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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

It's time for #Monsterdon!

Tonight, we're watching The Bat People (1974). Start playing the movie at 8pm Central (1am UTC) and follow and post your commentary to the #Monsterdon hashtag!

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#MonsterdonAlert Sunday, April 27 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC) IT'S #MONSTERDON we will be watching The Bat People (1974) "A bat bite inside an underground cave turns Dr. John Beck’s honeymoon into a killing spree as he struggles to hide his new bloodthirst from his bride." its streaming free on tubi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ubBTpSln4

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Roaring lion roars.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Oh, my. What's this intro song? Is this a James Bond film? Are the bats going to shoot little pistols?

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Oh, she's playing this song in the car on her guitar. It's amazing she can make that guitar sound like a harp. She's got skills.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

The movie's already half-way over, and we haven't made it out of this opening son.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

This will be the look we collectively have on our faces for this entire film.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Love this park ranger's accent! He's totally character-acting that character!

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"Something down here makes me feel primitive."

You feel like you're in the stone age? You need to hunt and gather?

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Kathy, you can be as primitive as you want in that little hidey hole in the cave!

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

When I was a kid, I was with my family in a cave in western North Carolina somewhere (near Boone or Blowing Rock or Cherokee, or somewhere like that), and a bat flew into some lady's hair just like this. She had been scared the entire time of bats, and then she got "attacked" by one. This was the mid-80s; I bet she had seen this movie.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

That's some of the worst acting running I've ever seen.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

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?

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

1970s Chekhov's sauna.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

So, a cut on the hand is serious enough to get first aid, but not a bite from a bat?

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Oh...now, I get it. It's a 30-day incubation period, so he's got plenty of time to go skiing, while rabies grows in his system.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

That's the largest hypodermic needle I've ever seen to administer a rabies shot.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"Do I think you're going to have another allergic reaction like that? I don't think so because I'm a doctor, and I know these things. No one has the same allergic reaction twice."

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Something about this feels vaguely Lovecraftian to me.

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He did absolutely nothing to the nurse. She freaked out and fell on some beakers, breaking the glass, which slashed her neck.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"Right now, you are a patient doctor."

He doesn't seem very patient, to me.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"For once in your life, can't you do what I ask?"

So, it's turning into that kind of relationship?

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Can we see some bat people or, at least bats, killing people?

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Is that cop threatening to take his wife?

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

She's not wearing the nighty he got her.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

That looked like Jerry Lewis beating a mannequin and trying to put on a jacket.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"Hey, doc. I found your medical braclet near that store with the broken window and the mannequin last night."

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

She did such a good job running away until the very end, when she decided to escape by crouching down on the ground.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Sgt: "There's been one or two things bothering me. One is a girl who had her throat ripped out, and another is that your wife isn't wearing that nighty you bought for her."

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"These pills will knock out an elephant, but they won't knock out a bat. That's kind of the trick."

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

If you're trying to flee from the hospital by stealing an ambulance, why the fuck would you turn on the siren?

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"You don't look like the kind of fella who runs around wearing pajamas."

"Look, man, you don't know me!"

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"You're quite a philosopher."

"It's the booze talking. You ever talked to a drunk, man?"

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Apparently, were bats can hold their liquor.

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Bat man! There's the cave! It's your home! Go to your home!

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

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

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"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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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

Did they dub over "I'll do the very best I can, Cathy?"

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

OMG! The cop just assaulted her! WTF? What was the point of that in the story? Was it just show us how his character is now completely morally bankrupt?

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Ben Ramsey Apr 28, 2025

"Car 54, where are you?"

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otheorange_tag Apr 28, 2025

@ramsey Still trying to figure out the no honeymoon honeymoon thing, go on ahead I'll catch up. #Monsterdon

@ramsey the siren gets other cars to move out of your way, presumably