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

Set budget: $64

#Monsterdon

(reporter protagonist and doctor look over the moors at the alien landing craft)

"You know what that looks like to me? A diving bell."

"Well, the only difference between water and space is a matter of density."

Yep, that's dead accurate, literally the only difference

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

Interplanetary peep show

#Monsterdon

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

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

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

#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

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

  💸 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....

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe but that's not important right now.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

It begins!

"The Man From Planet X" (1951) is a short one tonight: you'll only need a ~75 minute timed mute. Or you can join in!

#monsterdon

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."

#Monsterdon

#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

#Monsterdon

@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?

#Monsterdon

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

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

#Monsterdon #TeamMonster

@ryan rapidly becoming the solution to ALL problems #Monsterdon

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

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

#Monsterdon

@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

@JoeWynne no wonder they had a beef with Earth and Kirk... #Monsterdon

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
#monsterdon

"NASA said that today's planetary near miss was no cause for alarm."

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Is it true no one will know what happened here?

Hell, I don't know what happened here.

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

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

#monsterdon

"I'm so glad it's still here." "And still ours, Jane!" #Monsterdon

OMG, the Rocky Outcrop died!

#Monsterdon

So the invasion force is *one* alien?

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

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

#monsterdon

Checkov's air regulator

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

And it's Man Versus Gumby here in the pit! #Monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

Planet is dying, covered in ice.

Well yeah, you moved it out of its orbit!

"Magnetic range finder" did I hear that correctly?

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

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!"

#monsterdon

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"

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

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

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

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??

#monsterdon

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).

#monsterdon

They're pressganging him for pub duty #Monsterdon

@jammerb #monsterdon

He was using zip compression.

He flashed the light 4 times and got out three sentences

#monsterdon
#ManFromPlanetX

'"Julius Caesar" on an Aldis Lamp!'

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

#monsterdon
#TheManFromPlanetX

oh, a bike chase. how riveting.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

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

#Monsterdon

Be on the look out....#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

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

#Monsterdon

We just searched and found nothing. What next?

Moor searching

#monsterdon

Dinnae! He said dinnae. One Scottish point awarded

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

@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.

#monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon

Guns are essential to academic work

#monsterdon

@aspeed

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonMemes #ManFromPlanetX

Alien looks like an Easter Island starter kit. #monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon

Avant Garde Alien Sex Tourist

I don't trust beardy though....

...oh my!

#Monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

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

the man from spirit halloween

#monsterdon