Whole Tone Scale in score: Check!

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

The fog's getting thicker.

And leon's getting laaaaaaarger.
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"How do I get to Bury?"

Here's a shovel. #Monsterdon

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  💸 Low Budget Film School 🌌👽🪐🌫️

Production Team Schmoduction Team
Save money and do it yourself.

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.

The AI colourisation of this copy is pretty trippy, I should take more drugs....

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@CactuarJoe but that's not important right now.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

the credits about to be the most interesting part of this film, i fear.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

The credits have visible rivets. #monsterdon

so.... I'm guessing this movie is some rich kid's vanity project, right?

#monsterdon #WrongManFromPlanetX

"We will send you to the planet called Earth. You have one mission: baffle and distract them with fuckery. We'll give you our prototype mind control device.

"Why do I have to do this? Surely this isn't necessary?"

"Earth will attempt to launch weaponry at our planet if we get too close to their orbit and they find us a threat. Instead, your assignment is to make sure that doesn't happen."

"But what can I, a lone man from Planet X can do?"

"You'd be surprised how much time they are going to waste in dialog, actually."

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#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX and given the speeds we saw of that flyby, they would've had to launch their invasion fleet hours ahead of time at least

so they'd be on their way regardless of whether we blew up this one guy

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX "seriously? i hate to be _that person_ who complains but, why couldn't we just lower our orbit a bit and stay there? did we even check that out before setting this whole thing up?"

@moira @floatybirb I got that reference, I've read (wikipedia pages of) books

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@diazona @SRLevine @msh @JoeWynne

I think what happens is:

1. #Monsterdon poll chooses a movie
2. @ryan chooses another movie thematically connected to the Monsterdon movie, plus some other videos to show
3. Ryan hosts an Owncast stream at https://miru.miyaku.media/ that includes the #Monsterdon movie plus the other things before and after.

Albino Helena Bonham-Carter?

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@Inverse_Shadow I hear that funky theme tune now #Monsterdon #Space1999

@JoeWynne once again Humanity comes off very poorly...

#Monsterdon #TeamMonster

wait i know who that guy reminded me of #MornFromPlanetX #monsterdon

@jonny tough shit for the billions on that world then...

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@ottaross I feel like the Reporter is just running out on that girl again, the cad... #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Okay, so now we've got Mears as plot sponge. Squeeze the entire story out of him calmly.

Well that happened

...actually no, no it didn't

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Now on to Space Freaks from Planet Mutoid on @miru , otherwise looking forward to next week!

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

I love their impression of what it would be like to have a planet just fly by the earth.

Just a few minutes of wind and a touch of chaos, as a treat.

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

And we're given thirty seconds of denouement as a treat.

That all folks, Planet X fucks off into the cold vastness of space, where all of its inhabitants will freeze and die.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

John Brown meets the Space Enslaver
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"NASA said that today's planetary near miss was no cause for alarm."

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well, we didn't have to watch them kiss at the end there.

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Those aliens bit off more than they could chew with that Scots family

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So the invasion force is *one* alien?

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"There's something out there - it's the Professor! And here comes Mary-Ann, and Ginger too!"

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Checkov's air regulator

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We catch up to the beginning of the movie and the journalist is writing a report to hand to Inspector Mustache before he goes to try to rescue the girl from the spaceship.

He finds Science Dad digging the ditch and orders him to walk straight away so he's no longer by the enslavement ray. He talks to the greedy scientist, also enslaved, somehow figured out that the bad guy could talk to the aliens, and asks him about the aliens secrets.

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Feel sorry for the little guy being brutalised by the big hairy human fuck....

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Planet is dying, covered in ice.

Well yeah, you moved it out of its orbit!

"Magnetic range finder" did I hear that correctly?

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Enid is being anally probed. I just got mine and it wasn't that bad

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The justification for this 11 o'clock deadline seems incredibly thin. "We don't know what might happen! It could be anything, anything at all!"

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Bazooka! (maybe)

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

So... the two inspectors from Scotland Yard plan to declare war on the alien traveler?

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

I hate how this movie isn't willing to use terms like "Roche limit"

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Auk! You cannae jus’ let strangers in the inn if you dinnae know if they’re mind controlled!

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I'm glad somebody is pointing out how bad two planets coming close like that is...

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The Britishness has overtaken me. I had to go make tea.

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Man, that Englishman got really excited when he learned he didn't have to talk to the Scottish dude >_> #Monsterdon

"there might be another way"

nuke it from orbit? please?

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

the boogey got the the young wilkie??

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Okay, so the journalist decided that the alien is using his mind control flashlight to take over everyone in the village. I'm not sure what the evidence was... whatever it was if you blink enough you'll miss it.

My guess is that the greedy scientist has gotten a hold of the space flashlight and is using it for evil (mind control and greed).

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They're pressganging him for pub duty #Monsterdon

He flashed the light 4 times and got out three sentences

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#ManFromPlanetX

'"Julius Caesar" on an Aldis Lamp!'

https://youtu.be/kqiUGjghlzU?t=191

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#TheManFromPlanetX

oh, a bike chase. how riveting.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"It's terrible darling, the Moors, they're riddled with Working Class People!"

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Be on the look out....#monsterdon

Also, I swear, if this has War of the Worlds (1897) understanding of how to travel between planets...

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lol, closing the windows will keep the big planet out...

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We just searched and found nothing. What next?

Moor searching

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Dinnae! He said dinnae. One Scottish point awarded

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Oh my , attempts at scottish accents.....what is this place?
This is Scotsface!

