The fungus among us! Thanks @Taweret and all you lovely jokesters out there for another fun night of SciFi cheesiness. The worst part of any #Monsterdon ending is how I have to go back to my regular life of being a good lookin' brunette.
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#Monsterdon "fuck oxnard. if the fungus gets loose that's fine"
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I would RIOT in the theater!
Thanks to @Taweret again for hosting this (well -- half a movie, let's be honest) and to the whole #Monsterdon gang.
Check out @miru's stream for some cool other film or something that I literally just saw on Rifftrax
@LingLass MVP of the movie #monsterdon
@ionchy this is what they took from us
@allanb Time for some psilocybin and music therapy to get these people in the MOOD.
Okay, before you disembark from the movie, it's time for the question!
Was SPACE MASTER X-7 (1958) the worst #Monsterdon movie ever?
awrite, time for https://miru.miyaku.media/ to show us if "The X From Outer Space" does any better...
@nhgeek
Hey, this is a serious, hard science production meant to educate the population about the dangers of contamination, and difficulties in contact tracing, buddy, not some tawdry alien monster slime movie!
That is not an ending.
Burn all the brunettes
"I've had it with this mother fucking fungus on this......" #monsterdon
uh, wait, is that the end??? um...
will those people ever been seen alive again?
Sorry, we'll have to burn you all
There was barely any monster in this movie. Did they run out of money? #monsterdon
"*burble gloop*
Okay, who DIDN'T have the fish? #Monsterdon
He'll be waiting at Oxnard to give you
A HELPING HAND #Monsterdon
Just ask if they were exposed to a contaminated lab specimen, you jackass
This movie's Aesop of "never run away from the authorities because they always have you and everyone else's best interests in mind" is perhaps not particularly' prescient.
there! see! wasn't that easy! (-_-)
Hello police. Yes there's a man taking women to the back of the plane one-by-one. #monsterdon
@sean Surely this is the funniest post of the night!
#monsterdon
#monsterdon Do we have a lounge? Or just a parlor with a strange unusual echoโฆ
Two Black dudes talking 'Jive' in the background....
@yatsu If some guy showed me a card with "Office of Internal Security" on it, I'd say we needed to wait until we land and I can call my lawyer. LOL I love how he's suspicious of the wrong one! HAHAHA #Monsterdon #SpaceMonsterX7
Suitcases the world over are in grave danger #monsterdon
While Army Man interviews every brunette on the plane throughout the several hour long plane flight. A different phone man calls him for an update, and he indicates that he's suspicious of the wrong brunette passenger, who he goes to bully her asking for more identification.
Meanwhile, in the cargo compartment Typhoid Laura's luggage starts turning into an oozing space monster.
So, Ratboy is just going to Hawaii? That's the plan?
Not sure why they wouldn't just radio the plane to turn around.
The only reason I'm still watching is because this is the one where there's a lounge on the back of the plane.
THERE IS A LOUNGE, IN THE PLANE.
Can you even fathom?
#monsterdon terdon
that really was a different era of plane travel...
More than halfway through and I don't care about any of these characters
woman's making good use of door dash, that's for sure.
@paco what a bizarre sign, lol #monsterdon
he liked her tits. He is a heterosexual everyone!
That poor, uh, I'm gonna say omelette? Get a light rig, guys. #Monsterdon
It feels a bit late for a biohazard suit to show up, but sure.
"Mister Hand? I'm Deputy Finger!" #Monsterdon
StairMaster X-7
I've been watching a lot of Hammer horror movies lately, so the lack of lesbian vampire boobs is throwing me off
#monsterdon Newspaper Headline: โSPACE FUNGUS CARRIED BY WOMAN WHO DIDN'T FETCH THE COFFEE!!!โ
It's interesting how this movie takes the perspective of the feds trying to investigate this problem and portrays them as well-intentioned.
I think most modern media would portrays the government agents as more ominous (unless it's a police procedural).
