Devil Bat (1941)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 5
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Release Date: Dec 13, 1940 Wide
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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 2,015
Movie Info
This campy, entertaining cheapie from PRC Pictures features Bela Lugosi as a chemist who plots an elaborate revenge scheme on his business partners, whom he feels have cheated him out of his share. To this end he develops a mutant breed of vicious, oversized bats and trains several of this breed to home in on a special chemical which he then blends with shaving lotion. Presenting gifts of the lotion to his partners as a peace offering (and browbeating them into splashing it on themselves while
Dec 13, 1940 Wide
Jun 18, 2002
Independent International Pictures Corp.
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Cast
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Bela Lugosi
Dr. Paul Carruthers -
Suzanne Kaaren
Mary Heath -
Dave O'Brien
Johnny Layton -
Guy Usher
Henry Morton -
Yolande Mallott
Maxine -
Donald Kerr
"One Shot" McGuire -
Ed Mortimer
Martin Heath -
Gene O'Donnell
Don Morton -
Alan Baldwin
Tommy Heath -
John Ellis
Roy Heath -
Arthur Q. Bryan
Joe McGinty -
Hal Price
Chief Wilkins -
John Davidson
Prof. Raines -
Billy Griffith
Coroner -
Wallace Rairdon
Walter King
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All Critics (10) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (5) | DVD (4)
If nothing else, the film does offer the enviable opportunity to hear Lugosi bellow to one of his inferiors, "Imbecile! Bombastic ignoramus!"
the worst bat effect ever
Horror fluff noted for Lugosi starring role.
I smell a bat!
Rubbed me the right way.
A corny Monogram cheapie, allowing Lugosi to chew the scenery.
You've got Lugosi giving it his all -- as if he believes he can hold this nonsense together by the sheer force of his will. And in some ways, he nearly does.
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