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THE DEVIL BAT

1940 US HMDB
December 13, 1940

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.

Directors

Jean Yarbrough

Cast

Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Guy Usher, Yolande Donlan, Donald Kerr, Edmund Mortimer, Gene O'Donnell, Alan Baldwin, John Ellis
Horror Crime Fantascienza

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Marco Castellini

A small American provincial town is terrorized by giant blood-sucking bats; it will be discovered that the culprit of everything is a mad scientist who perpetrates his revenge against some industrialists who have exploited his discoveries. A classic of black-and-white horror, starring Bela Lugosi, icon of 1940s horror cinema. Outdated, unsuitable for modern audiences.

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