monsterdon #TheHunger1983

#monsterdonalert #monsterdon

this October we're doing 80's horror

(don't worry. the regular weekly polls will return in November)

*Sunday, Oct 12, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC) *

This week:

The Hunger (1983)

"John (David Bowie) is the lover of the gorgeous immortal vampire Miriam (Catherine Deneuve), and he's been led to believe that he'll live forever, too. Unfortunately, he quickly deteriorates into a horrible living death, and Miriam seeks a new companion. She soon sets her sights on Sarah (Susan Sarandon), a lovely young scientist, who quickly falls under Miriam's spell. However, Sarah doesn't warm up to the concept of vampirism easily, leading to conflict with Miriam.."

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a6YFwC2zKA

#MonsterdonAlert #Monsterdon

last October we did 70's Dracula

this October we're doing 80's horror

(don't worry. the regular weekly polls will return in November)

Sunday, Oct 5, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

This week we're starting with

Fright Night (1985)

"Sixteen-year-old Charley Brewster tries to convince everyone that his next-door neighbor is a vampire responsible for a series of unexplained murders."

its streaming free on tubi

please watch and live post it with us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRH0RIEjnc

I've exported our #Monsterdon watch history as a CSV and if anyone else would like a copy, here ya go:

https://wormhole.app/eE6Oeb#CTaiMznBZ-KwOXu2GATgDQ

And the Martians tell the humans to fuck off back to Earth, because humans suck. Sometimes when humanity is being especially awful I think to myself, "This is why the aliens won't talk to us," and the writers of this movie seem to agree. But man, that bat-spider-thing! A+ monster design.

Goodnight #monsterdon, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and see y'all next week!

"Four men dead so far" so we just forgot about all those native guides huh

fucking assholes

#monsterdon

looks like everything's coming up gilhouse!

#monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

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You guys Wikipedia says "The giant grizzly bear in the film was portrayed by a Kodiak bear named Teddy, who was 11 ft (3.4 m) tall. " and there are like 8 ppl credited for bear handling/training/wrangling in the imdb list.

TEDDY!!!

you do not need to establish that the swamp thing loves pretty flowers and nature we can intuit that from how it is intent on fucking up right wing militias #monsterdon

so Ghidorah snarfed Mothra’s ashes like it was Scarface and a bowl of cocaine and it gave it superpowers?

am okay with that.

#Monsterdon #Goodzilla2001

Mothra is just 100,000,000 fireflies in a trenchcoat

#Monsterdon

Oh no! You're locked in a bedroom with a foppish hottie. What will you DO?

#Monsterdon

The realism on the panther.
#monsterdon

Maybe vending machines shouldn't have the ability to fire Cokes at a hundred miles an hour, but vending machine companies only think about what they can do, not what they *should*

#Monsterdon

In 86 or so, my high school had an assembly so they could make us watch an anti-drug movie narrated by Emilio Estevez. My friends & I watched Repo Man the weekend before, so we thought it was highlarious.

#monsterdon

Oh, wow, the movie does NOT stick the landing with the eldritch horror ending!

For comparison, here are the final pages of the comic, which are *way* more effective than the cheap thrill of the movie's "pluck it out!"

#Monsterdon

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What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?

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Had to run to the kitchen to help clean up a big shattered glass jug that decided to practically atomize and spread itself across three rooms, but we're all okay thanks to my flashlight and vacuum trick.

But I missed the end of the movie, so I'm going to guess that Perseus got the girl, and she didn't have to perish virginally and krakenally. I'll guess the gods were annoyed. I hope the pegasus was set free and the mechanical owl poops little pellets on everyone.

#Monsterdon #ClashOfTheTitans

THIS MOVIE COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER

#monsterdon

#monsterdon It must be Christmas in space.

@skinnylatte Every #monsterdon, I tell that tag how much I enjoy what they do. I don't do it, myself. But I don't have to love an activity to love that other people love it.

