@plaidtron3000 Yeah, can't mess with perfection #monsterdon

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... a politician is described as "Secretary of the Interior", a post which does not exist in the British government; there is a reference to "the President", rather than the Prime Minister; and the inn where much of the action takes place seems halfway between an English pub and an Austrian gasthaus.

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#Monsterdon

From the film's IMDB Trivia section:

The setting of this film is somewhat mysterious. It appears to be England, but the radio has American voices instead of British ones; both the doctor and the barmaid have very English accents, but middle-European names; the police wear uniforms suggestive of eastern Europe (and carry revolvers in a holster);

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@Zerofactorial He knew he peaked in this one.

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@SarraceniaWilds 'Sokay, so did the movie. #Monsterdon

@SarraceniaWilds you did good

no really, you did good!

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#StrangerFromVenus

I wonder why Helmut Dantine didn't make any other Science Fiction films #monsterdon

Well, that was the dry white toast of monster movies.

Still, a big thanks to @Taweret for curating tonight's flick. I certainly would have otherwise never seen it.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

#Monsterdon

Tubi immediately started to play Devil Girl From Mars and frankly I was okay with that.

@jonny the cuckoo clocks

that's all that will remain

so many

so very many

all the cuckoo clocks

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

@jonny @moira

"Beige alert."

#monsterdon

I rate #StrangerFromVenus 1 out of 5 noisy magnetic flying saucers. For a movie that was an hour long, incredibly little happened. Things that would improve this movie:

* giant ambulatory venus fly traps
* higher quality autistic conversation
* having more things happen in the first 75% of the movie
* alternately, making the movie 75% shorter
* more distinct and likeable characters
* just make all the characters lesbians, why not?

Anyway, thanks to @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting another #Monsterdon !

The real monster was the studio. #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe just the one location #Monsterdon

Man, we go from movies like this to MCU in ~70 years.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus #TheVenusian

"Produced on location" Not anywhere in particular, just "location." #Monsterdon

@steggy Girl singlehandedly saved Earth, isn't that enough? #monsterdon

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This film kind of reminds me of The Invisible Man (1933).

Except in the second half of that film, the action stops being in a pub, and they hunt the invisible man through the streets.

Also in that film, the people in the pub were actually interesting.

The Invisible Man was a better film.

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie event. See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

Let’s throw a little Casablanca
into the end of our Day the Earth Stood Still, for pathos. Except the fiancée is no inspiring Nazi fighter and our Rick is about to vanish anyway.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

The British know what tension is, and they'll have no truck with it thank you VERY much. #Monsterdon

this is what every early doctor who turns into if you delete the doctor

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#StrangerFromVenus

@srol I'm happy we watched this in June #monsterdon

🦖 #Monsterdon Goodnight

Thanks @Taweret for arranging this disarray!

...and Thanks to @cheribaker for the Bingo card. My favorite: Tedious Debate

...and to the Real Time Film Analysis Squad, a remembrance:

Space Walkman | Petri Dish | Savor the Saucer | Beverage-Centric | Inn Lady is Best Character | Magnet Power! | Clocks! | Unnecessary Tent | Read Minds Maybe | No Questions for Alien | Card Game During Crisis | I'm Drunk or You're Dead | Extraterrestrial Chemistry | Orbital Interference

There was some weird scifi coming out of the UK in the midcentury. Some better than others. #monsterdon

that was genuinely the most

uh

movie

i guess

we've ever seen on monsterdon

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#StrangerFromVenus

"I'm proud of your man, Susan"? Oh, c'mon, where are the venusian-human hybrids?
#Monsterdon

It's over... zzz
#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

can't blame me, i didn't vote #monsterdon

#monsterdon Eric Spear, Composer: Listen this harp is due back at the rental place by tomorrow, you just keep playing it and we'll figure out where to stick it in the soundtrack.

Well okay. That was the sort #monsterdon material where you have a movie with two titles and zero bona fide thrills

Now he's just more dust in the wind.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus #TheVenusian

So glad I stayed up for this :P #monsterdon

At least whats-his-face got a limpectomy out of the deal. 🤷‍♀️ Goodnight, monster people! #Monsterdon

i think fucking off near the pond is close enough to fucking off into the sea for it to count #monsterdon

I swear to gods I was actually watching this movie, even though I started late because I was running a dungeon in ESO and wanted to kill the last boss first.

I think I got more action in that last boss fight.

Because _wow_ that was a stinker.

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This "Devil Girl from Mars" that Tubi is suggesting next seems a lot more exciting. #monsterdon

thank you for ending, movie

thank you for not being an endless loop like dhalgren

appreciated

no seriously appreciated thanks for not

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#StrangerFromVenus

"events or characters portrayed in this movie are purely fictional." sir. if only this entire movie was fictional. #monsterdon

whelp that ended

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#StrangerFromVenus

@yatsu Definitely one of the films of all time. #Monsterdon

So, he just...effed off into a handkerchief?

