Bats (Special Edition)
by Louis Morneau
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Actor: Bob Gunton, Carlos Jacott, Dina Meyer, Leon, Lou Diamond PhillipsDirector: Louis Morneau
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Bats (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Lou Diamond in the rough
Summary: 5 Stars
Not since "Jaws" have I been more terrified by a movie with four letters in the title. Lou Diamond Philips is at his best (which is saying a lot) in this movie about bats with an attitude... a BAD attitude!I think this is the scariest "evil-animal" movie that's ever been made.
Yes... even scarier than "Harry and the Hendersons"!
Bats are so much scarier than sharks, because bats can fly. Sharks are pretty scary too, but they're gray and bats are black. If you ask me, black signifies "evil" much better than gray. You also don't get to see sharks that often because they're hidden under the water. Sure, bats are hidden too because they're black and they only fly at night, but you can see them if you turn the lights on.
If you like movies about being chased by nocturnal creatures in a small desert town, then "Bats" just might be the movie for you.
Summary of Bats (Special Edition)
GENETICALLY ALTERED SUPER-BATS HAVE BEEN UNLEASHED BY A DERANGED SCIENTIST AND IT'S UP TO A SMALL TOWN SHERIFF AND ATEAM OF BAT SPECIALISTS TO STOP THIS BLOOD-THIRSTY MENACE FROMSPREADING. SPECIAL FEATURES: NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE FOOTAGE, UNCUT R RATED VERSION, BATTY BLOOPERS, PHOTO GALLERIES AND MUCH MORE.This movie is for everyone who misses the old Roger Corman monster movies, only it has animatronics and computer effects instead of papiermâché. The title of Bats pretty much sums up the plot: Crazed bats are running amok, disemboweling people and cattle. Only beautiful wildlife zoologist Dina Meyer (Johnny Mnemonic, Starship Troopers) and stalwart sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, the Young Guns movies, Courage Under Fire) can save the day! Let's be frank: The scenario is ludicrous, the dialogue God-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 a distorted 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 movie'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 humor. Not quite up to the standard of Tremors (still the definitive trash-horror flick), but better than most recent efforts. --Bret Fetzer
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