(1999)
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(1999) |
A Texas town is overrun by mutant bats, and it's up to a small band to stop the creatures by finding their nest.
Also known as: Blood Moon (original title)
Subgenres: "mad" science, monster
Director: Louis Morneau
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer
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Don't misunderstand me. I know what writer John Logan and director Louis Morneau were trying to do with this film, namely, make an updated version of a fifties monster movie. After all, what is genetic manipulation if not the atomic scare of the modern era? That said, Logan and Morneau's efforts don't wash. Bats is an intermittedly entertaining movie that is made ineffective by, to name a few things, unrealistic characters, fake monsters, and a tenuous grasp of the realities of science and the methodology that goes with it (or so my wife the biochemist tells me). The dialogue is crisp enough, Lou Diamond Phillips gives a performance that's better than the material deserves, and the film comes to a rousing finale, but Bats is just basically pretty dumb. (Jan 7, 2001)
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Watch in the movie for a theater playing Nosferatu, the early vampire film.
