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jonny (good kind)Alright, movie from 1954, im expecting like half a dozen transfers and cuts. Anyone already scouted out the good one? #monsterdon
edit: the default search result from archive.org seems good enough https://archive.org/details/devil-girl-from-mars-1954
Devil Girl From Mars ( 1954) : Edward J. Danziger, Harry Lee Danziger : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
From IMDb: An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding...
absolutely incredible endorsement. so bad it inspired some of the best sci-fi ever written out of spite #monsterdon #OctaviaButler
edit: excuse me that's speculative fiction
now here we go, some actual trivia: https://beladraculalugosi.wordpress.com/category/john-c-mather/
linked to from https://scifist.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/devil-girl-from-mars/ in describing how wikipedia and other sources list the movie as coming from a stage play, but actually it was written and produced in 10 days when they wrapped filming another project early and still had paid time lmao
edit: this scifist wordpress blogpost is actually extremely good, definitely worth a read
incredible how despite all the search engines being totally broken, the original design of the web still works: documents linking between each other are undefeated for durable information discoverability
that's another first scene #BechdelPass, two women talking about space and a devil girl #monsterdon
sincerely any movie whose protagonist is escaped from prison or sheltering a prison escapee instantly rises like 100 points in my book #monsterdon
i was warned that the music in this punches way above the weight class and like, wow. perfectly situationally responsive with that bassoon or oboe slinky thing for the wood carrying guy #monsterdon
okayyyyyyeeee are all the principles assembled and adequately characterizeddddddd because we are burning devil girl daylight #monsterdon
why are they eating out of a trophy you would get for winning the ancient grecian olympics #monsterdon
YES YES YES INCREDIBLE SAUCER A+ EVERYTHING #monsterdon
who cares about that freaking UFO there's a guy that should be subject to the violence of the state!!!!! #monsterdon
why did they land the UFO and then no UFO things happened and why is anyone talking about anything but the UFO #monsterdon
i could do with like 20 or 30 more shots of the escaped convict guy jumping out from behind curtains and stuff #monsterdon
trying to put myself in the mindset of a 1950's guy where basically every flying object is an unidentified flying object to justify how they keep acting like everything is normal #monsterdon
the parameters of what an extraterrestrial lifeform must be capable of has dramatically changed since the 1950's, where then it was plausible for spaceships to be just like normal rocket craft made by species that can make trivial miscalculations and end up in scotland, but now it wouldn't read at all outside of a comedy for an alien to make a mistake like that because we understand that aliens would have to develop technology well outside our understanding of basic physics to travel to earth #monsterdon
earthlings: this will be a turning point in human civilization
martians: we came to fuck one of your guys
#monsterdon
martians: we came to fuck one of your guys
#monsterdon
what would a martian dominatrix use as like a derogatory term for earthlings and why does my mind want her to call them all 'honkies' #monsterdon
WHY ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT ANYTHING BUT THE MARTIAN DEVIL GIRL #monsterdon
good lord, there's a freaking ufo out there!!!!! #monsterdon
if i was in this movie it would last 5 seconds because my ass wants to get abducted and being abducted by extremely hot latex suit devil girl is just about the best case scenario #monsterdon
that "you fool" has been sampled in so many dj sets and hip hop tracks #monsterdon
what is the sound effect of the robot's face gun? was that like a seal call????? #monsterdon
jesus christ these robot disintegration composite shots are GREAT #monsterdon
TIMESTAMP for the martian woman being confused by the scottish child #monsterdon
Rob Ricci@jonny relatable
scientists believe so many things that we can't perceive with our own senses, in fact almost every thing is something we can't perceive with our senses #monsterdon
science is basically seeing a normal looking room and being like "damn you must really have like a perpetual motion nuclear reactor thing" #monsterdon
ranjit@jonny there's proof though *looks at a bright light*
when the movie ends i'm going to make a "devil girl from mars but it's only the devil girl" fan edit #monsterdon
