#Monsterdon Johnny turned out to be John Merrick.

He's not a were-bat, he's a were-angsty-teenager.

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"he believes it therefore it is true"
what kind of postmodern bullshit is this #Monsterdon #theBatPeople

He's morbin' all over these people

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#Monsterdon in my head this cave tour group is the one from the Bevis and Butthead movie. Bevis gets scratched by a bat and becomes Bat-holio. Butthead just walks around all the time chuckling while repeating “johnny”. I think i just made a better film.

I'm pretty sure that vampire bats don't chomp down on mice, but hey, why not

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In any normal #Monsterdon film, this would be the very end, but we have 20 minutes left.

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A confession, you pork-based be-moustachiod rapist? #Monsterdon

Johnny’s mother: “You need to try new foods”
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@Taweret Get some banjos and harmonicas in here.

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Bat podcasting. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon back to the charlie brown sweater!

now we know her laundry schedule

i can barely hear the mumbly tape recorder bits, but i'm probably not missing much

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@overholt I was trying to articulate this, but I couldn't put words to it. This is it. Thanks.

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WHERE ARE THE BAT PEOPLE?

This is gonna be like that time the wrestling ladies never wrestled the mummy, I can tell.

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"This is Johnny, Bat Boy extraordinaire, signing off. Let's... Be careful out there." #Monsterdon

at least give us a ken burns style voice over for this with a corny americana song playing

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Aaaand we're back at the hospital?

We're not given any insight as to what our bat-person protagonist is after. Bugs maybe?

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What I wouldn't give for a rickroll as soon as he hit play on that recorder. #Monsterdon

@Terencio Oh yes! #monsterdon

DAMMIT how does this fuckhead not DIE?

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"You are my one Sauron, Kathy" o_O

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Big old chonky tape recorder, just lying around for a passing man-bat to record his last will and testament.

Glad we have smart phones now for this

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I'm predicting we do *not* get a Bechdel pass

everybody in the 70s was so sweaty all the time in every 70s movie ive ever seen

haven't we had global warming since then? how were they sweatier than us?

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I mean, it's good that he's trying to raid the blood fridge instead of killing people. That's kind of like Angel and Spike (in later seasons) from Buffy.

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#Monsterdon fine. You mainlined the NyQuil. Not like we got you to even open your eyes Sleepy Johnny the shabby Perkins.

@Louisa jello shots for the hospital party next weekend

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Mmm cherry flavor. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon please be a bat when the sherrif walks in

the treatment is given intravenously, or, you know, just treat it like a capri sun

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mmmm he really hitting that kool-aide hard

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What the heck was that scene in the cave about? #Monsterdon? Is this even supposed to make sense?

There seems to be an even higher than normal amount of gratuitous assault in this movie

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lord, don't run to that sherrif, he's not gonna improve the situation, ma'am. #monsterdon

Drink the Kool-Aid.

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He needs a blood infusion. #monsterdon

Is he going to chug that blood?! That's fantastic. Juicebox!!! #monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Why malign bats this way? #monsterdon

Lots of greasy faces being put on women in this film :/ #Monsterdon

@diazona It could have been a film about attendees at a bat mitzvah #monsterdon

Dr Batboy needs help. He thinks he's in Psycho, but he's in this pile of guano instead.
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@combatwombat fam, it's a movie about bats... rotate it upside-down! #monsterdon

why did nurses have to wear lil hats back then?

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Come on movie… we NEED a bat mask or SOMETHING #monsterdon

@diazona a movie about a guy who slowly turns into a baseball bat #Monsterdon

@kshernandez Well, he needs a place to live, right? #monsterdon

Cave tours. Is there no peace for the bats? #monsterdon

Steals a wood paneled station wagon, for speed of course. #monsterdon

"Car 54, where are you?"

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He rushes into the cave, he rushes out of the cave, I think he just wanted to steal another car. #Monsterdon

Hey ... anyone seen the plot? #monsterdon #TheBatPeople

So the only reason he went back to the cave was to steal a station wagon? #monsterdon

annnnnd lady dragged off by a manbat hand.

we're just goin' GREAT y'all

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I know my vote in the last #monsterdon poll was for a bad film, but was it really that much worse than this one?

Did Johnny-Bat just kill somebody in the cave tour to take their car keys and steal the station wagon? Also, the victim just goes quietly along with that?

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@helianthropy Poor bats

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best thing on screen in the last 30 mins: that instamatic with the flashbulb

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ma'am what did we say about flash photography?

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i kinda feel like rabies didn't need be a part of this movie at all. you could've just had a guy get lost in a cave and run into a bat person and get bit by the bat person and then slowly transform into a bat person and then eventually run off to live with the other bat people in the caves

they should've done that

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Does he like sports? Or is he a faaaaairy?

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Flash photography in a bat cave… 🤔

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@ottaross Monster yes... bat person... no. #monsterdon #TheBatPeople

Proper 60s beehive on the middle aged lady at the back

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yeah that's...assault indeed, ew

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Remember when this was a vampire bat movie? #Monsterdon

I’m not sure the sheriff understands his job description.
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ACAB

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Drinking in service Ward...
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@SordidAmok darn you and your logic

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Stolen jacket, bathrobe, stolen coat. It’s a rough life #Monsterdon

The cop is actually a bat

ABAB

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yeah smell her hair WAIT WHAT THE FUCK COP

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This cop scene in the motel room is the most uncomfortable part of the movie. #monsterdon

This cop is like Extra Bastard wow #Monsterdon

Does he like sports? #monsterdon Um... Dude you're on the job... and drinking... what kinda...

Does he like to watch gladiator movies? #Monsterdon

Does he touch you like this? #Monsterdon

If this were set on Krull the other doctor, the sheriff, the lady in the dress shop, and the alcoholic gent would all be part of Johnny's team by now #monsterdon

"Mrs. Beck, invite me in. Never mind. I'll just walk on in. You got any whiskey? Ah, here. Found some. I'll help myself."

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This film could only afford a Motel 2.

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is this sargent just trying to get himself into her apartment without a warrant? #monsterdon

Let me tuck you in Mrs. Beck.

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I think Sarge is going to put the movies on Cathy

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really missing Lalo Schiffrin right about now. I think he could have done better with this soundtrack.

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To everyone watching: do yourself a favour and don't look at how much run time is left. #monsterdon

@nev It's so much easier to get ice cream than it is to get bat people apparently

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"Look, I just want to get ode-LAID get it? ar ar ar ar ar ar ar"

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He had bat hearing before getting bit. Maybe he is just coming home.

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#Monsterdon roll that beautiful stock bat footage.

"All units, I've arrived at the bus depot."

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Dr. Bat, I mean Beck, is going back to the cave where he was “born”
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"Come on, you can't walk the streets all night."

uhhhhh... awkward

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#monsterdon "Suspect homocidal" pronounced in a very suspect way. Who says "homocidal" like that?!

no, that not bus, that dog

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Finally got his man-bat cave. #Monsterdon

"Hi, Mrs. Bat man. You got that nighty on?"

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#Monsterdon “I’m free, freeeeeee, free as a-shiiiiiit” somehow American International takes the most most annoying character ever found in a production, the drunk hobo '70s edition, and turns it into the only character anyone watching this film can relate to even a little…

Let me get this straight: they couldn't find Johnny in the barn but they could find the victim. #monsterdon

i hope the plot just becomes Johnny's crimes to acquire better and better outfits

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