This bad-scientist movie about bats that attack humans and the humans who track them -- Texas sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips and zoologist Dina Meyer -- is played straight, though it wasn't intended to be taken that way.
Bats
Where do you hide when the dark is alive?
1999 · 1h 31m · PG-13
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Louis Morneau
Overview
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Director and cast
- Louis Morneau Director
- Lou Diamond Phillips as Sheriff Emmett Kimsey
- Dina Meyer as Dr. Sheila Casper
- Bob Gunton as Dr. Alexander McCabe
- Leon as Jimmy Sands
- Carlos Jacott as Dr. Tobe Hodge
- David McConnell as Deputy Wesley Munn
- Marcia Dangerfield as Mayor Amanda Branson
- Oscar Rowland as Dr. Swanbeck
- Juliana Johnson as Emma
- James Sie as Sergeant James
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A movie that's too unintentionally funny to be scary.
A vigorously paced and surprisingly satisfying piece of work.
The bat attacks are a series of violent camera pans rendering everything a blur; the continuity and computer-generated imagery is dire; and the dialogue stinks, as do the performances.
It's no knockout, but it's fun and gets the job done in a nonmalicious way, which more of today's punishing filmmakers should emulate.
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