Thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's delightful film.

Chromatic aberration - it's not just for doctors dripping experimental drugs in their eyes.

We had coffee. And smoking. Together!
We had monkey death.
We had a carefully framed room full of naked dancers.
We cut a surgeon so we could both be an ass and save the patient!
We helped a fellow doctor take a trip out a window.
We visited the carnival (but never rode the octopus, despite signage)
We drove the Strip!
We got to see how *not* to act in a casino!
We took part in a one-car car chase and wreck!
We visited an old-time tent revival and got healed (for some values of healed)!
We got just a touch of cosmic horror!
We got to see Don Rickles' holographic skull and several nice sets of FX contacts!

#Monsterdon #ManWithXRayEyes

Presumably they forgot to mention the eye drops were addictive, in case you wondered why he didn't stop putting the drops in
#monsterdon

Even if you can see the hidden cards, you can't control what you're dealt. You got 16 and the dealer has 20, and the next card is 10 you're going to lose

#monsterdon

Reviewed tonight's feature as being a rather lackluster tale that didn't really develop things in an interesting way after the first reel. Two stars out of five. https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/x-the-man-with-the-x-ray-eyes-1963/ #monsterdon

@littlemiao i also think 'this seems like it might have been kinda good when it came out and what people were used to in movies was different'? it was *interesting* at least and the poetic parts were fun and well-delivered

#monsterdon

The movie undercuts itself by *fading* in James's vision every time.

Should just be a straight cut more often, to more strongly imply that he has lost his normal vision.

#Monsterdon

"It's not that unusual. Sometimes people just fall out of windows. It happens all the time." -- Putin, probably

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Managed to avert my eyes at the final the gruesome bit. Still saw the scary driving leading up to it. Overall, better than the black and white version I saw on TV as a kid. Especially the Don Rickles bits. But still quite befitting a #Monsterdon viewing. Thanks, @Taweret and co!

That jumpcut to his eye sockets was so abrupt it was like a jumpscare crossed with a stinger. A jumplaugh? Jumpsnort? Jumpjoke? I dunno.
#Monsterdon

That was intense, but fun. Thank you for another great #Monsterdon @Taweret. I look forward to the poll and next week's movie!

@littlemiao i wouldn't watch it for fun outside of #monsterdon but it was a lot more solid, coherent, etc. than most monsterdon movies

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🧟‍♂️ X-TRIVIA

Still geeking out about this:

Corman filmed the construction of the Department of Water & Power General Office Building in downtown Los Angeles which occurred during 1963 and 1965.

He used that footage to create the SFX for Milland to "see through" the building.

(😢 Sorry, missed posting this during the movie)

#XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

ah cool, here's the insomnia. And the lead sunglasses!

"Healer, I've brought you someone."

And James can no longer recognize his crony. That seems good.

#Monsterdon

@RamenCatholic @Taweret yes, excellent stuff. much fun! #Monsterdon

https://youtu.be/SyoXyPoMlpA?list=RDSyoXyPoMlpA

#PDQBach

~Chara

…he’s stumbling toward a cult compound, isn’t he-
Oh, it’s a tent revival.
Same difference.
#Monsterdon

@bservies Monsterdon is where people watch a monster movie together Sunday nights and post commentary to #monsterdon

Join Us

#Monsterdon and #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes
Message: Don't take experimental eye drops and never pipette by mouth..

And now, time for equitable(?) healthcare

#Monsterdon

Love the 60s movie style of soundtrack where every time he uses his powers it’s like he’s fucking around with the monolith from 2001
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the real monster was shitty window construction

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

"You got the power to see, to see inside!"

[annoyed] "Shut up."

#Monsterdon

Full black contacts raving about the center of the Universe? YES, PLEASE.

This one wasn't so bad! Probably didn't need to be quite as long as it was? Good effects.

#Monsterdon

@aburka One might argue the movie shows you exactly how to unsee

#Monsterdon

More legitimate than our usual fare, but I still suspect this movie would have been better in X-ray vision

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Looking forward to next time!

