Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
The Devil Bat
The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat

He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!

Genres

HorrorScience FictionCrime

OverView

Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, 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 decides to investigate.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

68 mins

Rating

5.2/10

Release Date

13 December 1940

Country

United States of America

Cast

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

Dr. Paul Carruthers

Suzanne Kaaren

Suzanne Kaaren

Mary Heath

Dave O'Brien

Dave O'Brien

Johnny Layton

Guy Usher

Guy Usher

Henry Morton

Yolande Donlan

Yolande Donlan

Maxine

Donald Kerr

Donald Kerr

'One-Shot' McGuire

Edmund Mortimer

Edmund Mortimer

Martin Heath

Gene O'Donnell

Gene O'Donnell

Don Morton

Alan Baldwin

Alan Baldwin

Tommy Heath

John Ellis

John Ellis

Roy Heath

Arthur Q. Bryan

Arthur Q. Bryan

Joe McGinty

Hal Price

Hal Price

Chief Wilkins

John Davidson

John Davidson

Prof. Percival Garland Raines

Billy Griffith

Billy Griffith

Coroner (scenes deleted)

Wally Rairden

Wally Rairden

Walter King

Similar Movies

5.5

48 Hours to Acapulco

November 1967 •German

A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.

7.6

The Big Sleep

August 1946 •English

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

6.8

Blood The Last Vampire

November 2000 •Japanese

In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demon.

7.9

Heat

December 1995 •English

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

7.7

The Maltese Falcon

October 1941 •English

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

7.2

Irreversible

May 2002 •French

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

5.9

Why Did You Kill Me?

April 2021 •English

The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.

3.5

Ostia: The Last Night

March 2011 •Italian

A dark story of desire and betrayal inspired by the events of the night of the brutal slaying of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

7.4

Killers of the Flower Moon

October 2023 •English

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

3.7

Bombshell Bloodbath

May 2014 •English

Doctor Carter losts his wife and devotes his life to resurrecting her. However, every test of his C-900 formula creates hungry, flesh-eating zombies. Then, his daughter Cara contracts the virus and she and her sister strive to obtain the anti-serum.

6.2

Johan Falk: Operation Näktergal

November 2009 •Swedish

Johan Falk and his colleagues at the GSI go after sex traffickers importing young women from the East and forcing them into prostitution.

8.0

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

September 1982 •English

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.

7.0

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

July 1991 •Japanese

After defeating Frieza, Goku returns to Earth and goes on a camping trip with Gohan and Krillin. Everything is normal until Cooler - Frieza's brother - sends three henchmen after Goku. A long fight ensues between our heroes and Cooler, in which he transforms into the fourth stage of his evolution and has the edge in the fight... until Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan.

0.0

Cornered

December 2011 •English

A Los Angeles homicide detective must stop a government trained serial killer before the agency that trained him can cover it up.

5.0

The Loreley's Grasp

June 1973 •Spanish

The legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for human blood. When one girl after another of a nearby boarding school is killed by her, a hunter named Sigurd is engaged to kill the monster.

5.6

Night of the Seagulls

August 1975 •Spanish

A bizarre cult that practices a ritual of sacrificing humans terrorizes a young doctor and his wife, who have just moved to the group's village.

6.6

Dillinger

July 1973 •English

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.

5.6

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

April 1996 •English

Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy who is almost as devoted to his job as he is to the pursuit of beautiful women. After he sets his sights on the ultra-classy Brandi Web, he launches an all-out assault to win her heart. Ultimately, charm, lust and passion prevail, but Darnell learns the hard way that when you play, you pay. Brandi is much harder to get rid of than she was to get--especially when she realizes that she has a rival vying for Darnell's affection. When he finally decides to call it quits, Brandi becomes an obsessed femme fatale stalking the new love of her life.

6.1

Ninja III: The Domination

September 1984 •English

Aerobics instructor Christie Ryder becomes possessed by the spirit of an evil ninja when she comes to his aid after he was shot down.

5.8

Crime Without Passion

August 1934 •English

Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.