MST3K - Favorite Moments - It Lives By Night

In episode 1010 a movie yet again dares to explore the consequences of a light scraping. In It Lives By Night (aka It's Alive or The Bat People) an extremely bland man (Stewart Moss) slowly turns into a were-bat (or a were-monkey -- your guess is as good as mine) after having a less than dramatic encounter with a bat.
As if turning nocturnal, having to communicate primarily through varying squeaks, and getting an uncontrollable urge to entangle himself in peoples hair isn't enough, he is also subjected to a series of rather strange Joe Cocker seizures (apparently bats go guano over Joe) and end up killing some people -- though it remains to be explained if these deaths are the unfortunate results of him trying to untangle himself from his "victims" hair.
His very understanding (and rather thin) wife does everything in her power to try to help him. This includes taking him to a mellow, ski-bum doctor with a fetish for very large needles and liquorice condoms (played by no other than Paul Carr from Hitchcock's The Wrong Man), and ... dare I say ... sleep with him ...
Yes, this movie actually dares to ask the question:
What happens if you sleep with a were-bat?
Well, considering that a mild scraping turned our protagonist into a bat, I suspect it will surprise no one that Mr. Bland and his wife, Mrs. Thinness, goes to live happily ever after hanging upside down in a cave while feasting on moths... apparently.
Anyway, the only other things worth a mention in this rather dull, cave spelunking mess, is the police officer Sgt. Ward (played by Michael Pataki, who can also be "enjoyed" in Sidehackers), who somehow manages to give Mitchell a run for his money in general unpleasantness, and the fact that the make-up was done by no other than Stan Winston, who still needs to offer some kind of explanation for the design of the human were-monkeybat.
Lastly, near the end the movie seems to become strangely self-aware as it proceeds to physically dumb tons and tons of guano on the unsuspecting audience, which is rather fitting considering it did that metaphorically from the very first frame.
Look out for Alanis Morissette, eventual food, brioche hidden in a hat, bats, the Onion of Knowledge, the spackling of nose holes, the Bats Motel, a naturally occurring clown, Switzerland World Headquarters, squeaky sex, music for the heavily sedated, delivery of spooky folksingers, bats, the silliness of sex, healing in the name of skiing, a wherewilf, the Bat mobile, studded contacts, someone posing for the dollar, someone being heterocidal, Sheriff Menacing W. Herbert, the Swedish Chef muppet, a pimp slapping by a bat, another other night, the horrible truth of jogging, more bats, a liquorice condom, mistaking someone for a hat, thinness, Mary Taylor Less, Landfill National Park, cave spelunking, Keith Richard's memorial blood bank, small mammal wrestling, and buckets and buckets of guano.
Enjoy!
(Squeak!)

[@Aster_Iris]

This movie's logic: Get bit by something, become a weresomething. If real life worked like this, I'd be some sort of dog-cat-parakeet-various-arthropod freak every night.

[@dumoulin11]

I'm a wereparrot!

[@WorldWar2freak94]

What’s funny is that in real life, that many bats would not be in toured cave. People cause noise, which bats don’t like. Thus, in reality, there would have been only one or two bats nearby. Most would have gone to other caves or very deep inside this cave system.

[@robertgriffin4811]

You guys are lucky. Sigh, I'm a werebabysister.

[@demonkingbadger6689]

Were-cat-spider-ant-gnat (plus something underwater bit me at the beach when i was 8, that i still dont what) Probably 3 or 4 other insects

[@demonkingbadger6689]

@@robertgriffin4811 hmm, that means one of my friends from elementary turns into me. The poor bastard.

[@ScroggsOVision]

Obscure nerd trivia, the bat guy was played by Stewart Moss, aka Tormolen and Hanar on Star Trek, and Mary Tyler less by real-life wife Marianne McAndrews, who was in all those Hello Dolly clips in Wall-E. Yes, I have too much time on my hands.

[@faithfulgrl]

Yep, you do. I Love it when ya know all the kRaZy dEtAiLs ! aaahhhh!

[@ianschulz1]

@@faithfulgrl Not only that, Matthew Leonetti, the executive producer on this, would go on to be director of photography in Star Trek First Contact!

[@trentrock3210]

And the actor playing the doc was strangled in the second pilot of Trek.

[@ilikethecokev2]

"Take me... out to the ball gaaaaame!"

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

Not sure if those bats enjoyed being held up like that with a camera 5 inches from their faces.

