Story Line
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.
“He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!”
Top Cast

Bela Lugosi
Dr. Paul Carruthers

Suzanne Kaaren
Mary Heath

Dave O'Brien
Johnny Layton

Guy Usher
Henry Morton

Yolande Donlan
Maxine

Donald Kerr
'One-Shot' McGuire
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Rating
5.3/ 10
Release Date
1940-12-13
Runtime
1h 8m
Genres
HorrorScience FictionCrime
Part of the Series
The Devil Bat Collection
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User Reviews (2)

John Chard
6/10
•11/4/2013Imbecile, Bombastic, Ignoramus.
The Devil Bat is directed by Jean Yarbrough and written by George Bricker and John T. Neville. It stars Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Donald Kerr and Gary Usher.
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CinemaSerf
6/10
•12/26/2024OK, 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 fe...






