Frogs (1972) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something...
How to watch the movie:
- someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- youtube (uBlock Origin adblocker works): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltc-DUACMfs
- archive: https://archive.org/details/frogs.-1972.1080p.-blu-ray.-h-264.-aac-rarbg
- they say it's on "pluto" as well which I think is some kind of corporate streaming site? Never tried it before, dunno if adblocking works there
- if you want to pay or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/frogs
Frogs ... falls into the "eco-horror" category, telling the story of a wildlife photographer who meets an upper-class U.S. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species, including snakes, birds, leeches, lizards, and butterflies.
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A reviewer from HorrorNews.net found it odd for a horror film to be titled Frogs when all the killings in the film are done by animals other than frogs and discussed the acting: "Sam Elliott is good as always. He manages to feel like the outsider while also feeling like part of the group. It makes his role work in ways that it might not work in someone else's control. Ray Milland is also fairly good as the patriarch of the Crockett family. He personifies that bullheaded 'you listen to me because I'm always right' attitude in such a believable manner that you think he is that guy. The rest of the cast isn't as great as these two, but their lack of good performance only helps to make their deaths more fun to watch. They overact or underact in the perfect ways to make the movie priceless."[7]
