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The Devil Bat
“He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!”
5.3 / 10• 1940• 1h 8m•NR• English
HorrorScience FictionCrime
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Bela Lugosi
Dr. Paul Carruthers
Lead
Suzanne Kaaren
Mary Heath
Dave O'Brien
Johnny Layton
Guy Usher
Henry Morton
Yolande Donlan
Maxine
Donald Kerr
'One-Shot' McGuire
EM
Edmund Mortimer
Martin Heath
Gene O'Donnell
Don Morton
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jean Yarbrough's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Devil Bat is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
