Devil Girl from Mars is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Jan 5, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows on a laptop side-by-side but you could follow the mastodon commentary on your phone while watching it on TV or something...
How to watch:
- someone claims they'll be streaming it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- you can probably find it on a streaming service? someone said it was on tubi and that adblock worked on tubi but I dunno what tubi is.
- Here are a bunch of free youtube uploads:
- colorized? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA83HKMFpow
- black-n-white https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXMm8TclN6Y
- black n white https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvp6Hfkmbes
- black n white https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Q0w0kldsI
A female alien is sent from Mars to acquire human males to replace their declining male population. When negotiation, then intimidation, fails she must use force to obtain co-operation from a remote Scottish village where she has landed her crippled flying saucer.
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Rolling Stone columnist Doug Pratt called Devil Girl from Mars a "delightfully bad movie". The "acting is really bad and the whole thing is so much fun you want to run to your local community theatre group and have them put it on next, instead of Brigadoon."[11]
American film reviewer Leonard Maltin said the film is a "hilariously solemn, high camp British imitation of U.S. cheapies".[12]
Filmink called it "bonkers fun".[13]
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The film inspired Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Octavia E. Butler to begin writing science fiction. After watching the motion picture at age 12, she declared that she could write something better.
Ooh fun! I always miss these, thanks for posting ahead about it!