ThiefHott Too much of everything

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

alexanderdavies-99382 This is another pairing of Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray - albeit in a more modest film. "The Vampire Bat" offers some effective moments along with Dwight Frye being his usual kooky self!The film resembles that of a "Universal" horror film but to the best of my knowledge, it wasn't actually filmed at that studio.Worth watching.

O2D I have no idea what I have just seen.Some people decided that there must be a vampire killing people while another guy thinks it's a person.They spend most of this very short movie accusing the obvious suspect of being the vampire and it gets boring after a couple minutes.While I watched this, I had to rewind a dozen times and I still couldn't tell you who the vampire was or who lived and who died.It's just your basic "doctors with guns" movie.Not much story and even less action.But I must admit that it's better than I expected and I have seen much worse.I have seen so many bad movies that I feel like giving two stars means it was good.It wasn't.

gridoon2018 I watched "The Vampire Bat" a couple of days after watching "Murders In The Zoo", also with Lionel Atwill, also made in 1933. The comedown in production quality is notable - there is a reason why you have heard of Paramount but not of "Majestic Pictures"! There is some impressive (subjective) camera-work, and the plot touches peripherally on the lynch-mob-mentality topic, but the film is excessively talky, and about as (un)surprising as a Scooby Doo episode. Atwill is perfectly cast, but his presence is a mixed blessing; it means than you know immediately who the villain of the story is. Fay Wray is highly desirable - even the camera loves her. ** out of 4.

Uriah43 "Karl Brettschneider" (Melyvn Douglas) lives in the small village of Klineschloss and is investigating 6 strange deaths that have happened in as many weeks. The peculiar thing about them is that each person was totally drained of blood and had two small "bite marks" on their neck which has led the villagers to believe that these deaths are due to a vampire. Likewise, the fact that huge bats have been seen around town and a local man by the name of "Herman Gleib" just happens to collect bats as pets have convinced them that he is the vampire. But Karl isn't so sure about any of it. Yet as the deaths continue even he becomes more in tune with the idea. At any rate, rather than detail the rest of the movie and possibly spoil it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that for an older film of this nature it was at the very least watchable. I especially liked the addition of Fay Wray (as Karl's girlfriend "Ruth Bertin") whose presence at the very least added some nice scenery to the picture. In any case, as I stated earlier this film was certainly watchable and I rate it as about average.