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.

#monsterdon

(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

Launching my #monsterdon thread for #TheManFromPlanetX, a movie from 1951 that I think takes place in Scotland and has aliens in it. Presumably a man from beyond Pluto or somewhere.

Anyway, Monsterdon is a thing where we watch an old monster movie every week and make fun of it. So, if you don't want to see lots of posts tonight about an old monster movie, you may want to mute the monsterdon tag. If that instead sounds fun to you, then feel free to join along!

Our hero protagonist tonight is a reporter!

*yelling at the screen* STATE YOUR POSITION ON THE OXFORD COMMA

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Yeah yeah, you gotta eat your wife's haggis, stop whining. There's kids starving in Ethiopia. #Monsterdon

STAY OFF THE MOOOOOOORS #Monsterdon

Mid Century Films -- We're only off by 1 year this time! #Monsterdon

It's #monsterdon time. We're rolling.

Gotta say that's a quality font.

#monsterdon GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO

gotta admit, the man has killer biceps tho....

#monsterdon #WrongManFromPlanetX

Why does Tyler talk like the lovechild of Vinnie Barbarino and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?

#Monsterdon

@Configures @JoeWynne @klu9 @Taweret It does have an android and some creeps at least.

Also IMDb suggested this in its related section: https://tubitv.com/movies/498861/hell-comes-to-frogtown (Hell Comes to Frogtown, 1988)

#VeryWrongFrogs #monsterdon

The singing!

🤣 🤣 🤣

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This guy does more expositional talking to himself than a telenovela character

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@oli this is the most coherent take I've heard

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Just the way Dr Mears said he wanted to be left alone with the Alien visitor gave me red flags...this is such a terrible planet....it really would be the first thing we'd try to do.

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@klu9 #monsterdon #WrongManFromPlanetX

I seem to remember an Aerosmith video that took that approach...

@diazona #monsterdon

"we will go to the Compound, and contemplate the words of The Master...."

@YsengrinWolf @Taweret wait really?

because that really would explain all those stage backdrops

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Anyway, this concludes my #monsterdon thread for the Man From Planet X!

If you are interested in future monsterdon adventures, be sure to follow @Taweret , the host and keeper of the Monsterdon poll!

@lysdexic #monsterdon

yeah look at https://miru.miyaku.media/

@floatybirb it's like tau zero only waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

worse

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

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And that suddenly ended.
That was almost good for a low budget project from the early 50s. Almost.

this guy talks like he's just had dental work done.

#monsterdon #WrongManFromPlanetX

There was an artsy, almost Hitchcock vibe to the first scenes, and a sort of panicked, get this thing in the can, feel as the movie progressed. I think the budget was blown on the most impressive alien craft with an uncanny resemblance to the clown's head of the Jack In The Box mascot.

#Monsterdon

In the last scene, Enid seems to stare into space at a weird angle so that the catchlight is visible in her eyes. #Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

#monsterdon Totally forgot about the #SuddenStringSection. Also got a kettle drum hidden there too. Hiding in the fog.

Alternate title: Yankee Dawdle Dreary

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And thank YOU for watching. Good night!

SKREEEEEE-ONK

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My chief regret at this point is spending over two hours downloading this mp4 #monsterdon

@rebeld leading theory: nothing happened here

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#monsterdon This is the hokey pokey. Some babble, a visit to the alien sex toy, and then more hokey pokey. Tourn yourself around.

I did not sod off to make myself toast half way through cos i was bored there. NO
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I could’ve gone for at least 20 more minutes of this gem.

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I guess I shouldn't have skipped class when Scientific Degravitation was taught. It would have come in handy.

And that's another #Monsterdon in the can.

Definitely hadn't seen it before. Probably won't again.

Popcorn's consumed, so we'll call it done. Thanks, everyone!

incredible that we got two #monsterdon bazooka weeks in a row

"Look on my works, ye mighty and... OH SHIT YOU BLEW IT UP. YOU BLEW IT ALL UP. YOU BASTARDS." - The Alien I guess

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

Lamest alien invasion ever!! #MONSTERDON

Here we see the invention of disinformation

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

@Configures that is a fair point. Although the movie hasn't given us any alternate explanations yet. #monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #TheManFromPlanetX, from 1951, was all about the aliens! Instead of .... probes ...., we had:

So ends another #Monsterdon with the masterpiece, #ManFromPlanetX. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and for everyone lurking and posting. And remember #Monsterdoners: What clapper-claw is this?

planet banks into a hard left turn

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

And Planet X pulls a The Man From Venus spaceship

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX so .... was killing the one alien supposed to stop the invasion somehow?

