Amazon.co.uk Review
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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