Me: that was pretty fun for a bad movie

Other people: actually, it was a good movie

Me: ok let's not say things we can't take back

#Monsterdon

If you're a revival tent preacher, & a rough looking guy* stumbles in & says he knows there's an all-seeing eye in the center of the universe, don't you roll with it & say yes, that's God

You want to keep people agreeing with you as you steer the conversation, right? You spin their delusion as further proof of God's work, with yes-and

#Monsterdon

*I know he has completely black eyeballs but if I saw that irl my honest thought would be "maybe there's a disease that causes that, don't stare"

Anyway, I want to thank the people of #Monsterdon for helping keep me sane(ish) these past several months. It gives me something to look forward to, while allowing me to be social in the weird way that works for me 💚

Special shout-out to
@Taweret, of course, for keeping this chaos organized for us all!

I didn't get a chance to mention it at the time. But... dude can see what card is next and he's wearing suspicious, gigantic black sunglasses inside. Nobody from the casino comments on THAT? They are baffled at how he sees things they can't see? They have NO theories?
#monsterdon

Oh, wow, the movie does NOT stick the landing with the eldritch horror ending!

For comparison, here are the final pages of the comic, which are *way* more effective than the cheap thrill of the movie's "pluck it out!"

#Monsterdon

This is me after Christmas dinner, just stumbling around, falling over everything, blinking at the lights, confused

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

#monsterdon

Eye can't see what the point of that was, but it was x-iting enough for Monsterdon

<flails around pun machine, wildly pressing levers>

Anyway THANKS EVERYONE! :D

And thanks to @Taweret for hosting this Monsterdonocity!

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

A little bit of trivia via Wikipedia:

In his non-fiction book Danse Macabre, Stephen King claims there were rumors the ending originally went further, with Milland crying out "I can still see" after gouging out his eyes. Corman has denied the existence of that ending but expressed enjoyment with the idea, saying "Now it's interesting. Stephen King saw the picture and wrote a different ending, and I thought, 'His ending is better than mine.'"

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

why is he acting like its a curse but then he keeps doing it?

#Monsterdon

┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ #monsterdon

People with super-powers are never smart about Vegas.

People win big at Vegas every single day. Not a majority, obviously, not even close, but enough that you could become one of them and not attract any attention at all.

Sitting down at a blackjack table and winning every single hand for hours on end is not the way to go unnoticed
#monsterdon

boy is he stupid

#Monsterdon

Quick plot summary:

#monsterdon

I actually liked that one, though again, they could have done a little trimming and made it a solid Twilight Zone episode. Goodnight #monsterdon, stop doing that thing that's hurting you, and tip your host @Taweret !

And he plucked off into the see.

Y’all should block me.

#Monsterdon

"You're a Healer, we can make money!"

Fucking America, ffs....

#Monsterdon

This guy is about to look at a lot of boobies

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

My #Monsterdon takeaway this week: I want to learn the Watusi dance.

Much like Dr X, a lot of us are asking "what did I just see?"and saying things like "my eyes!"
#monsterdon

HE CAN DRIVE??

Okay that's the least realistic thing in this movie so far

I mean, it's on the list of unrealistic things

near the top

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

So he accidentally killed his friend, he's under malpractice charges, and he immediately joined the circus because ??? unclear

#Monsterdon

The women's bare feet dancing with heels UP. Nice touch.

#Monsterdon

"You were unconscious yesterday but tomorrow I want you to assist me in surgery," yes that's a good plan go with that

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

I'm holding out hope for the "Man With the X-Ray Eyes Meets the Aztec Mummy"

#monsterdon

Well that was a movie. Cannot unsee. #monsterdon

That was fun! Thanks, everyone. #Monsterdon

He needs to accept how gay the world is and stop fighting it

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

Oh shit she's full of anatomical diagrams. #Monsterdon

IT'S NOT A TUMAH!

#Monsterdon

✅ Cursed Visine

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

@steggy

There's only one good place for the #monsterdon crew to learn the Watusi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRrBuklzAL8

Definitely not the worst movie we've seen for #Monsterdon, but not the most enjoyable either. Everything before the circus drags. I'd say that like Krull, it suffers from not knowing what its own strengths are.

The Twilight Zone could have done this in an hour. You don't need any of the hospital business. Just start with the circus! Open with the hokey fake mindreader who turns out to be real. The sleazy barker guy convinces him to set up shop as a back-alley doctor. Then you *reveal* that he was a scientist who experimented upon himself. His old colleague shows up, he breaks down and gives a poignant speech about seeing too much and too far, then he steals a car and races off to die in a crash. If it's the half-hour seasons of Twilight Zone, you don't even need the carnival; just begin with him seeing a patient in his skid-row clinic.

