"YOU NEVER SAID HE HAD REPELLENT!"

LMAO NOOOOO NOT THE FUCKING PLUSH SHARK THIS CAN'T BE REAL

That anti-fish spray reminded me of Batman’s shark repellent batspray fitting given Hakuba called him Batman when he met Kid.

(Referring to this)

Lol I didn’t know he did that! I think kaito would carry that spray around with him everywhere

watching the dark knight rises for the first time ever and while it’s more bearable than the dark knight...god this movie is boring as hell. it’s BATMAN. biff pow shark repellent batspray you wanna get nuts now let’s get nuts batman. why is this trilogy so fucking dull.

also what is with bane’s voice.

and why is there a random prison in the world with no explanation. are they gonna explain the prison?

"Hand me down... the shark...repellent...Batspray!"

“Inexplicably popular” is a phrase that gets bandied around a lot. There’s plenty of books and movies and so on that achieve monumental success despite being, by any fair assessment, fucking terrible. But what about things that are inexplicably unpopular? What about those works that attract passionate, fiery loathing despite being very, very good indeed? Because the Adam West Batman series is…

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Let's Watch Batman: The Adam West One

Chronologically, the next movie is actually Batman Dracula (1964) by Andy Warhol, but unfortunately that is lost media. Instead, let’s move straight on to Batman: The Movie (1966), starring Adam West.

This is more something that I noticed during the serial, but a bunch of iconic stuff in the Adam West version is directly parodying the serials. Stuff like the fighting style and scaling the wall with grappling hooks is pretty definitely a direct reference. So, that’s nice context to have.

Something that I think is very funny about this movie is the huge emphasis on modes of transportation. We get the batmobile, the batcopter, the batboat, the batbike (I know those names are wrong, don't @ me) and then an extended sequence where Batman and Robin just run. Obviously this is because little boys love vehicles, but I still enjoyed it. I wonder how many of these things were sold as toys at the time?

The premise is that the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler and Catwoman are all teaming up to dehydrate the UN security council and hold them for ransom. Notably, the Joker contributes absolutely nothing the whole movie. Everyone else is adding their little touch to the plan and Joker is literally just standing around giggling. 

Catwoman is the ringleader, and she also has an alter ego, a Russian reporter named Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisoff, who goes by Kitka, because it’s an acronym of her name. This really bothered me for no good reason, because Kitka could also just be a nickname for Kitayna. Like, why was the acronym thing necessary. I realize this doesn’t matter but it bothered me, okay.

At one point, Bruce goes on a date with Kitka for the purpose of luring out the rogues, who they think are after her. Since this is a sting operation, Dick and Alfred are watching from the car. Despite this, Bruce gets super horny and is absolutely going to bone down with Kitka even though he knows his father and son are watching him. Dick turns off the monitor because he doesn’t need that in his life, allowing Bruce to get kidnapped, but I can’t blame him for that one. Keep it in your pants, buddy.

This is another movie where Batman and Robin are working for the authorities. They very confidently announce that they are NOT vigilantes, they have deputized by the Gotham City Police Department! It’s lowkey kinda funny how different that line hits now. Can’t believe Batman and Robin are bootlickers. Well, Dick I can believe.

They also kill people in this movie! Not, like, super on purpose, but people die and they don’t care at all. This happened in the 1943 serial too. I guess it’s surprising to me because the Morality of Killing is such a hot topic in Batman now, but in this pre-Jason world, it straight up isn’t important. There’s this mildly horrifying sequence where a bunch of Penguin’s henchmen are dehydrated and brought back wrong, and they just explode on contact. Dead without even a body. This was one of two scenes that my dad informed me gave me nightmares as a child, the other being the one at the end where it is revealed that by mixing up the sand of the dehydrated UN security council, they all speak a different language now after being rehydrated. But what else did they lose? Their memories? Their souls? Chilling. Shout out to baby my dad for having an existential crisis about this.

I don’t know that I have much else to say about this one. Shark Repellent Batspray is still very funny. Burt Ward looked pretty good, imo, I feel like people are always dunking on him. Oh, apparently there was an old woman who lived with them in the show??? She has no lines but she’s there for a minute with Alfred. Who is this person. I’m not going to look it up because I don’t care, but there it is.

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Does the following sound like a legit enough Batman story? 

