The Devil Bat

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

Dec 13 1940 Approved 1h 8m
Horror, Sci-Fi

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.

Plot

Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.

Written by

John T. Neville, George Bricker

Directed by

Jean Yarbrough

Cast

Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

PRC

Languages

English

Awards

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Trailers
The Devil Bat 1940 Trailer
Featurettes
Joe Dante on THE DEVIL BAT
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