Is this just a solid minute of bats being filmed here?

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Aww their little teefies are so adorable!

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Oh rabies is the least of your worries, Johnny boy.

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Squeaking! Flapping! Running! Johnny is having visions.

#Monsterdon #BatPeople

BTW, you all owe it to yourselves to listen to the Ologies episodes about bats with Merlin Tuttle: https://www.alieward.com/ologies/chiropterology

#Monsterdon #bats

Uh oh. He's already gong batty. #monsterdon

what the hell was that jump cut to the gondola?

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Ah, there are the slopes. But where's bigfoot?

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I think I got whiplash from that editing.

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@Lazarou Just like Bruce Wayne.

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LOL@ Charlie getting 'bat vision'

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Common trope: Bat's flying into women's hair. No scientific basis, nor do bats desire to be in women's hair. It's funny when it happens in movies, though.

#Monsterdon 🦇 #TheBatPeople

OH NO! Bat puppet on a string! It's in her hair!
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"Oh no, I"m going to become a werebatperson. Must take on a rich industrialist playboy cover identity and fight crime dressed up in a bat costume..."

#monsterdon #theBatPeople

Staying put is what the skin-eating mites want you to do, though #monsterdon

#Monsterdon One of them getting closer. They want psychoanalysis. I can lull them with my soft choir boy voice. I’m the opposite of Tom Selleck. I’m going to whinge and mince now! Miiiiince!

Tbf, bad shit happens when you interact with bats....

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this cavern is REALLY well lit, isn't it.

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Better get a rabbis shot
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Are you saying you're not still horny after falling off a cliff and having bugs crawl all over you? #monsterdon

"How will we get out of here? Well, we will die. Our bodies will decay, feeding generations of these cave mites. Then, as more water comes through the caves the minerals in our bones will leach into the water and ..."

"Okay, just shut up."

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Oh good, they're not gonna do it in the cave, unless by "do it", you mean get lost and hopefully eaten by bats.

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...you ran off the path, what did you expect?

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Yes, horny Cathy got them into this mess. But that dude cannot die fast enough. C'mon bats!
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What if we 👉 👈 got kissed by a bat in this cave?

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Meanwhile in another part of the cave #Monsterdon

"They're mites, Cathy. They feed on skin. They live on the vast natural underground skin deposits for which the caves are famous."

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Serves ya right Cathy for saying bats are ugly and going off the trail in the sensitive cave ecosystem #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Whoopsie doodle!

Theramin with harp??!!

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"They turn everyone else off" implies they really turn him on.

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i have a feeling we may be hearing a lot of "JOHNNY!" and "CATHY!" tonight

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PSA: don't fuck in a cave! think what would happen when your bodily fluids get all over the stalactites!

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Oh gross, they're gonna do it in the cave.

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#Monsterdon ok i'm guessing they're not gonna do it now that she fell into a pool of bugs

I would like to know what cave this is

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Are they even on the same set as the bat? #Monsterdon

if only they had the primitive skill of climbing, they could get out of there!

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is it possible to have negative chemistry? #monsterdon

they gonna have their honeymoon night in the cave?
🥴

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Oh noes our protagonist is going under ground, it’s bound to drive him batty!
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Come on movie. Do something to get my attention. I have Chargeman Ken being insane on my second monitor.
Awww a baby bat~~ He's gonna steal that pic-a-nic basket.
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Ahh Johnny...Let's go to the slopes, Johnny...eww, it's ugly Johnny...Johnny, what are we going to do now, Johnny?

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@ottaross Yay! #Monsterdon

I'm cheering for the bats 🦇 :batbrain:

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I thought they were gonna hit the slopes?

are those...snowboards?

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Love this park ranger's accent! He's totally character-acting that character!

