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And it turns out the Sheriff was the real monster all along.

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And they missed the chance to have a bat do the MGM roar again!

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So, people are suggesting other movies we could've watched, and I get it. But I must say that we have to watch The Bat People and Invasion Of The Star Creatures and that awful giant spider thing. It makes Devil Girl From Mars and Krull soooo much better.

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The way this doctor is minimizing his patient's symptoms, you'd think he was treating a woman.

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@YsengrinWolf @Taweret

"Never want to see it again, but enjoyed being a part of the shared experience tonight."

The classic Monsterdon experience!

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The fudging title was The Bat People - not The Bat Nerd Who Nobody Liked Except His Dumb Wife. There shound've been more bat people!
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How romantic, Mrs bat is a bat person too. I hope they have a nice long life living in the caves, with only brief interruptions from passing tourist groups.

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We were promised a bat-man, and instead we're getting bath-robe man. A bit of bait and switch going on here.

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This hospital issues a fabulous white terry-cloth robe to each of its patients.

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I'm waiting for the scene where Dr Beck arrives in a cavern and finds it full of other people in white terry bathrobes.

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Ah - IMDB says that tonight's #Monsterdon is filmed in New Mexico. Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

If you want, you can easily read it as being about people who want to escape the stifling homogeneity of traditional marriage/society. I mean, it was a bad movie, but there is some depth there.

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So.... he became a bat because he was bit by a bat, and she became a bat because she had sex with a bat guy? I was already not interested in sex, but that just underlines it.

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80s sitcom about a family of Bat People who live in a cave and avoided murder charges by declaring themselves their own state underground.

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you would screech too if somebody held you up by your limbs in front of a camera

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#monsterdon I came to see The Bat People and instead saw the RFK, Jr origin story.

The bat that bit Johnny has been the most likable character so far

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Panic! In The Bat Cave

Panic! On The Ski Lift

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A murdered vagrant in a remote rural barn is discovered within minutes of his death. Good thing they check those spots on an hourly basis.

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@Taweret I wonder what the cave bats are doing?

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In 70s America the local sheriff will help you buy lingerie for your newly wedded wife

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Is this a metaphor for transgender... ism? Like he's going to realize that he actually identifies as a bat? I'm really grasping here.

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ooops! sorry #Monsterdon, but Hercules Poirot won this round tonight. totally spazzed out on the little Belgian. but since am here, why is there a lady in a Charlie Brown sweater? is she one of the #BatPeople ?

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I watched The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T with kid t'other night. No monsters, so it can't be a #monsterdon but I highly recommend it. Dr Seuss wrote it, and they really captured the Seuss look. And the "Dungeon Ballet" is amazing.

Well, that was a movie about a person who thought he was a bat and then was perhaps maybe really a bat who convinced his wife to become a bat with him.

Thanks so much to @Taweret for hosting, to @Cherizilla for the #MonsterdonBingo, and to all you for making it fun!

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Even though she stood by her man, he's still Gay, man-bat or not

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@tankgrrl @Taweret lol, better declare Martial Law #Monsterdon

"..she kept babbling you killed her husband"

"lol, I'm a cop, that doesn't narrow it down!"

ACAB

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"Johnny and I are very happy," she says unhappily.

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Again with the all units. We haven't seen another police car yet. lol

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"Johnny's never committed a violent act in his life, no matter how much I've tried to make him...."

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"Johnny, your wife and two sexy nurses want to help you"

Johnny runs like Mr Smithers from a Bordello...

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Anybody getting Norman Bates vibes from Johnny?

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In 1974 the American economy was really in the shitter. Coming off vietnam and Watergate. I'm glad I was in 2nd grade. I feel we may be on the verge of revisiting those economic times. In a year my swear jar will probably be worth more than my retirement portfolio. #monsterdon

The utter rage when he sees his Wife (beard) for the first time since coming to the hospital, such a strong marriage...

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Hope this movie ends with a big ski race between Johnny and a preppy bat… and if Johnny wins then the ski resort gets to stay open. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon He reminds me of Anthony Perkins. But shallower. Wetter. Whiter. Weirder.

These two are never having sex unless bats are involved.....

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Fully on the Bat's side already

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Nice title sequence! #monsterdon

@ApostateEnglishman it's an utterly sustainable lifestyle with no legal issues surrounding it! #Monsterdon

@kcarr2015 I think Johnny orgasmed, turned into a bat and left Cathy to finish herself off,....she better get used to that in the Caves...😬

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We were never given a motivation for the bat-person along the way.

