*chitter chitter chitter*

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

this is what it’s like to be on nutmeg #monsterdon

OH! AIP. Of course.

#monsterdon

Yup, these are bats.
Bats whispering eerily for help?

#monsterdon

johnny was well aware of what movie he was in before the actual movie even started. #monsterdon

well, there are bats, and there is a person, so the title has been delivered upon

good job

#monsterdon

Wouldn't bat an eye ...

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

American International, the only film company whose logo looks like a person peeking out from behind a brick wall.

Do... Do you think they're still watching? Is it safe to come out? #Monsterdon

Holy Crap it's time!! #monsterdon WHERE IS MY BUCKET!?

#Monsterdon

What happens after...

YouTube served up a recommended eye-bleach selection...

The Court Jester

I couldn't say "no"

Heh.

For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about The Bat People (1974).

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

@diazona

#Monsterdon has really made her into an icon.

'Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like it when I'm angry'

#monsterdon
#theBatPeople

I shall be watching #thelastofus tomorrow by way of palate cleanser #monsterdon

I swear @ComicContext is watching #monsterdon. There have been lots of posts like this that that I see right after the film. They are just too perfect to be a coincidence.

https://mstdn.social/@ComicContext/114413353544548602

@Zerofactorial @YsengrinWolf @Taweret oh gods yes

not exclusively but including in wardrobe

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

@josh0
Yep, a little digging and the second cave location mentioned on IMDB is a match - Mitchell Caverns, California. Looks like the entry stairway they were filming on is even pretty much still the same.

Not Carlsbad Caverns after all.

#Monsterdon #BatPeople

@moira @YsengrinWolf @Taweret She does have a way to go before she can claim to be Devil Girl material #monsterdon

@combatwombat I WANTED TO, but I DID NOT SEE IT.

also "The director is still alive at 91. No idea if he’s fit for trial." made me actually lol

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

@wulfric To be fair, she married a strange man #monsterdon

@foolishowl

Because they’re being dramatic. #Monsterdon

@ramsey It's not the same as claiming all bat-people are cops, though #monsterdon

@moira The director is still alive at 91. No idea if he’s fit for trial.

But he has some fans. https://thenewbev.com/blog/2017/03/jerry-jameson-the-accidental-auteurist/ is a good overview of his career, with an interesting take on The Bat People:

„an early Jameson masterpiece of unhinged homosexual panic […] Cinematographer Matt Leonetti really excels in wrapping this film in velvety darkness allowing the classic man-into-monster movie plot to do it’s illogical thang (sic) while the subtext, if taken into account, becomes more and more logical. […] No reason this film should be as smart as it is. I honestly love it.“

Still a borefest…
#monsterdon

Most #monsterdon movies are like donkey shows.

That’s it. That’s my whole take.

Not many named female characters in this other than Mrs. Beck so the film does not pass #monsterdon #bechdeltest

Of course it wasn’t me who sold those two kids in the trailer park their ‘weed’. Why would you even suggest such a thing? #monsterdon

@forestine Yeah, some kind of fate thing since he was dreaming and screaming at the beginning, and not for the first time, it seemed from her reaction. And, it was a *delayed* honeymoon, they were already married and sleeping together before this whole adventure. I couldn't stick with the MST3K rewatch (I prefer the Joel years), but I appreciate @ryan showing it after the main viewing so I could catch the beginning minutes I'd missed! #Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

@ApostateEnglishman I purposefully didn't vote because I like surprises. I'm rethinking that strategy. #Monsterdon

My one-star review for this stinker on #letterboxd - I was at a loss to say anything of a positive sort for it, sorry https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/the-bat-people/ #monsterdon

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event.

This week we watched the infamous THE BAT PEOPLE (1974). It had Stan Winston effects, misogyny, rabies, and not a whole lot else.

See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

💤⏰ o_O looks like i missed a really bad one :D

#monsterdon

@josh0 i presume blackmail was involved

or punishment for a transgression against the family

possibly the bat family but probably just the mob

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

@wrog They just have to be streamable for free somewhere

and by streamable i mean de jure, not de facto

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

So if anyone wants better Bad 70s Movies, I will nominate "Killer Bees" and "Ssssss!"

#Monsterdon

@diazona @ramsey Oh wow yeah. That is so many Monsterdons. Sitting there wishing you had something to drink at the end of another "winner." #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe That's all the time Stan Winston had available.He has TWO films and FIVE TV series credited to him in 1974. The man was BUSY. #monsterdon @strangefour

@ApostateEnglishman Don't look at me, I voted for Slithis! 🙂 #Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

Thank you @Taweret for hosting this batsh*t bag of boredom!

and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! This will be the hardest time I will ever have stamping "A Horny Moment".

And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: The last 90 minutes were saved by your commentary. Note: An explanation for what we just watched is deep in a metaphorical cave. Do not go in there.

Maybe the smart move Sherriff Ward was to stop the car rather than drive blind.

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

The moral of the story is that because bats have those pointy little teeth in those doglike snouts it's reasonable and fine to blame them for all sort of idiot behavior, and how #monsterdon

@strangefour @ramsey l feel like this is exactly why the curve on https://xkcd.com/653/ is shaped like it is

#Monsterdon

in conclusion, bat boy:

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/114413186568149105

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Will their child be the Bat boy who reigned over the front page of the Weekly World News?