I

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#monsterdon

We all know what the real reason for the chaos in Los Angeles is. The narcissist-in-chief had to do it to keep #Monsterdon from trending, making himself trend, instead. Well, I'm here to tell you that IT DID NOT WORK!

We see you, Donald. We see you.

#MonsterdonAlert

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

TONIGHT

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)

"Dracula kills victims. Dr. Seward tries to stop him. Dr. Frankenstein brings Dracula back to life, using his monster. Dracula and a female vampire terrorize the town. Seward is attacked by Frankenstein's monster."

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

https://youtu.be/A3nqFqvQBhY

Godzilla, totally not a Gen X parent; refusing attachment parenting. they won’t even carry Minizilla in a sling and shit. tsk tsk.

#Monsterdon #GodzillaFinalWars

bro you can get a mitochondria from fucking anything they are basically free #monsterdon

Is that a YETI IN A BIKINI????

#Monsterdon #GodzillaFinalWars

during the production of this movie someone slipped and broke the "number of things that happen" knob and they couldn't figure out how to turn it back down #monsterdon

Oooo. Look what autoplayed after tonight's #Monsterdon

We should add this one to the list.

This movie is classic and terrible. Perfect for Monsterdon.

@Taweret

She's just standing back there looking sassy while Morbius pontificates like a super villain.
#Monsterdon #ForbiddenPlanet

you could have told us what would actually happen instead of a vague warning followed by nothing for however many days its been

#Monsterdon

amazing. the aliens unlocked the power of wifi

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon I want an office like this. Goals.

I keep wanting one of these #monsterdon films to be a rip-off of Hitchcock's "The Birds".

It seems like an easy format to rip off.

You start with some non-descript human drama. And then suddenly [animal] turns violent and everyone has to run for cover.

It's like a zombie film with less make-up. I'm surprised more hack directors don't watch 'The Birds' and think "I could do that!"

Child me would have gobbled up this flying horse nonsense. 🥹 #Monsterdon

Was it better than Critters 1?

Yes.

Was it a good movie?

Well,

#Monsterdon

I swallowed a coin once. Had to get an x-ray. In my defense, I was five. #monsterdon

Dear #monsterdon :

I do not participate.

I love that *you* do. I love seeing that part of my follows that participates dive in, I love having my tl flooded w/monsterdon commentary.

So, I bless tonight's event, and if you'll allow me to slip in a sly socio-political poke:

One does not have to *do* a thing in order to love and support that others do a thing.

Have a *great* bad movie!!

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#Monsterdonalert

@diazona

So uh.... what about something a little deeper. like um... uh Phase IV? #monsterdon

It's almost *too good* of a movie. But it's also very fun.

@paco #monsterdon #invasionofthestarcreatures

DID I JUST SEE SOME HARRY HARRIHAUSENESQUE CREATURE JUST WALKING ACROSS THE SCREEN?

#Monsterdon #Piranha

i hate that the soundtrack slaps

#BeeGirls #monsterdon

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ok I had to pause and screencap this #monsterdon

YAAAAASS!!!!!!!! LET'S DO THIS!!! GODZILLA VS. MEGALON

@Taweret@octodon.social

#Monsterdon #GodzillaMegalon

i always like to remind folks that before they went on to fuck around in the Americas and Africa, the euros were very happy colonizing each other. this movie totally plays on that.

#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

#monsterdon Is this the rare Godzilla film where Godzilla(s) stay put and humanity fucks off into the sea?

DEAR READER IT IS

And that's a wreck! Thank you again, @Taweret@octodon.social! God this one was really bad, amazing work everyone

The only way I can recover from this experience is to share my suffering and give this movie a 10 star recommendation on IMDb. #Monsterdon

LMAO this monster is awesome. it attacked the whitest of cloned white children and now it fucked up, accidentally, a Chevron gas station.

good monster, good sheep camel blob monster

#Monsterdon
#GodMonsterOfIndianFlats

OMG THE HOSPITAL SCENE
her face breaks me every time. she's a baby who has learned the meaning of death.

