you would think all american men owned tailored suits in the 1950s

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"What is it?"

It's a telescope, son. #Monsterdon

that high-pitched sound from the last movie was better than this song...

#monsterdon #WrongManFromPlanetX

#Monsterdon </autism> ok i'm done.

that was cute though i really enjoyed the ridiculous suit and funky head for the #ManFromPlanetX !

good time all

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@lysdexic #monsterdon #WrongManFromPlanetX

they are dancing to the music from Grizzly 2.

@jgamble "No, this is MAGICAL Degravitation, you want room 4B"

#Monsterdon

My #Tubi auto-play after #monsterdon is "The Angry Red Planet" which is 100% more in-color. And with 100% less Scottish accents.

What a fun little film with a fun little spaceman! Thanks @Taweret and Monsterdon; that was the most ridiculous thing I've seen in ma huff

oh aye

#Monsterdon

@cocaine_owlbear I _adore_ that film. Criminally underappreciated.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"Knowledge would only bring more fear, in a world filled with it."

😑

#monsterdon

The alien fixes his air and gets up, then tries turning on his space radio. Then the army starts shooting the spaceship and it explodes. By "explode" I mean "it disappears completely when a bazooka shoots it".

Then, Out of Fucking Nowhere, Planet X flies overhead like a seagull and they're all like "OMG the Planet!" and then it flies away.

#monsterdon

@cd0 yeah no kidding

Honestly I feel like this barely goes beyond a polite-request ray

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Yeah, just CHUCK Miers over the embankment, sounds good. #Monsterdon

THRILLING alien enemies, with SHITTY mind control beams that are defeated by just saying "walk away," and DIE IMMEDIATELY by leaving their oxygen valve unsecured on the outside of their spacesuit #monsterdon

ok wow remarkably efficient q/a about the entire plot of the movie too bad this is a movie and not a text-only zine #monsterdon

"Walk straight ahead"

Aaaaand they all step into the pit and trip. #Monsterdon

Who needs Sodium Pentathol to explain the plot in the last 5 minutes

#monsterdon

The professor sits, the Working Class digs, even enslaved to aliens they maintain Class

#Monsterdon

"The hour is near," and I've spent two hours writing this down, so I've got let's see twenty minutes to go rescue the girl and end the movie. Good luck! #Monsterdon

@hollie only a bologna radio, I suspect

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Does no one have a ham radio??

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

Oh for pete's sake, don't just drop your bike in the middle of a dark alley so you can rush indoors! Take it in with you!

#monsterdon

lol, none of this is how Space works....

#Monsterdon

(These accents are uhhhhh some kind of thing, eh?)

#monsterdon

"We want to see the professor."
"He's on a sedative."
"Got any left?"
#monsterdon

boogey doin's

sort of like this guy's accent. (-_-)

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Firmly on Team Alien on this one...

#Monsterdon

Okay, I'm rooting for the alien now. Don't need to blow up the planet, but definitely this castle.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

You know this is an American movie because it’s supposedly set in Scotland and she just told him that a drugstore is “called a chemist in England.”

#Monsterdon

My theory that the first aliens to come to Earth will be like the White colonialists of old....looking for weird sex with the locals

#Monsterdon

They are getting some serious re-use out of their prop rock shelf. A good investment there.

#monsterdon

The One Girl goes back to the castle and reports her sighting to one of the scientists, who is wearing glasses and an improvised poncho over his Very British Clothing.

Because this was 1951 and "believe women" had not yet been invented, the science master thinks she's being hysterical and her story sounds impossible. This might be a fair conclusion to draw if he hadn't literally been fondling a probe from outer space a couple scenes ago.

#monsterdon

Captain Pointychin will be represented by the oboe! When you hear the scary oboe sounds, stomp your feet and go "booooo"! #Monsterdon

Is it time for a little extraterrestrial vehicular manslaughter? #Monsterdon

their walking in moors, drinking tea, but thunder happening in Chicago? if our reporter is supposed to be an unreliable narrator, they sure are confusing me

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

I'm joining #monsterdon for the first time!
Where are we going?
Planet X!
Well, the man is coming from there, anyhow.

