lol, driving to Vegas is the Plan is it?

Oh boy, Lady Doctor picked a winner here...

#Monsterdon

*Has vision better than can even be imagined. His eyes literally see frequencies we can't see.*

*It is represented as super limited tunnel vision with colors split and blurred.*

Oookkkkaaayyyyy...

We definitely have transitioned into Dalek vision at this point.

#Monsterdon

What a fickle Rickles

#Monsterdon

"I don't care, as long as I get my share..."

Truly the American Dream.

(I think Rickles is next)

#Monsterdon

"Get out of my sight" means a lot in his case

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

"As long as I get my share! So that I can keep buying these ties! Ties that are affront to Man and to God!"

#Monsterdon

He didn't want to see through her again.
#monsterdon

I'm not joining #monsterdon tonight because I have watched too much tv lately but here is my copy

Once again the real villain here is America's 'for profit' healthcare system, but then we all knew that, didn't we?

#Monsterdon

The old lady told all her friends that Doc X is a magic healer, even though he denies this, and so now the lobby is full of people wanting diagnoses. One by one they pay Hawaiian Shirt Man and then Doc X stares into the anatomy paintings inside them to give them a diagnosis. Insert joke about US healthcare system here.

#monsterdon

X-ray man could make bank just by hiring himself out to the gas companies to locate oil deposits. #monsterdon

dude you still went to med school and practiced medicine you could fucking talk to these folks

#monsterdon

The writing is really good so far, and the performances are supporting its quality. Even this guy flirting with his… funder? is like an interesting interaction, and thankfully not a skeevy one.

Yea, well, we'll get there. It's a 60s flick, after all.

#Monsterdon

"We had one rule. Don't come in here."

Well, that lasted about ten minutes.

#monsterdon

Okay, a doctor lying about cancer because its terminal is as best I know on-brand for this era.

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

As usual a woman's pain is dismissed by a doctor.
#monsterdon

Hawaiian Shirt Man has donned a suit and figured out some way Doc X can use his eyeball powers to make money. They set up an apartment as a hideout for Doc X and Doc X forbids Hawaiian Shirt Man from entering the inner rooms of them for some reason.

Inside, Doc X practices using his power to stare through the ceiling but he stares into the Sun and starts screaming because the sun is bright. So he puts his glasses back on.

#monsterdon

he's just lying in bed, dropping LSD and having a bad time....

#Monsterdon

If only Don Rickles was the one with x-ray vision. This would be a completely different movie.

#Monsterdon

"Never enter my forbidden rooms!"

Oh please, do you know People at all?

#Monsterdon

Never enter these rooms under any circumstances!
*looks down*
I can't take seeing you naked.

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

@moira He can see.... bitcoin.
#monsterdon

Young Don Rickles is hitting my eyes like an experimental oil

#Monsterdon

Missed opportunity to follow up the "I know who you are" with a title drop

#Monsterdon

Back at the carnival, a lady falls over and Doc X uses his powers to determine that she has broken ribs and broken legs. He uses his Doctor power and his X-Ray power to diagnose her and apply a splint. Then the official doctor shows up and takes over.

#monsterdon

Wait for "This is some of the best splinting work we've ever seen"

#monsterdon

Really bad trim painting in that purple room #Monsterdon

There are so many creepy men in this film. #monsterdon

I wonder if some real person has that social security number

#Monsterdon

"You have a letter in your pocket from the girl you deserted!"

lol

#Monsterdon

@thatdawnperson Yes!
#monsterdon

Why, with X-ray eyes.. I could do anything! I could be a sideshow cum friars roast!

#Monsterdon

*doc elbows his buddy out of the window, perhaps accidentally, then tries to flee the scene at a half-trot while continually looking over his shoulder*

Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious
Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious
Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious
Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious

#monsterdon

Wow, what a fragile window. #Monsterdon

Can you see long-term memory T-cells?
'cause that would be useful
#monsterdon

Get outa my patient, loser!
Step aside and let a pro handle this

#monsterdon

Fer god's sake stop handing him tools!
#monsterdon

✅ He's gone mad!

