You should never go down into the orchestral instrument storage room alone. #Monsterdon

They're going to have to science the shit out of this. #Monsterdon

Nearly-silent EVA in a 1958 film, dang!

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Wow, this vent sequence is really making it clear how much influence this movie had on the development of ALIEN

https://web.archive.org/web/20121127172302/https://popmatters.com/pm/column/165516-building-the-perfect-star-beast-the-antecedents-of-alien

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Loving that the most important indicators on this spaceship are for

WATER VAPOR
METHANE
ESCAPE VELOCITY
RADIATION

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I now see the wisdom of Elon Musk's Starship design. You can't get your ship taken over by an alien if it always blows up. Genius! #Monsterdon

@jonny @moira The atmosphere fucked off into space, no idea about the monster. #monsterdon #ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace

This movie is doing a pretty good job hiding the monster VFX (and others) in the shadows. The rubber rifle was a nice touch too

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Better get busy building that wall between Earth and Mars. #Monsterdon

At this point, I'm wondering how many men could be killed with the ship's supply of grenades. Every other means of dealing with IT! seems to include a specific tally of how many it could kill.

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They should have sent a poet
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I probably missed some, but here's my final #MonsterdonBingo card

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There's also surprisingly little dialogue in this middle section, it's all action!

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Close to a Bechdel pass just then, but I think it doesn't count.

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Does that count as a SPACE GUN, or just a regular GUN :blobfoxthink:

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Well, we know it wasn't Moopsie. #Monsterdon

The music leaves no possible doubt regarding the seriousness of these future events. In 1973. Prepare yourselves!
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"Yea yea, we hear ya. Pipe down in there!" #Monsterdon

Why aren't they trying to lure the monster out the airlock? Surely it doesn't have magboots. #Monsterdon #ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace

Sir, please do not point the acetylene torch at the tank and/or fuel line.

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That's enough electricity to mildly annoy IT! #Monsterdon

Why don't they try bombarding it with alpha particles? With any luck, that'll magnetize it and keep it stuck to the hull. #Monsterdon

@trixter #Monsterdon
“Passenger comfort is our goal. Did you need a pillow or a blanket?
Here. Have some nice hot coffee.”

Geez, save some grenades for the party later. #Monsterdon

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"Mars is almost as big as Texas"

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“Happy little Mars.”

Looks like poor Yorick was also killed by "something".

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"Aren't you afraid I'll murder you all in your sleep"

My dude, this is not a great way to win sympathy from the rescue crew!

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I don't think I'd want to be catching my chest hair in that zipper. #Monsterdon

I'll just leave this here ...
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Thanks for hosting as always @Taweret

I have experienced exactly the right amount of brain-melting for a successful #Monsterdon

Going out with a teleradio bang

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And done! Here’s tonight’s new art in celebration of this Monsterdon presentation of It! The Terror From Beyond Space! Thanks for watching it shape-up. Can't wait to draw another piece during next week's show!
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Okay, final 10 minutes, here we go.

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Electrocuted, or tele-electrocuted? #Monsterdon

look, ive played enough space video games to know all you have to do is get the monster into a sealed off part of the ship and then open a hatch so it gets sucked out into space

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@blue #Monsterdon
Astronautresses.

ok if the woman are doctors, does talking about a man while you're considering whether to do an autopsy on him count as a bechdel pass or is that still talking about a man #monsterdon

so, we're gonna be exploring a lifeless desert planet. we'll need cigarettes, grenades and dozens of guns. science guns

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@aburka in that case, that's #MonsterdonBingo I think! #Monsterdon

@msh #Monsterdon
Making it the 1973-est of futures!

sounded like someone screaming in terror. probably nothing. anyway, your move

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@LK_877 in the future of 1973 we have advanced so far that we can smoke on board our spaceships just like at home! #Monsterdon

"Mars is almost as big as Texas"

Fact check: true

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This space agency is so American, they brought guns to an uninhabited planet!

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@plaidtron3000 #Monsterdon
<nodding>.
I’m here for that.

shouldn't we be smoking?

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I'm ready to punch the 1950's in the junk over the gender stuff in this movie. #monsterdon

I'm impressed by how much attention this movie is giving to how cold it is on Mars! #Monsterdon

Yet again, a movie where I have trouble telling people apart because they're all wearing the same outfit and all have the same hairstyle. >_> #Monsterdon

I keep a skull of one of your dead crewmates wrapped in a bath towel in this room. As one does, these days.