BLUCHER #Monsterdon

"whoever built this tower"
someone's kid with some acrylics, by the look of it.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Yeah, being a reporter turns us all into leg men. #Monsterdon

tremendous concentration of what, doctor

TREMENDOUS CONCENTRATION OF WHAT

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

H/O scale Scotland. #Monsterdon

❌ TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS ❌

(you can't see Planet X with that much light pollution)

#Monsterdon

His music is like the Brown Note, used to cause diarrhoea in rioting mobs.

#Monsterdon

Man from X had a mind control ray

Todd has a mind control jingle?

EDIT: Tyler. Tyler has a mind control jingle.

#Monsterdon

@moira @cocaine_owlbear it really is though, predates all the Superhero satire we have now.
And it's funny!

#MysteryMen #Monsterdon

Can't help but feel if they had the technology to MOVE PLANETS this was the shittest plan for survival possible

And now wonder the planet was frozen, travelling in Interstellar space on their mad journey to Sol, ....and then they just send one Avant Grade Mime on the critical mission to the barbaric planet of Earth?

It's almost the plot of The Man Who Fell To Earth, isn't it?

#Monsterdon

Me trying to find a way to make #ManFromPlanetX 's planetary invasion plan make sense this #Monsterdon

that might be the first time i've fallen asleep during #Monsterdon
woke up right at the end card

"What could have happened if Mears hadn't frightened it?"

"Who knows? Perhaps the worst curse... or the greatest blessing."

And that's a wreck! The alien fucks off into the sea uhh I mean the space, which is exactly like the sea except for the small matter of its different density. Mears remains bazookaed to death or at least unconsciousness. Does the entire Planet X survive elsewhere?? WHO KNOWS

Thank you for hosting, @Taweret ! Thank you for the bingo card, @cherizilla !

#monsterdon

Who was blown up better by a bazooka?

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

I'm had a dental crown that was more pleasant than this,. #monsterdon

"Is it true no one will ever know what happened here?"

"Yes, because this movie will bomb."

#monsterdon

What a massive pile of bull shit. Thanks #monsterdon pals. Take care. See ya soon.

I thought of who this X guy reminded me of.

#Monsterdon 🌫️ #TheManFromPlanetX

The alien craft is more resilient than a bear anyway. #Monsterdon

where would we be without a bazooka to finish the film

#monsterdon

"...sciectific degravitation..." #monsterdon

Hey, automatic pancake flipper! #monsterdon

First rule of slave-ray, do not explain to people how often you are exposed to the slave ray. #monsterdon

lol, coming to our planet hoping to evade climate change....

#Monsterdon

Pretty sure the 'slave ray' only works on the half of people who voted Brexit...

#Monsterdon

is it me or does scottishy guy look like a bulked up Jeremy Renner?

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

@jonny Amazingly this sentence makes sense...

#monsterdon

@moira somebody at the supplier is definitely getting vaporized

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

they're so desperate that they'll flee to England.

#monsterdon

"The planet is coming, the planet is coming!"

#monsterdon

Science Dad continues to be sick with space flu and worries about his daughter. Then a couple village cops appear and speak in Scottish accents that I am told is extremely bad. He shows one of them where the spaceship is, but its no longer there. Maybe it flew away because it was a spaceship.

We did however, find a flat place and some binoculars that we used to gawk at the spaceship earlier. The cops conclude the journalist was probably drunk on scotch.

#monsterdon

I hope we see the Rocky Outcrop again, breakout character

#Monsterdon

it's a sorry part of the movie for honest men to be in too, sir.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"If I only were not so helpless before the voiceless threat of the unknown!"

Look, buddy, you have to tone down that purple prose or your editor is going to put you on social media duty

#monsterdon

And now five uninterrupted minutes of our main character smoking. For reasons. #Monsterdon

Meanwhile nobody else on Earth notices the big planet about to hit us within days, it's not like it's a big telescope he's using either...