I mean what was driving the guy? You'd think he'd be trying to get into the insect exhibit at the local zoo or be chasing the bugs around the street lamps.

Maybe he could've gone to a local baseball game and clocked the pitches with his bat radar?

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Carl’s-boring Caverns more like

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The bats are throwing tomatoes at the car!
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why was this film made though?

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Why doesn't he have wings

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#Monsterdon next scene “Nine Months Latah” LOL!

Chiropteranthropy?

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Finally has sex with his wife and it turns him into a bat.....did nobody listen to him?!

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Hospital - cave - motel. He gets around pretty efficiently while transforming into a bat.

"The caves are my home" Except when I'm putting some miles on a variety of easily accessible vehicles.

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Oh sure, creepy cop, just touch everything in the crime scene with your big rapey fingers.

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Johnny somehow found time for a polo neck, true Never Nude

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Did he use his bat powers to sense which was the right car to steal?

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Brief note, A week from tomorrow(5/5) #MondayActionMovie(8 P ET) will be featuring Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness. It's one of the most bat shit crazy films of all time and a guarnteed good time or your money back. #monsterdon

Horndog Sherriff's moving in on his woman

No wait, rape scene

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Cathy has no interest in coddling the moustached egos surrounding her, I hope she survives the film

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#Monsterdon This is the interpretive dance version of William Shatner’s acting skills.

I don't mean to be all 'Clockwork Orange' but can we kill his hobo now?

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This guy is covering lots of ground, and I'm disappointed he hasn't used his bat-sonar even once.

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"All units converge!"
"Er, sheriff this is a small town, you're the only unit"

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As soon as children come up in the conversation, he seizes up and becomes violent. And the harp kicks in.

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JFC. This was back when they had Marlboro 1,000's. Now with MORE cancer! #monsterdon

Isn't this what the OJ Simpson case hinged on, fitting something over a hand?

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This movie is 60% skiing and 40% misinformation so far

Cathy is freaked out by needles and bats but she's fine with men wearing turtlenecks.

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"Nothing is worse than rabies, but you can wait a week to start treatment."

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#Monsterdon He’s cheerfully dismissive of rabies. They all… are dismissive? Okay. They’re just HHS muppets still.

Bruce Wayne's real founding trauma was seeing his dad dressed as a bat ravish his ma while they thought he wasn't in the mansion.

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#Monsterdon The Venn diagram between being 70’s horny and spelunking. Aaaand true to form, horny is rewarded with disaster. So let’s disaster the crap out of each other, baby! :)

So far I'm going to say that bats are cuter than spiders.

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It's not horrible, lady. It's a bat.

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So mean to bats.....they deserve what will happen to them

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Important thing is will there be....... BAT Boy!!! #Monsterdon

Did this get it's own theme tune?
High effort!

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Ha! An hilarious opening theme song. Sounds very 1974.

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@bunnyhero lol, oh dear....

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@paco I'd like to think the song came first but 'Tom' always wanted to make a bat movie and this was the compromise.

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The music was great. The trailer park chase had some promise, but was cut too short. The bat makeup was hilarious. I would've liked more bat people and more killing, but overall I'd say it was awful.
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Some dork accidentally stumbles on an entire race of Bat People who swarm out and slaughter an entire town. Now that would've been a movie. Romero would've known what to do with that.
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@moira I think he was afraid he might become a man-bat himself, or just horribly ableist like a cop would be...difficult to say..

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so the last 5 minutes were more interesting than the entire preceeding 85, but at least the sherrif got it in the end. #monsterdon

Well, on the other hand, it's nice that she finally took an interest in his work with bats, I guess. #Monsterdon

DO IT

huzzah!

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This town has one cop and he's a sergeant.

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Maybe you should slow down a bit when the windshield gets obscured by dead bats?

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He's a transbat furryfemme. Haven't you been paying attention?

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And suddenly it's planet of the apes?

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“You’re under arrest for the murder of one mannequin!”
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Abrupt, senseless ending coming in 10 minutes.

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He never gave her the pink nightie. Because he bought it for himself.

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See, this is why you don't get Cops to do Mental Health checks.....

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really upsetting how many men can just barge into this lady's motel room....

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District 9 had a similar thing going on, but was a much better movie.

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Johnny it's just puberty, everyone goes through it, turn off the Fall Out Boy and come down to dinner.

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Kathy: Who is it?

Cop: The actual monster in this film.

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I’m on the hot new “blood plasma and mouse” diet

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