Awesome Movie

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This made for TV film is about killer vampire bats but with an environmental twist.Some college students get drunk and drugged, end up being attacked supposedly by wild animals but the college biology professor Lucy Lawless reckons its mutated Vampire bats caused by toxic waste in the river.Lawless does her best with a lot of bland non entities. The CGI and special effects are below average and the action is boring with the bats being very selective as to who they attack.A poor and rather silly film.

Vampire Bats is set in the small Louisiana town of Mercier where Maddy Rierdon (Lucy Lawless) & her husband Dan Dryer (Dylan Neal) both teach biology at Tate University, Maddy learns that one of her students named Jason (Arnie Pantoja) has been found dead with all the blood drained from his body. Although murder is initially suspected Maddy takes a look at the body & discovers that it is covered in little bite marks that were caused by some animal but is unable to identify what. Shortly after two fishermen are also found dead with the same bite marks & having been drained of blood. Maddy eventually discovers that due to pollution an existing strain of Vampire Bat has mutated into something more aggressive that attacks & kills humans. Because all the local officials are incompetent Maddy & a few of her teenage students set out to destroy the Bat menace by themselves & save Mercier...Not to be confused with the classic Vincent Price film The Vampire Bat (1933) this cheap made for television Creature Feature crap was directed by Eric Bross & is terrible, the second time husband & wife team of Dan Dryer & Maddy Rierdon have battled mutant creatures after having previously appeared in Locusts (2005) which I have not seen but am sure is as crap as Vampire Bats. Vampire Bats is one of those routine lacklustre Creature Feature films that has stupid scientific reasoning behind it, illogical character motivation as they just do the most inane things, a shallow environmental message that feels like an afterthought & some terrible attempts at plot twists which come off as predictable. Even though the IMDb lists a run time of 120 minutes (maybe that's with commercials?) Vampire Bats runs a more modest 90 odd minutes but still feels like a real effort to sit through it in one go, the pace is slow with minimal Bat attacks, a low body count & dull character's who are purely stock clichés for this type of film. If I am honest I can't really think of a single positive thing to say about Vampire Bats (both the film & the real life creature when I think about it) & there are far better Creature Feature films out that that are far more fun to watch. A real lifeless, bland & routine effort that exists purely to fill a time-slot on television.Vampire Bats also has that made for television look to it, it plods along with no real style & has a young teen cast that were hired for their looks rather than their acting ability. There are very few actual Bat attacks, those we see are poorly staged with no sense of build-up at all. The film uses a mix of traditional puppet Bats & CGI computer effects with neither looking that great, the Bats are barely used to be honest & while there's lots of panicked talk of the threat they pose we see much of that threat materialise. There's zero gore, OK maybe a couple of dead Deer & a few Bat bites but nothing that will shock you or keep you up at night.Apparently the filming of Vampire Bats had to stop while the production was in New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina & was relocated to Nova Scotia in Canada for completion. The acting is bad, just bad all round really.Vampire Bats is a poor Creature Feature of no interest at all, it has no gore, no scares, a stupid predictable plot & typical environmental message. Just another worthless Creature Feature that fails to deliver in any aspect, there is much better out there.

Found this film very entertaining and horrifying with a real close up to a bats face and horrible teeth and angry looks. These bats had a devil looking way of dealing with humans and animals. It took quite a while before some of the local people and mostly college students discovered the fact that bats had taken on an aggressive attitude to loud, wild music and were mostly turned on to red hot blood flowing humans. Lucy Lawless,(Maddy Rierdon), gave an outstanding performance and showed off her great body form. There was lots of wild parties and plenty of young gals and guys getting really spaced out. One girl started foaming at the mouth in class and caused a great deal of gasps in the classroom. Great film and lots of fun to watch, especially the Vampire Bats!

The main monster movie formula hasn't changed since the 1950s: The pet evil technology of the time (radiation, pollution, germ warfare, genetic engineering) in conjunction with the pet villain of the time (mad scientists, the CIA, right wing militias, evil industrialists) turn some natural creature into a dangerous mutated version of itself. Fighting it is made harder by clueless citizenry, corrupt politicians, and head-in-the-sand bureaucrats. Frequently the good guys are aided by a guilt-wracked insider. In the end, some sound or scent is often used to lure the creatures into one place where they can be destroyed.The variables are filled, in this entry, by pollution, evil industrialists, vampire bats, and music. Instead of an explosion, they are killed by steam. We don't see much of the insider, who is used mainly to throw the audience off as to which character is a crook.This movie isn't as silly or heavy-handed as many movies using this formula, plus the acting is better, but the fact remains that you've seen it dozens of times before. (Although the choices of evil technology and favorite villain always result in some reviewer gushing that it was "ripped from the headlines.")