A massive gigantic hostile alien ship (let’s say it might be the Gordanians [the lizard aliens that invaded Tamaran thus leading to Starfire escaping to Earth in the first place] or the many other alien empires unfriendly to Earth because of the Justice League etc.) teleports over Gotham, unleashing its army across the city and declaring it occupied territory with such vigor and tech, even the bulk of the Justice League are unable to easily repel them directly. Instead, the Batfamily will enter the city by drop pods from the JLA Watchtower and secure whatever they can to ensure their future victory. Just as their pods reach Gotham’s atmosphere however, the ship fires a massive EMP that disorients all the pods and sends the Batfam hurling all across, Batman’s pod in particular hit hard and badly damaged before he crashes lands in the Central Plaza. Six hours later, he wakes, it’s now nighttime, the aliens are patrolling the Gotham streets taking out all resistance in their path, and Batman attempts contacting his partners, even Oracle all unsuccessfully due to the EMP shorting out all communications thoroughly. The only gadgets that he has semi functional other than his utility belt (grappling gun, smoke pellets, explosive gel, and Shark Repellent BatSpray) are his cowl’s built in map of the city, heat signature vision and the glider within his cape. All he can do now is find random bits of what look like evidence for what happened within the 6 hours he was knocked out to piece the whereabouts of his Family. Each piece of evidence, giving us a flashback to each Batfam member and what they did in relation to the piece. What’s more in spite of the strong alien presence occupying Gotham, some of its Rouges in particular Two Face, Penguin, Riddler, Bane, Professor Pyg and even Ra’s Al Ghul have took advantage of the chaos to enact their own operations and agendas during said occupation.

  Basically, Batman’s overarching objectives are find the Batfam, take down the Rouges and escape Gotham with their lives 

In a way, it’s Arkham Knight meeting Halo: ODST 

If it was in video game form, I’d did Halo composer Martin O’Donnell do the soundtrack 

You know it's gonna be a bad day when your hero passes away.... heavens got its own knight to protect it now. What will Gotham ever be without its hero?

ANTI-LETHAL FOG BATSPRAY

Batman: The Movie (1966) - Episode 62 - Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

“Hand down the Shark-repellent Batspray!” Let’s hope the Boy Wonder doesn’t get it confused with the Barracuda-repellent Batspray. That could create a toothy problem for the Caped Crusader. Join this episode’s Grue Crew - Joseph Perry, Whitney Collazo, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr - as they join Batman and Robin in their fight against the United Underworld in Batman: The Movie (1966).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 62 – Batman: The Movie (1966)

The Dynamic Duo faces four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

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  Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writers: Lorenzo Semple Jr., Bob Kane (based upon the characters created by)

Featured Cast:

Adam West as Bruce Wayne / Batman

Burt Ward as Dick Grayson / Robin

Lee Meriwether as Catwoman

Cesar Romero as The Joker

Burgess Meredith as The Penguin

Frank Gorshin as The Riddler

Alan Napier as Alfred Pennyworth

Neil Hamilton as Commissioner James "Jim" Gordon

Stafford Repp as Chief Miles O'Hara

Madge Blake as Aunt Harriet Cooper

Reginald Denny as Commodore Schmidlapp

Milton Frome as Vice Admiral Fangschleister

Van Williams (uncredited voice) as President Lyndon B. Johnson

Of course, the Classic Era Grue Crew knows Batman: The Movie is not a horror movie, but they just couldn’t help themselves. From the beginning of the podcast, they’ve been making connections between the film they discussed and Batman (TV-Series. 1966-1968) and even some of the Batman films. It was inevitable that they would eventually pull the Bat-trigger and feature this 1966 film. Joseph was the one who finally put it on the schedule and everyone had beaucoup Bat-fun covering this Batman: The Movie.

Chad points out Adam West wasn’t a shoo-in for the role of Batman and encourages us to check out Lyle Waggoner’s screentest on YouTube. Other works in horror by the cast and crew are identified by Joseph while Jeff focuses on other screenplays written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. Whitney notices Adam West’s version of Batman is more nurturing toward Robin than most later depictions. If you haven’t seen this campy and fun film, your Grue Crew highly recommends you watch Batman: The Movie in the near future!

If you’re unaware of the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era’s many connections to the Batman TV-series, you might want to check out these episodes: Frank Gorshin (The Riddler) in  48. Invasion Of The Saucer Men (1957), Vincent Price (Egghead) and Elish Cook Jr. (Prof. Isaacson in 17. House On Haunted Hill (1959), Carolyn Jones (Queen of Diamonds) in 24. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) and 25. House Of Wax (1953), and Alan Napier (Alfred) in 18. The Uninvited (1944) and 37. Cat People (1942). There are a lot more so go to it! 

The Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Grue Crew plan to release a new episode every three weeks. The next episode in our very flexible schedule will be The Wizard of Oz (1939), the first experience many children have with being scared to death by a movie.

Please send us feedback on the films we cover, ideas for future films, or the podcast itself. After all, without you, we’re just four horror freaks talking about the films we love. Send us an email at [email protected] or leave us a message, a review, or a comment at GruesomeMagazine.com, iTunes, the Gruesome Magazine Horror News Radio Facebook group or your friendly neighborhood podcast aggregator.

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