"You wanted to examine it for rabies?"
"No, it was my lunch."
[edit: boo, he made that joke like 10 seconds later. this is my first #monsterdon, for the record - I'm usually putting kids to bed around now, but they fell asleep early for once.]
@helianthropy Yeah if only you could get PARKING at $23/day on your vacation. #monsterdon
"C'mon honey, I'm just shredding my hand and displaying the symptoms of rabies, no big. I'll take a tylenol." #Monsterdon
"I'll just sleep with a bleeding hand - then I'll deal with it."
Charlie Brown sweater!
ooh, dropping your glassware in the pool. that's BAD.
Will there be... bat babies? #monsterdon
Is she wearing a Charlie Brown sweater? #Monsterdon
i think this is all extremely incorrect information about how rabies works
@moira "From the depths of Carlsbad Caverns to the slopes of Ruidoso, New Mexico is a place to make memories that will last a lifetime. But for one pair of happy honeymooners, the road from Santa Fe to Ojo Caliente will have an unplanned detour ... into the Twilight Zone."
@amyfou I don't even know what part of the movie you're referring to, but yes
The Battening is upon him.
@apLundell a face so ugly it's cute, they're the pugs of the sky
Nostalgic for those pre-inflation vacation prices π #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon out intimacy was overdubbed in post production. I see.
Oh good, skiing. Perfect opportunity to hit the +30 seconds button on Tubi #monsterdon
Johnny knows he's only got so long to get that first shot, right?
Okay, I would like to do that (hot tube in the snow)
#monsterdon
hydrophobia? already?
#Monsterdon ski scene: itβs not padding, we had to let the orchestra out for a bit or else they get the zoomies
#Monsterdon "$23 a day. it's _almost_ worth it!" fuck you, past lady. (hashtag inflation)
$23/day for a resort sounds really good today.
well that was an ABRUPT hot spring. #monsterdon
Movies love to pretend middle aged people frolic like teenagers if they're happy
It's well known that bats love a good slalom. #Monsterdon #TheBatPeople
Sadly due to the effects of climate change....none of that is snow...
At least not literal snow.
@yatsu A la Snow Beast π #Monsterdon
I've a cold/flu, this is going to give some weird fever dreams oi
#monsterdon
#monsterdon "Your work is important" she says, so they take a tourist tour to a cave.
OK, so they had a picnic in the desert, drove to the cave, caught the *last tour* of the day, then drove to the ski resort with plenty of time of hit the slopes.
Obviously a fantasy.
Even Laserblast had stop motion aliens by this point. Just sayin' #Monsterdon #TheBatPeople
Just because they're in a hot tub, with other couples in hot tubs nearby, does not mean they'll be having sex....
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When you ride the ski lift you definitely have to kick your feet like that (but what does this have to do with bat people tho?)
#Monsterdon pretty sure bat people was just a plot to get everyone to watch this guy's vacation videos.
what in the bach miyazaki is this soundtrack #monsterdon
Aha... this was all Cathy's fault!
I can't take it, I'm skipping ahead to catch up a little bit. There's snow now.
@combatwombat that's exactly what i was thinking too!! #monsterdon
Are we to find a bat on the slopes, in full ski gear.. and it bites someone? #monsterdon
#Monsterdon i need to know the timeline for this because either those bats should have been hibernating or they took the fastest helicopter to the bottom of the slopes
Getting a late start but I'm here! 1.5x speed until I catch up
I guess the movie was used to pay for a ski vacation. #Monsterdon
The composer for this film was given the brief for a very different movie and made _no_ changes when delivered with the actual result.
Ok, now this skiing is definitely βimpressive stuntworkβ! #monsterdon
Where's Waldo: Ski Adventure
failing to conceive a baby in a cave, our heroes relocate to the snowy north
now, to celebrate our PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT with some ski shots & piano
@RobynGoodfellow Yeah, the protagonist is not the only person being driven crazy by it! #monsterdon
And here we see how the director used the film as a tax write off for his skiing vacation...
@Taweret bats are cute it's rabies that's scary when is Johnny gonna get those shots? #Monsterdon
Night of the Lepus vibes. Itβs hard to make cute fuzzy critters scary. #monsterdon
That's definitely "jaunty music" #Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo
And @batsbatsbats is a lovely bot to follow for regular bat goodness. You can easily submit alt text too.
Ok, so.... I really like cave tours like this (I'm no spelunker), so this actually looks like a pretty cool honeymoon so far!
@lytta If not, we've definitely already seen that movie
#Monsterdon fucker stole Waldo's hat.
(That's Wally's hat, for my friends across the pond.)
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Why is there romantic skiing now?
I think maybe this story is being told out of chronological order, maybe. But badly #monsterdon
#monsterdon Bats kinda have ugly faces, though.
Studio-sponsored ski trip, you love to see it #Monsterdon
πΆ the hills are aliiive, with the sounds of bat flight πΆ
And now: the world's slowest skiing scene
@Taweret but what if i were to dangle a bat from a rubber band and then wobble it really quickly in the dark? would you be scared then?
According to IMDB, Filming Locations:
Carlsbad Caverns, NM
Mitchell Caverns, CA
Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort, CA
Lingerie Store in Bishop, CA???? π
So, the bat bites or scratches him, he's an expert on bats (or something like that), and he doesn't even think, "I should probably go get checked out at the hospital?"
They just...go skiing?
You're were trying to hang upside down and we're trying to make high pitched squeaks #Monsterdon
Cue the ski tourism footage.
#Monsterdon the other couple in the tram all "uh-unh, i'm not getting involved in this"
This movie is in full "artiste" and "auteur" mode. #monsterdon
I do like their matching hats. #Monsterdon
βIβm really happy.β Heavily rolled eyes and bat criesβ¦ #Monsterdon
There! A bat kiss, in a cave. #monsterdon
lol, it really is "anything but have sex on the honeymoon" with these people, isn't it?
Okay the bat screeching is already WAY old. #Monsterdon #TheBatPeople
"...don't worry folks, it's just the rabies"
just incredible fake running lmao
Maybe this extreme sprinting is the βimpressive stuntworkβ? #monsterdon
@JoeWynne
These bats are pervs from the 40s that like to sniff, obviously.
I appreciate that people in this movie just straight up say how they feel. Why bother with, like, subtlety or characterization when you can just look into the camera and state your feelings. #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon now he's having bat attack dreams in the middle of being awake?
#Monsterdon when you must test bats for rabies but you have apres ski at 5pm
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"Cathy" not "Abbie" I guess
the thing is bats aren't scary tho
Also, has anyone else noticed there is a major absence of coffee? That never bodes well. #monsterdon #CoffeeWatch #TheBatPeople
bwahahahaha how long is this vision scene going to run
Cathy! You went on the slide without me?? #monsterdon #TheBatPeople
That was fast! His brain is already battifying on the ski lift #monsterdon
Squeaking! Flapping! Running! Johnny is having visions.
Bat sounds intensify.
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#monsterdon 60 seconds straight of plastic bat shaking
It's skiing! Bats are pathologically afraid of skiing! AVOID THE ALPS, MAN!
Wow, I'm grateful to see that beanies have evolved in the appropriate direction.