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

"You think I'm mad? We'll I'll show youwhooobagabbbaawhoooooooo"

#Monsterdon

Okay, so the X-Ray vision in this movie is predictably weird. I guess it can give Doc X the power to selectively see through some things, but maybe like one layer at a time? So he can see through clothes but not skin, unless he concentrates and then he sees through the skin too?

My conjecture is that the doctor's repressed horniness leads him to see through people's clothes unconsciously, but that's the kind of hypothesis I would make.

#monsterdon

Doctor, I shall perform this operation....BLINDFOLDED!

#Monsterdon

Why would you say that about her birthmark, this is why you're single dude....

#Monsterdon

I'm glad we don't Xray smell
#monsterdon

Yeah baby!

#Monsterdon

If I know 60s movies one of the people in this room is a Spy...

#Monsterdon

Then the doctor who diagnosed her appears and Doc X is like "this is the wrong diagnosis, there is a tumor you shouldn't do the surgery you're planning" and the regular doctor is like "nuh uh. ur wrong. I'm doing what I'm planning tomorrow." And the audience is like "uh oh this will be bad for the kid because the x ray guy was right."

#monsterdon

Doc X's day job involves squinting at patients to do doctor things, and in doing so we discover that he still has the ability to see through stuff as he stares through a child and determines that a diagnosis is wrong. The child being stared out says that his eyes look weird while he does this.

#monsterdon

Just tell him you took magic eye drops and can now see into people's bodies, he'll believe you.

#Monsterdon

People are icky inside.
#monsterdon

A big sign saying "DO NOT REMOVE" is just asking for mischief...

#Monsterdon

I think this one guy was the Martian on the TZ episode....#monsterdon

This film is quite progressive for it's time in that there is ONE woman in the room and she ain't just taking notes....

....but also believable in that all the men in the room dismissed her case.

#Monsterdon

@Taweret we would probably fund it purely in our quest for forbidden knowledge that challenges the gods themselves. #monsterdon

“How do your eggs taste then?”
“Flat.”

-squints at screen-
#Monsterdon

After special effects weirdness, Doc X proves he can see through stuff by reading a paper below another paper, then stares under the Eye Doctor's coat to reveal a pen. Then he goes around squinting at other things to look at other things. Then demands more eye drops so he can have more power.

The Eye Doctor says "no" because they should be doing scientific tests, but Doc X eyedrops himself anyway because he wants more forbidden knowledge.

#monsterdon

He can see through stuff, how does closing his eyes have any effect? Can't he see through the eyelids? lol

#monsterdon

LSD would do that trick too.
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I love twirly tape recorders. #Monsterdon

“Blah blah blah, simple shit.”
“I won’t be spoken to as if I am a child.”
“I hadn’t heard about your temper!”
Ah yes, the 60s. Rampant drugs, rock and roll, and overbearing men.
#Monsterdon

1960s safety protocol: fuck it, let's do it #monsterdon

In our autopsy we decide that the monkey died because its monkey brain couldn't handle the cursed godlike knowledge of having X-Ray vision. We said that more scientifically though, so it sounded more plausible.

Afterward, the Lovely Assistant tells Doc X to call her by her first name, so maybe she's making a pass at him. Probably a tentative pass. They discuss their insane science work at their penthouse laboratory lounge, using a Coffee Vending Machine to provide beverages.

#monsterdon

Do we have "idiot scientist lights cigarette in the lab from an unnecessarily lit bunsen burner, like some kind of chump desperate to incinerate his own eyebrows"?

#monsterdon

@YsengrinWolf #monsterdon

Yeah but which dies? The monkey or the god?

lol at Ray lighting his cigarette with a Bunsen burner like a Science Teacher who no longer gives a fuck....

#Monsterdon

In the next scene, Doc X is telling his Lovely Assistant, Blonde Scientist about how he wants to get X Ray vision and see more of the spectrum. She seems skeptical but he thinks he's smarter than her, if possibly also more evil.

We then go to a science room full of monkeys in cages and give one of them some eye drops. We do a light bulb test to confirm that the monkey can now see through things. Then the monkey dies. RIP science monkey.

#monsterdon

...Did the monkey see an SCP?

