Bats has the look and feel of a film which really belongs in the straight to video category but it has just enough cheap thrills for genre buffs to give it a look.
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01/01/00
Bats (1999)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:7
Rotten:33
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: Neither scary nor creepy.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: An unruly gang of genetically altered bats threatens to take over a small western town. Now it's up to a bat expert (Dina Meyer) and the local sheriff (Lou Diamond Phillips from LA BAMBA) to stop... [More]
Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon
Director: Louis Morneau
Reviews for Bats
Top CriticOnce the little beasts start crawling into cars through the exhaust pipes with malevolent intent and dive-bombing people in convenience stores, it's hard not to think of Gremlins.
02/24/09
This bad-scientist movie about bats that attack humans and the humans who track them -- Texas sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and zoologist Dina Meyer -- is played straight, though it wasn't intended to be taken that way.
02/24/09
A movie that's too unintentionally funny to be scary.
02/24/09
A vigorously paced and surprisingly satisfying piece of work.
06/17/08
Top Criticyeah, that's what the world needs
02/28/08
The bat attacks are a series of violent camera pans rendering everything a blur; the continuity and computer-generated imagery is dire; and the dialogue stinks, as do the performances.
06/24/06
You really want to like it. It's kind of funny in a simple, old-fashioned kind of way, like the B-movies of old. But it really doesn't have much energy or imagination.
06/03/06
It's no knockout, but it's fun and gets the job done in a nonmalicious way, which more of today's punishing filmmakers should emulate.
07/21/05
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12/31/04
Bats has nothing to do with baseball or Bela Lugosi. Too bad, because either would be a welcome distraction from this cheesy B-flick about genetically altered man-eating bats.
02/21/04
Having your own house infested with bats would be more welcome.
03/04/03
Treat yourself to a quality cinematic experience. Go to the theatre and see anything else that's playing.
02/08/03
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12/08/02
Bats sticks to the ground rules of its genre and gets through a story at once predictable and preposterous with an ingratiating absence of pretension.
12/02/02
It should provide a welcome fix for many horror film addicts.
08/02/02
The film skillfully mixes in humor (thanks in great part to the straight-faced clichéd phrases and no-nonsense lines delivered by Leon) without undermining the tension.
06/05/02
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03/24/02
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03/19/02
Now here we go, a resolutely B-movie thriller with delusions of grandeur.
12/10/01
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