#monsterdon We're going to have a strutting moustache-ride off next. I can sense it.

"They call these towers 'rocks'"

🤦

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#monsterdon There's a newspaper man in you? Explains the walk, my sweet fruit assortment.

who painted this picture of a tower out here?

#Monsterdon

Well, we've got a woman in the story at least. They've already discussed her legs though, so the #Bechdel test seems unlikely of a pass.

#monsterdon

two cheap draculas are filming on the other side of that arch right now

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Wow, six years ago she was a little girl? #monsterdon

#monsterdon Ya crazy dame! Stop driving and bring me a coffee! You almost ran over me! Now PERCOLATE Woman! PERCOLATE!

...are they flying?!

#monsterdon

this looks like a stage production

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"Makes cold fingers run down my spine. How about you?"

"Keep your fingers to yourself!"

#monsterdon

"Do you think something will happen?"

After all this tedious exposition, I should certainly hope so.
#monsterdon

I think they're taking this all rather casually...there is a PLANET heading towards Earth

#Monsterdon

1951."Trained observers." We were at the beginning of the UFO era, weren't we?

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lol, Bury is town in NE England, not that remote but 'distant' in other ways

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#monsterdon When did brackets go out of style in movie credits?

The sequel is called "The Man From Planet XYZ--You're Flying Low!"

#Monsterdon

This was also from the "film everybody from behind" era of Hollywood. #monsterdon

They are saving budget by going into a darkroom and turning the lights off...

Yup, @strangefour got it before I could type it out 😂

#monsterdon

@jadebees Surprisingly early for our first death. #monsterdon

ah yes, the famous mid-century flashback.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

This Man from planet X better not be a let down, the reporter is talking it up a bit

#Monsterdon

He forgot to start with "Captain's Log, Stardate blah de blah"

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

@CactuarJoe no.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Here to learn more about planet X. Howdy #monsterdon pals....

Wow, I'd forgotten that in olden times they had to physically attach the credits to the film. #monsterdon

Mid Century Films? If it was another studio, would it be like 10th century fox?
#monsterdon

"Mid..."? Yeah sometimes it's good to keep your goals realistic

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

I'm calling this the quote of the movie....from the "scientist."

"The only difference between water and space is a matter of density."

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon This is the snooziest set of "rock and roll" I've heard in forever.

His dancing is even more laughter-inducing than his singing

🤣

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon The band name is People Eaters? :revblobfoxcrylaugh:

The mullets on the rhythm section!

#Monsterdon

Any time I think of noping out of this movie, he starts singing and I piss myself laughing!

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "Did I bring my clean underwear" is the greatest lyric of this film. Don't destroy my fantasy.

they can't even sweeten him in post. This one makes Bob Dylan sound like an angel in comparison
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Somebody go back in time and do some auto tune. And I hate auto tune.

we have one line so far in the new song

that's a wrap baby, we has a single!

#Monsterdon

he can't even carry a tune in a bucket
#Monsterdon

she is not reading her lines from the opposite wall
never
#Monsterdon

@diazona @lysdexic

The Phantom of the Rock Opera?

#Monsterdon

A couple of times @ryan put together like a re-cut musical #Monsterdon montage like some trippy parallel universe MTV thing it was fantastic!

@diazona @combatwombat @SRLevine @JoeWynne

#Monsterdon It's either Dr Manhattan or Optimus Prime.

whoa i totally didn't recognize William Schallert as the bearded bad guy!

#monsterdon

@oli The trained reporter was was distracted by the pretty girl. No exposition. Just the chat by the seashore. #Monsterdon.

what what the fuck, did he sing that thug into NOT stabbing him?
did i just see that?
#Monsterdon

just those 3 notes are better than that "people got to roll" song from last night, Jagger

#monsterdon #WrongManFromPlanetX

#Monsterdon That's Not Love That's Gas would be the best relationship book.

@jonny First they use cheap manual valves on their life support then they use ChatGPT Mind Control #IgnoreAllPreviousInstructions

Planet X deserved their fate IMO #Monsterdon

Todd dances like a grandma stuck in a mud puddle
#Monsterdon

You know what really fucked off at the end?

The trained reporter's narrative monologue that liked to provide exposition. Where was it at the end? Shouldn't we have gotten a wrap up?

#Monsterdon

@littlemiao I think the alien didn't try communicating out of sheer embarrassment of crashing on this dump of a planet #monsterdon

my mullet told me all about you Todd
#Monsterdon

@brooke Maybe the scout alien was deliberately inept and helpless, to test how humanity would treat it. It got blasted, so the aliens moved on to the next, friendlier planet. #monsterdon

@oli She probably doesn't believe what Dr. Mears said. She knew he was a wrong'un. #Monsterdon

I think this film is a good example of why I normally root for the bears, and giant lizards and men from planet X. #monsterdon Humans are just horrible.

