oh we got a sovereign citizen here #monsterdon

He has never died either

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

Ooooh, a _billionaire_ okay

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

"Your daughter seems to want me to stay." Cheeky bloke!
#monsterdon

Ascots and huge barrels and accents. And a slow talking foreigner who likes shrubbery.
#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

in the 1950s, aliens were more polite and just murdered people to steal their cars #monsterdon

pretty cool how Strangers from Venus believe in the power of leather belts and pants

#monsterdon

bartender might as well be speaking gibberish he is just letting his tongue mash around in there #monsterdon

J.R.R. Tolkien can't be disturbed from his plans to make C.S. Lewis Catholic. #Monsterdon

tom hardy, father of frank and joe? #monsterdon

@wohali
The side steering wheel is on changes, sometimes in the same scene!

#Monsterdon

Weird bar that puts spotlights on all of its tables like that. #monsterdon

lol, walk into any British country pub that forlorn and that's exactly how they'll react when you come in

#monsterdon

Ah, the classic 'mysterious stranger walks into a bar' scene. I bet he orders a Venusian cocktail!" #monsterdon

Indiana Jones. Always knew you'd walk back into my life some day. #monsterdon

[leans over to date, whispers] (that's the stranger from Venus)

#monsterdon

You can tell it’s a dramatic film because of the music. #Monsterdon

Yeah that's about what happens every time I try to land in Flight Simulator #monsterdon

that was a wild car crash for 1954! #Monsterdon

Nice chin lighting. Those 1950s cars were fancy. #Monsterdon

Man, that radio announcer doesn't have a voice for radio. He doesn't even have a FACE for radio. :/ #monsterdon

what are we calling this startreky music, sound in the opening?

#monsterdon

And opening sequence – looks like we're coming in for a landing on Farmer Brown's back 40.

#Monsterdon

Authentic British peasant there

#monsterdon

This story with a plot thing and these semi-romantic interludes with a space creature and a drooling Patricia Neal are making me wonder about the nature of #Monsterdon anymore.

WE GOT MOTION SICKNESS SIIIIIIIIIIGN

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

@Taweret @Louisa I’m interested but only if we set a new “longest movie title” record. An old friend of mine holds that record - and records, as they say, are meant to be broken. #Monsterdon

My son made up some reason to come downstairs and catch a glimpse of of #monsterdon

Was deeply disappointed.

@apLundell @Taweret @Louisa Nobody talks much about the wall decor in any of those, hmm #monsterdon

@Taweret @apLundell @Louisa Or maybe she could give birth to a child in a film titled "Son of Stranger from Venus" #monsterdon

@srol You wish

#Monsterdon

Lol "Devil Girl from Mars" is the movie I was confusing this with and it's literally next in the playlist. #Monsterdon

@ricci @CactuarJoe That was the big takeaway we can all enjoy #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe @ricci That's not fair, there *was* that one scene where some guys played cards #monsterdon

@plaidtron3000 @CactuarJoe several moments too late. #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Not a moment too soon! #monsterdon

@paco Just look at that wanton little trollop, lusting after a man from Venus! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

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

#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.

#monsterdon

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

@SarraceniaWilds you did good

no really, you did good!

#Monsterdon
#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

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

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

🦖 #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

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

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

#Monsterdon
#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.

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

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

whelp that ended

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

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

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

#Monsterdon

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??

#Monsterdon

@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?

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

#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

#Monsterdon
#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

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

#monsterdon 🤣🤣🤣