Attack of the Puppet People (1958) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!
Attack of the Puppet People (1958) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!
Attack of the Puppet People (1958) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Dec 5 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 2am 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): https://tubitv.com/movies/100047602/attack-of-the-puppet-people
- uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
- dailymotion: (in 3 parts, and a minute short?): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6t9s4u https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x60fn4 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6t9s9l
- archive: https://archive.org/details/attack-of-the-puppet-people-1958_202510
- 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/attack-of-the-puppet-people
The film was rushed into production by AIP and Bert I. Gordon to capitalize on the popular success of Universal-International's The Incredible Shrinking Man, released the previous year in 1957.
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At the time of its release, the Los Angeles Times called the film "rather well-done minor-key science fiction", particularly praising the script.[3] Film critic Glenn Erickson wrote in Trailers From Hell that the "screenplay can’t do much with [the] shaky story premise," that the film "is a bizarre opportunity mostly missed, not because it’s silly but because it’s too tame — it doesn’t take any of its interesting ideas far enough," that "producer-director Gordon has bitten off such a large chunk of special effects that important pieces of his story go missing," and that the "effects are impressive for the cost outlay, but that makes them imaginative and resourceful, not necessarily Good or Effective."[8] Writing in AllMovie, critic Hal Erickson identified the film as "one of the few 'mad scientist' opuses of the 1950s to be motivated by loneliness rather than megalomania," but that "most of the acting is amateurish, with the exception of the always reliable John Hoyt; the special effects are somewhat better, but still nothing to write home about."[9] A review in TV Guide reported that "good miniature work and clever camera angles pull off the special effects, but the story is pretty silly and good only for laughs."