@trixter @Taweret Today's tip is "do not gouge out your eyes"

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonMemes

@hollie "In 1978, Jaques Denouement invented a new storytelling concept..."

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

@bunnyhero @Taweret It took itself seriously enough that you found yourself rooting/getting into it even though your mind's telling you not to get sucked into this nonsense. #monsterdon

I feel like the big advancement in movies that came about a decade after this one was actual endings

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

So far this is *exactly* the plot of the comic, so I guess they are pretty much one-to-one.

I think it was not uncommon to do this in 1963, especially given what a stir this movie made. It was a sure thing to adapt it. And the art is really cool!

Anyway, reminder that the comic is here:

https://archive.org/details/x-the-man-with-x-ray-eyes-63/

#Monsterdon (T+40m delay)

"I have been trained in various de-escalation techniques. I will de-escalate this man very quickly."

#monsterdon

"Now look right. No, *stage* right. You're an actor!"

#Monsterdon

Okay the possible #Monsterdon secondary account situation is still up in the air, so I'm still at home, torturing my beloved friends who followed me for my silly stories and now get these shenanigans.

Anyway tonight we're watching X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

If eye see one person making a pun, it's fifty lashes for ye

https://tubitv.com/movies/303016/x-the-man-with-the-x-ray-eyes?start=true&tracking=google-feed

#Monsterdon #TheManWithTheXRayEyes

Oops! I accidentally watched the wrong movie again. I thought we were all watching “Steve: The Man With The Steve Buscemi Eyes” #monsterdon #WrongFrogs

Seriously, as sudden endings go, that was better than "And then uh we blow the thing up, that's it, go ride a scooter into the ending credits!"

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

The villain in the movie was really Dr. Diane Fairfax…

When the Optometrist friend falls out the window, instead of saying "OMG, what a horrible accident, let's call the police!" she was all "Run for it, doc, now you're a murderer! Run away!"

#monsterdon

@RamenCatholic 💜

"(sane)ish" should go on our next #Monsterdon t-shirt

@moira I am rather fond of that scene where the giant polystyrene crab claw gets swung into frame by the stagehands :D #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe oh gods no, the crab movie was the best one we've done

as a monsterdon i mean

that was fucking _amazing_

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

fun fact: Bartlett A. Carré was John Le Carré's weird uncle who drove him to the British secret service to escape the possibility of having to work on films like this.

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

Milland had no idea that his future would include the legendarily awful "Thing With Two Heads". #monsterdon

"I've read your report."

"Yes, but did you understand it?"

Audience, this is when she should have stabbed him in the nostril. She didn't, of course, but we can imagine that the proper thing happened here.

#monsterdon

@combatwombat lmao also at remembering this lady who was like 'ooh i wanna marry a doctor :D' and then got shoved aside by the funding lady

#monsterdon

What the Hell is wrong with that preacher, when he ignores an injured man crashing his hate party? So much for the parable of the good Samaritan. So of course he goads Dr X to enact the only possible end for this movie.

I CAN STILL SEE!

#Monsterdon

@thatdawnperson #monsterdon

The effects vary depending on the needs of the plot.

"Well there's your problem, you're full of sausages!"

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon oh my god, she has an anatomical drawing inside her!

'I want to see across the entire EM spectrum'

translated from dingdong as:

"I wish to increase the input to my visual cortex by an order of magnitude."

(assuming, as this writing would, that the density of cells sensitive to the other parts of the spectra were the same as in the visual spectra. I suppose you could get that down to more like 2-3x as much input by changing the sampling density. still.)

#Monsterdon

If you can't trust a carny barker, who can you trust??

#Monsterdon

One minute you're getting a free titty show at a party, the next you're wanted for murder. #monsterdon

Well that anti-escalated quickly

#Monsterdon

"Perhaps even reached the Papers"

That's quick, do they have social media there or something?

"LOL, DOCTOR JUST SLICED MY HAND FML OXOXOXOXOX"

#Monsterdon

"Swab. Pokey thing. Sharp thing. No, the *other* sharp thing."

#Monsterdon

Oh no! He's been using Brand X!

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

*creepy doc, under the effect of his self-experimenting X-ray eye serum at a party full of attractive young people dancing*

"But remember, I'm a doctor!"

"Well _you_ remember that I'm a woman!"

How about "remember that we are coworkers"!? HR would have a field day.

