 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 stream / download | 🎙️ EPISODE 668: 03.20.23 SQUIRRELER ALERT: WHAT IF EARTH IS THE REAL PLANET X?! If you like unabashed male chauvinist pigs and electromagnetic field/heavy metals banter, well this is the movie for you folks! I guess this might pass for hard sci-fi in the 1950s despite its ludicrous plotting. The real trick of the thing is that it all kinda makes sense, or at least reaches a functional point of cohesion in just over 70 minutes. This has allegedly become "something of a cult film" over the years since its heavy TV syndication (better known as "Cosmic Monsters" here in the U.S. of A.), but aside from the bad FX (actual bugs popped out on a rear-projection in front of actors so they look gigantic) it doesn't have too many of those classic cult elements. I couldn't imagine this would make good fodder for Mystery Science Theater, for example. |
| I appreciated that they messed with conventions and expectations in that the alien turns out to be good guy and maybe it's us humans that are the problem? Hmmm. The delirious insect sequence was a hot mess and some of the dialogue drags but, overall, this one's mostly enjoyable all things considered. |
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The Strange World of Planet X (a.k.a. Cosmic Monsters in the United States) is an independently made 1958 British science fiction horror film, produced by George Maynard and John Bash, directed by Gilbert Gunn, that stars Forrest Tucker and Gaby André. The film was distributed in the UK in February, 1958 by Eros Films. It was released in the US on July 7, 1958 by Distributors Corporation of America as a double feature with The Crawling Eye, also starring Tucker. It was released on March 4, 1958.
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