Look everyone, this was a drive-in movie. Doesn't matter that nothing happened. We weren't really watching it at the time.

#Monsterdon 🦇 #TheBatPeople
#BackSeatNookie

Abrupt, senseless ending coming in 10 minutes.

#monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Kathy: Who is it?

Cop: The actual monster in this film.

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

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

#monsterdon

It's like, he wants to be a vampire but nobody told him what a vampire is....

#Monsterdon

Ahhh - wait a minute, the movie poster had a typo. It's not the Bat People, it's the BATH People.

It's about murderous people in bath robes.

#Monsterdon

I hope something happens to this cop.

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople1974

If he's ripping throats out, wouldn't he be covered with blood?

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Sheriff making his move on the bored wife....

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His car doesn't even fit into frame. #monsterdon

Poor forgotten newly wed wife, wondering the streets for cock...

Here comes the helpful Sheriff, well nothing is going to go wrong now! /s

#Monsterdon

Why make your characters anything more than flat stereotypes? There’s no law that says characters HAVE to develop! ITS A FREE COUNTRY!
#monsterdon

RETVRN to the cave
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#Monsterdon did they just say murdering the homeless man was "a humanitarian act"? 😬

They moved quickly for a hobo in an abandoned barn....

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"Are you a doctor?"

Johnny torques his hand 180 degrees causing intense pain

wtf movie

#monsterdon

Please let the hobo also be a werebat?

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Drunken barn hobo must die.

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Sheriff: “Do you recognize this evidence from a murder case that I found it a trash can and I’ve been carrying around with my bare hands?”

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if i was a werebat i would own it

that's all im saying

#Monsterdon

Nobody wore seatbelts in the 1970s. Some cars didn't even have them.

#monsterdon

The aviators, the cigarette holder, the moustache... creepy cop is giving Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas vibes

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Perhaps the lights and sirens aren't helping you get away Johnny?

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#Monsterdon oops, those prices. Careful kids. 1974 was a different time.

This car chase is more thrilling that usual Monsterdon faire...

#Monsterdon

Now man-bats know how to drive a Ghostbusters vehicle.

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Everyone in this movie is miscast. The bats are the only exceptions.
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maybe turn the siren off during your getaway

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This man will do literally anything but fuck his wife on their honeymoon, now he's stolen an Ambulance!

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#Monsterdon Johnny is suffering from profound premature ejaculation. His disability is that he can’t reliably stop orgasming.

Johnny, what's wrong? The score is using those synths again!

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Skeptical doctor: “People die in horrific mysterious ways all the time… you’re obviously just imagining killing them!”
#monsterdon

Cigarette holder? Really?

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I don't think this man is a real doctor....

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And he wakes up back in bed? At least The Werewolf of Washington had our protagonist wake up in weird outdoor places

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

lol, love this guy's acting, he emotes like a storm drain

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Smoking oregano and doing it. They must die.

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That's a rather aggressive way to go shopping for a new sweater.

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Okay… that literal SMASH CUT was AMAZING! #monsterdon

"Are you accusing me of turning into a bat, Sheriff?"

#Monsterdon

Ah yes, creepy cop. Every town has one.

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He's buying a pink nightie for himself - because he's a transgender bat furry.

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Hard to tell the Sheriff from the doctor.

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#Monsterdon you’re in trouble and we just want to see it get so much worse. We can’t sympathize with shabby Perkins.

"She fell, sideways, into glass and died....happens all the time apparently..."

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Okay, so now the progression is pissing me off. LOL. We are all pissed off for various reasons with this movie. And BONGOS. What!!! bongo drums! Gah!

#Monsterdon Brain damage will improve Johnny.

but we're not gonna let these seizures get in the way of our ski trip.

#monsterdon

So THIS is where vaccine hesitancy originated
#monsterdon

I'm sorry, an allergic reaction?

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

#Monsterdon I can handle one emergency a day. The line that makes me want to slap the producers of this film.

Come for the bats, stay for that mustache.

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lol, two sexy lady nurses in the corner, Johnny feels nothing...

...are they trying to inject some heterosexuality into him with that big needle? Is it that sort of 70s movie?

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"Who needs doctors? I'm a Wellness Guru, just walk the rabies off, drink some essential oils..."

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Big old 70s 'tache on that doctor....

