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A voracious-insect specialist (Lucy Lawless), now a college professor in search of a simpler life, who gets caught up in the investigation of a student who is found dead with his body completely depleted of blood and realizes that the killers are actually vampire bats that have mutated due to a tainted water supply.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Arabic ( Subtitles ), Czech ( Subtitles ), Danish ( Subtitles ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), German ( Subtitles ), Greek ( Subtitles ), Hebrew ( Subtitles ), Hindi ( Subtitles ), Hungarian ( Subtitles ), Icelandic ( Subtitles ), Italian ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Polish ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Romanian ( Subtitles ), Slovenian ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), Turkish ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A former USDA voracious insect specialist who is now a college professor, Rierdon (Lawless), in search of a simpler life, has moved to Louisiana with her husband, Dryer (Neal), and their two daughters. But her life becomes more complicated when one of her students is found dead with his body covered in mysterious puncture marks and completely depleted of blood. When two of Rierdon's students are implicated in the boy's death, she immediately gets caught up in the investigation and discovers that the student was killed by a swarm of bats. When other attacks occur and more people are found dead in a similar fashion, evidence leads Rierdon to discover that these are not ordinary bats, but aggressive vampire bats that have mutated due to a tainted water supply. Though she tries to discourage them, several of her students volunteer to help in the investigation, which could all put them in grave danger. But Rierdon knows that she doesn't have a choice and must find a way to halt the bats' deadly progress. Brett Butler stars as Rierdon's strong willed sister-in-law, Shelly; Bottoms portrays the tow...Vampire Bats
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I purchased this at a bargain price but what a disappointment! I really love anything to do with vampires, werevolves and the supernatural as well as tense predator-terror films like Jaws. I thought maybe this would be a suspensful kind of horror film about a bunch of bats terrorizing a town but there was no suspense at all and very little terrorizing!! It's the kind of straight-to-DVD film that you would expect to see on daytime TV - it's not scary at all. I think the film is primarily aimed at teens - don't expect blood and gore or any suprises either.
Maybe if you are a big fan of Lucy Lawless and miss her from the days of Zena Warrior Princess, you MIGHT enjoy this (she plays a mother and a teacher though). Fans of the new 90210 series may also like to know that Silver (Jessica Stroup) is in this film although Amazon has left her off the cast list.
All in all, not so great - this is just not a horror film in any sense and it's just a real disappointment to watch as it doesn't deliver on anything else (tension, comedy, drama) either. I watched the film all the way through and the slow pace is the same throughout. It was nice seeing Lucy Lawless in a different kind of role but overall as a film: disappointing!
Maybe if you are a big fan of Lucy Lawless and miss her from the days of Zena Warrior Princess, you MIGHT enjoy this (she plays a mother and a teacher though). Fans of the new 90210 series may also like to know that Silver (Jessica Stroup) is in this film although Amazon has left her off the cast list.
All in all, not so great - this is just not a horror film in any sense and it's just a real disappointment to watch as it doesn't deliver on anything else (tension, comedy, drama) either. I watched the film all the way through and the slow pace is the same throughout. It was nice seeing Lucy Lawless in a different kind of role but overall as a film: disappointing!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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When the body of a student is found drained of blood and two of her students at Tate University are taken in for questioning a local biology teacher volunteers to examine the corpse and find that the body has been attacked by animals, soon proven to be bats.
Lucy Lawless, reprising her role of Maddy Rierdon from Locusts: Day of Destruction Locusts - Day Of Destruction [DVD] [2005] with her husband, who is also a teacher join forces with a group of students to capture one of the bats using a goat for bait. They discover the bats are a mutant strain and that the mutation has been caused by human intervention which soon leads to the revelation of corruption by town officials.
The blurb on the DVD case says "as the suspense - and body count- continues to mount", they are half right, there's plenty attacks but it is notably lacking in suspense. It's not particularly gory either, the warning on the back says "contains moderate forensic gore", namely a brief autopsy. There are a few good set pieces as the bats attack a local college party and a river boat party thrown by the local high rollers, and a few decent close-up shots of the bats chomping away at their victims.
It's not irredeemably bad, Lawless and Jessica Stroup as Eden are fine, as is Timothy Bottoms as the Mayor but the best acting honours here go to Brett Butler as Shelly.
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Lucy Lawless, reprising her role of Maddy Rierdon from Locusts: Day of Destruction Locusts - Day Of Destruction [DVD] [2005] with her husband, who is also a teacher join forces with a group of students to capture one of the bats using a goat for bait. They discover the bats are a mutant strain and that the mutation has been caused by human intervention which soon leads to the revelation of corruption by town officials.
The blurb on the DVD case says "as the suspense - and body count- continues to mount", they are half right, there's plenty attacks but it is notably lacking in suspense. It's not particularly gory either, the warning on the back says "contains moderate forensic gore", namely a brief autopsy. There are a few good set pieces as the bats attack a local college party and a river boat party thrown by the local high rollers, and a few decent close-up shots of the bats chomping away at their victims.
It's not irredeemably bad, Lawless and Jessica Stroup as Eden are fine, as is Timothy Bottoms as the Mayor but the best acting honours here go to Brett Butler as Shelly.
There are no extras.
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