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   Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:57 JST Ben Zanin

   All right, #monsterdon, who's ready for some Roger Corman / Edgar Allen Poe??

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:51 JST Ben Zanin

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     Scarabus reaches into thin air, grabs ahold of a bell pull suspended in thin air, pulls it twice, and summons... Lenore!? No! A merely similar-looking young lady, just as quickly dismissed again as she was first summoned!

     The twists and turns of this movie, really. It's like an itchy snake on a turntable set to 78rpm.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     Estelle! In the hallway! With the ceramic vase!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     Erasmus disarms and overpowers the maniacal Grimes with bright green midair finger painting!

     Grimes seems now to be restored to old self, his fit of blind murderous rage now dispelled.

     Enter Rexford, Dr. Bedlo's son! The family resemblance is weak, but no weaker than between Erasmus and Estelle.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     Rexford is overcome with a maniacal fit as Grimes was before him! The carriage rocks wildly, Estelle is terrified as they four horses and four humans race along a narrow path high above a crashing sea.

     The music, on the other hand, plays the scene along like a merry comedy.

     The fit passes as Rexford and co approach a matte painting of a foreboding castle!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     Enter Boris Karloff as Dr. Scarabus, a charming and jolly host sincerely enchanted by the arrival of unexpected guests!

     #monsterdon

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.
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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:53 JST Ben Zanin

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     Second grave violation about five minutes after the first one. Heck of a track record in this film so far!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:53 JST Ben Zanin

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     "You rang, sir?"

     "Yes, Grimes, prepare the coach for immediate departure."

     This Grimes is not the Grimes who dallied with Elon Musk, this is a different Grimes. Do not do a wrong Grimes.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:54 JST Ben Zanin

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     A WILD PETER LORRE APPEARS

     Vincent Price used "nod and smile at the person who definitely remembers you but whom you do not remember at all"

     It is super effective!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:54 JST Ben Zanin

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     Price just casually floating the idea of violating a familial grave. As one does.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:55 JST Ben Zanin

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     Price is making a meal out of bumping into that big brass telescope every time he crosses the room!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:55 JST Ben Zanin

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     Can you even imagine living in a house with a sub-basement this large and _not_ storing in it a pipe of Amontillado of dubious origin??

     (For a sub-basement, this room is impressively dry and dusty. Excellent foundation sealing, sump pump, and HVAC/dehumidifier loop, really.)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:55 JST Ben Zanin

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     This musical accompaniment is really working overtime to set the mood. To set some kind of mood, anyhow. I keep expecting the talking raven to be joined by a chorus of muppets.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:56 JST Ben Zanin

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     do not do a wrong Frogs

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:56 JST Ben Zanin

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     Vincent Price is finger-doodling in midair while wearing a paisley curtain..?

     this man is a national treasure

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:56 JST Ben Zanin

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     "The young do not understand grief, Estelle. To you she was only a stepmother; to me she was..."

     *Vincent Price takes a huge swig of warm milk from a dark red glass goblet*

     "...my life."

     ("It's pronounced \"wife\", Mr. Price." "I'll say it howsoever I wish to say it, you sniveling peasant!")

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:57 JST Ben Zanin

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     Tonight we're kicking off "Frogs" (1972)! Get your timed mute buttons for about an hour and a half, or cue up a stream and join in!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 10:58:57 JST Ben Zanin

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     Wait

     shit

     The Raven (1963), not Frogs (1972)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     BAT

     #monsterdon

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.
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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     Erasmus and Scarabus take turns gesturing at each other while various animated enchanter attacks flick back and forth between them. Scarabus brings out a whole-ass cannon. This scene started out like a cartoon; if it ends like the Daffy / Donald piano fight in the Ink & Paint Club in Who Framed Roger Rabbit I will be absolutely beside myself with glee.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:51 JST Ben Zanin

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     "You are not alone in guilt, sir: I too have failed at the task of living."

     BIG MOOD

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:51 JST Ben Zanin

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     Oop, Bedlo's a bird again. Exit Dr. Birdlo.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:51 JST Ben Zanin

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     Scarabus and Lenore lock Estelle in stocks before a roaring brazier! Scarabus menaces the helpless Estelle with a red-hot poker, entreating Erasmus to reveal the secret of his magic.

     Birdlo returns surreptitiously!

     Erasmus and Scarabus point blue and green finger-beams at each other while looking goofy. This is some kind of pre-duel apparently.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     Dr. Bedlo lives! A cunning concealment to make Scarabus think him dead so Bedlo could... can... act without endangering others..? Truthfully they kind of glossed over the "why" of the matter just then to give Bedlo several more chances to halfheartedly berate his son Rexford.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     Betrayal within betrayal: Scarabus bought Bedlo's cooperation with an offer of power to help deceive Erasmus and lure him to the castle so that Scarabus could... siphon out Erasmus's magic like a Skexi shoving gelflings into a Juicero..? I think?

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:53 JST Ben Zanin

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     Egads! Was Dr. Bedlo just jellied!?

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:53 JST Ben Zanin

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     Great Scott! Lenore lives, and befuddled Erasmus two years prior into believing her dead so she could dally with the rich and powerful Scarabus instead!

     Betrayal! Conspiracy!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:54 JST Ben Zanin

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     (Interesting that the place settings at Scarabus's table feature the same dark red glass goblets as held Erasmus's warm milk in the opening scene. Guess all the sorcerers in this neighbourhood shop at the same IKEA.)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:54 JST Ben Zanin

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     Any wizarding duel that features a slide whistle is all right in my books.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 11:20:54 JST Ben Zanin

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     (Serious worry for just a second: Peter Lorre's face is awfully close to that spinning sparkler contraption with no eye protection. Those magnesium sparks are no laughing matter.)

     #monsterdon