#MONSTERDON

again, not how Space works.

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WHOOPS NEVERMIND #Monsterdon

Standard Imperial fist-shake of rage and sworn vengeance!

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Hey - it's a hip-fired bazooka again. This is a bit of a #monsterdon theme.

Alien's just SICK AND TIRED of humans FIDDLING with his VALVE #Monsterdon

"Mears, come on, get over that embankment." *shove*

MEARS YEET

(That cold-blooded regulator twist and resulting asphyxiation of the alien was pretty cold-blooded, you have to admit. Yikes.)

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WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THAT HEAD I NEED AN EXPLANATION!!!!

#Monsterdon

“Welcome to Earth!” Say it! #Monsterdon

So they could de-stabilize their own planet in order to swing by a different planet

but they didn't just think, "let's get a little closer to a star to stave off the fact that our planet is turning to ice"? #monsterdon

Did they really only send one solider on this mission?

#Monsterdon

Engage the rotisserie

#Monsterdon

"Scientific de-gravitation!" that old chestnut.

#Monsterdon

Scientific Degravitation :blobwoah: #Monsterdon

Gravity doesn't work like that. Nor does magnitism.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

If they could move their planet, then they could save their planet from the ice, unless it's ICE they are fleeing...

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As first contact situations go, I'm giving the people in this film a failing grade. They get some credit for trying, but spent most of the time just fucking up and futzing about.

#monsterdon

Don't save Dr Mears, he started it all!

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fuck will someone please plug that aliens speaker system back in properly already
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Ah now the Army has turned up....but send the American in first...

#Monsterdon

Okay, so Inspector Mustache's plan is to like... get the army to surround the spaceship and shoot it before Planet X gets too close because if the planet gets too close some vague spooky thing might happen, based on zero evidence.

This concerns the journalist because he's trying to find a peaceful solution and rescue the girl and its hard to rescue someone in a spaceship that is being shot at by artillery.

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This accent seems to wander all over the British isles
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Back when 'wireless' referred to one, specific thing. #monsterdon

I'm going to headcanon that this movie is set in 1891 and not 1951.

Except it sounds like there might be a modern military solution?

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

We should do a Quatermass some day, it's like a good version of what this is trying to do

#Monsterdon

Oh no, now the English are here. That can't be a good sign #monsterdon

Pouring and not drinking lots of tea in this film.
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Not young Wilkie!? Anyone but him. I mean Bobby Harris, yeah, I had him pegged, but young Wilkie? Never!

#monsterdon

Wow that is an HO scale train sandbox if there ever was one

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The Man from X is building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude.

#Monsterdon

well we've got fifteen minutes left for something to happen

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This is the first time that they've mentioned being on an island, right?

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"He's building an army...." #monsterdon

Anyway, even though we didn't find a spaceship, we're still missing one girl, and she's the most likable person in this movie, so the police decide to organize a search party. Unfortunately one guy is like "I saw a thing out there! It wasn't quite human!" and then everyone decides to panic. I would like to see more meeting descend into uniformed panic.

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Wait, this is the same port as 'Bury', which I will remind you, is really in the hills and far away from the Sea

#Monsterdon

Little did the two thugs know he was Lance Armsrtong, and under his jersey was a shirt with the Letter 'S'
#monsterdon

Break out the Heliograph!

#monsterdon

“Let me try the exact thing that you are currently doing.” #Monsterdon

Please movie gods, let there be a werewolf.

#Monsterdon

@ryan #monsterdon

"Hello hello? No it's dead."

"Let me try it. Hello hello? It's failed all the tests."

#monsterdon

Give me that phone, I'll show you how to use a prop phone. #Monsterdon

BATTEN THE HATCHES!

DISCONNECT THE PHONES!

#monsterdon

I "dinna" think there'd be so many accents. #monsterdon

@amyfou
Sheep would likely improve but they should be kept away from Mears.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX "What clapper-claw is this?" <- adding this to the ol' vocabulary

"The boogey"

"That creature from outer Space"

More interplanetary racism I see...

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"Ach rrrrrriot... Is a terrible thing. AND I THINK IT'S ABOUT TIME WE HAD ONE!" #Monsterdon

lol, this minor character with the hat is giving it his all...

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@diazona FRAUD there's not a trace of finger in these

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#monsterdon I wish more people would walk to the spacecraft so we could watch them.

@Lazarou #monsterdon

their local equivalent of ICE