ApprovedThe Devil Bat

Popularity

53%

IMDB (3,607 votes)

5.4 /10

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Rotten Tomatoes

60%
500M
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500M
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Play Time: 68 mins
Horror, Science Fiction, Crime
The Devil Bat

Overview:
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.

Status: Released (1940-12-13)
Screen:John T. Neville, George Bricker
Productions: PRC
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
The Devil Bat
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Reviews

John Chard

Review text:

Imbecile, Bombastic, Ignoramus. The Devil Bat is directed by Jean Yarbrough and written by George Bricker and John T. Neville. It stars Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Donald Kerr and Gary Usher. The Heathville Horror! Straight out of Poverty Row is this PRC ....

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CinemaSerf

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OK, so almost all of the peril comes from a man out of shot careering about with a plastic bat on the end of a fishing rod, but somehow this daft sci-fi hokum makes a point. It's all about the rather shrewd scientist "Carruthers" (Bela Lugosi) who feels slighted by his pals who made ....

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