Sorry kiddo, your mom is evil now. #monsterdon

@starkraving666
Am minister. Am also mandated reporter.
#FunFacts for #Monsterdon

This is like Night of the Hunter if Robert Mitchum was aliens #monsterdon

How did the police chief get outer-spaced? #Monsterdon

"trashy science fiction magazines" #monsterdon

my FAVORITE ASTRONOMER bitch you lie

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@SRLevine
Yes, they got coffee for the male doctors.

#Monsterdon 🦖

@Taweret i think it's because he showed up to the police station and asked them to do something #monsterdon

Putting kids in a jail cell cuz they are scared of something progressive times #Monsterdon

why are we keeping a child in jail?

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I am also the cold scientific type who is not given to flights of fancy.

#Monsterdon

Can I see the back of your neck?

Where’s this going?

#Monsterdon

There's something about the way this film is lit, like every set is a dollhouse. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon The police station is a metaphor for heaven

Is this what it's like to be a zoomer? #monsterdon

👽 TRIVIA FROM MARS 🔴

Unlike many of our features. Heavyweights were involved in this film.

➡️ Production designer
and Director William Cameron Menzies

➡️ Special effects director Jack Cosgrove.

Both won Academy Awards for their work on "Gone with the Wind" (1939). You may have heard of that one.

#Monsterdon 🦖

plot twist, nobody is actually mind controlled this kid is just really that annoying #monsterdon

It's bad enough in Invasion of the Body Snatchers trying to convince anyone in authority what's going on. But a kid? No one listens to kids. WAY scarier. #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

gosh, i hope the martians aren't communist. they'd give us healthcare and make sure no one was homeless. that's unAmerican!

#monsterdon

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Mrs. Wilson: Cathy were you playing in the cellar?

Cathy:

All Cops Are Martians

#Monsterdon

i mean, okay, he trusts authority figures, but after all his only about 7, he'll learn in time. #monsterdon

Kid jail! Wait wasn't this on a recent Defunktland?
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

All Cops Are Beneath the sand

#Monsterdon

I love the way the sets in the police station are ... oddly off.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

If this kid was smarter, he wouldn't say "aliens", he'd say "communists". That'd make them investigate.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh wow, not even my grandma had that phone.

Stalin's comintern doesn't mess around, straight to the chief of police

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Unlike the blob, our 'kid' is actually a kid, so people not believing him works.

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

"911, what is your emergency? a house fire? yeah, sure. nice try" (click)

#monsterdon

Before fire detectors were invented you had to depend on annoying local kids to tell you if your house was on fire.

#monsterdon

Is that George Bailey‘s little brother? #Monsterdon

resourceful, adaptable, keeps cool under pressure?

this kid is more competent than 99% of #monsterdon humans to date

Wow, this escalated quickly. These Martians don't joke around when it comes to invadin'

A creature feature that lives up to the posters! Huzzah!

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon How many times can we gaslight this same kid?

Oh by the way, your house is on fire….

Too busy learning nerd shit to be at all useful in an emergency #monsterdon

"Werte you playing in the cellar?"
"No mama" 🙂
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

No mama.. the early version of the meme

#monsterdon

things are developing pretty quickly for a #monsterdon movie!

The score is interesting, I like how they have a chorus where a theremin might have otherwise been used #monsterdon

this has the aaa-aa-aa-aaa-aa-aa-aaa chorus and 2001 has the ee-eeee-ee-eee-ee-ee chorus who have the iiiii-ii-i-iiiii-iii-ii and oooo-oo-oooo-ooooo-ooo and uuuu-uu-uuuu-uuuuu-uuuuu choruses

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Mrs. Wilson?

Every 50s film has one

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Are they at the shore or is all that sand in the back yard just a blasted heath? Or omg... Are they in the Pine Barrens? Are these people Pineys!??! They are better off as alien zombies.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

David watching people going down the path.