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i guess they used to have baggage clerks
Sterilize Moe
#monsterdon
A much more evident human story to this one. Certainly less aspirational or heroic than others I've seen from the fifties. As much as I like Frees and his voice, his demise seems right. The monster fungus unleashed by him some terrible metaphor for the psychic damage he's caused. #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7
Aw yeah, let's hear it for alien fungus! #Monsterdon
Yeah in a Perry Mason episode that would've been murder and she'd be talking to Paul Drake right now. #Monsterdon
How can he be as narrow as a razor AND have a yard wide cruel streak?
Metaphors arenโt for everyone.
Because it feeds on grumpiness, the tiny spores Mustache Scientist has brought back to earth has swollen into a giant goopy orb that he tells the audience is a brain and also will emit spores everywhere that will eventually eat whatever they settle on.
@MatthewTitus88 omg... y'all are gonna be wasted! LOL #Monsterdon
"My experiment is successful. There is life in outer space."
Sure, carry on, nothing to discuss here
Watching this home lab vs what goes on with the actual samples NASA, JAXA, etc have brought back sure is something
Why is the canister retrieval set to the soundtrack from Leave it to Beaver? #Monsterdon
Credits trying to escape from this movie
Whoops, credits running away from us. We're scary, y'know. #Monsterdon
Alright kids, this is what the past thought would happen. For reals, like, I guess. #Monsterdon
See, I kinda wanted to see the Oxnard Space Fungus go on a rampage like this....
meanwhile, back in Cardboardia
If they had some space fungus, i bet they could patch up that hole in their spaceship.
The cab driver was Moe from the Three Stooges. I am not joking.
"In space, no-one can hear you cringe!"
that's what the last movie was missing! People bathing together!
@kcarr2015 @floatybirb "they never found the plane wreckage though, they didn't investigate, said it was 'National Security' ...but I know the truth!"
Already a better movie #monsterdon
@Lazarou @floatybirb
I get the impression everyone on those buses is about to meet Space Monkey. ๐ฌ
The audio connection is low priority. It has to give priority to the bossa nova music.
"Hazmat dudes getting baked and flamethrowing each other in a freight yard in LA"
MIRU! UFO desu!
โThe Girl With The Fungal Infectionโ by Stieg Larsson
Once again no bingo was acquired ๐ข
@forestine @combatwombat @miru Honestly, having a procedural part was fine. But it felt like it should have been a much smaller part of the movie. Like, figuring out what the fungus is, how it kills, and a method to stop it all ended up being reduced to a few lines from that one scientist and that apparently "normal" decontamination works fine.
@Lazarou yeah it kind of just used space as a framing device.
also the space monkey didn't show up again. that was a mistake.
@diazona I mean really it seems like throughout the movie all it really wanted was luggage, it wasn't trying to be rude or anything
Did we ever figure out what the Space Master was? Was the monkey the Space Master? Or was it the fungus? #Monsterdon
@wrog It was all so Police Procedural that nobody seemed to get angry - but I forgot, Dr. Rapey got angry!
Did anyone really have sharply pointed enough hair though? I didn't think so.
I was distracted by a cat and missed the end
#Monsterdon i love how they diverted them to oxnard instead of going back to lax
@CactuarJoe it was That Bad actually, but not The Worst.
@jonny maybe the real space masters where the friends we made along the way
No budget for a denoument I guess?
Omelette at 20,000 Feet
"...and everyone was 'decontaminated'.....and by that I mean executed and then a plane crash arranged as cover...The End "
wow, i mean some of these movies have Simply Ended, but that was a real brick wall.
Yeah this was just The Magnetic Monster with even worse writing and more stock footage. #monsterdon
I like how the fungus wrapping itself around the plane in mid-flight was kind enough to leave the door free
I award Space Master X-7 3 out of 5 mutant luggage monsters. I think the split perspective between Laura and her government pursuers stopped the movie from being boring. Also it was only an hour long, which is a good way to make your monster movie not drag on foreverl.
I'm not sure why they called it "Space Master X-7" and not "Bloodrust.", because the later seemed to be the name that they really wanted to give it.
great, they gave the fungus a bus, now they can't drop below 50mph or everybody explodes
Multi-genre genius!
Monster > Police Procedural > Monster > Airplane Disaster
Also we're out of coffee. #Monsterdon #SpaceMasterX7