X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Floaty Birb
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Eye Doctor thinks the eyedrops are affecting Doc X's brain and tries to sedate him or something, but then Doc X freaks out and defenestrates the Eye Doctor, then runs away before the police appear.

As he runs away we see some spinning newspapers overlaid that read "Doctor Falls to Death!" and "Doctor's Killer Flees!"

Floaty Birb
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At the next day we're doing an operation on a girl, and Doc X sees both through a nurse's clothes and through the other doctor's clothes, which the film producer decided is awkward but might indicate something.

Then he goes to do the operation on the girl and is like "I want this girl to live." so he cuts the doctor he saw naked on the hand and does the operation his way to remove the tumor instead of the wrong thing the other doctor was going to try to do.

Terencio

"Dammit Jim, you're a doctor, not an X-Ray machine!"

saucerlost

Doctor's been really hitting that tincture. Last night he made me listen to Round Room. I'm running out of patience, Sam.

Floaty Birb
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Naturally the Doc X's X-ray vision triggers and he sees everyone dancing at the party naked. We don't actually see anything in the version I am watching, other than lots of dancing legs and jiggling nude shoulders.

I thought I would need a Floatybirb Nipple Counter (TM) for this movie, but I was wrong. Such is life.

Anyway, the Lovely Assistant appears and Doc X tells her about her birthmarks to make her feel awkward.

Bluedepth

Oh god, not... jazz dancing… oh...oh god, oh the humanity!!! LOL!

Floaty Birb
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In the next scene the Lovely Assistant meets Doc X to invite him to a Hip 1960s Doctor Party, and he admits that he's still using the eye drops and his super vision comes and goes.

At the hip doctor party, a former student dances with the Lovely Assistant and then a succession of Younger Lovely Ladies appear to flirt with the doctor, a brunette who wanders off to wobble with other people, and a blonde who stays because Doc X looks "urgent" and that's hot I guess.

Jay
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β€œSam your lab coat, there’s a pen in your shirt pocket! There’s a button missing on your shirt! And both of your-β€œ
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#Monsterdon

Floaty Birb
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Doc X tried to get his Eye Doctor to go along with this bullshit, and he said no, but by the next scene he's said Yes and is putting the magic eye drops into Doc X's eye. One of them.

We then get some spooky music and kaleidoscope nonsense and Doc X is like "It's like a splitting of the world! More light than I've ever seen!" and then we get Mysterious Music that sounds like it was composed by Alexander Courage.

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allanb

Forget all the CDC guided studies that take years - we're just going to do it, right here, right now

saucerlost

Doctor... I saw the sign, and it opened up my eyes

klu9
klu9
klu9@ohai.social

"Tilt your head and look directly up" Title of my sex tape
"8 to 10 seconds" Also title of my sex tape.

#Monsterdon

Nazo
Nazo
nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social

I was reading something a while back where someone found a drug that could make them able to see things. They could even travel in time and space ultimately from it. Then they saw too much and something saw them back and came for them.

The story was horribly translated, kind of poorly written, but I bet it still was a heck of a lot better than this is going to be, lol.

#Monsterdon

Terencio

Note to self: REAL researchers call each other "doctor" all the time.

nhgeek
nhgeek
nhgeek

Obviously he had to save that chemical formula in 56 point font on that chalkboard. Obviously.

EricKHoward

You're planning to experiment on yourself, aren't you?

Always a bright idea.

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

Oh man Don Rickles. Of all the old-tyme comedians, that guy was perhaps the most abrasive. I mean even more annoying that Rodney Dangerfield.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Does anyone else out there get the distinct impression that we're being watched?

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Launching my thread for "The Man with X Ray Eyes", or something like that, a movie that I guess involves x-ray vision. Prior posts suggest that it is gory and gross.

Monsterdon is a thing where we watch a monster movie every week and either praise or make fun of it. Mute the hash tag if you don't want to see all the posts by me about it, or want to avoid tonight's possible gore? Otherwise, follow along and enjoy?

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I really liked this one. I guess it helps that I read the comic first, and the comic could be substantially more creative about the rendering of the story's core premise.

But even without that, I feel like it's a solid entry into #Monsterdon watch history. A little on the cheap side, but it makes good use of what it was doing. I can see why it won the Astronave D'argento.

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OH, the rings in his vision are *his eye*. I thought it was strictly a visual device and I guess it is, but it's actually diegetic.

That's uh... really interesting.

I'm going to interpret this as the eye drops catalyzing some kind of conversion of the entire vitreous volume to a sensing organ so as to get around the focus problems this would imply if only the retina is sensing.

#Monsterdon