#Monsterdon

The biggest issue I have with that movie was he had to keep taking the drops to maintain the vision he no longer wanted and kept doing it.

#Monsterdon

@Crazypedia the Universal Panopticon Blinds!

#Monsterdon

So, that was actually a good movie.

As always, thanks, @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, and all of you for joining in and making it fun!

Cheers!

#Monsterdon

I am glad I finally got to see that one. pretty solid B picture. so does #TheManWithXRayEyes lead straight into a #NeilBreen movie? Like, does he wander eyeless into the desert like Paul Muad'dib only to come back for more later? #monsterdon

~Chara

COFFEE IS SERVED BAYBEEEEEE

:blobfoxcofeowo:

#Monsterdon

Was not expecting Jim to go full They Live

OH GOD HE’S DRIVING
#Monsterdon

honestly of all the things in this film that bug me is WHY WAS THE CIRCUS FILMED ON A GODDAMN SOUNDSTAGE

FFS

SHOOT THAT ON SITE NOT IN A FUCKING BARN OR WHATEVER

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

The message behind tonight's feature: disobey your optometrist at your own peril!

Brought to you by the International Guild of Optometry.

#monsterdon

Tonight's #Monsterdon. Wasn't a huge fan, and that's OK. I guess it was "this guy is an utter jerk..." At least it wasn't that everyone was. Well most of them were to be honest. But most of his problems were because he just couldn't ever believe that, "Don't be a dick" is maybe good advice...

Well pluck that!

THE END

Nicely abrupt #Monsterdon ending but nowhere near an ocean to eff off into. Zero stars. Fantastic.

Thanks for another blindingly fun one @Taweret !

i'd give this one 2/2 gouged out eyeballs

#monsterdon

@klu9 @saucerlost we can only pray

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Apparently Pathé was a bit of a big deal a hundred years ago?

#monsterdon

YouTube is recommending They Live now. I'd kinda like to see this show up on @Taweret 's slate for #monsterdon, but it seems likely there's not a lot of good free sources...

#monsterdon
#XTheManWithXrayEyes

nice show, bye all o/

#Monsterdon

And, true to form, this week’s #monsterdon entirely eschews denouement.

Still, the best #monsterdon movie i’ve seen in quite a while. It had some early pacing problems, but overall a decent tale decently told.

Eww!

And thus ends another #monsterdon

Poor decisions, creepy healthcare pimps, throw away (literally) friendships, and Chechov's diety.

Thanks folks, and thank you @Taweret for hosting!

The moral of the story is that we are surrounded by things people were not meant to see, such as this film #monsterdon

Id that a wrap? These end credits are awfully spaced out. Maybe padding the time?

#Monsterdon #ManWithXRayEyes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdJwFd4jv9w

Still, beats the electric crab movie hands down. #Monsterdon

Okay but that particular scripture is very funny to quote at creepy men though.

"And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire." Matthew 18:9

#Monsterdon

What does God need with X-ray vision?

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Seeing the outside of the building it becomes clear that he was gambling at the econolodge.

#Monsterdon

Hoo boy. At least it was short. Stick to the Crab Monsters Corman. That was WAY more fun. Thanks @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants. #Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

epilogue: the tent revival congregation's children all moved to Maine and had high school gym with Carrie

#monsterdon

Good shock ending. Good acting. Compelling. Good work, Monsterdon. Till we meet again... see ya around.. heh heh heh

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

@Configures@mindly.social Laying off the drugs would have been a good thing... Or maybe even just some level of harm reduction. #Monsterdon.

"Hey boss. We got all dis extra whacked out color footage. Whatcha wan us do with it?"

"I dunno. Just put it behind the credits."

#monsterdon

Good establishing for the carnival sequence. A liiiitle too much.

#Monsterdon

The Preacher asks people if they want to come forward to be saved, and Doc X shows up. The Preacher is like "Do you want to be Saved?" and Doc X is like "No, I see all things. In the center of the universe there is a Great Eye that sees us all!"

