This is a personal thread for this week's #Monsterdon so the local feeds don't get buried in Monsterdon posts.
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This is a personal thread for this week's #Monsterdon so the local feeds don't get buried in Monsterdon posts. Follow the hashtag to see *all* the posts, or expand this one to just see mine.
This week: The Man From Planet X (1951).
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This is a personal thread for this week's #Monsterdon so the local feeds don't get buried in Monsterdon posts. Follow the hashtag to see *all* the posts, or expand this one to just see mine.
This week: The Man From Planet X (1951).
@ysengrin ... and the reply
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@ysengrin ... and the reply
I'm watching a non-colorized version tonight.
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I'm watching a non-colorized version tonight.
It's time for the "weirdest visitor the Earth has ever seen!" Press play, it's a short one tonight! Go! Go! Go!
Hmmm ... opens with a pan out from the left eye of the MGM lion - wasn't that used in another of our Monsterdon movies recently?
What an interesting choice of font. With my glasses off I thought those were little poppies or hearts.
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It's time for the "weirdest visitor the Earth has ever seen!" Press play, it's a short one tonight! Go! Go! Go!
Hmmm ... opens with a pan out from the left eye of the MGM lion - wasn't that used in another of our Monsterdon movies recently?
What an interesting choice of font. With my glasses off I thought those were little poppies or hearts.
Cue the over-used lightning bolt!
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Cue the over-used lightning bolt!
From the California coast to a miniature that looks like the aftermath of the Color out of Space ... and a dry voiceover!
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From the California coast to a miniature that looks like the aftermath of the Color out of Space ... and a dry voiceover!
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A Cablegram, even!
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A Cablegram, even!
Planet X is rushing towards Earth - passing perilously close in three weeks. Tidal waves, etc. expected.
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Planet X is rushing towards Earth - passing perilously close in three weeks. Tidal waves, etc. expected.
Our fishing village is a soundstage with a painted backdrop. I love it!
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Our fishing village is a soundstage with a painted backdrop. I love it!
Open car doors is for lesser men. Real men leap over the door, at least when there's an open top ...
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Open car doors is for lesser men. Real men leap over the door, at least when there's an open top ...
Coffee adjacent - we have hot tea!
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Coffee adjacent - we have hot tea!
What an amazing non-descript planet
The Hound of the Baskervilles makes a cameo!
Mysterious lightning!
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What an amazing non-descript planet
The Hound of the Baskervilles makes a cameo!
Mysterious lightning!
Mystereous rocket-shaped prop found! Perhaps a giant's lawn dart?
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Mystereous rocket-shaped prop found! Perhaps a giant's lawn dart?
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Wow - now the fishing village has a street and actual buildings!
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Wow - now the fishing village has a street and actual buildings!
Love how the car stirs up all the dry ice fog on the set.
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Love how the car stirs up all the dry ice fog on the set.
Big Daddy Lawn Dart has been sighted, thanks to the party lights inside.
And here's the Man From Planet X!
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Big Daddy Lawn Dart has been sighted, thanks to the party lights inside.
And here's the Man From Planet X!
"I know you're not given to hysteria, my dear ..."
The scientist is not improving.