The Monster that Challenged the World (1957) is the movie for this Sunday’s “monsterdon” watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, April 5 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text 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) (black and white, revised title credits): https://tubitv.com/movies/100053389/the-monster-that-challenged-the-world
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
• youtube WARNING there’s a copy that’s listed as “The Monster that Challenged the World” on youtube but it’s actually a different movie
• dailymotion (colorized, original title credits): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa3xygs
• dailymotion (colorized, original title credits): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x95sgs4
• dailymotion (colorized, original title credits): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa3vp9u
• archive (colorized, original title credits) https://archive.org/details/monster-that-challenged-the-world-1957-colorized
• it’s usually streamed 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-monster-that-challenged-the-world

The film concerns an army of giant molluscs that emerge from California’s Salton Sea.

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A TV Guide review of The Monster That Challenged the World noted, “Fine special effects help this film along by adding an atmosphere of impending danger.”[8] A later review by author Dave Sindelar of Fantastic Film Musings and Ramblings remarked: “For some reason, this fifties monster movie doesn’t get much respect, but I think it holds up extraordinarily well. For one thing, I think the characters are unusually well drawn for this type of movie, and they’re given a dimension and a sense of realness that adds a lot to the proceedings”.[9]

Respect for the “monster” also dominated a later review of The Monster That Challenged the World in the Video Movie Guide: “This late-1950s sci-fi programmer is set apart by only one thing: the giant monster, which is life-size (not a miniature), and given plenty of screen time.”

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