alright i'll be half watching this one since i gotta get my second scipy poster ready still.... but i can't focus anyway so why the heck not #monsterdon
Futurama what?
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965) #monsterdon now playing on https://miru.miyaku.media :miyaku:
@combatwombat ooooh I love this 😂
Seeing the #monsterdon posts in my timeline is like having a backstage pass to Mystery Science Theater 3000. :-)
Bat boy and the Alien Princess were really giving off Riff Raff and Magenta vibes. I kept expecting them to do the forearm-touching thing at several points.
@WhiteCatTamer @wohali oh excellent, thank you! This is a good one
@ohiofi They came so close to passing the Bechdel test! But Karen was determined to give no valuable intel to the enemy, and good for her. #Monsterdon #FrankensteinMeetsTheSpaceMonster
And a big thanks to @Taweret for that wonderful tale of Beach Mayhem, Aliens Need Women, a Secret military robot-astronaut named Frank, Bat Boy chewing through the plywood sets, women under sheets being evaluated as prospective breeding stock by the Alien Princess, heavy use of stock footage, radioactive atomic poop, and a poor misunderstood Spacemonster in a particularly hot costume trying not to step on the cameraman. Oh, and the director's enthusiastic fetish(es).
I think that covers the high points. And coffee.
@blogdiva Oh no. Well it's a charmingly good bad one. It's short and stupid. Would recommend a watch even after the watchalong.
#Monsterdon
@wohali @WhiteCatTamer There is this https://techhub.social/@diazona/114809613155327817 but they weren't really smirking in that scene
@socketwench Really. Just "greetings, we're space aliens of the planet [indistinct]. We need some people to leave your world and become breeders on ours because somehow our big war selectively only killed women."
I mean they would have totally gotten volunteers back then. And today they'd have to fight off all the people who'd do almost anything just to get off this planet.
Instead they went with all this and got themselves blown up.
So--"Distant Cousins" did the music. I gotta say that they're a great knock-off band,
laying out the styles of the popular music at the time, from Billy Vaughn's "Wheels" style guitar work at the beginning, British Invasion style, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Rivers style...man, they're talented that way. Not as agile as The Roots but damn close.
Oh yeah--I did do a bingo card, got a bingo quite some time ago--but I have to say that when I marked "radio broadcast" it was in reference to a sound effect they used as precursor to theramin: it was RADIOTELETYPE. Yessirree, this movie was a nerd's delight!
#Monsterdon
@davesdogmaggie I like Mel Brooks. Young Frankenstein is one of the greatest comedies ever made.
But his films are _very_ heterosexual. Not on purpose! Not with intent! Just are.
That's why we need someone like John Waters. The queerer, campier, and more tragic they can make it, the better.
lol according to letterboxd i *have* seen this before? #monsterdon
I gave it one star on #letterboxd mainly on the strength(?) of Dr. Nadir's weird performance https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/frankenstein-meets-the-space-monster/ #monsterdon
I feel bad Karen is trapped in this film #monsterdon
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That was a classic "Y'all quit smooching and clear the theater" ending.
🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!
Thank you @Taweret for hosting this fast-moving flick! I knew I was going to like it!
and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! My favorite was "Someone Gets Smacked". Probably should be permanent.
And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: Thank you for a consistently funny tootstream!
Damn that was a good movie! #Monsterdon
@RobynGoodfellow It had space helmets and monsters and fake ears, it had everything I love about mid-century sci fi :D #Monsterdon
Cripes, does this movie end with the US military invading Puerto Rico?
That’s some humorous scrambling the jets music! #Monsterdon
@cocaine_owlbear
Me too. Born in 1952, visited PR in the 7th grade, wore outfits like that, joined the Army just after Nam- so it was a lot of flashbacks! #Monsterdon
Watching this mofo again tonight.
@himbovoorhees c'mon, it's a classic "suddent end" #monsterdon style!
Did anyone else notice that they deployed FU squadron?
(But not really. I’m just doing a bit. I’m sure they’re lovely people, or were.)
I did get bingo before the end. Just barely!
Hey, where's my intimacy coordinator...!?
@jonny The movie isn’t called Frankenstein Fights the Spacemonster, it’s just Meets, and I think they technically got there. #monsterdon
'This scene was brought to you be The Male Gaze®…yes, The Male Gaze: "It's Hegemonetising!"'
That was sure a movie!
I hope Karen can find another way to fill her heart now that Frank is gone
Thanks @Taweret for hosting, and thanks community for the laughs! :)
The fuck was that ending.
With minutes to go, the space monster is out of its cage.
@binford2k Well, if the subtitle spelled it “el telephono,” then the subtitle writer is racist. ;-)
I looked away while I was typing and missed the end to the very, very bried fight between Spacemonster Mull (Mok?) and Frank
WELP THAT'S IT SHOW'S OVER
Progress Island! Puerto Rico!
#Monsterdon 🇵🇷 🧟♂️☄️ 🌌 👾 😱
I guess I missed the ending.
