B Movie Bonanza

The Man From Planet X (1951) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, September 7, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am 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 side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/579624/the-man-from-planet-x
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
• dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9adgz0
• dailymotion (colorized): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9lixtg
• dailymotion (english with spanish subtitles): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9i0uhk
• archive: https://archive.org/details/man-from-planet-x_202503
• someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-man-from-planet-x

The story concerns a humanoid who lands on Earth in a spaceship from a mysterious planet and makes contact with a small group of humans on an isolated, fog-shrouded Scottish moor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Planet_X

100% Tomatometer 8 Reviews [from critics]

39% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings [from normies]

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_man_from_planet_x

Mildly Entertaining and Historically Important

If this film had come out in the mid-50's, it could be dismissed as another low-budget, silly outer space invasion movie. However this movie appears to have been the first of such space invasion movies. It opened in March of 1951. Later that year came the openings of "The Thing from Another Planet" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Two other 1951 films, "When Worlds Collide" and "Superman and the Mole Men" have some space invader elements, but don't quite qualify for the genre.

The fact that it was shot in six days on a budget of $43,000 makes it more amazing. Compare that to "The Thing From Another World" ($1.6 million) or the "The Day The Earth Stood Still" ($1.2 million). While none of the technical aspects come near those two movies, the movie does have an interesting style and look that foreshadows the 1953 classic "Invaders From Mars" and even has elements from "Invasino of the Body Snatchers". ....

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043778/ review by some rando (jayraskin1)