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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON Goodbye! Wow! Plenty happening in this one and I couldn't keep up with all the Real-Time Film Analysis Squad's commentary! What I saw was fantastic! Must catch up later. ❤️ Thank you so much @Taweret@timeloop.cafe for hosting tonight's practical effects showcase! Proves you are right about them. 🅱️ and thanks @miru@social.miyaku.media for your stream which I used again tonight! #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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Get Monsterdon Gear!! Season 1 https://thediremushrump.threadless.com/designs/monsterdon-doodles-color/mens/longsleeve-t-shirt/regular Season 2 https://merch.nova.org/collections/monsterdon #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 Many noticed Sam Neill watching a movie earlier. It was Robot Monster (1953). Why? It's one of John Carpenter's favorite monster movies as a kid. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 Did Sam look disoriented? To prepare for shooting the final theater scene, Neill was put into a psychologically disorienting state on set using rapid light pulses and cold water shocks. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 🥼 🚑️ It's been 0 days... The "Wall Of Monsters" was attached to a vehicle-like wheelbase and had to be pushed along with a crank. During the filming of the scene, the Wall accidentally ran over GREG NICOTERO's foot and he had to be taken to a nearby hospital. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 How about the dozens of monsters just then? That was a combination of men in suits, animatronics and a full-sized "wall" of creatures. Over thirty people were needed to operate the monsters. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 She eats the keys for real. But it's OK: they're made of pasta. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 A rubber ball bounces against Styles's leg during the second encounter with the children. It has a pattern reminiscent of the "beach ball alien" from Carpenter's Dark Star way back in 1975. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 There were two 3-legged dogs used in filming. The first one took off running across the countryside and wasn't found in time. Hence the need for the second one, who made it into the film. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 🥼 🚑️ It's been 0 days... The Doberman scene resulted in some pretty serious bites to the stuntmen causing some hospital visits. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 👀Look for ...references to H.P. Lovecraft's stories The name of the hotel and hotel owner is "Pickman" (referencing to short story "Pickman's Model") Every book by "Sutter Cane" is a modified title from H.P. Lovecraft's works. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 Sam Neill had trouble with the American accent. His natural New Zealand accent sometimes slipped out. For Jurassic Park (1993), Steven Spielberg compromised by asking him to go "halfway" between his own accent and the American one. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 🌟🌟 In Jokes & References 🌟🌟 "Hobb's End", the small town, is an in-joke reference to the subway station where the alien ship is excavated in the movie Five Million Years to Earth (1967). #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 🥼🚑️ It has been 0 days.... One of the times a hand broke through the glass of Sam Neill's cell, a piece of fake glass cut his neck. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ IN THE MOUTH OF TRIVIA 👄 🌟🌟 In Jokes & References 🌟🌟 John Glover's character Dr. Saperstein is named after Ralph Bellamy's pediatrician character in Rosemary's Baby. Recall that his character in that movie was secretly part of a Satanic cult. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · 5d ago

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@springdiesel@spore.social We don't judge your fetishes. #Monsterdon #InTheMouthOfMadness

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Aug 03, 2026

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[Love theme for Hawk] #Monsterdon #HawkTheSlayer #HawkTheSlayer1980

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Aug 03, 2026

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ TRIVIA THE SLAYER ⚔️ 👂Listen for ...the sound effect used for the Black Wizard's healing crystal. It's the same one used for the sound of Scaramanga's laser in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). BTW: Jack Palance was the first option to play Francisco Scaramanga in that film. Christopher Lee got the part, because, you know, Christopher Lee. #Monsterdon #HawkTheSlayer #HawkTheSlayer1980

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Aug 03, 2026

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ TRIVIA THE SLAYER ⚔️ Jack Palance was 60 years old when tonight's feature was released. #Monsterdon #HawkTheSlayer #HawkTheSlayer1980

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Aug 03, 2026

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🦖 MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ TRIVIA THE SLAYER ⚔️ What could have been... 🔷 Richard Gere turned down the role of Hawk, saying he missed the California weather after filming in the UK the previous year. 🔷 Kirk Douglas turned down the role of Voltan. #Monsterdon #HawkTheSlayer #HawkTheSlayer1980

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Aug 03, 2026

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@xerozohar@retro.pizza He's struggling not to go to the airport to get out of town. #Monsterdon #HawkTheSlayer #HawkTheSlayer1980

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Aug 03, 2026

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@malcircuit@thingy.social I'm closing my blinds then. #Monsterdon #HawkTheSlayer #HawkTheSlayer1980

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Aug 03, 2026

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@diazona@techhub.social 😆 #Monsterdon #HawkTheSlayer #HawkTheSlayer1980

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Aug 01, 2026

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alc, strongly suggestive food sculpture Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

Make that thang! 🍹 HAWK TUAH 🦅 In a cocktail shaker with ice, add 🔸2 oz coconut rum 🔸1 oz banana liqueur 🔸3 oz pineapple juice Shake and strain into ice-filled tall glass. Top with whipped cream. Add a banana to rim so that it protrudes from top and lightly coat part of it with cream of coconut. Thanks to mybartender.com for the recipe, modified for #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDrink

