Andy L.

#Monsterdon I would argue there's a very noticeable difference between the criminal "had no face" and the criminal "wore a mask".

#Monsterdon "There will be a man patrolling the grounds all night." Not one of our men, of course. Some chap who dresses like a bat.

#Monsterdon "I just decided to redecorate my office like a diner."

#Monsterdon It's normal for mystery writers to have a whole staff of servants and to rent giant mansions, right?

#Monsterdon Try to go to sleep. There's a killer in our house, but not in this room, so what are you worried about?

#Monsterdon Living the dream of going on a hunting trip in the woods with Vincent Price.

#Monsterdon "I'll bet you're thinking about it!" Yeah, because you won't shut up about it!

#Monsterdon "Not with Andy on the job!" That's right.

Ugh, the Tubi version is colorized? No thank you. I'll find another version. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I feel like if you're going to kill someone you should have the self-respect to do it in an interesting way. You can't tell an interesting story about a boring murder.

@Louisa@mastodon.xyz luckily, California is a Stand-Your-Ground-With-A-Vat-Of-Acid state.

#monsterdon Huh. The chandeliers are gas powered. I hope someone remembered to turn off the one that fell.

#monsterdon This is a weirdly modern house for a "Haunted House Party". At least from the outside. Everyone knows ghosts only live in houses with mansard roofs.

#monsterdon Now "Fix your face", even though it's still perfectly done by a hollywood makeup artist.

#monsterdon "Who? They?" The ghosts obviously. Keep up, lady.

#Monsterdon I like how this control room just exists in a black void. Those computers aren't against walls, they're just in the middle of a large black area.

#Monsterdon I sure hope they're recording all these images of the past. It would be invaluable to historians. Or does it not even occur to them that academics outside of their own field exist?

#Monsterdon It's so weird that their time travel montage has their faces super-imposed over it. I'm not even sure what that is supposed to indicate.

#Monsterdon Oh, I get it. This is going to be an Adam and Eve ending, isn't it?

#Monsterdon We've lost contact with the lab. The only conclusion is that it's traveled into the future.

#Monsterdon "We don't have laser weapons!" We only have time-travel lasers that we can use to blow people up.

#Monsterdon Oh no! The computer had sparklers in it!

#Monsterdon If the scientists knew that was a load-bearing wall-diamond, why didn't they simply say so?

#Monsterdon "Activate secondary force field". Good idea. I wonder why they didn't think of that.

#Monsterdon I don't know a lot about how ruby lasers work, but do they work with just a random pile of uncut rubies?

#Monsterdon If we make the time-screen black&white, we can pad out our movie with ten minutes of footage from old movies!

#Monsterdon For a second, I thought they were going to do a fake-out ending where it turned out it was all a book she was writing, and the camera would pull back to reveal that all the dead people were still there.

#monsterdon When I throw a party, it's perfectly normal for my guests to spent the whole time skulking around in the basement sounding the walls and pacing out the dimensions.

#Monsterdon Being a mystery writer would be a great opportunity to go around talking about murders. I'd do it all the time if I were a mystery writer.

#Monsterdon I mean, if you want that diamond, there's no reason not to put it in your pocket. Come on, movie, Let's not pretend the business guy is evil for picking up a rock.

#Monsterdon "One Million years BC!" Which is a shame because that's definitely too late for dinosaurs.

#Monsterdon Yes, ma'am. I won't, ma'am.

#Monsterdon At first I thought it was silly for that room to be so airtight. But then, the doors are movable fireplaces ... so maybe you would need it to be airtight so as to not fill the house with smoke?

I'm still thinking about last night's #monsterdon. By 1959, I think gas lamps would be a real novelty for the younger characters, but they acted like it was perfectly mundane.

#Monsterdon The original movie had more time between joining the crew of the rocketship and the inevitable attack. They used it to have the lady characters talk about which men they were going to claim to make babies with, and to do a bunch of magic tricks involving robots.

#monsterdon That's a great movie, even though bits of it don't make sense.

#monsterdon "Boy, I've never seen so many doors!" He's lived kind of a sheltered life.

#Monsterdon Prehistoric times were lousy with caves. You couldn't go a hundred yards without bumping into one.

I still love this control panel from last night's #monsterdon. Most of the switches, lights, and dials make some kind of logical sense. But, what was even going through the set decorator's mind when he built this?

#Monsterdon Slightly Disappointed by The Bat's costume. In the 1930 version, he had a cape like Batman. But even more disappointed by this Vincent Price "iced coffee" recipe. More like coffee and clove flavored iced milk. Not good.

#Monsterdon What if we showed the most boring part of the movie again, but this time with an echo?

#monsterdon Did he say "No electricity?"

#Monsterdon "That's just the wind slamming the door." Oh, just that? Just an unlatched outside door?

#Monsterdon Wait. That was it? That was the end? The movie didn't end, it just stopped!

#Monsterdon "How accurately will they be able to time their return?" Well, it was fine until you said that. But now that you've foreshadowed it, they're going to overshoot.