The titles are very 1970s TV series in style. This could be a TV crime drama or sitcom from the era.

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"Love's Theme" from The Bat People.....#monsterdon

"Darling, not while I'm trying to drive..dear...."

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#Monsterdon The female vocalist and whimsy is unexpected.

Why is it always #Monsterdon? What about #Monsterdoña?

Nothing says "creative writing" quite like naming your main character "Johnny"

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already too much panting in this movie and we're one minute in

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"Those disturbing bad dreams again darling...."

"Go back to sleep dear, the trial starts tomorrow..."

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

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@SordidAmok Just so, it's like eating three-day-old gas station sushi so as to appreciate the Michelin star fare all the more #monsterdon

Who knew so much fear mongering and bat misinformation would be so boring? #Monsterdon knew!

Footage of @apLundell trying to convince the rest of #monsterdon that bats have ugly faces

#LastOneForReal

@SordidAmok very true

I just remind myself that the quality of the movie and the quality of the viewing experience are *entirely* disconnected

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Why are the bats making raptor noises?

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

@Terencio We have not so it could be worth pinging tawret. I want to say that the youtube link doesn't count for availability (it's unofficial?), though the tubi one does.

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"Stand by your man-bat" 🎤 🎶

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#theBatPeople

@Lazarou If they wanted to talk about privilege I wish they even hinted at it. Actually I wish they hadn't gone and made a movie #monsterdon

@Lazarou @YsengrinWolf @Taweret Indeed, and for completeness I should say that even wanting to see it the first time is not a necessary part of the classic #Monsterdon experience

@nev Several people died, there were multiple bat fugue scenes, jazzy murder music, etc. #Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

oh huh, according to imdb the onscreen couple were married irl too #monsterdon

@YsengrinWolf @Taweret Cathy after enBattification actually was kinda ...

[sunglasses]

...BATASS

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I think when Johnny was in the bat makeup in the cave, we can credibly accuse this movie of blackface. 😵‍💫

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anyway good job team and thanks again to @Taweret for hosting

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thank you #Monsterdonians that was a terrible one!

Thanks @Taweret @Cherizilla @JoeWynne and all you #Monsterfriends for the fun!

Hey, _I_ didn’t vote for this film. But I didn’t vote for the current U.S. President, either—yet here we are. Hoping for a better roll of the dice next week 😀 Meantime, at least the sheriff is dead! Onward. Thanks, as always, for hosting @Taweret #Monsterdon

whoa, he turned into teen wolf

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Why do the bats sound like Hawks?

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@Lazarou @moira He didn't like the prospect of all the paperwork he'd have to fill out #monsterdon

@srol I mean arguably "some of [the] worst ___ ever" is a theme of #Monsterdon so you're on brand

@strangefour Oh, wow. I think Laserblast was on a whole different level.

It was a lower level.

Much lower.

Lower even than that.

Go lower.

There...no, lower.

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That movie had so much 70's in it I think I got some on me. Now I need a shower.

- Overt patriarchy
- Haha I'm a ski bum lackadaisical doctoring.
- Car chase? Meh.
- I guess we should have a soundtrack,
- I have an idea, let's make everyone horrible.
- Lets avoid death by monster by lying down and screaming.

I'm glad it's over, and glad I got all of you to help me not feel alone.

As always, thank you @Taweret for hosting!

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It really is kind of astounding to imagine that someone actually made this movie

it's not like, a cosmic artefact, an accident of nature

someone made this

on purpose

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

#monsterdon So is she controlling the bats to their deaths to creep the cop out?!

It seems like it would have been pretty easy to put Johnny Beck away for stealing that ambulance, hallucinations or no hallucinations. But no, that would have been too reasonable #monsterdon

Dr Bat keeps weird office hours #monsterdon

this is only very tangentially related to #monsterdon but do you ever wonder if batman has inoculated the bat population of the batcave against rabies

@CactuarJoe Or we could have rewatched that Gargoyles movie. That was alot of caves and a hundred times more make up effects. And not creepy sheriff.
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I'm not sure how to review this movie but it definitely involves the words "would be a discredit to guano"

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everyone for posting! See you next week...

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Shots fired! That’s a bingo! Thanks Sheriff! #monsterdon

another fun #monsterdon! thank you @Taweret for hosting!

Cathy never seemed more calm than walking alone at night, once she knew that sargent was dead. #monsterdon

#monsterdon FINALLY bat person face!

@SordidAmok oh honestly that would've been pretty great

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

@strangefour At least Laserblast had the turtle aliens. We got like a full thirty seconds of bat monster here. #Monsterdon

It wasn't even a radioactive bat. There wasn't some environmental shot of toxic waste or any kind of strange government experiment gone wrong. It would have taken like, five minutes. #Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

of course alternatively, they're both bat people who are about to die of rabies in a cave.