#Monsterdon #Gojira

another interesting aspect of this movie, since it was made in earnest, it's how it describes the bureaucracy of post-war Japan and the social stratification in the country.

as a cultural artifact, it's a treasure trove of cultural markers.

#Monsterdon #Gojira

i know Mothra is a moth but i can't unsee Butterfree whenever i see it.

GOTTA CATCH'EM ALL!!!

#monsterdon #MothraVsGodzilla

am so glad i could make it this week to #monsterdon.

thanks @Taweret@octodon.social and to the monsterdonian community that make these Sundays so special.

love you all 😘

Happy Hogswatch everyone! I hope Death brings you exactly what you want this year, unlike that other guy.

#Hogfather #Monsterdon

I saw #GodzillaMinusOne today. I don't think I've ever seen a #Godzilla movie with as much personal story that delivered as well as this one did. This is no action/adventure romp like the Legendary movies are, it's rooted by a serious look at war and how it can affect one on both a personal and social level, addressing themes like guilt, shame, and forgiveness. I hope I get a chance to see it again before it leaves theaters here in the U.S. #Monsterdon #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

American cops entering a home without a warrant.

checks out.

#Monsterdon #TheBlob

THANK YOU @Taweret@octodon.social for another awesome #Monsterdon

but now i want coffee and roasted carrots

I see he found the uptown to Queens at 2am.

#monsterdon

The only solution for alien abduction

is more cowbell

*weapon-of-choice's off stage*

#monsterdon

On the other hand, it's nice to see a film where the scenes were actually blocked properly. #Monsterdon

when you meet a man that sleeps in a coffin submerged in the swamp and appears to you levitating from a puff of smoke, you put a ring on it
#monsterdon

Kiddo won’t watch #monsterdon with me most Sundays and today was no exception. He popped out of his room during the science lesson on mollusk. I started laughing and could not stop. He tried to ask what I was watching and I could not tell him due to fits of giggles. He then wanted to know what was so funny. To him, it looked like I was watching a 1950s mollusk documentary.

#TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld #ChallengedTheWorld1957

Seeing a lot of criticism of Mr. Dobbs but look sometimes the flavor of autism you get is archivalism, there's no shame in that, it's an important mechanism of society

#Monsterdon

That wasn't a good movie but I am now positive Angela Bassett makes any movie she's in at least watchable. #monsterdon

It's a testament to the love I have for my child that I sadly share I will not be attending Critters 4 #Monsterdon tonight, due to the unexpected bonus presence of one of my bebes, home from college, who wants to watch a horror movie with me - one of my all-time favorite ways to spend an evening.

Have fun, Critters 4 watchers! :D I can't wait to read the comments later.

Is there a #Monsterdon book club?

Trying to explain Monsterdon to a non-Monsterdonian

#monsterdon

I love the skellies so much they are my new favorite part of this movie

it's not like the VFX earlier in the movie weren't good but BY THE GODS the full power of Harryhausen et al. is something to behold

#Monsterdon

see, dumbass, you told the king to his face that you were going on a mission to dethrone him, and then even when you realized the person you told your whole plan to was the king himself, you did nothing to follow up on how that might have compromised your opsec, and now look at you. the kings son was just on your boat the whole time #monsterdon

Mr. Blue laughed when I told him what today's #Monsterdon movie is. He apparently saw it at an elementary school event and says it's too good for Monsterdon.

Celebrity cameo: the invisible Id monster from Forbidden Planet

#monsterdon #theadventuresofhercules1985

and the movie ends with no comment on anything that happened in the movie and no development in the plot, characters, or setting being acknowledged #monsterdon

This movie could have been a Christmas special. #Monsterdon

quick, everyone, to the top of this matte painting! #monsterdon

you know theres a reason why on modern Dr who the daleks get very little dialogue. like they'll start to explain their plan and the Dr will jump in and explain it for them

there's a reason why

#monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, Feb 22, 2026, 8PM CT (2AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching:

Dr. Who and the Daleks (1966)

"Dr. Who accidently sends himself and his granddaughters to the mysterious planet Skaro where they do battle against the Daleks."

