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Folks, it is about an hour until the weekly monster movie watch party. If you want to avoid a flood of toots about a goofy horror flick, consider setting up a filter.

If you'd like to join in, this week we're watching THE BAT PEOPLE (1974), which fans will recognize as It Lives By Night. It's bad. Watch it with us! :D

You can catch the flick for free on Tubi, right over here: tubitv.com/movies/100011938/th

See you in an hour!

tubitv.comTubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. We are not available in Europe due to changes in EU laws.

You got about fifteen minutes left until takes over your feed with THE BAT PEOPLE (1974). Set up a filter or cue up the movie and get ready to watch along!

Or do something else. Go fishing or something. Climb a tree, punch a clown, it's a big world out there.

💡 TURN OFF THE TV AND LEAVE THE ROOM 💡

(it's for the best, trust me)

American International, the only film company whose logo looks like a person peeking out from behind a brick wall.

Do... Do you think they're still watching? Is it safe to come out?

...Oh, it's an eye. For a second there I thought we were zooming in on a weirdly segmented moon.

"I'll never eat tacos at 5am again!"

Stop shouting at the pillows, Johnny.

"Taaaaaake me awaaaaaaay~"

So that Iiiiii Don't have to waaaaatch THE BAT PEOPLE (1974)...

It's the 70s, if you don't have a waifish voice warbling about something unrelated on the soundtrack you're not hip.

How does he manage to DRIVE in a smug way? Like, that's impressive.

Jerry Jameson, he wants pictures of Spiderman.

"Johnny we're only five minutes into the film, you can't be freaking out yet."

*picture of the cutest bat in North America*

The cast: OH GOD IT'S HORRIBLE OH GOD

Here at Nostril Caves...

SURPRISING ABSOLUTELY NO ONE

And then he started getting transmissions from Mars on his implant again.

Hold still while I hold this rubber bat in my hair, honey.

"Have you ever thought about what we look like to a bat?"

We look like the bat equivalent of G. Gordon Liddy, I have it on the best authority.

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.

♪ Only looooove ♫

♫ Love pads the fiiiilm ♪

"C'mon honey, I'm just shredding my hand and displaying the symptoms of rabies, no big. I'll take a tylenol."

"You're not doctors, you're children!"

It's the 1970s, of course they are.

Nothing's happening! I'm just gonna ram this needle in your gut and everything'll be fine.

Sodium phenobarb! Sodium pentathol! Sodium for the popcorn!

Oh so SHE'S back out on the slopes?

This whole movie is just people telling a woman to stop worrying about the very serious shit going on around her >_>

Whoops, she spilled the bottle of red tempera paint.

Cathy, divorce him right there. Run, woman, run.

I'm so glad we're dedicating so much film to their gross, frigid relationship.

yay

He's gotta go flap in circles around the motel sign for a couple hours.

"I think I got slipped oregano again"

Yeah, I know how you feel. They told me this was a vampire movie.

More gross '70s making out :/

Doop a doop a doop, just a calm sheriff swagger, it's only murder, no need to rush, dee do dee...

"You're just very sweaty, Johnny!"

"It'll be fine after the treatments are over, I've been wrong about everything else so far so you can trust me."

Typical husband, fakes a coma as soon as they start talking about kids.

Sign: Hospital, Quiet!

Johnny, an asshole: TURNS ON THE SIREN

This is Sgt. Ward, I'm here to harass a patient.

Wow, that cop car handles like a sausage. He's getting out-driven by an AMBULANCE.

Yeah, the sarge just kinda blows, huh. Like, he sucks.

YAAAAAAAY HE'S DEAD THE MOVIE'S OVER!

Oh *come on,* a car from the 1970s rolls over and DOESN'T explode? Unbelievable.

Film's only like half over -_-;

John.

Kill the hobo.

Move on.

END THE SCENE JOHNNY IT'LL BE WORTH THE 20 YEARS IN PRISON

Hobo like, "Oh, sure, transformation, seen it all on the road."

♫ I killed the hobo ♪

♪ But I did not kill the dep-u-ty ♫

He's one with the bats now, twisted and goofy.