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 ├┤                          .. proudly presents ..                          ││ 
 ││                    The.Bat.People.1974.DVDrip.x264-CG                    ├┤ 
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 ││  filename ...................... The.Bat.People.1974.DVDrip.x264-CG.mkv  ││ 
 ││  filesize ...................................................... 1.42Gb  ││
 ││  video .................................. 2191kbps Matroska (0.241 bpp)  ││ 
 ││  duration ........................................ 1:32:56 @ 23.976 fps  ││
 ││  resolution ........................................ 720*464 (AR: 16:9)  ││ 
 ││  audio ............................................. 192kbps Dolby AC-3  ││
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 ││ A doctor specializing in bats, and his new wife interrupt their          ││ 
 ││ honeymoon to go spelunking in Carlsbad Cavern. There he is bitten by a   ││ 
 ││ fruit bat and inexplicably undergoes a transformation into a vampire     ││ 
 ││ bat. He ultimately escapes, however, escaping back to the caves. His     ││ 
 ││ wife, infected by her husband, kills the local constabulary and goes to  ││ 
 ││ join him.                                                                ││ 
 ││                                                                          ││
 ││ starring: Stewart Moss, