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   Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:13:20 JST Ben Zanin

   Starting off strong with a Hinterland Who's Who loon call, there.

   #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:13:19 JST Ben Zanin

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     MONSTER CHOMP

     So long, dynamite fisher. Bog got ya.

     (Uhhhh what in the heckity-heck is going on with this intro music. And apparently the aerial shots antedated stabilizing gimbals??)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:13:19 JST Ben Zanin

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     "Walk With Me" by Pat Hopkins

     Right. OK. Put that song on the "background music to dub into every monsterdon trailer" chum bucket.

     (Not going to lie though, I have some fond childhood memories of station wagons like the one in this credits sequence crawling across the continent through corridors of trees.)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:13:19 JST Ben Zanin

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     Well this film is starting off strong with four unpleasant characters that I think none of us would be bothered to see be eaten by a bog. Or in a bog. ..."bothered to see be bogged down", I guess is what I'm getting at here.

     bog bog bog bog bog

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:27:34 JST Ben Zanin

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     Oh no! Not Macweeny! We barely knew him.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:27:34 JST Ben Zanin

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     Adrianna is a bog witch!

     (Why is there a bog witch in this movie?)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:27:35 JST Ben Zanin

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     Whoever wrote this screenplay seems to really hate women, eh?

     MONSTER CHOMP PART DEUX

     Oh no, looks like May is being bogchomped! Presumably for the narrative crime of condemning her husband to take her and her mother out for dinner once they get through this weekend fishing trip she didn't want to attend?

     MONSTER CHOMP PART THREE

     Man, we're going to run out of odious protagonists in a hot second at this rate.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:27:35 JST Ben Zanin

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     "The boat's registered to a guy named Potter, a poacher I've been after for years. Uses a DuPont lure for his fish."

     "A what?"

     "Dynamite."

     Wait just one dang second, does the DuPont chemical company manufacture dynamite?? I legitimately did not know that.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:27:35 JST Ben Zanin

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     Oh noooooooo, bog bodies

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:27:35 JST Ben Zanin

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     "Could we have a... Dracula running loose out there?"

     _orchestra sting_

     BOGCULA‽

     (MONSTER CHOMP PART QUATRO, aww, we're down one man from the search party)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:27:36 JST Ben Zanin

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     Pine needles? Isn't this forest mostly deciduous?

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:27:36 JST Ben Zanin

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     First-person monster POV shot... FROM BENEATH THE BOG

     #monsterdon

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     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 (ramencatholic@mindly.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:27:56 JST RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈

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     @gnomon I want to be a bog witch. #Monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:33:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     Did the bog monster just intubate and exsanguinate Wallace Fry? Or did he step on some pine needles?

     Heck, I'll chalk it up as another MONSTER CHOMP, might as well be on the safe side.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:33:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     "What kind of a monster would have a hypodermic needle for a mouth?"

     Is... is the bog monster a giant mosquito??

     Or a weevil?!?!?

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:33:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     Oh thank goodness, the dulcet tones of Pat Hopkins singing "Walk With Me" are now diegetic background music. I was worried we would only hear it during the credits. Relief!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:46:10 JST Ben Zanin

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     Oh man oh man oh man maybe the bog monster _is_ a mosquito, this could be amazing

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:46:11 JST Ben Zanin

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     This movie would be better with fewer deeply unpleasant slow motion kissing scenes and more bog monster. And/or bog witch.

     Oh for pete's sake can we please cut away from this makeout scene, this is interminable

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:46:11 JST Ben Zanin

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     "We haven't the foggiest idea what thing is, what it looks like, or how to knock it the hell out!"

     Come on, "the boggiest idea" was _right there_

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:46:11 JST Ben Zanin

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     Did Bog Witch Adrianna just get shopvac'd in mid soliloquy?

     MONSTER CHOMP I think

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 10:46:11 JST Ben Zanin

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     The sheriff is going to detonate a block of RDX in the lake on the premise that it'll kill anything alive in the water, including whatever killed Macweeny and the two women at the beginning of the film, and then he and his deputy are just going to drive away without waiting for the killer creature to float to the surface as they were certain was going to happen!? That just doesn't make sense.

     Also chomp chomp chomp, looks like three more folks got bogulated I think

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:20:58 JST Ben Zanin

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     Ichthyologist: "Without a DNA test I wouldn't even attempt a postulation."

     Subtitle: "Without a DNA test I wouldn't even attempt a (mumbling)"

     Oof, subtitler, that was a swing and a miss

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:20:58 JST Ben Zanin

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     THAT IS NOT DEAD WHICH CAN ETERNAL LIE
     AND IN STRANGE AEONS EVEN DEATH MAY DIE

     (the dead bog monster isn't dead, it woke up and it's smashing through a door, everyone act surprised)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:20:59 JST Ben Zanin

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     A wild bog monster appears!

     Neal used Charge For Nor Apparent Reason.

     It's super effective!

     At getting Neal CHOMPED

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:20:59 JST Ben Zanin

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     Oh my goodness gracious, what a majestic rubber suit monster advance-and-flail manoeuvre

     They should have sent a poet

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:20:59 JST Ben Zanin

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     This whole movie was contrived so the filmmakers could hang out for a few weeks in a lovely lakeside cottage, wasn't it

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:20:59 JST Ben Zanin

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     "Suppose you let _me_ decide what looks fish-like, hmm?"

     buddy you may be an ichthyologist and a last-minute character introduction but you hardly have a monopoly on fish resemblance spotting

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:21:00 JST Ben Zanin

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     MONSTER CHOMP

     Alas, down goes Neil. And also Neil's diving buddy? I think? Hard to keep track, there is an awful lot of non-specific bogchompery happening here tonight.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:21:00 JST Ben Zanin

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     Is the bogmonster a giant crayfish??

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:21:00 JST Ben Zanin

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     "It should be hungry by now..."

     Why?? It has been Kirby'ing the blood out of people literally all day!!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:21:01 JST Ben Zanin

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     "Every time I look out at those bogs, at those glacial lakes [...]" literally the opposite of each other there doc

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:21:01 JST Ben Zanin

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     MONSTER CHOMP one cyclist down :( :( :(

     At least it was a horrifying bog monster from beyond the horizon of time and not a pickup truck

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:21:01 JST Ben Zanin

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     If these two divers suddenly see a blond haired lady in a fun fur bikini hiding giant pearls in improbable bivalve shells, we can confirm that this Bog is indeed Beyond Atlantis

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:21:01 JST Ben Zanin

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     • Katie B

     Quoth @k8eb: "hey, do you think the writers of this film know what a bog is?"

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 11:21:02 JST Ben Zanin

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     Those two kids slow-rolling through the police blockade on their bogcycles are about to have a very plot-advancing misadventure

     #monsterdon