Written by John Thomas Neville
Directed by Jean Yarborough
Starring Bela Lugosi
USA
Get this story: a scientist creates colognes and perfumes for a corporation. The heads of the corporation get rich off these products, but the scientist only gets a small cut. So, to get revenge, he creates a giant bat and a new cologne that attracts the giant bat. Tricking his adversaries into wearing the cologne, and then releasing the giant bat, he’s able to take them out one by one.
Crazy, right? I know! It’s so good. Just when you think it can’t get any better? Bela Lugosi is the scientist!
This is a bargain basement production but boy is it fun, with a big crazy bat puppet that swoops down on its victims, accompanied by a dubbed-in other-worldly screeching scream. Only an intrepid reporter and his bumbling photographer companion can hope to stop the madness. Will they be able to before the devil bat eats the babes they’re making time with?
I know this isn’t top tier stuff, but I saw it sitting there on Kanopy, the website where you can watch stuff by just entering your library card, and I thought – I gotta see at least one Bela Lugosi flick this year!
Lugosi doesn’t disappoint. As evidenced by his work with Ed Wood, he gives his all in even the slightest of productions.
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