Invasion of the Star Creatures is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Feb 2, 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 computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something...
How to watch the movie:
- someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you're in North America, Australia, or the UK try Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/710325/invasion-of-the-star-creatures uBO adblocker seems to work with it
- archive: https://archive.org/details/invasionofthestarcreatures1962
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=821nZ7C9olM
- youtube WARNING: there's another copy up there but it involves unnecessary "hosts" and embedded ads
- if you want to pay or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/invasion-of-the-star-creatures
Two Abbott and Costello-type soldiers find plantlike creatures that are under the control of two beautiful alien scientists who are bent on conquering Earth.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128274/
Invasion of the Star Creatures has never been well reviewed by critics. When it first opened, the film trade magazine Box Office opined: “What a lot of baloney! Such a waste of time, film and effort. The title was good, but was it a spooky film? Nope! A comedy!! Closed the first night”.[7] Film historian Bill Warren, in his 1996 book Keep Watching the Skies!, Vol. 2, called the film "astonishingly bad ... so helplessly bad that it's almost unwatchable".[1]
In 1979, the film was cited by Harry and Michael Medved in their book The Golden Turkey Awards, a tribute to bad films. Invasion of the Star Creatures was nominated in the category for “The Worst Vegetable Movie of All Time”...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Star_Creatures
Content WARNING: the Tubi version has a warning that "The content that you are about to view features depictions that are objectionable..." Nobody on Mastodon knows what that refers to, probably crass sexism? (edit: from perusing the imdb reviews, it likely refers to a scene with a stereotypical depiction of Native Americans...)
