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Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Folks it is now an hour until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party. To avoid the tootstorm, set up a filter for the hashtag!

If you'd like to join in, this week we're watching THE GATE (1986), in which a bunch of teens summon Satan through a hole in their yard. Goddamn gophers, I tell you hwat.

The flick's on Tubi or Archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/the-gate-1987_202501 Start the film at 9pm Eastern and toot along. See you there!

#Movies #Cinema #Cinemastodon #Scifi #Horror

The Gate (1987) : fogofanalog : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Two young boys accidentally release a horde of demons from their backyard through a large hole in the ground.

Internet Archive

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Only TEN MINUTES remain until the start of #MONSTERDON! This is your last warning! Set up a hashtag filter to avoid it! Get the movie cued up if you're joining in! These are the only eventualities we are prepared to address! Good night, and god speed!

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Wondering if this movie's just gonna be one long advertisement for John Deere riding mowers.

"When you've got weeds rising in your lawn like demons..." #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

💡 TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS 💡

(where applicable)

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

New Century Entertainment! Well, old century, now. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Deb Grover IS the monster at the end of this book! #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Oh christ, it's The Goonies. :/ #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

...Wait is this the same house from Night of the Comet? #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

"Dear Jason, we've moved again. Try and find us this time, sucker!" #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Spontaneous night, yeah I think we got dream sequence here guys. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

FUCK THIS TREE SPECIFICALLY #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Sure, kid, start wandering around the active chainsaw. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

SHIT, SPIDERS INCOMING #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Wow, Hell is *right there*. Easy access, that's gonna put your property taxes up some. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Glen! This is your weirdly bitchy father figure, which all these movies seem to have! #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Mom and dad have the same haircut. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

"I can take care of this house!"

SMASH CUT TO: *explosions* #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

"What's with you today?"

Well, I lost my treehouse, my friend is a bug torturer, and the hellmouth opened up in the back yard. So it's been a full day :/ #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

...Soundtrack straight out of Pod People. Trumpy!? #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Bye mom! Take a long last look at the house, it's gonna be a smoking crater next time you see it! #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

It's the '80s! ♪ Do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan! ♫ #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Oh jeez, she's found Bro Squarechin :/ #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Whoops, they just got a full dose of the zombie gas, sorry kids. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

DON'T READ THE SATAN WORDS, DIPSHITS #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Eh, it's just "Vote Reagan" said backwards. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

It's very Bro in this party :/ #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Oh, they've got a mini-witch. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Light as a feather, dumb as a board... #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Man, that bug zapper is *industrial strength.* Thing could take Mothra out. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Zombie mom! Mombie! #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Ha ha, I love the Hands Behind the Walls effects, those are always fun :D #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

HA! The dog transforms into a plushie :D #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Yep, that's Gen X. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

When you're rockin' out but you're not old enough to use hair spray yet. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Oh hey, Robert Scarry's Big Book of Satanism. #Monsterdon

"Cool out"? I think you're mixing metaphors there, lady. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Yeah, Loverboy here will dig a hole in SATAN'S OWN WELL-MANICURED LAWN and put the DOG IN IT #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

whoa, I don't think you can reclaim that term, kid #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Oh no! It's... A hole. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

"You got demons" said in the same cadence and tone as "Yep, termite infestation." #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Heheh

This kid is gonna grow up to be your weird uncle :P #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Oh, is it FUNNY DISRESPECT FOR A CORPSE time???

:/

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

"Ew, you're ugly. Leave." #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Yeah, as we all know God works in 6x6 turf squares. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

...Yeah, trendy 80s slurs >_> #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

LITERAL Chekhov's Gun #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Takin' all bets, which teen girl gets the axe for Sacrifice Number One? #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Neat, D&D manual illustrations :D #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

OH YEAH, TIME FOR CLAYMATION DEMONS :D #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

MOTHRA'S BACK, BITCH! #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Oh that's mean. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Oo, he's full of cat milk :/ #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

This is like, Goosebumps Poltergeist :D #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Demon babies! They're so cute. #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

Ha ha ha, I love the clay worms that's great :D #Monsterdon

Cactuar Joe 1d ago

"Hello, this is Satan Services, do you have time to answer a survey about the haunting experience you've had so far this evening?" #Monsterdon

Ben Ramsey 📼 🍿1d ago

@CactuarJoe They kind of do look like the manual pages from the 3rd Edition era, but that was in the 2000s.

#Monsterdon #TheGate1986

David Zaslavsky 1d ago

@CactuarJoe Every eldritch horror set loose upon the world starts with a hole