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The Devil Bat

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Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren) and Henry Morton (Guy Usher), have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter (Dave O'Brien) decides to investigate.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 02/12/2023
2/4
If nothing else, the film does offer the enviable opportunity to hear Lugosi bellow to one of his inferiors, "Imbecile! Bombastic ignoramus!" Go to Full Review Rosalie Kicks MovieJawn 10/22/2018
3/4
With the assistance of his trusty bats Beyyyla sets out to take revenge on his megalomaniac corporate employer. Need I say more? Go to Full Review John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) 10/24/2013
3/4
In many of his movies, Bela Lugosi has bats in his belfry. But only in 'The Devil Bat' does he *really* have bats in his belfry, or at least in the secret chamber behind his hidden laboratory. Go to Full Review Steve Crum Video-Reviewmaster.com 03/08/2008
2/5
Horror fluff noted for Lugosi starring role. Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 09/29/2005
3/5
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 10/11/2004
B
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Rick G @RT71174365 11/22/2024 Lugosi at his best in this low budget movie See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 07/30/2024 Very dated by today standards but for an 1940s B horror film it’s fine and you could do a lot worst See more Prospero E @RT91103852 11/01/2022 Is it campy? Yes. Are the effects dated? Yes. Do either of these factors detract from my enjoyment of this movie? Absolutely not! In fact, they just add to its charm. Bela Lugosi is incredible here as always. See more 04/12/2015 not a bat Lugosi film. See more 09/18/2013 It may be tripe, but it's GOOD Tripe--Classic cheese!! See more 09/11/2013 The Devil Bat is about a scientist experimenting on bats and ensuring that a certain scent provokes them; it appears to be similar to Frankenstein in terms of the basic premise and is neither thrilling nor scary. A scientist designs a scent that becomes popular and brings great profits to a family perfume producer while the scientist obtained only a lump cash amount. He then uses enlarged bats to kill the members of the profiting family but is killed by them when he is outsmarted by a reporter. 1/10 See more Read all reviews
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Jean Yarbrough

Director

Bela Lugosi

Dr. Paul Carruthers

Suzanne Kaaren

Mary Heath

Dave O'Brien

Johnny Layton

Guy Usher

Henry Morton

Yolande Donlan

Maxine

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Synopsis Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren) and Henry Morton (Guy Usher), have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter (Dave O'Brien) decides to investigate.
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Producer
Jack Gallagher
Screenwriter
John T. Neville
Distributor
Producers Releasing Corporation
Production Co
Producers Releasing Corp
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 13, 1940, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 28, 2011
Runtime
1h 9m