Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49655 in DVD
• Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
• Released on: 2000-02-22
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 91 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Frightless, Unorignal, and Uninspiring
This movie was a severe dissapointment, and probably the worst I have seen. Not only was it a rip-off of "Birds", it lacked a plot, and contained poor dialogue. Do not buy this movie!

i'm shocked at how low the movie is rated from other reviews
This is fun, fun film that's worth having fun with it despite many of the reviews to the contrary. I enjoyed the cheesy aspect of this film, it's almost classic watching Lou Diamond Philips shoot bats. It's in vein of They Live and movies of fun campy nature. Don't let the low rating fool you see it to enjoy it.

HORRIBLE!
Thank god i didn't spend $8 but only $3 on a rental for this flop! The acting was so awful, what motivation did these actors have? and what happened to Lou Diamond? he was so good in La Bamba and now he is just losing the acting ability. The rest of the acting was down right terrible. The movie did have my attention for the bloody killing scenes but after about 45 minutes i totally lost interest. i didn't care about any of the characters as they were not interesting and if a bat did attack them, who really cared? and the Bats! what a hoot! they looked so fake. and even some of the effects for the attacked victims were bad..get a load of the dummies! don't bother with this if you really like horror movies or campy movies -- this wasn't even funny enough to be camp. STAy away from this one at the video store or you will regret it! trust me!