D. OlifantWait, why did the glowy orb show up? That didn't happen before. Or was that only visible through the camera?
Checkhov's glowy orb?
Well, he's definitely getting the elements of a ghostbusting kit together.
So what is the Asphyx doing exactly that requires him stopping it?
I still haven't seen the death muppet.
But he's poisoning a rat for the rat asphyx test, I guess.
Aha! I knew it! A ghost containment system! And a ghost trap.
If there be something odd
In your countryside
Who will you contact?
Asphyx-Capturers!
Commercial break. Or time for another monster hit, your choice.
To be fair, this is basically the premise of a lich in D&D.
You capture the soul and put it in a phylactery and become unkillable. You're also a gruesome corpse.
JK-Shall-Not-Be-Named stole the idea in that book about wizards, too.
I get the part about the car crash at the beginning and the whole "This man is still alive!" bit now, though.
Ahh, kill the dying man, create phylactery, and immortality awaits.
I feel like my 21st century attention span sees the payoff coming a LONG MILE AWAY now, so let's just get there, please.
This man is basically like, "I'm at peace with death. Please bury me nicely."
And they are like, "Yeah, um, but Mad Science."
Wait, why did he burn his face with acid?
Mad Scientist is gonna need a crazy wicked scar for the climax of this movie. Whatever it is.
I love you, guinea pig.
What do you call the process by which you're 'immortalized'?
....Asphyx-iation.
Ba-dum-tish.
Did he just ask "are there enough death crystals?"
Electric chair for your death was a....choice.
"We must cross the streams for him to survive!"
I'll just keep doing Victorian ghostbuster metaphors until they stop working.
"If I tell you, you must promise to forget everything I've said."
And you call yourself a (mad) scientist.
I see a flaw in your plan. It requires two people to carry that box down those stairs with a breakable glass thingie on top and if Checkhov's daughter hadn't shown up, you'd have been trying to carry his death muppet downstairs yourself.
You barely managed with two of you! Get more accomplices next time!
This is clearly your first attempt, jeez.
"That the experiment required two pairs of hands was an oversight that could have proven fatal!"
Ha, exactly. You're the sensible one of the bunch.
"Hi, so, we'd like to kill you, but it's okay, we'll capture your death muppet and then you'll be immortal--"
"It's wrong! None of us were meant to be immortal!"
Hey, you can just break the glass any time you want, and a good earthquake or supervolcano would probably do the trick eventually--
I like how he's come up with this elaborate plan to prevent himself from ever opening the combination lock that holds his asphyx.... like when you're tired of eternal life, too bad, you forgot the combination. The property is now under a parking lot....
Wait, he sleeps inside a coffin inside the area with the combination lock and--
This is feeling more lich-ly by the second. Or maybe vampiric, but there's a Victorian phylactery involved, so I'm going lich.
Oh, I see the coffin was "let's try to kill you via various means to test you're really immortal"
It can't go wrong, until it does.
"You must allow me to immortalize you"
"But I'm scared--"
"Unless you overcome your fears there will be no marriage."
"I'll not allow you to force her into anything!"
I mean the scar was really superfluous, we knew who the mad scientist was all along.
This dude is really acting like someone you'd like to hang around with forever, huh?
"I am not tired, merely impatient!"
You slept in an airtight coffin, motherfucker. This is not healthy behavior.
Back after another commercial break and my homeboy--the dubious 'good guy' of this movie, vs. our mad scientist, is testing a guillotine because they just keep trying to kill people in new ways and doing it differently every time?
THAT'S SCIENCE!
Still probably smarter than "electrocute yourself while requiring the use of your hand to turn the thingie"
Oh no "We've made sure that nothing can go wrong."
You can sorta un-electrocute a person or at least turn off the electricity, you can't un-behead them
Ohhhhh guinea pig, nooooo! Hhahahaha!!
To be fair, good guy, you signed onto this ridiculous death method.
Oh, let's kill ourselves via a third method, to add the aspect of randomness to this Science that is so characteristic of its true nature.
He tampered with the 'death crystals' so this should be interesting...
Okay, I take it back. That was kinda actually science.
HAHAHA, this IS a Lich movie!
I've got to say, making guinea pigs live forever is pretty cool, though, their lifespans are too short.
I'd watch a sequel with the guinea pig. In space, 5000 years in the future. Think of all it would have learned!
My sister had a guinea pig. It was named Emily. She used to hang out under the clothes basket in the yard and eat grass while my Mom hung laundry.
Gonna switch to Unlisted for the rest of this thread and skip the hashtag, just a few afterthoughts.
So first, I like Monsterdon. I like that it's the only time I set my default posting audience to Public and few times I use a hashtag. It feels shouty, but the whole point is to shout--on a hashtag, one that can be easily filtered out.
Watching it on the big TV was nice, except for the Tubi commercials (on Apple TV) that I could do without. But adding the commercial break was also kinda camp in a way for someone who never watches commercials, and gave me time to catch up on other comments. But it also meant I wasn't completely in sync with everyone, too, because of 30 second to 1.5 minute delays (maybe 3 of those in the whole movie) I ended up a bit out of sync. But it was fine, and anyone watching the movie knew what I was reacting to, anyway.
I'm not sure how one posting in a thread also reads the thread at the same time and also watches the movie, so I don't usually really read the whole Monsterdon thread until after the fact, or comment on other posts much. I'm not a great multi-tasker. :)
I also don't check my notifications much, so finding out what people liked or boosted after the fact (or commented on) is always fun, too. I'm still in that phase right now.
My favorite line of the movie is still this one:
"If I tell you, you must promise to forget it."
A lot of things were pretty telegraphed, like omg, the guillotine. Not what happened but that something would go wrong with that? Absolutely.
But the guinea pig, who I felt bad for being forced into this experiment in the first place, who no one ever got any consent from--hell, "This is my friend, my only friend, the guinea pig--"
You delusional, exploitative asshole. It's like an allegory for the single-minded obsession with domination that most human beings have, even of other species.
We'll just torture and kill animals, why not, it's better than real people, I mean their suffering doesn't really matter. Pfft.
The daughter never had much choice in this situation, because he held his consent for marriage over her head unless they tried to kill her, and rather than using something like gas or drowning or even, hell, that electrocution idea they chose one of the most irreversible methods possible--decapitation--to do it.
Personally, I don't think they were inexperienced in that time with the use of ether or other methods of 'putting people under' and also revivifying them that didn't require a fuckin' guillotine.
Like you just had a guillotine laying around in case of a peasant revolt?
Sometimes a motherfucker gotta guillotine, that's all. Shit.
So the guinea pig takes its revenge, like oh my god, I'm a guinea pig, let me die a natural death. I helped kill your daughter. You get the message, right? I am not happy with this situation.
And they are like, nope, back in your cage you go, little guinea pig. You're gonna be my best friend for eternity, later.
And the suicide plot which was basically the good guy's way to put his own death on mad scientist's conscience, along with destroying his equipment, that was a nice twist, I thought.
Though, hilariously, it was still a setup with them trying a third way to kill someone as part of this process, which I find amusing in retrospect, like they drew options out of a hat each time to figure out what method it would take to make the next person die.
Ahh well, that was fun for me. Silly premise at times, but I had fun. Was nice to not be too intoxicated for this one.
Go guinea pig, go.
Solarbird 
@oli We replaced your magic blue emitter with Folger's Crystals. Can they tell the difference?