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@sean #Monsterdon

Love how invested this movie is in distinguishing "teleradio" from other forms of radio communication. It's not like they could run a telegraph wire in space, after all!

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oh shit is this a political thriller #monsterdon

IT! has a great title card! #Monsterdon

This isn't a horrible movie, it's just very basic. Easy to see why it became the template for Alien and other space monster movies.
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@SnoopJ The electricity was measured in terms of how many "human beings" ir could kill, not "men". Why so vague? #Monsterdon

Mars... death... Nergal? #Monsterdon #ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace

Another #Monsterdon is back in the spaceship can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's picture had the monster calls coming from _inside_ the ship! We had:

* Class ranking based on zippers.
* A creature that had more bulk than scare.
* Guns, grenades, and gas!
* Sneaky stealth sock monster hunting.

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okay that was a pretty great ending line. #Monsterdon

"In conclusion, _fuck_ Mars!"

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oh my god it really is "Alien" (but bad), or rather, "Alien" was just this (but good)

I'm not even mad because I'm salty about how "Aliens" gets so much love when it was beat-for-beat exactly what happened in "Alien" with more stuff (budget, characters, etc.)

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"...Oh no! We're losing all our reports!"

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man, this guys has been dying for most of this movie and still no one on the crew can stop him from doing whatever the heck he wants. #monsterdon

aaah! the void of space! *papers fly around the room gently* #monsterdon

Dude was ten feet away with a bazooka, and still missed. He gets the "Stormtrooper Aim Award".

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missed with a _bazooka_ at _point blank_. goddamn what is wrong with the space army?

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@unlofl Almost as good as the barricade in the Thing From Another World where they door opened THE OTHER WAY #Monsterdon
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This movie could have the best ending if after they get rid of the monster it turns out the guy did kill his crewmates and murders whoever's left on this second spaceship.
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"Are you thinking the same thing I'm thinking?" "Yeah but where are we going to get an inflatable zucchini balloon this far out in space?" #Monsterdon #ItTheTerrorfromBeyondSpace

This spaceship does have some really good switches-lights-and-dials action. #Monsterdon

i just want to note with 5 minutes left that this movie has absolutely zero metaphor, subtext, or anything going on aside from "kill the monster." they have done literally nothing with the "this guy is on trial for killing his crewmates" plot they started with. #monsterdon

the idea that have to keep moving to higher levels of the ship as the monster gets closer is nice

there are some nice ideas here

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do NOT use the bazooka! in space! #monsterdon

Radiation poisoning takes a while to kick in. I'm sure the monster is feeling poorly by now. Give him a couple weeks, and he'll kick the bucket. A couple years, tops. #Monsterdon
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Bazooka. Okay. #monsterdon

"What about Bob?"

Oh, like the Marathon level?

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Wait, isn't this how Spock died?
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They're gonna throw it into the warp core! #Monsterdon

Be funny if the reactor turns IT in too something worse. #Monsterdon

y'all deserve what you get. #monsterdon

his last words to me were cocking a gun #monsterdon

Note that this is a NUCLEAR rocket

That seems like the sort of thing that could be relevant

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Gee, why's mom let you have _three_ atomic reactors?

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@otheorange_tag @xoagray wait wasn't that The Stuff?

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gotta keep your corpses organized, ya know. #monsterdon

I fucking LOVE the torch guy just listening in and commenting on everything everyone else is doing. "we got it jim, thanks" #monsterdon

We're too far into the movie for infected guy to turn into another of the monsters, aren't we? Because that would TOTALLY be happening in a modern skiffy flick. #Monsterdon

Dang it. now I'm wondering if this movie would be better if it had been a more direct rip off of Black Destroyer and the monster was a big angry space cat. Coeurls are cute. #Monsterdon #IT #ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace

its scared of fire. so the monster is frankenstein. that explains the noises it makes

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That's a real fire, and there's sooooooo much costume foam and nylon in that room. Yikes!

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if anything they're showing the monster too much

it's more effective in silhouette

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"The only drawback is, the thing isn't human! And it's just not as much fun to kill that way."

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#monsterdon This really calls for Batman and Robin to come climbing up the other side

nice use of monster silhouettes too

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so they're going to surprise it, and then...?? #monsterdon

CUUM CUUM CUUM CUUM #monsterdon #ittheterrorfrombeyondspace

"What do we surprise it with?"
A fancy dinner would be nice #Monsterdon

We're missing a "We have to keep this creature alive FOR SCIENCE!" character in this one. Kind of refreshing. #Monsterdon #ItTheTerrorfromBeyondSpace