#Monsterdon

So Science Dad has the flu now; I have to wonder if its actually the space flu and he got it from touching the spaceship like a moron, so the journalist goes to the pharmacist (which this movie informs me is called a chemist on terf island).

Meanwhile, the greedy scientist decided to torture the alien for information, and knocks the alien over, planning on rationing his air until he learns his space secrets. But his plan is interrupted by a human summons and he walks away.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Just sedated Enid huh? She didn't have any agency to start with, now she's just kinda floppy and inert. The pinnacle of 1950's gender relations.

Okay, I'm gonna test my alt text skills by describing the alien in this movie.

From afar, he looks like a cyberman, but up close he looks like a guy with a bubble helmet and sort of armored vest and also a box on his chest. His face is like a caricature of an expressionless theater mask and is just frozen there constantly.

#monsterdon

Yeah, leave it to a brit to think the universal language is gonna be drinking tea. #Monsterdon

"Looks like we're up against a blank wall."

Set budget: $64

#Monsterdon

"...diamonds cut glass"
"not a scratch"
"damn, I always suspected it was zirconium"

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

Is nobody else on Earth bothered about the planet heading towards us though?

#Monsterdon

Back at the castle, the Girl Character and Science Dad explain what happened to the journalist who was watching anyway. Science Dad explains that, after he was zapped with a flash light, he was compelled to stand around blankly but also obey any command, which is how she dragged him back to the castle.

The Girl Character suspects this spaceship business has something to do with the approaching Planet X.

#monsterdon

"So your theory, professor, is that these events are associated with Planet X"

"Well do you have a better theory smartass? No I didn't think so. Pfft"

#TheDialogYouWantToHear

#monsterdon

Have you a taller collar to pop up?

#Monsterdon

@strangefour #monsterdon

to be fair, it probably sounded different in a movie theater...

"Do you think it could have something to do with that planet?"

Well, we'll never know because we're ending the scene right there. For some reason. #Monsterdon

Oh wait I missed an Important Character relation - the science master is the girl character's father. And now he's acting all zombie like because he was hit with a flash light, but she's following him and trying to lead him back to the castle.

He just kind of romps around then stops and stares blankly at her, while a bunch of frogs croak.

#monsterdon

ooof, high pitch right in the headphones D: #Monsterdon

Good god at least they had the decency to replace the humm with an ear piercing whistle. #monsterdon

Omg could you turn down your amp. All I can hear is power line hummmmmmm. #monsterdon

@kshernandez OMG! one million Internet points for you. I am laughing so hard.
#monsterdon

please let it be the Devil Girl from Mars....

#monsterdon

We take the probe back to the science masters and they are like "Incredible! This is made of magical metal! We would be rich if we could figure out the formula to make the material this thing is made of! But alas, it is from outer space!"

Then we get tired and the girl drives the journalist to the local Inn (I think, I missed part of the Gripping Events), but then on her way back she gets a flat tire and wanders off into a field.

#monsterdon

"The 64$ question."

I guess that was a lot at the time. Or as they said on MST3K "thats a lot of money back now." #monsterdon

the fog's too thick and the budget's too low.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

We do a flashback and the journalist is interviewing an astronomer who tells him that Planet X is about to fly really close to Earth.

Its going to fly closest to one island so naturally the journalist decides that he has to visit that island because we have no idea how far away planets are and think that the part of an island that is closest to another planet is somehow significantly closer.

#monsterdon

Whole Tone Scale in score: Check!

#Monsterdon

WOW. The matte paintings in this are NOT good. #monsterdon

The fog's getting thicker.

And leon's getting laaaaaaarger.
#monsterdon

"How do I get to Bury?"

Here's a shovel. #Monsterdon

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Like the director of #TheManFromPlanetX, Edgar Ulmer, who designed the moon and spaceship, painted glass backgrounds, and rewrote the script when necessary.

The original budget was $38,000 and the director brought it in - after 6 days - at under $41,000.