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

I don't need to hear about the monkey's sex life, doctor. #Monsterdon

Also, the guy who wants the X-Ray vision is named Doctor Xavier, like the X-Man in the wheelchair who is psychic. I'm sure they picked "Xavier" because it starts with X.

I'm calling him "Doc X" so we don't confuse him with "Prof X", the mutant rights leader.

#monsterdon

Oh fiddlesticks, this DVD has only French and Spanish subtitle tracks. If I'd yoinked a copy of the film through less legitimate channels I would have been able to see the other 90% of the dialog in this film! Alas.

#monsterdon

This guy owns more communist manifestos than everyone on Mastodon

#Monsterdon

7800 angstroms on the red end? Impressive

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

This movie was previously called “Twitter”

#Monsterdon

This movie starts with some spooky music and then a closeup of a severed eyeball for several minutes, set to the same spooky music. Ominous.

We then decide that we must boil our eyeball in a science pitcher of pink kool-aid and proceed to do so. Logical.

Then we get some credits set to a hypnotic pink and black spiral. Hypnotic.

#monsterdon

The swirlly spiral thing is making me nauseous...

Ahhh, 'Roger Corman'

We're in for something

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

No one will be seated during the eyeball scene. #monsterdon

Is the whole movie just going to be this eye?

#Monsterdon

This movie is keeping an eye on us

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

@moira@murkworks.net

oh god. I can just imagine what Möbius would have done with this.

(picture all of the subdoctors with towers-of-hanoi headgear standing around...)

#Monsterdon

(checks imdb) he really didn't do this often; this movie may be the only real iinstance

(well okay, he *does* have a Twilight Zone episode, though RS roped a whole *lot* of comedians in for that...)

(and of course pretty much everything in the last 30 years is voicework for Toy Story)

#Monsterdon

@SnoopJ That would’ve been amazing. But if they don’t even have the budget to film a winning slot machine… #monsterdon

if I say that this movies feels like there should be a longer and weird European comic version of it that is way more interesting if you can put up with the self-indulgence does that make sense?

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

still boggled by Don Rickles in a Rare Dramatic Role.

I mean, he's still a ways off from unseating Mary Tyler Moore doing "Ordinary People",

but, man, that was a creditable performance.

#Monsterdon

It was nice to see a young Dick Miller in a bit part

#Monsterdon #ManWithXRayEyes

@mariellequinton I think he plucked, but unbelievably fast and neat. #Monsterdon #TheManWithTheXRayEyes

@ottaross Oddly the most multifaceted one seems to have been the one played by Don Rickles #monsterdon

@Lazarou #monsterdon #IdealMaleBody

"I'll be back in a moment"

Yea just need some more of this "cursed visine" as my bingo card calls it. But soon I will be marking of "Making it Rain!" too, it's gamba time!

#Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @ottaross for a smart lady she made some shockingly poor decisions #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon
#XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Got a lot of boxes checked on my bingo card. 2-way bingo tonight.

"A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead."

Incredible dialogue, man.

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@ottaross She was taking quite a risk that he wouldn't get rid of the only witness too #monsterdon

Movies like this one make me think that I could be a Mad Scientist.

I'd just avoid the obvious mistakes this guy made, then I'd be fine.

#monsterdon

@skatem #monsterdon

"move fast and break things" was probably the most realistic part of this movie...

It’s funny how I have the same rational questions as everyone else, like, “Why keep taking the drops if you want darkness?” But I remind myself that Monsterdon films are generally poorly written, acted, directed, filmed, staged, lit, etc. and highly irrational. Haha.
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon and #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes
See your doctor if you experience Sudden Onset Hubris.

My father’s assessment of the movie as “grim and pessimistic” from when he watched it when he was like eleven or twelve remains unchallenged #Monsterdon

In all seriousness, this was a much better movie than I was expecting, and went fascinating places with its premise.

Our mad scientist doesn't create a monster, just destroys himself from hubris. Okay, there's some inconsistencies in how the eye drops/vision is working, but given Xavier's fallible nature, I'll chalk them up to him *not fully understanding* what he's doing.

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

@floatybirb @Crazypedia cosmic horror but the cosmic horror is just the christian god-panopticon

#monsterdon

@Crazypedia the Universal Panopticon Blinds!

#Monsterdon