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13/12/1940 Horror, Science Fiction, Crime 1h 8m
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He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!

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.

  1. Jean Yarbrough

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Bela Lugosi

    Dr. Paul Carruthers

  2. Suzanne Kaaren

    Mary Heath

  3. Dave O'Brien

    Johnny Layton

  4. Guy Usher

    Henry Morton

  5. Yolande Donlan

    Maxine

  6. Donald Kerr

    'One-Shot' McGuire

  7. Edmund Mortimer

    Martin Heath

  8. Gene O'Donnell

    Don Morton

  9. Alan Baldwin

    Tommy Heath

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-12-26
OK, so almost all of the peril comes from a man out of shot careering about with a plastic bat on the end of a fishing rod, but somehow this daft sci-fi hokum makes a point. It's all about the rather shrewd scientist "Carruthers" (Bela Lugosi) who feels slighted by his pals who made a load of long-term cash from an invention that he took the quick buck from. By way of exacting his cunning revenge, he has devised a formula that purports to be an after shave but is actually toxically attractive to a giant bat. Suffice to say, nobody survives their encounter for long and so soon both the police a...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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