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Genetically altered super-bats have been unleashed by a deranged scientist and its up to a small town sheriff and a team of bat specialists to stop this blood-thirsty menace from spreading. Special features: never-seen-before footage uncut r rated version batty bloopers photo galleries and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/23/2004 Starring: Lous Diamond Phillips Dina Meyer Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Director: Louis Morneau
This movie is for everyone who misses the old Roger Corman monster movies, only it has animatronics and computer effects instead of papiermâché. The title of Bats pretty
Genetically altered super-bats have been unleashed by a deranged scientist and its up to a small town sheriff and a team of bat specialists to stop this blood-thirsty menace from spreading. Special features: never-seen-before footage uncut r rated version batty bloopers photo galleries and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/23/2004 Starring: Lous Diamond Phillips Dina Meyer Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Director: Louis Morneau
This movie is for everyone who misses the old Roger Corman monster movies, only it has animatronics and computer effects instead of papiermâché. The title of Bats pretty much sums up the plot: Crazed bats are running amok, disemboweling people and cattle. Only beautiful wildlife zoologist Dina Meyer (Johnny Mnemonic, Starship Troopers) and stalwart sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, the Young Guns movies, Courage Under Fire) can save the day! Let's be frank: The scenario is ludicrous, the dialogue God-awful, the special effects unconvincing--try as they might, the bats just aren't that scary--but what does it matter? The movie rips along effectively. There's always a bat attack just around the corner and the director makes liberal use of all kinds of editing and camera effects, including a distorted bat-cam point of view that makes no sense at all but is pretty entertaining. Various scenes imitate Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but lack even a hint of that movie's eerie precision. The actors play it straight without trying to be particularly serious. All in all, Bats knows what it is--trash-horror--and accomplishes its ends with good humor. Not quite up to the standard of Tremors (still the definitive trash-horror flick), but better than most recent efforts. --Bret Fetzer
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 22 February 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780767844529 UPC: 043396045101
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