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cmon baby let me show you some freaking sand holes #monsterdon

i am already tired of this hill tho ngl

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

A SHOE! The alien is using shoes as bait. Excellent strategy.
#Monsterdon

I said barbed wire, not Bob wire! *slap

#Monsterdon

Look mommy, Dad’s not acting weird at all… #Monsterdon

Well this took a turn... Aliens are domestic abusers AND Cops.
Wait that's redundant.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

National Enquirer headline "Aliens replaced my husband with an asshole." #monsterdon

PERIODT

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Did this movie make everyone paranoid of quicksand? or does it pre-date this? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

Is George going to ask for a glass of sugar water? #monsterdon

Glad people don't say "Period" like that anymore

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#InvadersFromMars

Daddy's been on a bender #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Coffee #Watch TWO COFFEE SIGNS?! It's an omen!

The sand filling up backwards is kind of a neat effect. Not bad for 1950s. #monsterdon

I hope people who laugh at sinkholes are watching this
#Monsterdon

geez no wonder people used to be so afraid of quicksand

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

"Hey Jackson where'd ya go?"
Wow dude doesn't even have time to scream.
All cops are antlion food.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

A sinkhole, those are so trendy right now

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oh wait... the choral score... was this made during the recording artist strike??? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon You know they really shouldn't build top secret government plants where there's so much quicksand.

#monsterdon Ah yes the white sand beaches of the midwest

This set looks like the last scene of Gone with the Wind #monsterdon

oh fuck you can see where they painted a damaged spot in the sky

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

"Oh Mary, you know I can't talk about the thing I was just telling you about" #monsterdon

why does everyone in this movie assume that anyone who tells them anything is just fucking with them?

#monsterdon

👽 TRIVIA FROM MARS 🔴

How about the eerie voices in the soundtrack? Eight men and eight women in a choir with echo-y effects added later. Creepy.

#Monsterdon 🦖

The filmography of the twenty years or so before I was born really set me up for disappointment at how un-deceptively prosaic the world would be IRL.

#Monsterdon

Sorry lady, George got eaten by an alien antlion. #Monsterdon

Watching Dear Old Dad come out of the house and walk along that road, all I can think is, _that doesn't look like Earth_, it looks like Oz maybe?

#Monsterdon

they appear to live inside a viewmaster

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#Monsterdon Those are some hungry sand crabs.

Mary you know how I feel about cops. fuck 12

#monsterdon

Not gonna hurt ya David... #monsterdon

Oh, Mary, you know I can't talk about that. Now you go back to bed, and I'll go investigate the mysterious light that our son told me about, by myself, in my bathrobe and PJs, as the score swells ominously

#monsterdon

Oh we are sliding right into the Red Scare background early with Dad being a narc.
#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

#Monsterdon Can't talk about it? THEN WHY BRING IT UP?!

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Dad looks back into the room like some creepy uncle.

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I have to admit... I like the opening scenes. We're nearly ten minutes in and I have nothing to be sarcastic about..

"Oh our kid says he saw aliens, I'm gonna go get assimilated. Back in a second with a new head!" #Monsterdon

why is dad being all weirdly coy?

#monsterdon

alright if this movie is gonna keep being about this fuckin kid i am out. when will directors learn that in 95% of cases a child actor cannot carry a movie #monsterdon

#Monsterdon
The phosphorus glow of the flying saucer is just a step beyond firefly bums.

David, the 40 year old boy. #Monsterdon

Everybody in the 50s knew a general personally. #monsterdon

Gee Whiz: the new Holy Cats

#Monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

typically in a monsterdon movie, if nothing happens in the first ten minutes, nothing will happen until the last ten minutes

so this is a good sign

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I said out loud "I bet this kid is about to say 'gee willikers'" and then this little Judas Iscariot has the audacity to say "gee whiz!" #Monsterdon

No beatings after a 4am wakeup? What bullshit 50s household is this? #monsterdon #invadersfrommars

these things hide better than spectrum pursuit vehicles, that's good hiding

#monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Somebody get that kid some corrective cranial sinus surgery stat #monsterdon #InvadersFromMars

Early morning Orion, so this movie is taking place in fall or late summer?

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"Golly gee willikers!" #monsterdon

#monsterdon Mom is clearly not a scientist.

Huh. Self-burying spaceship. #Monsterdon

Setting the alarm for 4AM to witness a celestial event this kid is my kind of supernerd #Monsterdon

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Becoming a scientist is some sort of communicable disease it seems.