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople1974

I want to see a remake where this lady is played by Vanessa Bayer

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How much does this dude actually lover her? "This weekend was supposed to be our overdue honeymoon." Honeymoon... weekend? Lady, I recommend dumping this guy. It's not too late.
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#Monsterdon come on, let’s frolic in the caves and talk about our feelings. A cave system where we can accept wearing a turtleneck sweater in the Mojave.

Costume designer:

You get a turtleneck!
You get a turtleneck!

Everyone gets a turtleneck!

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In the 1970s it was considered normal to throw rocks at wildlife
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"Sorry, I keep forgetting they turn everybody else off"

Not me thought, Cathy. Ask which direction they turn me, Cathy

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Wow, gonna stone the poor little bat just because it's unattractive... #monsterdon

is it just me or are bats actually kind of adorable #monsterdon #thebatpeople1974

Ok those two need to be eaten. Throwing stones at cute bats 😠 #monsterdon

"I keep forgetting they turn everybody else off"

yeah, like you

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

I hate that woman already. She said a bat was "horrible" and "ugly". #Monsterdon

This has "budget of pocket change" written all over it.

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This intro with the closeups of the gittery bats and the squeaking is creepy as f**k. 👀

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This will be the look we collectively have on our faces for this entire film.

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They're exploring the nostrils of that hillside!

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*picture of the cutest bat in North America*

The cast: OH GOD IT'S HORRIBLE OH GOD #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon DEFEND THE CUTE FUZZY AGAINST YOUR EVIL MAMMAL-HATING GF

I already hate this lady entirely based on her disgust over the perfectly cute and harmless bep.

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Bats are cute!

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople1974

just your ordinary bat wanting some pic'nic baskets

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he just wants a pic-a-nic basket!

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#Monsterdon another cute bat bro

#Monsterdon aww cute lil guy

aww look at the little fella
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'Gas, grass, or a soulful folk-ditty in open-G—nobody rides for free!'

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Alternate title: The Bat Whisperer

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Part of the "America discovers it has a Southwest" series of films from the 1970s. #monsterdon

@kb9ens ikr I'm watching the movie and I'm thinking: "I should put a movie on..." #monsterdon

007 will be along any moment now.

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Is it bad that I already checked how much longer this is got? #monsterdon #TheBatPeople

"...and teach me to sing?"

NOW you're asking?

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It'd be hilarious if a fast one was pulled on all of us if this was a documentary on the lives of chiropterologists.

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I feel like the song can't quite figure out what it wants to be
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#Monsterdon 🦇 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 🦇 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 🦇 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 😱

also plinky piano

#monsterdon I thought that was a cop car for too long

If goths were *really* goth, they'd listen to this song everyday.

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It's the 70s, if you don't have a waifish voice warbling about something unrelated on the soundtrack you're not hip. #Monsterdon

stan winston!

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🎶 Take me to some place I dream of... Calgon, take me away! 🎶

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Love this 007-esque theme song!!! 🦇👍#monsterdon

#Monsterdon someone let a James Bond theme into the movie

Lol "Arthur Space"?

Who doesn't love a good art space

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Whoever wrote this opening song was clearly listening to some Bond themes

Not *understanding* Bond themes, mind you, but listening to them

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Love Theme from The Bat People (now in stereo) #monsterdon

That cave was better in Gargoyles. #Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

also see https://lemmy.world/c/bats for more bat action #monsterdon

I might as well just get this out of the way: bats rock. Whatever the bats in this movie do, the humans deserve it, a priori.

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I was about to say I was digging this tinkly little opening song before the lounge singer vocals started #monsterdon

Remember Johnny the Robot from Devil Girl From Mars? Definitely the best movie Johnny.

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Bonnie Van Dyke, that's what they called Dick when he was in Scotland trying to pull off an English Accent

In his dreams :)

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"I came" - this guy

"So did I" - also this guy

"I didn't" - Bat Jesus

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#Monsterdon He’s so hot he can barely keep from a personal miracle. Someone get him some Kleenex. I hear it happens to many young men when the pressure is on. ;)

#monsterdon Oh boy...