they made sure to give this kid a big ice cream cone of lidocaine before they shot his scenes #monsterdon
i love how she is just fucking stunting on them for no reason, she could have just mind controlled all of them immediately and taken one and just chilled while the spaceship healed but she wanted to show this collection of like 5 scottish guys in particular how cool she is #monsterdon
Gary Ghoul's Ghoulatorium@jonny you gotta hone your act on the small crowds so it's rock solid when you get to the big crowds #monsterdon
she has been doing a The Bachelorette with them this whole time and all the other guys fucking blew their shot #monsterdon
man adapt your freaking tactics. she is a superhuman alien from a planet and she just finished wiping out all men in a battle of the sexes. maybe read the room a little and don't try and do hero man stuff #monsterdon
again the villain in the movie is just gender. #monsterdon
TIMESTAMP TO CLIP I WILL SPARE NO ONE #monsterdon
the devil girl from mars has done absolutely zero reaching out to the earth women. like if you just killed all men presumably you would have some tips and tricks or dire warnings or idk maybe ANYTHING AT ALL to say to the earth women #monsterdon
i genuinely have no idea who the men are, as far as i'm concerned there's the scientist guy and the rest of them are all the escaped criminal guy #monsterdon
oh so he just figured it out like immediately #monsterdon
THIS MOVIE silently engages with the problem of gender throughout, where the motivation for the devil girl from mars is having killed all men in a "war of the sexes" which is NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. the men then display a range of behaviors that provide the SILENT backstory to the war of the sexes - criminality, sealion scientist, being hella annoying, etc. THE ENDING is a very literal tragedy for women, where through sheer bluster and dumb luck men overpower even the hyperintelligent, hyperadvanced women from mars, and then proceed to ignore the deep trauma experienced by the woman standing not feet away from them #monsterdon
starkraving666@jonny okay but did you want whip on that
fan editing this movie and there sure are a lot of non devil girl scenes in here that literally nobody asked for #Monsterdon
just sending the first 22 minutes of the movie straight to the trash bin, nothing in there worth saving #monsterdon
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@jonny "Some people are in a pub in Scotland" that's all the exposition you need #monsterdon
me to children:
wait actually she says this in her opening expository dialogue so fast you probably missed it. she is here for two reasons, to get a man, and also to test the metal that her ship is made of, and explicitly says that it being too unstable is an option and if so they will just send more spaceships. so in the text of the movie the sacrificed man actually didn't destroy the thing at all, it just self destructed. so the movie is actually entirely about the relationship between the escaped from prison guy and the paired woman character, about how even if you overcome overwhelming odds, the forces of the universe will come and rip the thing you love away from you for no purpose #monsterdon
David Zaslavsky@jonny Hmm yeah I caught the bit about testing the metal, but I assumed it passed its test since it managed to land on Earth in the first place. Plus if we wanna get technical, it definitely looked like an explosion rather than a hull disintegration. (Because *of course* this movie holds up to that level of critical analysis 🙄)
Though I suppose either way there will be more spaceships
Scarab (Sarah)@diazona @jonny But a piece of her spaceship broke off, right? The "meteor" that blew up the plane (first shot of movie) and landed 40 miles from the Bonny Charlie? #Monsterdon #DevilGirlFromMars
@Configures @jonny Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
I don't think it was ever fully clarified whether that actually was a piece of the spaceship, though? But if it wasn't, then it would have had absolutely zero relevance to the rest of the movie, which I suppose would be... unlikely.
Floaty Birb@jonny that is a good catch... I definitely blinked and missed that Very Important Piece of Context.
McSquank ain't feeling it@Taweret one more: devil girl, entrances and exits only the music video
Jeremy Kahn"Gee, you're just like the Black Spider. Danze(?) is (was?) always having trouble with her"
"You speak in riddles. "
@trochee edited into the alt text lmao thats as plausible as anything i thought
"You speak in riddles" line and delivery are ur-seven-of-nine