I'm not sure about the trailer because Google says THIS movie is the sequel to the 1965 one but the the title is different so I'm confused but its this one. we're doing this one. the one on tubi

RE: https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/116078165259088599

I apologize to Linda for badly underestimating her #Monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

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

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

Please don't tire US with any more stories!

Thank you for NOT making a series of this...

and thank you #monsterdon for watching this slop with me! I feel more sane only because all of you were here with me. Love you all

Extra love to @Taweret @cherizilla for running this crazy boat... see you next week!

this movie is gonna make me wanna travel back in time and beat gene Roddenberry with a baseball bat isn't it?

#monsterdon

Here are the graphs!

A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 25 Jan 2026. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 82.1 minutes long. There were 2562 posts during the event with an average of 31.22 posts per minute.

The busiest moment was at 3:00 from the start with 48 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 39:00 from the start with 15 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

The word cloud for Sunday, 25 Jan 2026. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 8021 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: thequatermassxperiment: 669, space: 95, rocket: 91, cactus: 81, time: 77, monster: 75, think: 66, man: 61, will: 60, really: 57,
These words were excluded from the word cloud:
movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monsterdondoublefeature, quatermass, quatermass1955, thequartermassxperiment, monstermiru, rebirthofmothra, thequatermassexperiment, quatermassxperiment, and the hashtag monsterdon.

#monsterdon

(Aside: I am really enjoying this film. The paranoia and slow burn of the investigation and chase, the growing horror of what Victor is doing and what is happening to him at the same time, the implied back story of what infrastructure and organizations are behind Quatermass to have made the experiment and this ensuing damage control possible at all... it's really doing a good job of showing just enough to fire the imagination. This is great.)

#monsterdon

DON’T GODZILLA
OPEN INSIDE

#Monsterdon #FakeZilla #Godzilla1998

Thank you to @klu9 for pointing out that the person I keep calling Luc Besson is actually Jean Reno

Sorry everyone!

Je suis désolé tout le monde

#Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon

*EASTERN SEABOARD - UNITED STATES*

omg Godzilla is about to take down `us-east-1`

Give the people what they want, Godzilla

#monsterdon

Hey #Forkiverse! First things first, an #introduction is in order (post your own so people can get to know you):
https://hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich/111430267596783825

Next, follow some active hashtags that you’re interested in, and maybe some you didn’t know you’d be:
#Monsterdon
#ThreeGoodThings
#Mosstodon
#Caturday
#FensterFreitag
I find it easier to read CamelCase hashtags, and people using screen readers appreciate hashtags to be at the end of your posts (not embedded).

Make your images accessible by adding alt text, which is also a secret cheat code for stuffing a bunch of text into a post. But you should always use that for more descriptive text. I take screenshots of text and use alt text for transcriptions. There’s bots you can follow to give you reminders or even produce the alt text if you forget (@altbot). Some clients have reminders, too.

AI slop is not appreciated here. Be mindful of why and when you are employing LLM technologies. General machine learning is more well-tolerated.

There’s no algorithms to push content to the eyeballs here so you’ll need to follow and share by boosting the good stuff. That’s why you need to use hashtags, but also remember there’s no algorithms to game so make it readable and relevant to your readership.

Some oddities might stand out. Quote posting is quite new. You’ll see that not all replies to a thread get federated (spread), for various reasons. Search can be challenging. It all has to do with the nature of a truly decentralized protocol and communities. We’re still working on ironing out what works, and getting the developers to work on the right priorities.

Speaking of which, you *can* change your instance (community), but you *can’t* take your posts with you. Principles of the open #IndyWeb still apply here: if you truly want to *own* your content, you need to self-host. You can get your Ghost or Wordpress website to post to the #Fediverse, and there are ways to do it with Hugo and other static site generators as well. See @blog for an example.

Welcome! 🤗

A HAND Grenade! Get it?

Geeze Roger.

#Monsterdon #DeathRace2000

Oh this is just gonna be five stories of greasy 70's infidelity isn't it? #Monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?

#MonsterdonAlert

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