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The Devil Bat
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 in his presence), he subsequently unleashes his monstrous pets to tear them to pieces. Believe it or not, this was one of PRC's more successful horror programmers, spawning a the sequel Devil Bat's Daughter. — Cavett Binion
Cast
Bela Lugosi - Dr. Paul Carruthers
Suzanne Kaaren - Mary Heath
Dave "Tex" 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
Similar Movies
The Flying Serpent (1946, Sherman Scott)
Movies with the Same Personnel
Spooks Run Wild (1941, Phil Rosen)
The Saint's Double Trouble (1940, Jack Hively)
Murder by Television (1935, Clifford Sanforth)
The Wolf Man (1941, George Waggner)
The Body Snatcher (1945, Robert Wise)
Son of Frankenstein (1939, Rowland V. Lee)
Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)
The Black Cat (1934, Edgar G. Ulmer)
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is followed by: The Devil Bat's Daughter (1946, Frank Wisbar)
is related to: Fangs (2001)
The Vampire Bat
Plot Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein
Bloodsucking winged creatures who may take human shape appear to have returned after centuries of dormancy to the middle-European municipality of Kleinschloss in this atmospheric, low-budget thriller from small-scale Majestic Pictures, and the burgomaster (Lionel Belmore) demands answers. With victims scattered everywhere, all bearing the distinctive puncture marks, police detective Karl Brettschneider (Melvyn Douglas) finds himself completely stymied. Brettschneider, who refuses to accept what he considers mere superstition, is not pleased when that eminent physician Dr. Otto Von Niemann (Lionel Atwill) hints that there may indeed be such things as murderous human bats. Herman Gleib (Dwight Frye), the village idiot, meanwhile, just happens to have a fondness for the nocturnal creatures — "They're so soft!" — and the villagers, as they are wont to do, grab their torches and commence a manhunt. Poor Herman is destroyed, but there is another killing. And this time the victim is Georgiana (Stella Adams), Dr. Von Niemann's housekeeper, who failed to serve the physician his late-night coffee.
Review by Hans J. Wollstein
Often cited as the cream of the crop among independently produced chillers of the 1930s, The Vampire Bat does indeed pack a wallop. Perhaps no longer able to frighten a modern, so-called more sophisticated audience, Frank Strayer's compact little horror treatise is nevertheless so well cast and produced with such élan as to consistently entertain. The physical trappings are entirely comparable to the Universal horror films of the era -- in fact, filmed on the studio lot, The Vampire Bat benefits from several of the famous standing sets -- and the cast is perhaps even better than what the larger studio would be willing to provide. Lionel Atwill adds yet another of his patented devilishly calculating Mad Doctors and Fay Wray is as comely as ever, even if she doesn't scream a single time. Add to that a young Melvyn Douglas as the male ingénue (a major improvement over Universal's tepid David Manners) and such grand genre perennials as Dwight Frye, Lionel Belmore, Robert Frazer, and Maude Eburne, and there is nary a dull moment. Eburne, incidentally, as Wray's hypochondriac aunt, becomes the subject of one of filmdom's funnier closing lines.
Cast
Lionel Atwill - Dr. Otto von Niemann
Fay Wray - Ruth Bertin
Melvyn Douglas - Karl Brettschneider
Maude Eburne - Gussie Schnappmann
George E. Stone - Kringen
Dwight Frye - Herman Gleib
Robert W. Frazer - Emil Borst
Rita Carlisle - Martha Mueller
Lionel Belmore - Burgermeister Gustave Schoen
William V. Mong - Sauer
Paul Weigel - Holdstadt
Stella Adams - Georgiana
Fern Emmett - Gertrude
Carl Stockdale - Schmidt the Morgue Keeper
Harrison Greene - Weingarten
William Humphrey - Dr. Haupt
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Dracula [Spanish Version] (1931, George Melford)
Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992, Francis Ford Coppola)
Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau)
The Bat (1959, Crane Wilbur)
Movies with the Same Personnel
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933, Michael Curtiz)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942, Erle C. Kenton)
Son of Frankenstein (1939, Rowland V. Lee)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1942, Roy William Neill)
Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
Doctor X (1932, Michael Curtiz)
House of Dracula (1945, Erle C. Kenton)
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is related to: The Sphinx (1933, Wilfred Lucas, Phil Rosen)
Attack Of The Monsters DVD aka Gamera vs. Guiron DVD
Plot Synopsis by Iotis Erlewine
When nasty children-eating aliens invade Earth, it is up to Gamera to save the day.
Cast
Nobuhiro Kashima
Chris Murphy
Kon Omura
Miyuki Akiyama
Yuko Hamada
Eiji Funakoshi
Similar Movies
War of the Monsters (1966, Shigeo Tanaka)
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001, Shusuke Kaneko)
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1993, Takao Okawara)
Destroy All Monsters! (1968)
Dagora, the Space Monster (1965, Ishiro Honda)
Yongary, Monster From the Deep (1967, Kim Ki-duk)
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002, Masaaki Tezuka)
Son of Godzilla (1967, Jun Fukuda)
Movies with the Same Personnel
Gammera the Invincible (1965, Noriyaki Yuasa)
Gamera vs. Zigra (1971, Noriyaki Yuasa)
Gamera vs. Gaos (1967, Noriyaki Yuasa)
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is followed by: Gamera vs. Zigra (1971, Noriyaki Yuasa)
is part of the series: Gamera [Film Series]
is preceded by: Gamera vs. Gaos (1967, Noriyaki Yuasa)
Monster from a Prehistoric Planet DVD
Plot Synopsis by Cavett Binion
The sole foray into the giant-monster arena from Nikkatsu Studios (producers of the classic The Burmese Harp) presents a cutesy clone of Toho's Rodan with a plot lifted from British city-stomper Gorgo. Unfortunately for monster fans, there is little of the earlier films' creativity on display. An infant version of the title creature (only one of an apparent species) is found on Obelisk Island by a group of Japanese reporters, caged and spirited away to Japan to become a media attraction. Naturally, this incurs not only the ire of the island natives, but the wrath of Baby Gappa's full-grown parents, who storm off to Tokyo to inflict rubber-suited mayhem on some particularly cheap-looking model buildings. Nikkatsu's lack of experience with the genre shows in the goofy-looking monster suits, shoddy effects and exaggerated cuteness. It's also evident from the film's tongue-in-cheek approach that the producers had no illusions about the inherent silliness of this project — an attitude somewhat less prevalent in Toho's monster series. Also known as Monster from the Prehistoric Planet.
Similar Movies
Gammera the Invincible (1965, Noriyaki Yuasa)
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Destroy All Monsters! (1968)
Dagora, the Space Monster (1965, Ishiro Honda)
Attack of the Monsters (1969, Noriyaki Yuasa)
Yongary, Monster From the Deep (1967, Kim Ki-duk)
Gojira (1954, Ishiro Honda)
War of the Monsters (1966, Shigeo Tanaka)
Varan the Unbelievable (1961, Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishiro Honda)
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In the Realm of Passion (1978, Nagisa Oshima)
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