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@diazona @moira the queen of #Monsterdon

I like how the telescope is always aimed at the same spot, and the planet obligingly stays put in its sights.

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Afterward, the nice girl walks into the dungeon and screams. The journalist comes back, and is surprised to find neither a girl nor an alien in the dungeon. Unaware of the greedy scientist's schemes, the journalist thinks the alien has kidnapped the girl and taken him to his spaceship, so they go there to gawk at the spaceship for a little bit, then go back.

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Guns are essential to academic work

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The alien follows us back to the castle, and just kind of hangs out in their dungeon or something. The earthlings debate how to talk to the alien, who is mostly just standing there and humming incomprehensibly.

The greedy scientist decides to try to cut a secret deal with the alien for his space knowledge or something, this is probably bad but no one is sure exactly how that's supposed to work. Maybe he can understand the humming.

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Avant Garde Alien Sex Tourist

I don't trust beardy though....

...oh my!

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Ew he's got space flu. He's a very unhealthy shade of gray. #monsterdon

Characters in this #monsterdon so far, with their special powers:

Team Earthlings:
Girl Character (being nice, having reasonable suggestions)
Leather Jacket Journalist (wearing a cool jacket)
Science Dad (science powers)
Greedy Scientist (science powers)

Team Planet X:
Alien Space Suit Guy (humming weirdly)

Ah the 50's, when you sedate a woman because she's surprised. I knew we could count on some next level sexism. #monsterdon

"fears for my safety"

oh. yes. yes definitely. concerns for your safety. yes indeedy do.

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Yeah, it's a movie from the 1950s, SOMEONE's gonna be The Superior Species. 9_9 #Monsterdon

the man from spirit halloween

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Anyway, Science Dad doesn't want to call the cops because he wants to keep their secret science secret or something, so they don't do that. Instead, the boys decide to go walk out to the spaceship again. We keep describing the spaceship as a "ball" but it's mostly not a ball.

After we fondle the spaceship for a little bit, dramatic music appears,a and then the alien astronaut walks out and points a ray gun at them.

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"The only difference between water and air is the density.
"Just like Sam Kinnison and Gilbert Gottfried."
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That alien's gotta be getting pissed by now. Random yard apes keep coming by and dinging up his ride. Scratching his windows and shit. Martian Insurance is gonna take a big wet bite outta his ass for that. #Monsterdon

We learn that Planet X will get closest to Earth in 60 hours. The journalist suggests that maybe they should call the cops, making me wonder who I would call if I saw an alien spaceship in a field. Probably not the cops, but telling someone would be a good idea.

I'd probably post about it on mastodon; follow me if you think I'm ever likely to find an alien spaceship in a field.

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I was about to say "looks like professor Quigly from the Disney Medfield college films', but it actaully is.....#monsterdon

The science master discards his poncho and follows the One Girl into the moor; the american journalist overhears them and secretly follows it. The audience says "Do you believe the nice girl now, do you, mister scientist, huh, huh?"

Naturally they both walk up to it and look into the window, to see some weird glowing shit inside, while the journalist watches. Then then light goes off and the spaceship starts screaming and pointing a flash light at them.

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That is an awfully small craft for interplanetary travel.

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That rocket ship has one heck of a ground hum.

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

yes... ha ha ha... yes!

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

...Did they just walk past an Easter Island statue? #Monsterdon

No scientific instruments at all. Just walking out to a possible crash site. We're doing this by the seat of our pants folks!!!

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Why are you screaming, it's just Daft Punk

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those shoulder pads look ginourmous on her

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Okay, so our space probe from planet X or somewhere looks kind of like a missile, and I guess its just lying there in the moor. My hope is that its part of a grappling hook that Planet X will use to real the Earth in to board it.

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extragalactic delivery of unobtanium

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Finally, somebody is ready to monetize! #monsterdon

"ooo, dangerously radioactive space debris, let's lick it!"

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The journalist goes to visit the island, and meets a girl who he remembers as being awkward in school. She is nice but since this is a 1950s movie she's probably going to be involved in an Uninteresting Romance Plot.

She drives him to the Dark Tower, an old castle which is headquarters for our Planet X watch party, and we learn about the local architecture and establish that this is Scotland because Moors.

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@jeffron this film could really use a bear-eating plant

#littleshopofhorrors #themanfromplanetx #monsterdon

THE MOOOOO-okay sorry #Monsterdon

The reporter has what we call here a "Spiv's ''tache"

If you wanted some way around the ration book, he'd be the man you speak to.

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Mears, trying not to be rude, but doesn't need his man gossiping with this lady.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

girlfriend here to voice the director’s teenage/ephebophilia; normalizing the protagonist’s past grooming proclivities

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I was expecting the guy's mustache to come off with the first sip of his tea.

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lol "a cup of tea"

Yes, you are in the UK now!

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"You remember Doctor Miers?"

He's the staff Sinister Hypnotist. #Monsterdon

Okay, so this movie starts with a flash forward, presumably the main character, a leather jacket wearing journalist is hiding out in an observatory or something and writing a secret last report... he says he met a man from Planet X and is going to die tonight probably, presumably killed by an alien. Anyway, he says the thing he's writing is very important to all of humanity but we don't exactly find out why.

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(okay, his tiny little moustache is still terrifying in black and white.)

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Oh it's okay, the planet'll just strike a GLANCING BLOW with Earth, no biggie. #Monsterdon

Totally black screen for 5 seconds as the dialog continued was a nervy directing choice....#monsterdon