#monsterdon

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

and also EWWWWWWWWWW

#Monsterdon

If anyone ever makes fun of my dancing again I'm going to make them sit through this scene

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

I know we're supposed to care about his eyes but I really want to know how she can get her hair into that shape with 60's technology

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

"My eyes are not conditioned to this yet."

Yeah, so maybe it will get better over ti-

*He puts more drops in to try to immediately double the effect.*

Wait what? Are you stupid or what?

#Monsterdon

"Only the gods see everything"

"My dear doctor, I'm closing in on the gods"

I like this guy.

#Monsterdon

@Crazypedia I'm going with "Cosmic Horror" because its the most interesting answer and that movie needed to be more interesting. #monsterdon

WAIT IS THAT THE END

"If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out!"

"Yep cool sounds like a plan" *yoink*

And that's a wreck! James Xavier pulls out his own eyeballs in a church revival tent somewhere between Las Vegas and California while the police and his friend look on. Nobody fucks off into the sea for there is only desert. Did Xavier see the terrifying truth of the universe, or only hallucinations from his unfinished research? WHO KNOWS

Thank you, @Taweret and @Cherizilla!

#monsterdon

#monsterdon

"At the center of the universe, I saw a glowing eye watching us all!"

"Oh yeah, we see this all the time. You've got devil eyes. You've got to pluck them out. No time like the present."

"CTHUHLU IS REAL MY FRIENDS! I HAVE SEEN THEM!"

#Monsterdon

Can't he stumble into the next scene already?

#Monsterdon

The owner says "I just want to make sure you won all that money honestly" and of course the answer he gave is the one we would all give "what's it matter to you?" then tries to shove past him.

I mean, you'd have to be crazy to just go along with it, answer the questions, then pocket all those tens of thousands and leave. This is so much better because now he can risk his life in a car chase with police probably coming after him soon.

#Monsterdon

Aaaaannnnnddddd, he's using the drops again.

He complains and complains, but just doesn't stop.

#Monsterdon

Before Concierge medicine, before the HMOs, Don Rickles would be your medical pimp. (Cash only) #Monsterdon

Wait a minute - I know that spleen!

#monsterdon

He has the power to superimpose textbook illustrations on top of bodies

#Monsterdon

"Everybody gives what they can"

Sounds dangerously like socialism there Don, be careful!

#Monsterdon

In the next scene we are at a carnival for some reason. There are large numbers of sailors in the audience, which I find notable.

Next to the belly-dancing booth, which I assume is a standard 1960s carnival feature, a middle aged man in a Hawaiian shirt and a vest is advertising his latest act, a guy named "Mentado" in a blindfold who we know is the doctor. The act involves him looking through stuff to read stuff the audience people are writing.

#monsterdon

Meatball surgery FTW

#monsterdon

"Doctor, we can stop him. I've got a gun"

#monsterdon

Welcome to this week's episode of "Nude Hospital"

#Monsterdon

They nekkid!

#Monsterdon

BOOBIES, AS PREDICTED

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

Ha! 1960s dancing is the best dancing.

#monsterdon

Oh, hey, it's that guy

(Captain Pike's doctor, and a player a few times on the Twilight Zone)

#Monsterdon

@EricKHoward I'm: "my doctor used to examine me as a kid with a lit cigarette in his mouth" years old

#monsterdon

There might be side effects!
#monsterdon

*idiot scientist uses a pedestal coffee machine to extrude two waxed paper cups of slightly browned liquid*

everyone in the #monsterdon hashtag: THAT SWAMPY SWILL IS NOT COFFEE, THAT BINGO SQUARE DOES NOT COUNT

"Do you take it Black?"

*answers like that gag from Airplane!

#Monsterdon

I'm rooting for the monkey.

#monsterdon

That's a long eyeball scene.

#monsterdon

lol at the cops who remove their hats for his sermon. #Monsterdon

If our doc was thinking a little clearer, he would've just put the drops into one eye only, then at least he could've had normal vision in the other eye.

I mean, that's what I always do with the xray eyedrops.

#monsterdon

@diazona @trixter @Taweret or maybe 'gouge out your eyes BEFORE you kill a man'

#monsterdon

@hollie lmao, accurate. And @Louisa is welcome to steal any #Monsterdon quote I make as swag (as long as I get a free shirt or whatever as payment, lol). This is a legally binding toot.

@paco The scene they left on the cutting-room floor was the montage where he spent six weeks doing a Roy Orbison tribute act in Vegas.

#monsterdon

Tonight's #monsterdon seems to be pretty divisive? like a lot of people liked it and me and a few others are like "ugggh no."

I wonder what led to this split exactly?