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon So that was an ending!

@moira even more amazing people voted for this over the 14' tall Grizzly or the carnivorous Slugs #Monsterdon

on the mst3k rewatch i realize that he had the bat dream at the beginning AND heard the bats at the beginning
sooo what the heck
#Monsterdon

@r343l @Canageek Yeah it's really amazing! Thanks to @combatwombat

#Monsterdon

@jeffron wow :D

good times for bat boy

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

#monsterdon Does bat hive mind committing murder count as plural bat people?

They're attacking us with ketchup and mustard! Shit now I'm stuck in the sand again.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon reminder to self to add a better disclaimer on content warning posts that DtDD is only as good as volunteers make it and sometimes we’ll have things like “someone spits” listed while completely ignoring “ketchup covered state trooper offs himself with a shotgun while the theme song from an unreleased James Bond film plays in the background.”

Apologies for not remembering that from the pandemic run through of mst3k i did but it’s also possible they edited it out because why would you leave that in a movie, even this one?

#monsterdon MURDER BATS!!

Are the bats attacking with colorful poop or...? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

Ms. Beck.

"I could never get my shit together till 7 p.m. anyway."

@wulfric I think she overstressed from seeing her husband all batty, and couldn't feel any more stress after that. #Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

That song was Angel of Fear. Sung by Sally Stevens. Film Editor Tom Stevens. I wonder which one got the other this gig.
#monsterdon

And she has dissolved into the shadows of the cave to be with her love. Felt like maybe she was somehow the first bat person all along? #monsterdon

Maybe some of my worst #monsterdon threading ever.

'Hello, and welcome to "Name the Bats!".'

https://slate.com/culture/2019/06/snl-palin-radner-belushi-name-the-bats-barn-game-show-sketch.html

#monsterdon

Was not expecting blondie to go out like that! O.O

(Also this last five minutes of the movie feels like 100.)

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople #HeyPeopleActuallyYeah

@kcarr2015 Same travel agent who books people into Valley Lodge no doubt

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople #Manos

@Zerofactorial Please don't denigrate bat people like that.

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople1974

So ends another #Monsterdon. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and for everyone lurking and posting. and remember #Monsterdoners: Oh, God, turn it off. Please, turn it off.

@davesdogmaggie (thanks @combatwombat for the inspiration)

#Monsterdon

So I gather I didn't miss much

#Monsterdon

Alright, thanks for a lovely evening fedi! Next time they release a new Batman movie I vote we swap in this film for the premier and don't tell anybody. #Monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie 🥁🛎️

#Monsterdon

That frothy drool. Not looking good for the rabies diagnosis.

#Monsterdon

Cathy and Johnny need to fire their travel agent

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

#Monsterdon okay, so, I'd say I have questions, but I was so bored by the end there, I legitimately don't care that the movie made no damn sense.

So… goodnight everyone! See you next Monsterdon for… not this. Thank Bat Christ.

Sorry about the extra post #Monsterdon fam. User error.

there should have been a post-credits homage to Phantom of the Opera

#monsterdon

@diazona @brooke i.e. they couldn't afford to get bat makeup for her too #monsterdon

@skatem good point, well made. It's a #monsterdon movie, and that means abrupt endings with hazy or nonexistent resolutions!

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

So at the very end it did in fact become Bat People. #monsterdon

ew, bat breath

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

I think that when I saw this as "It Lives by Night" on MST3K, I forgot about it because 0.) it was a lackluster 'SciFi Channel' episode and 1.) Its plot was nearly identical to one of the plots of "Werewolf", also a lackluster episode (and one that seemed to last four hours, built haphazardly from a failed T.V. show, as per "Time of the Apes" but even less artfully.).

#monsterdon

All Cops Are Bat-People #monsterdon

This song again!

#monsterdon

Without #monsterdon I would have never made it through the movie and to the cop solving his bat problem, so thanks 🦇

@diazona @brooke BY THE POWER OF SPUNK

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

@tankgrrl Right? Same. I don't need that curse upon me. Unless it wins some week...
#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Hahhaha! Good night, creepy cop.

#monsterdon

Ahh, and we end with Shirley Bassey. #Monsterdon

No batta, no batta, no batta #monsterdon

I, for one, am glad it’s over. #monsterdon

that one was surprisingly gross! thanks everyone, s/o @Taweret and @ryan !

#monsterdon

Well... at least they get to be together?

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople #MoreLikeBatPersonButWhatever

Okay. That’s it. That’s the movie.

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople1974

#Monsterdon why are the bats making Birdemic noises?

Bingo acquired but not until the last minute!

(I bet I could have checked off "Bad foley sounds" at some point but I didn't really notice)

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

Well that was a thing

Have a great week everyone thanks @Taweret #monsterdon #thebatpeople1974

Yeesh #monsterdon

i didn't even really watch it and i know that for sure #monsterdon

"stay back!" i'm a monster

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Oh carp, Spawn of Slithis is autoplaying. Make it stop!
#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

and we close on that weird ass song.

ok.

I did not really like this movie.

#monsterdon

Where's Doc Bat? Is he a full-time man-bat in the cave now? When did Cathy embrace the Bat Queen in herself?

#Monsterdon #BatPeople

The End, I guess.

#Monsterdon

Please tell me no bats were harmed in the filming of this disaster.
#Monsterdon