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[audience begins chanting in unison]
SNOW… BEAST… SNOW… BEAST… SNOW… BEAST… SNOW! BEAST! SNOW! BEAST! SNOW! BEAST! SNOW! BEAST! #monsterdon

Personally I would have gotten a rabies shot before skiing, you know a 100% death with a cure.
#monsterdon

Day terrors on the ski lift? #monsterdon

"Our honeymoon was getting a little dull, but instead of start having sex, lets get trapped in a cave with some bats?"

#Monsterdon

Can we please bring back bell bottoms and no bra?

#monsterdon

A lot of cactus'? Cactuses? Cacti? #monsterdon

That polo neck and shirt combo screams "Never nude"

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They could've had a bat doing the MGM roar, but they didn't think of it.
#monsterdon

@SordidAmok "The Man Bat and the Woman who Loves Him" maybe a better title. :eyethink:

#monsterdon
#theBatPeople

I think Sherrif Ward blew his brains out with a shotgun because after all the bites he didn't want to turn into a bat person?

Pfft... I would have rather seen that happen after he had sex with Cathy and realized... heh heh heh.

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Say, have y'all watched "Saturn 3" yet? It's on Tubi and Youtube. #monsterdon

https://lemmy.world/post/27458727

Before I go for the night, I do want to share this sentiment...

That movie treated its female characters like shit.

At the end, Cathy, after presumably turning into a bat woman after sex with her bat husband, did become a stronger character, but for the rest of the film, women were just set decorations.

https://glammr.us/@overholt/114413156521000157

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople1974

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's little film. Have to say it's the first Monsterdon where I really didn't care for anybody in the film.

Best acting was the hobo, followed by Cathy after she embraced her inner Bat Queen.

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

#Monsterdon #BatPeople

@Zerofactorial he's still a middle class white guy under that bat makeup.... #Monsterdon

Disappointed, I was really hoping the sheriff would get bit and turned, so I could say

All Cops Are Batpeople

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

But seriously, though, bats are an important part of a healthy ecosystem and while it's not good for us to live WITH them, we still need to live beside them.

Learn more about vampire bats in particular here:
https://theconversation.com/vampire-bats-look-beyond-the-fangs-and-blood-to-see-animal-friendships-and-unique-adaptations-239980

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople #Bats

Dr. Bat wants to check you out with his MRI… Midnight Rodent Instincts
#monsterdon

Dr. Bat has excellent bedside manners… soft squeaks and gentle wing pats #monsterdon

@yatsu that was a satisfying death #Monsterdon

And it just.... ends. Ha! What a perfect mic drop to end a mediocre at best movie!

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople #HeyPeopleActuallyYeah

So, this movie really was an excuse for the crew to have a ski vacation?

99% sure that's not Carlsbad, too, but some other show cave. They got the desert/mountain town down pretty accurately, though.

#Monsterdon #BatPeople

@CactuarJoe I would have liked a town fair full of blonde children to have been terrorised #Monsterdon

#monsterdon they're off to make the bat people

I would must rather rewatch Laserblast. That's good bad stupid cheese.
#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

@brooke When Cathy married Johnny she took on everything, his name, his bat-peoplehood, everything #Monsterdon

That was “The Bat People.” Brought to you by the abrupt ending. If it’s wrapped up nicely, it’s not #Monsterdon!

I liked the part where the sheriff shot himself for some reason

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THE END?!

I have no closure over here. So they just eat rats in a cave and live happily ever after, is that it? Maybe every now and then go on a killing spree...?

#Monsterdon

Cathy made Johnny orgasm - he turned into a bat, and she screamed. I can't tell if the subtext is subtle or stupid. 🤦‍♂️

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Bats all, folks!

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon this should be over the closing credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBzAk9dT2jY

That's IT? I guess they lived batly ever after? WOW that was bad. Thanks for the support riffing through that one. Thanks again to @Taweret for hosting. At least it wasn't Slugs I guess. Have a great week everyone! #Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

The bats are attacking with poop?

#monsterdon

Well, I guess there are two of them now.

Thanks @Taweret and co. for hosting!

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#Monsterdon so she just fuckered off then. That’s it. Underground. I guess, what was I expecting? Eh, it was funny to mock.

I think the very end, Kathy saying goodbye so coldly was the highlight, Good times with all but got to get back to the cave
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this movie is a parable about how the cult of domesticity and faithful patriarchal monogamy leads a woman to abandon her connection with society to embrace the dark and violent inner fantasies of her husband #monsterdon

#Monsterdon ok i have a bone to pick with this film and that is that it is titled "BAT PEOPLE", plural. I saw exactly *ONE* bat person in this film

it's not a movie i would recommend to anyone ever but it's nice to see the monsters get a happy ending

#monsterdon