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Bats is for everyone who misses those old Roger Corman monster movies, only it has animatronics and computer effects instead of papier-mâché. The title pretty much sums up the plot: crazed bats are running amok, disembowelling people and cattle. Only beautiful wildlife zoologist Dina Meyer and stalwart sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips can save the day. Let's be frank: the scenario is ludicrous, the dialogue 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 adistorted 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 film'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 humour. Not quite up to the standard of Tremors (still the definitive trash-horror flick), but better than most. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English German
Dolby Digital 5.1
Bats Abound Featurette
Directors Commentary
Filmographies
Isolated Music Score
Photo Galleries
SFX And Storyboard Comparison
Teaser Trailer
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   3 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Fun B-movie cheese, 19 Feb 2003 By  Pete Murphy - See all my reviews    It's little more than a tongue in cheek "homage" to Hitchcock's The Birds (but with far, far less of a plot), but Bats will easily help you pass 90 minutes with a bit of no-brainer fun. The plot's strictly by the numbers, lifting ideas from the likes of the Alien films and just about any given "nature runs amock" flick you care to mention, as the good guys try their hardest to wipe out an invasion of virus ridden bats that have taken a liking to the taste of human flesh. The real stars are the cgi and animatronic bats - seriously ugly little guys and thoroughly convincing with it. The actors do their best throwing out cornball dialogue in true B-movie style, and at no point do you ever feel the need to take the film seriously. It's a total no-brainer from start to finish with the usual mock scientific techno-babble added to make things at least try and sound realistic. The disc looks and sounds great with a stunning 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer and a nice active 5.1 audio stream with a hatful of extras to boot, the best of the bunch being the semi-serious commentary by both the director and the leading man, Lou Diamond Phillips. If you like B movies then you can't really go wrong with a monster flick like Bats.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Im batty about this movie, 30 Nov 2000 By  darthnik@yahoo.co.uk (England) - See all my reviews After a fun night and an easy going film with all the latest effects wrapped up in a jacket of suspence? Then Bats is for you. When a local Sherrif suspects something wrong with the wildlife in his Town he calls on zoologist Dr Sheila Casper to help find the problem. The problem it turns out are geneticly modified bats. These bats are smart, fast and very very deadly, and so begins the hunt for their layer. Sporting excellent cgi effects, pacy direcing, value for money bonus material and fantastic dolby digital sound, this is one movie that will deliver the goods.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Demented inflight moviemaking from the writer of The Aviator, 23 Mar 2006 By  Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews       Bats may well be the second best swarm of bats threatens Texas town movie ever made and also serves as a timely reminder that the 'acclaimed playwright' who wrote The Aviator is also responsible for more generic efforts like Star Trek Nemesis and The Time Machine remake. The major thing the film has going for it is that at least it knows its rubbish even though it does play it straight, even when the dialog is pure z-movie ("Yes, major - it was us!"). The characters are standard issue: Lou Diamond Philips is the small town Texas sheriff hiding a dark secret (he's an opera fan), Dina Mayer the bat expert whose insistence that she could never willingly hurt a bat translates into killing hundreds of the suckers while Bob Gunton's the mad scientist who genetically enhanced the vicious little bloodsuckers. Why? "Because I'm a scientist. That's what we do." Naturally, the bats head for the nearest town showing a revival of Nosferatu (it doesn't state whether its Murnau or Herzog, but clearly small town Texans have eclectic arthouse tastes), and this being Texas, where everybody knows everything about everything and immediately fill the streets with expendable extras for the obligatory Bodega Bay scene, man is on the menu. Of course, these deadly bats only need to take one swoop and bite out of the bit players to take them out of the movie, but can swarm all over one of the leading players and leave them only mildly scratched, just as it's a well know movie fact that being attacked by any flying creature brings on a bad case of weird camera effects, and this one ups The Swarm's slow motion with a misaligned lens: once your image is distorted, you'd better have your affairs in order Junk, but watchable junk.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 6 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews Are the Reviewers on Amazon bats?? How can any of the reviewers give this film a rating of more than 1 star?? Are you all bats?? It's just a shame you can't give a rating of less than one.. Read more Published 6 months ago by C. Haase Enjoyable Hokum Classic B-movie entertainment. Well, if truth be told, Bats is the kind of film that you would only watch if you were spending a saturday night watching TV at home and you... Read more Published on 1 Dec 2003 by natball This movie will stick in your throat This modern remake of "In Cold Blood." This is not the first bat movie and will probably not be the last. Read more Published on 14 Sep 2001 by B. Chandler Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 6 customer reviews...