@saucerlost It would have been better spent cooking a haggis #monsterdon

@bebadefabo If you need the browser to mute tags, that would explain the mystery of why some people haven't been able to mute the #monsterdon hash tag.

🎶 grill you got got me now🎶
#Monsterdon

that fight was so fake, I almost expected to see Steven Seagal

#monsterdon #WrongManFromPlanetX

#monsterdon That’s… over. Okay, moving on. Mmmmm, lets have some dessert!

@moira "It happens all the time, stop whining" #Monsterdon

Overall, the screenplay was just not great. Not so laughably bad as, say, an Ed Wood script, but full of extreme vagueries gesturing towards meaning but never actually reaching it.

Structurally, it was … relatively sound, but undercut by the bad writing. It was difficult to build tension when the lines are so obtuse and self-congratulatory.

Finally, the frame story that opened the movie simply doesn’t make sense with how the denouement played out.

That said, I didn’t have a problem with the primitive alien costume or the limited special effects. The inconsistent art styles were a bit of a turnoff, but excusable for the budget. But that script was just tough to hear. #monsterdon

@strangefour it was

in short

very

mid-

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

@moira wait what is a tau zero?

(checks wiki) I guess it is a book I haven't read....

#monsterdon

@JoeWynne keep https://miru.miyaku.media/ in your bookmarks for #Monsterdon After Dark sometimes it gets a bit unhinged but always fun if you can stay up that late

#Monsterdon Wait, there's another film?

And it's over! Thas monsterdon for you ​:neocat_pat_woozy:​

-FIN #monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

#monsterdon And the planet fucked off back into deep space. The end.

this guy is not an actor by any standards
was he hired cos he is "good looking"?

by good looking i mean doughy with a face too angular
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@TerryHancock ah yes, whitey in space, i kept looking for riff opportunities too, but well

you know that one was better because it had a giant space slide

this one needed a giant space slide in the worst way

also maybe a bear

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

The local PC in the background chewing scenery when the Inspector arrives and is talking to the journalist 🤣

#Monsterdon

@paco Wish I had this at the start of the film. #Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Alien - check
Boogie doins - check
Tartan - check
Bazooka - check and check
Quality sets - bzzzzt
#monsterdon

wow that night club needs to call Dalton from the Double Deuce.

#monsterdon #WrongManFromPlanetX

#Monsterdon

Actually, "When Worlds Collide" was also 1951. Was this whole "rogue planet" plotline an intentional ripoff?

@cherizilla same unfortunately... better luck to us both next time! Thanks for the card anyway

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Hey, where's the link to the double feature?

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I really didn’t expect a valve to play such a critical role in tonight’s plot.

#Monsterdon

This movie should have been called The Planet of the Baskervilles.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Next on https://miru.miyaku.media/

"A Troma Team Release"

YES!

#Monsterdon

gonna be singing Jungle Boogie for a while, again. #monsterdon

All this extra time to get going with my Boogie doings. #Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

@ryan Space Freaks from Planet Mutoid has no runtime on IMDb, no torrents on PB, nothing on usenet. Where did you find that :D #monsterdon

Hey, since according to the professor the only difference between space and water is density, the planet effectively fucked off into the sea! #monsterdon

“The planet!” #Monsterdon

They've done nothing but assault this poor alien since they've been on earth! #monsterdon

"knowledge would only bring more fear" this journalist is a dumbass #monsterdon

The end! Let’s look sexy together. #monsterdon

That planet is secretly the moon from Space 1999. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon well fam, that certainly was a movie.

And we watched it.

And… yeah.

Anyway, goodnight! That was fun, let's do it again next week!

VOTE ALLIGATOR!

Wow! That one was wonderfully.... short. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week Beautiful Mutants. #Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

How can no one know that another planet swiped the Earth? 😆

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

- Fin -
#monsterdon

Who knows, perhaps the greatest curse or the greatest blessing is... they never even kissed!

And that's it everyone -- thanks for coming! What an odd duck that film was.

See y'all next week for more #monsterdon -- big thanks to @Taweret for running our event, @Cherizilla for the bingo, @JoeWynne for the trivia and cocktails and @ryan for the streams!

that ending kinda reminded me of the end to Crack in the World #monsterdon

yaaaaaaay eat dirt, Mears!

"Fools", says the dumbass who abused an alien. #monsterdon

"None of this would have happened had Dr Mears not attacked the alien"

#Monsterdon

"if only it wasn't capitalism!" and THE END.

#monsterdon

And Planet X fucked off into space. Which isn't much different from the sea. It's just a difference of density.
#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX