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It Lives by Night

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It Lives by Night	comment	It Lives By Night, also known as The Bat People, is an American International Pictures horror film from 1974 that's best known for its appearance on Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's the story of a researcher (Stewart Moss) and his wife (Marianne McAndrew) who suffer a case of The Stupids and wander away from the tour group in a cave for a bit of honeymoon-making. Of course, they are attacked by a bat and he gets bitten, and from then on he periodically turns into a sort of half-bat-half-human monster.His symptoms are first mistaken for rabies, as the Grooviest Doctor in the World ascertains. However, this turns out not to be the case. Given the unexplained, violent deaths that tend to follow cases like this, law enforcement becomes interested. Said law enforcement is one loathsome, perverted cop (Michael Pataki) who seems to have a thing for women in vulnerable situations.Just what will be the fate of our hapless, transforming protagonist? Can he rid the bats from his belfry and return to a normal life? Will he outwit the lecherous Sergeant? Will he lay with his pinched, ferret-y killjoy of a wife to infect her with his were-bat affliction, and then run off to kill a smelly homeless guy? Answer key: no, kinda, NOOOOOOOO! and yes.For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode see here.
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It Lives by Night / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
It Lives by Night / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: It's understandable that Dr. Kipling is reluctant to believe Johnny is becoming a half-man, half-bat creature, but it's harder to credit why it takes him so long to believe that he might be a murderer. When Johnny all but confesses to murdering the nurse, the doctor convinces him it was a drug-induced hallucination and suggests that he see a psychiatrist.
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It Lives by Night / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
It Lives by Night / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Sgt. Ward may be a slimy person, but he's the only one who seems to be aware that Johnny is trouble. Too bad he's too inept to do anything about it.
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It Lives by Night / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
It Lives by Night / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Vampire bats do not actually live in the United States.
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It Lives by Night / int_1b44c21	type	GrayAndGreyMorality
It Lives by Night / int_1b44c21	comment	Gray-and-Grey Morality: Our choices for hero are the corrupt, leering sheriff or the Jerkass who turns into a bat and murders people (and later admits that he likes it and doesn't intend to do anything about it).
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It Lives by Night / int_23cc7485	type	I Want Grandkids
It Lives by Night / int_23cc7485	comment	I Want Grandkids: Cathy mentions that her mother is pestering her about when she and John will start having kids. Her answer? Brag about how good he is in bed to her mother.
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It Lives by Night / int_27be0280	type	Porn Stache
It Lives by Night / int_27be0280	comment	Porn Stache: Dr. Mellow Ski Bum sports an epic one.
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It Lives by Night / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
It Lives by Night / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Several times. At one point he just bolts up and starts screaming.
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It Lives by Night / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
It Lives by Night / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Well, your precise definition of "bad guy" may be important here, but at the end of the movie John, who you may remember murdered several people, is at large and remains a danger to all. His wife supports him and implicitly becomes a bat person herself. Sgt. Ward is killed by a bat... swarm. Bats swarm, right?
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It Lives by Night / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
It Lives by Night / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Implied with Ward.
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It Lives by Night / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
It Lives by Night / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Johnny regards his bat research as more important than spending honeymoon time with Cathy.
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It Lives by Night / int_3d43f6bf	type	Bat People
It Lives by Night / int_3d43f6bf	comment	Bat People: Johnny gets bitten by a bat and develops odd symptoms. Everyone around him thinks it might be rabies, but he's actually transforming into a were-bat every night. He was a Jerkass to begin with, but in his bat form he starts actively murdering people — and he's still supposed to be the protagonist.
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It Lives by Night / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
It Lives by Night / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Sgt. Ward has little concern for the privacy of others, and is implied to be a pervert as well.
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It Lives by Night / int_41a48472	type	Bat Out of Hell
It Lives by Night / int_41a48472	comment	Bat Out of Hell: A werewolf version of the "Dire Bat" variant as well as a swarm.
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It Lives by Night / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
It Lives by Night / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When Cathy and Ward arrive at the cave at the end, we get this from Cathy...
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It Lives by Night / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
It Lives by Night / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: John isn't evil per se, but his guilt is very apparent to Sgt. Ward and the viewer. Too bad Ward was too stupid to do anything about it when he had the chance.
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It Lives by Night / int_8015df5d	type	Reverse Whodunnit
It Lives by Night / int_8015df5d	comment	Reverse Whodunnit: The film revolves around Sgt. Ward trying to pin the murders on Johnny.
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It Lives by Night / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
It Lives by Night / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Sgt. Ward, a.k.a. Sheriff Menacing W. Pervert. The MST3K version cuts a scene where he assaults Cathy in her motel room, removing any chance that the audience might sympathize with him.
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It Lives by Night / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
It Lives by Night / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Ward.
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It Lives by Night / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
It Lives by Night / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Ward's "Know what I mean?" His last utterance is a Dark Reprise / Pre Ass Kicking One Liner.
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It Lives by Night / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
It Lives by Night / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: What kind of doctor is John, anyway? It's implied at first that he's a bat expert (chiropterologist) and even says that he's visiting the caves for research. But Cathy later mentions that he's a doctor of preventive medicine. He's also a skilled enough physician to set and properly bandage the homeless man's broken hand.
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It Lives by Night / int_c16f48aa	type	Monster Misogyny
It Lives by Night / int_c16f48aa	comment	Monster Misogyny: John kills four people, on-screen (not counting Ward, who was killed by a bat swarm). The only one not a young, attractive female was a drunk hobo — who got several lines of dialog before dying.
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It Lives by Night / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
It Lives by Night / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The movie implies that John had a primal connection with bats (apart from being a bat-ologist) even before he's bitten. He was having disturbing nightmares about them well before the incident where he got bitten (and even before the movie), was able to hear strange sounds that heralded the appearance of bats (sensing their location as well), and caused bats to have uncharacteristic behavior (showing up during the day, becoming aggressive) in his presence.
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It Lives by Night / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
It Lives by Night / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: Johnny's doctor fails to ask if he has any known drug allergies before administering the first dose of the serum. Indeed Dr. Kipling comes off as hilariously incompetent, dismissing Cathy's fears about Johnny so that he can go skiing, not informing her of Johnny's allergic reaction and in one scene, literally offering him a table full of pills to cure his "nightmares."
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It Lives by Night / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
It Lives by Night / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Johnny seemed to be an asshole even before he was bitten, especially to his wife Cathy. Made even more cringe-inducing by the fact that the two actors who played Johnny and Cathy are real-life husband and wife.
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It Lives by Night / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
It Lives by Night / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Cathy is loyal to Johnny regardless of circumstance.
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It Lives by Night / int_f17eb909	type	Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying
It Lives by Night / int_f17eb909	comment	Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying: During the cave scene, Cathy is swarmed by a group of large dermestid beetles. Johnny tries to reassure her that they're just "mites," arachnids which grow no bigger than 1/8th inch.
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It Lives by Night	hasFeature	The End... Or Is It? / int_8e1281bf

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