The preacher decides that this guy sees the Devil and Sin, and because of the book of Matthew he should pluck out his eyes, which he does. Then credits.

WUT.

#monsterdon

typical #monsterdon ending LOL

Ow. But as abrupt as that ending was, it worked.

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

@Newpa_Hasai 👍

#Monsterdon

It was a bit X-files there for a bit (black oil)
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Whoops, well, maybe laying off the drops would've been a less extreme step #Monsterdon

well, that ended sharply

I kinda liked it

ty for joining,, everyone!!!

#Monsterdon

wtf they really went there... #monsterdon

@EricKHoward seriously

#Monsterdon

Ray Milland: "THE EYE THAT SEES US ALL!"

OH HEY he found Sauron!

#Monsterdon

“I have abandoned my child!!!”

#Monsterdon

How the hell did she find him?
#monsterdon

That was an intense, and intensely stupid ending.
#monsterdon

unlucky guy. why couldn't have have wandered into a Thelemic #magick coven instead?? oh lovely now he's talking about Azathoth, this will go well #Monsterdon

Starting to suspect this ain’t how x rays work at all
#Monsterdon

Wanted for murder and he stumbles into a tent full of people whose entire worldview is built around awe for people who can see the unseen! What are the odds?

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

ugh, in case the last set of contacts wasn't bad enough. ouch.

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

"Are you a sinner?" "We saw Sinners last night, does that count?"

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

He was about one inch short of just pulling that whole tent down on them...

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Did this preacher not notice that an injured man just staggered into his tent?

So when improving your vision, remember that your eyes are quite small, and that if you lower (UGH LENGTHEN) the wavelengths you can see, you become more and more diffraction limited. And we can see X's vision has really awful dispersion.

#monsterdon
#XTheManWithXrayEyes

"The effect is cumulative"

That seems good. Good, right?

Anyway, James seems like he's jonesing for some more eye drops.

#Monsterdon

My eyes hurt just watching stagger from scene to scene, tripping his balls off...

#Monsterdon

“I have abandoned my child!!!”

#Monsterdon

Is he about to go to a Pentecostal revival?

#Monsterdon

He's about to stumble into the cult he accidentally started but they aren't going to know who he is

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

He's not the first man in a suit to stumble away from his wrecked boat of a car, squinting in the desert.

#Monsterdon

The travails of a man stumbling from one plot point to another

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

i'm going to be so disappointed if he doesn't do an oedipus

#monsterdon

Hop the freight! Become the XRay Hobo! Do it man!

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Drivng while blind . Agh. #Monsterdon

He should be able to close his eyes and walk, but no, he’s got them open.
#Monsterdon

I really hoped #VicFontaine would show up in this casino, then maybe this plot could go someplace interesting.

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithXRayEyes

Pre-Pinto, no explodium in cars. #monsterdon

@OldRustBucket I guess to be fair it's only like 30-ish miles away

Unless you want to get to any of the interesting parts of California

#Monsterdon

The next part of this movie is Doc X in a car driving away on his own while cursed with supernatural vision, while the highway patrol chases him with a helicopter. Eventually, he runs out of zigzags and crashes his car, but survives and stumbles away.

#monsterdon

It'll buff out. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon and #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes
That;s a 60's car crash. He's not walking away from that one, in reality...

He lost control because he saw a uranium deposit out in the desert. Next he's gonna steal a steam shovel and make a crooked deal with a dishonest mining foreman. #Monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai There used to be road signs saying that speeding was monitored by helicopter back in the day. #Monsterdon

He's lucky not to have worse injuries with cars of that era

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

@gnomon me: *ducks*

#Monsterdon

pew pew pew laser eyes would be handy now

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

@saucerlost IMO it's unclear if any of these things are true

#Monsterdon

If he goes through the tunnel, he can make it to Toon Town!

#Monsterdon

Oh, poor chickens #monsterdon