I EXPECTED to be sitting down to watch Devil Girl from Mars.
Instead, we sat down to watch The Bat. Stupid UEN changing the schedule on me.
But…The Bat has it’s place. As spoken of earlier, in a way, it’s the film that began it all. I remember the big promotion about it being aired Halloween night. First/one of the first 3d movies to be aired on TV. And, one of the fast food joints was giving out 3d glasses for it. We had the glasses, and the film was colorized. I was actually looking forward to watching it that year, even though I was not going to be able to go trick or treating because my brother was sick.
The glasses, they do nothing! And, we got a tripped out 3 image blob of a rubber bat flying around on the screen instead. IT SUCKED. I got bored, and went to hand out treats instead, and a haunter was born. Without The Bat, who knows, I might have ended up going overboard on Christmas!!! *gasp*!
So, despite my disappointment, we stayed up to view The Bat on a very windy Friday night, with trees shaking, house creaking and groaning in the wind, and things being tossed around outside. It’s funny, how often the folks in the movie attribute something to “just the wind”, only to have it turn out to be a real threat.
Perhaps that coincidence accounts for why Jen found Kyle asleep downstairs, with all the lights on, hiding under his covers, SITTING UP, and a death grip on his little stuffed monkey.
If I had only known, I would have scared him proper…or at least have gotten pics.