[@Roadvirus1]

"Whoa...this one's gonna hurt like hell" Hilarious!

[@TDIwarrior1]

This movie does have one thing going for it: If you like bats like I do, this film has several semi-decent shots of some really cute ones. Granted they are also really pissed off because someone is holding them, but cute none the less. :)

[@WorldWar2freak94]

It never ceases to amaze me how many bad films were created over the years. People complain about the state of cinema nowadays, but there have been some stinkers over the years.

[@Nick-py1ui]

"Mary-Tyler Less" lmao

[@laurallewien2165]

The left eye of Laura Mars and music for the heavily sedated, my 2 favorite things....besides Joe Estevez!

[@ngobleus]

"Right into the arms of Sheriff Menace W. Pervert!!"

[@holographictacosalad]

"Attention bedwetters: get up and go now."

[@DeniseFaraday]

I've missed you, auritone! Thanks again for your 'best of' clips. They're among the best! 😘

[@auritone]

Very nice of you. Thanks. :)

[@GillianMStarlight]

I always thought it was amusing that Mary Tyler Less was wearing that Charlie Brown type shirt. Good news-this one will be on dvd at the end of this month.

[@auritone]

That is very good news. Thanks. :)

[@FrenchPaul1988]

Awesome. Is it on its own or in a set ?

[@lawsonj39]

"Oh, it's the onion of knowledge...c'mon, bring your thinness...."

[@Pimp-Master]

Ambulance crash... squeak...squeak...squeak (getting fainter).

[@monkeymouse]

"The Batts Motel!"

[@lesizmor9079]

Needed to work in a Bat Masterson joke somewhere....

[@ENigma-um8zw]

These are so great to revisit

[@Pimp-Master]

at 16:42, that's a ridiculous shot of the camera pulling away as the character walks toward the house...never in my life seen a pull back from the important action in a movie.

[@dirbrody]

I completely agree, I noticed that the 1st time I watched this turd. Graduate of NYFA...

[@goodfre2]

“I don’t like it when you take the Lands End catalog in there!” 😂😂😂😂. Classic Kevin!

[@jenaesmith4422]

It's the onion of knowledge

[@talldrinkomusic]

Its a human he will entangle my feet with his hair. 😍

[@alissaroush3456]

should've included more of the guano jokes. great stuff though :)

[@vonzigle]

Lots of squeak jokes--that's not bad! 😄

[@Hollowshape]

"I care about me too."

[@robertmcginty4146]

Mrs. Beck? "Get a devil's haircut!"

[@user-ls8db4km9m]

Actor Michael Pataki was also the voice of George Liquor from The Ren and Stimpy Show.

[@auritone]

Pataki was in just about everything. :)

[@robertmcginty4146]

OMG...the first few notes of that TAAAAAAKE ME opening title song are the same notes from the Garden of Eternity level in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.

[@eddieavilia2299]

Didn't know Turd Ferguson was in this, makes it even funnier.

[@lachutequimarche8074]

I haven’t laughed that much straight ever. I was trying to clip my nails but had to stop because I was laughing so much. I still have three nails to clip after 20 minutes wow it usually takes me 5-6

[@markdaniels7174]

That guitar lick really DOES sound identical to the one in Jesus Christ Superstar.

[@111Jabberwocky]

Any other Hello Dolly fans thrilled to see Marianne McAndrews here?

[@Diamhea]

06:25 fucking lost it

[@Tbird2191]

I lost my crutches...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ubery]

“YEAH I READ YA”

[@jimmyface71]

Who has the better theme music singer - It Lives By Night or Manos, The Hands of Fate? Think about it...

[@DTD110865]

Do the Julee Cruze jokes still hold up today?

[@robingardella299]

This is a non-intercourse room! 😂

[@Alexanderortiz99]

Love it.

[@rogeryoung1354]

Licorice Comdom

[@PrinsaVossum]

Are were-bats closer to were-wolves or vampires?

[@auritone]

Hmm, good question. I would personally love to see a were-porcupine...

[@DrGregoryHouseIT]

@@auritone There was one on Fringe.

[@auritone]

@@DrGregoryHouseIT damn

[@TimelordR]

Worse than Mr. Sycamore, better than...who am i kidding?

[@DTD110865]

Rifftrax should do Mr. Sycamore, and this is coming from a fan of Sandy Dennis.