#monsterdon

All of you who voted for this, I will forgive you in the fullness of time.

But I'm not ready yet.

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On a technical moving making sense, not our worse movie. But it's so boring when it';s not giving me the willies thinking about rabies or hating basically all of the cast.
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In the end, she learned to appreciate bats and they fucked off into The Caves to live happily ever after. Goodnight #monsterdon and thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Nesting Partner: "after that let's watch something uplifting like Black Mirror".

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I always have fun with these cheap 70s films, even if they were just an excuse for the production crew to get a paid ski vacation. They have a great "sure, why not" quality to them. Nothing explained or justified. Just "darling, I'm afraid I'm turning into a bat" #monsterdon

#monsterdon So I guess they're just going to live in a cave and survive by going out every night to eat mosquitos?

@brooke It seemed like they kind of wanted us to think Cathy was a bat person too, but that was very not clear

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#Monsterdon how are the songs in this movie *this bad*?

Rack 2

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Tiny Screm! TINY Screm! TINY Screm! TINY Screm!!

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople #MoreLikeBatPersonButWhatever

Officer Down 🎉

The End

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Cathy has Seen The Way and joins her beloved Bat Man (Norman Bates edition) to live in a cool dark cave happily ever after and even Sargent Bastard dies! :blobaww:

THE END

Thanks for the delightfully awful #Monsterdon @Taweret I love a happy ending even when the movie is mostly crap!

Yep! That sure was a movie.

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Noticing more "well I kind of wandered away from the movie to research the history of rabies vaccines" and such in the timeline tonight

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#monsterdon Death before Dishonor (by bats).

What a cop-out ending.

Yeah.

Nothing happens, married people whine at each other, and then there's a bat.

The end.

God I hate this movie.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon all in all though I had some good fun, good moments in there. :) Thanks to our dear host @Taweret for organizing as always <3 <3 <3 See you all next week!

She's awfully calm when a strange man let's himself into her room while she is wearing nothing but a sheet.

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almost hope there's a sequel where Cathy goes and brutally offs all the people being weird and hitting on her for no reason
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Ah, the ending was so disappointing, it made us forget how bad the rest of the movie was.

#Monsterdon 🦇 #TheBatPeople

The script: And she walks slowly into the cave to stand by her man. The end. #monsterdon

And Cathy and Johnny fucked off into the cave...probably literally.

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THE END.
It's over.
The last 5 minutes of mild craziness were not worth the other boring 90 minutes.
#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

That's a nice trench coat to live out your life as a bat in.

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what we don't even get to see cathy in bat makeup
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007 jumps out and offers her a martini

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cue Discount Joan Baez song. Credits.

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

well that was exceptionally gruesome, too.

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So I'm not watching #Monsterdon but my timeline right now is a thing of glory. Reminds me of the golden age of Twitter in the days long before that site turned rotten.

Definitely tuning in next week.

Love Theme from The Bat People (reprise) #monsterdon

THE END

Well, at least that bastard cop got his just desserts. Hope everyone had as much fun live tooting it as much as I did!

Big thanks to everyone who makes tonight fantastic including our host @Taweret -- see you next week, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

🦇

#monsterdon

#monsterdon So, a single human joins a bat colony, and suddenly they're all fighting and dying for him?

That's a lot of loyalty towards someone who was a completely different species than you yesterday.

#Monsterdon queue the weird acid jazz. At least someone has their lines.

And our monsters fucked off into a sea of guano!

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do the monsters actually get a happy ending in this movie? they actually just get to go be a married bat couple in a cave together? hell yeah

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Can I call the sheriff blowing his head off "A Happy Ending" for Bingo?

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#Monsterdon i guess he didn't want to become a bat person too 🤷‍♀️

uhh yikes okay

well at least Cathy was a total girlboss about it

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Aww I love the little bat on his trigger hand happily nibbling away. He's like a Critter with wings.
#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

All the guano
in colorado
is on a cop in the middle of--

holy shit, shotgun!

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Rubber batstravaganza #monsterdon

oh hey, they managed an actual death scene. I thought they were not capable.

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"So I guess we're Bat People now then Johnny?"

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#Monsterdon "so... many... teeny tiny fruit bat bites! can't... live"

all cops are batfood #monsterdon

Okay, sure. Bats as flying piranahs.

#monsterdon #TheBatPeople

bats have teeny wittle teefies tho is the thing

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I love how Cathy is serene during all of this
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#Monsterdon is she in thrall to his bat-sonar? is she destined to become the bat-queen? i'm getting more into this movie now

i just think we should cut out everything until right now after them falling into the cave

when your visibility is impaired, for example due to a windshield full of bats, you are supposed to pull over until it is safe to drive again #monsterdon

GOODBYE sargent. lololol #monsterdon

that was a warriors death

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