Ysengrin BlackpawThis is a personal thread for this week's #Monsterdon so the local feeds don't get buried in Monsterdon posts. Follow the hashtag to see *all* the posts, or expand this one to just see mine.
This week: Time Walker (1982).
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Haven't seen tonight's film before, already queued it up to the film's title and ... um, yeah. I'll comment when the time to start gets here.
It's time! Go! Go! Go! Walk like an Egyptian, etc., etc., etm.
Astro stock photos! Stock photos as far as the eye can see, slowly panning with a weak soundtrack. We get the production companies out of the way, and throw up the film's name.
In a happy, bold, dancing sans-serif. It's so ... jovial. Overlaid on yet another stock photo, this time of the pyramids outside Cairo.
More stock photos of various Egyptian ruins as we run the rest of the titles.
And our first, actual shot after an offscreen earthquake is a light bulb swinging on a cord.
bunnyhero@YsengrinWolf i did not know king tut had electricity #monsterdon
"Ankh-Vanharis" sure, let's go with that, and all the cheese skeletons standing in for mummies.
We brought the whole stone sarcophagus, opened, back to America. Think there was smuggling involved, but whatever.
Oh, and they were in King Tut's tomb. Even better.
Yeah, just rub that green stuff on your arm. It's (likely) harmless.
"Ready, Aim, Fire" is standard X-Ray procedure.
None of those are standard canopic jar heads. Oh, and a loosely hidden secret compartment in the sarcophagus.
Stash the incriminating x-rays where they can come back up later when needed.
So, the titular monster is a mummy with a light bulb in its chest?
Well, that fungus escalated quickly!
"Today we are unveiling this mummy which we stole from the tomb of Tutankhamen."
I like how the dean jumps immediately to a frat stealing the mummy.
oh, I get it. That's supposed to be time-walker-mummy-o-vision.
The officer has a groovin' set of eyebrows.
The fungus doubles in size every 65 minutes. Does this mean we're going to get a 60-foot mummy?
Randy_underscore_S>60-foot mummy?
I hear if you say that 3 times while looking in a mirror Bert I Gordon will materialize.
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