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Well, was it worth the price of admission? #monsterdon #strangerFromVenus

oh no, the giant desk lamp is coming! #monsterdon

The Venusian was a Jedi?

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

So, he just disappears. With his clothing, but leaving the scarf behind. What a very unnoticeable demise.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

The moral is we'll all be fine on Earth as long as the alien invasion lands somewhere in the British Commonwealth #monsterdon

Oh, he wasn't Venusian, he was a Trumpy! Self-burying monster, explain that one if you can. #Monsterdon

Humans Suck, The End. #monsterdon

okay, well, that was a movie. i believe most of us watched it. #monsterdon

Wait, I thought his lungs were going to stop working. How did he disappear? #monsterdon

venusian comes to earth to let them know 'hey don't knock your planet out of orbit because it messes with ours,' earthlings try and trap them, but the venusian manages to warn them and then they leave. venusian goes out in the field and dies. roll credits. nothing happened in this movie in a way that is even more nothing happening in a movie than usual for #monsterdon

In conclusion...Did Gretchen ever bring any coffee??

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@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza Handkerchief, I think.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

so nothing happens in that movie. like at all

but the alien sorta fucked off into a pond. or near one anyway. close enough

ty for joining, everyone!!

#monsterdon

Is this man about to fade out of existence because he's dying?

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I wouldn’t have guessed that ending for the alien from Venus.

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#monsterdon Wait lol 😅😆 it's just a light

see if they'd panned to a fireplace you'd know they'd've had hot aliens sex but no

none of that for us

he evaporated

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#StrangerFromVenus

Soooo, that's it then

#monsterdon

@paco

That's what you get when you pray to the sconce.

#StrangerFromVenus
#TheVenusian
#Monsterdon 🦖

He evaporated?

#monsterdon

one…last…pond scene…… #monsterdon

He's gonna take her underwear back to venus to sell it #monsterdon #thestrangerfromvenus

#monsterdon 🤣🤣🤣

Couldn't they land at some other place? #monsterdon

#monsterdon Not bad for a mothership

It's just an overhead light fixture. #monsterdon

"I'm proud of your man, Susan."

So if you're looking for a third, it's kind of traditional for this kind of film... #Monsterdon

oh christ more arpeggios LEARN A SECOND TRICK, STRING SECTION

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

"He's gone"

lol, 'men'

#monsterdon

The disks for communication, stolen!

You mean your smoke detector from earlier? #Monsterdon

"I'm responsible for this operation, and I think this might be a bad idea"

"Yea well I'm a general buddy and I follow my orders"

He's… he's in charge tho? It *is* an order if he's in charge? Unless he's involved and not in charge.

#Monsterdon

Yes excellent let's just leave this magic hockey puck unattended I'm sure nothing will happen to it yes

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

That's a communication device? #monsterdon

Ooh got that Terminator 2 run. #Monsterdon

@DragonHunterD magnets imply regenerative braking, right? #Monsterdon
#TheStrangerFromVenus

There are unknown unknowns.

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

SO LOOOOONG SUCKERRRRRRRS #Monsterdon

The model work underwhelms.

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

I guess Susan gets to go home now, so happy ending #monsterdon

desk lamp retracting

the desk lamp is now calibrated

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

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Retaliation? Our germs took out the Martians, what do we have to fear from the Venusians?

Well the doctor is having a nice laugh about this all atleast.
#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

The brakes / acceleration on their ship is really good.

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flying saucer carrying another flying saucer like it's Xibit

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

How did they know how high to place the cables though? Did they actually get a good image of the ship that dropped Stranger off?

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

Wait, that's just a desk lamp! #Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

So his communication discus was an under-cabinet light from Ikea?

#monsterdon

the desk lamp is landing

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#StrangerFromVenus

yep that sure is a desk lamp

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#StrangerFromVenus

She pities the alien. She ought to pity the audience #monsterdon

The countdown!

#monsterdon

Looks like they are are going to catch the UFO by upsizing the game MOUSETRAP?

#Monsterdon

flying sauceroo in the sky is the mothership

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

Getting kinda confidence we weren't gonna see it but there we are

2x quality hubcaps

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

praying to the great god of the wall sconce. #monsterdon

girlfriend auditioning for that freaky Virgin of Lourdes movie they used to show to us in Catholic school, at least once a year

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

"are we the baddies?" #monsterdon

So that's why Fred Sanford was a widower. Because the doctor couldn't get to her.

#monsterdon