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Aug 01, 2026

🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ Theme Drink Recommendation for 🎦HAWK THE SLAYER (1980) 🦅 This week, sword and sorcery bros fight for the most valuable prize of all - our entertainment. But will we be entertained? Join us for the watch party on Sunday and see for yourself! (recipe in reply under CW) 👉 Trailer, free links, more: https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/117015506890378840 #Monsterdon #MonsterdonDrink

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye! I love me a big bug movie! I also love the crazy commentary by the Real-Time Film Analysis Squad. Does anyone else feel itchy? ❤️ And thank you so much @Taweret@Taweret@timeloop.cafe for hosting this oddly rich event. Can't wait for the next one. 🅱️ and thanks @miru@ryan@social.miyaku.media for your stream which I used tonight! Convenient and bonus Ultraman is worth the early start! #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 RESPONSE TO REVIEWS Producer-director Bert I. Gordon did not care whether reviews were bad.... "The movie audience these days consists almost entirely of teenagers. Either they're naïve and go to get scared, or they're sophisticated and enjoy scoffing at the pictures. There isn't much a teenager can scoff at these days, you know." Is the Monsterdon audience that different? Discuss. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 REVIEWS!!

"Awful"

Leonard Maltin

"Bottom-of-the-sci-fi-barrel rubbish, very boring to watch."

Unknown reviewer

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 Despite being profitable, Beginning of the End had a prophetic title. AB-PT shuttered its operations immediately after releasing the film. We still don't know why. Beloved Bert went to work at AIP right after though. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 Don't have Monsterdon Gear? Season 1 https://thediremushrump.threadless.com/designs/monsterdon-doodles-color/mens/longsleeve-t-shirt/regular Season 2 https://merch.nova.org/collections/monsterdon #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 By The Numbers: Production Costs The War of the Worlds - $2 million Them! - $1 Million It Came From Outer Space - $532,000 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms - $400,000 Beginning of the End - $150,000 - $300,000 (typically for studio) #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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@xerozohar@retro.pizza You are referencing from all over the place! My brain can't go through files fast enough! 😆 #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 In the building climbing scenes, when the monster grasshoppers are supposed to be wounded or killed by gunfire, Gordon merely tipped the photograph and the grasshoppers slid down it. The effect using the photographs was pretty good, but sometimes the grasshoppers slide out to the "sky" accidently and stay there, unattached to anything. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 A few scenes of deserted Chicago streets are actually still photos taken early in the day. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 The notorious B.I.G (Bert I. Gordon) provided the special effects for the film in his low-budget way. Working out of his home garage, he placed a photo of a building on a table, like the Wrigley Building, had the insects walk across it horizontally, and filmed it from above. He would blow air at them to encourage them to move. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 👀 Look for the scene where the giant grasshopper is chasing the kids. They are actually friends and relatives of director Bert I. Gordon and Flora M. Gordon, and are fleeing down the street they live on. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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She said "Annihilation" in a deadpan manner. Jaded reporter, obv. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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@ricci@discuss.systems 😆 #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 👂Listen for the Monster Grasshopper sound. It's actually from Katydids which make their calls at night in large numbers. Many Katydid photos on Masto are misidentified as grasshoppers. After tonight's feature, let's commit to giving Katydids the respect they deserve. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 Beloved Bert had to locate a wingless variety of grasshoppers that could not fly or hop, so they would be unable to escape during filming. He imported 200 from Texas. He kept them in boxes without food, and at the end of production only twelve were still alive from the insect cannibalism. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 The grasshoppers used are "Eastern Lubbers," common throughout the southeastern US, where I toot from. They are very colorful and grow to almost three inches long and have a thick exoskeleton. They are voracious eaters. I would fear them if they were enlarged. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 Tonight's feature was filmed at the height of the science fiction movie boom in the late 1950's when nuclear testing was constantly in the news. You could go to Las Vegas and watch nuclear detonations while you sipped atomic-themed cocktails. Don't be surprised if radiation comes up in the lab. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

The studio promoted the fact that Pat Dean, its "sexboat"* discovery, would appear in the film. She was a former dancer at the El Rancho Vegas hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. As opposed to Actor's Theater.

This was before Boaty McBoatface

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 Beginning of the End was reported in the 1995 National Wildlife Federation's magazine as the most popular film at the 👉 Insect Fear Film Festival at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 Director Bert I. Gordon wanted to cash in on sci-fi bug movies after Them! He was further inspired by The Ten Commandments (1956), and its biblical plague of locusts. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️THE TRIVIA END 👂Listen for the song on the car radio at the beginning of the film. It's "Natural, Natural Baby". This song played over the air for promo spots before the movie came out. The song never was a "Billboard" hit, but yet was heard on radio. Probably inspired "Ice, Ice, Baby." #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ A big Ending Welcome to Monsterdon participants and lurkers! #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 27, 2026

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@cherizilla@retro.pizza It's like getting plasma while waiting for blood. Enough to survive. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 25, 2026

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#Monsterdon 👆️

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Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @JoeWynne@mstdn.plus · Jul 25, 2026

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@SesameSquirrel@mastodon.social and @MatthewTitus88@mastodon.social Thanks for gathering us at the temple! Enjoy your weekend everyone! Try to use your words before popping someone. Unless they deserve it. #KungFuSat

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