Full disclosure: I loathe this movie. I've only watched the #MST3k episode a couple times over the last two decades.
You know how Invasion of the Star Creatures really thought it was a hilarious movie, and that makes it super hard to watch? The Bat People is the serious version of that. It takes itself *so very seriously* that you get contact embarrassment.
Like, you're a monster movie. Please stop trying to be Days of Our Lives.
Oh, it's also on YouTube with Spanish subtitles if that's your jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UxtR_fvMng
This Sunday at 9pm Eastern it's #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! Join the us as we watch and poke fun at a very bad movie!
This week is THE BAT PEOPLE (1974), which #MST3k fans will know as It Lives By Night. Come and be lulled gently to sleep by a movie that wants to be a relationship drama but inexplicably has a bat stuck in the middle of it!
It's not available on Archive.org, but it is on Tubi, over here: https://tubitv.com/movies/100011938/the-bat-people
Look at this magnificent fellow!
(Also, I love how the fake phone camera bokeh makes it look like an action figure!)
Maker is https://yiyangxing.com
I'm watching the movie "It's a Wonderful Knife", just in case anyone thinks my bad movie watching is limited to #Monsterdon
It's a movie that boldy asks "What if It's a Wonderful Life, but more stabby?"
It contains the line (from a cop) "Could we get some more of that caution tape? I feel like we need to be a little more... cautious."
... I kinda love this dumpster fire.
@doofilie
You only have to follow the hashtag if that wasn't clear 
We post publicly to #monsterdon while watching the movie and follow that and/or #MonsterdonAlert to get the polls and announcements.
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
What is about this #Monsterdon?
last time i saw sam elliott was in FROGS (1972) with #monsterdon
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #papstfranziskus
9: #francis
8: #franziskus
7: #thelastofus
6: #papst
5: #pope
4: #papafrancisco
3: #easterbunnydeepthoughts
2: #popefrancis
1: #monsterdon
@heathen_cat @Taweret I’m not telling them it’s bad, we all know _that_ already. I’m just saying “please no, not this one.” xD
@CactuarJoe @Taweret Half? HALF?!
half a percent maybe
@moira @Taweret It's like if The Abyss were a half-funded episode of SeaQuest DSV #monsterdon
The wordcloud software can't deal with emoji. So the fact that 
was the 4th most popular word is amusing becasue it isn't in the wordcloud.
I also observe some funny sentences that just came out randomly:
Alien first men instead love men.
British lady alien
First geese amazing war good probably right?
Actually getting chicken, think human first
Here are the graphs!
A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 20 Apr 2025. Each bar represents one minute.
The event was 103.0 minutes long. There were 2487 posts during the event with an average of 24.16 posts per minute.
The busiest moment was at 1:00 from the start with 41 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 43:00 from the start with 10 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.
The word cloud for Sunday, 20 Apr 2025. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts.
There were 7451 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent.
Top 10 most frequent words were:
firstmeninthemoon: 484, moon: 455, space: 107, : 106, one: 105, first: 94, good: 87, going: 83, time: 81, now: 75,
These words were excluded from the word cloud:
movie, movies, film, films, watch, firstmeninthemoon1964, TheFirstMenInTheMoon, and the hashtag monsterdon.
Summary of #monsterdon generated at Mon 21 Apr 2025 17:21 EDT.
Additional details are replies to this toot.
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Slugs (1988) https://youtu.be/Vs4sHuaXLv8?si=04k8BfsAsqBZMd8C
Beyond Atlantis (1973) https://youtu.be/tnQuB-ON18o?si=QeImLm-vMcy1PzUn
Slithis (1978) https://youtu.be/o7DTg4sDGYA?si=LJO-gazTd5JLKxBK
Bog (1979) https://youtu.be/4MW9sF5gwAY?si=nvIZpERPnkaq0BfP
Grizzly (1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CExyNKuEjXo
The Bat People (1974) https://youtu.be/WEUNknNWcPw?si=plh-ZW1cVjdQwi1S
@Taweret oh people not beyond atlantis i am begging you xD
along the lines of FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (1964) is AT THE EARTH'S CORE (1976), with a victorian-era expedition, but going down instead of up, and based on edgar rice burroughs rather than hg wells. lots of goofy monsters. might be fun for #monsterdon (although i know there's already a huge list!)
What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?