Oh well.
Thank you @Taweret for hosting, @JoeWynne for the excellent trivia, @Cherizilla for the bingo cards even if she couldn't watch with us, and, as always, most of all to our fellow #Monsterdonians for making it fun!
Fell asleep through most of the film, woke up just in time to see the alien space ship blow up. Guess I didn't miss much!
Well I fell asleep for the last 15 min or so. Or maybe not idk #monsterdon #frankensteinmeetsthespacemonster
How much is Adam enjoying being grabbed that way? #monsterdon
... the fuck?
wow i honestly haven't seen a train wreck that abruptly in a _long_ time
THAT'S ALL THE MOVIE THERE IS
That was SPECTACULAR! And no denouement! We're back to basics here. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! #Monsterdon #FrankensteinMeetsTheSpaceMonster
That was an abrupt ending. #Monsterdon
I often comment on the lack of denouement in #monsterdon movies, but this time I wasn’t even certain the climax was over before the credits hit.
Credits also sponsored by the Puerto Rico Tourism Board!
And they fucked off in a million pieces in the atmosphere of Earth, while Jay and the Americans sing us off in their most shitty of Beatles impersonations.
She ain't getting over Frank, sod the romantic music, it's over Steele
Vespa guy finally shows up!😅
and they all fucked off into a gigantic explosion / romantic vespa ride #monsterdon
And they scootered happily ever after!
Full power? Don’t you mean “maximum energy” ???
#monsterdon
I think the space monster is just misunderstood. He's merely seeking some dental care.
C'mon Dr. Nadir, you know what you need to do to escape Earth's atmosphere! MAXIMUM ENER--
<HUGE KABOOM>
Or not. And that's the end!
THEY IGNITED THE STOCK FOOTAGE!
the best way to hail a vehicle while in distress is just to fall across the road like roadkill
#Monsterdon Makeup budget was spent on helicopters instead.
oh, and they're actually fighting! wow, this movie was more than i expected. #monsterdon
filmed in fog-o-vision for good reason
something's got to hide those seams
Anyone else notice the alien space ship is a TARDIS? It's exponentially larger on the inside than the outside.
Maybe someone mentioned this earlier, but I missed it.
Mull looks like he should play bass for Gwar
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🧟♂️ TRIVIA MEETS THE SPACEMONSTER
Director Robert Gaffney added, after filming ended, scenes of Col. Frank Saunders/Frankenstein fighting Mull the Space Monster to the end.
But he couldn't afford bringing back the actors, so he himself and a crew member stood in for the two creatures for the fight. Gaffney played Saunders ("Frank").
I swear, that F-104 is using AAMs, not air to ground rockets
FINALLY the Space Monster makes an appearance!
...You literally have four minutes for this fight -_-;;; #Monsterdon
i see the aliens have florescent tube lighting, maybe they're not that advanced a species after all
OH WAIT. I didn't realize that Karen was tied up and that actually gave me a bingo! Diagonal from top left to bottom right. About damn time!
Women leaving like "I thought this was some weird sex thing, but they just made us stand in a cell for 12 hours."
#Monsterdon #FrankensteinMeetsTheSpaceMonster
"Do as we say or we'll use the dildo-guns on you...!"
@cs definitely capturing that as a gif later
Evacuate?! In our moment of triumph?!
But what if the rockit hits the robit? #monsterdon
“They have nuclear weapons, and if they use them, we are finished.”
It’s good to understand the gravity of the situation here. Puerto Rico is about to be nuked for one alien spacecraft.
#monsterdon I laughed SO HARD when the vespa just drive into combat with a spacecraft..
Please actually be consistent in your stock footage. Or pull a Toho and use models?
Don't worry, Dr Adam Steele, I don't think they're really trying that hard to destroy that spaceship.
Bat Boy and Princess slowly turn from facing each other to looking into the camera.
I feel bad Karen is trapped in this film #monsterdon
When the first contact protocol was written by Henry Kissinger
Look, I've seen Dr. Nadir and I don't think you need tanks to stop him. Just a spray bottle filled with water will probably do the trick. #monsterdon
“El telephono”. You racist fuck #Monsterdon
points to Karen for faking still being unconscious tho. she might be the smartest person in this film, for whatever that's worth. #monsterdon
So apparently the US military really wanted to be associated with this movie, which.....says something
Have we entered the Korean War footage portion of the film?
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Meanwhile, in Bermuda
Good thing the alien blasters have lanyards on them, wouldn’t want to lose one of those.
They're gonna reveal the space robot's full name at some point, and it's gonna be Frank N. Stein isn't it?
Oh the Princess is into it. Maybe the space elves are all bisexuals? That improves their odds.
#Monsterdon #FrankensteinMeetstheSpaceMonster
drilling for more agent orange drops i see
Weren't these the same helicopters they used in Vietnam?
Wait, the aliens just overwhelm Frank? How disappointing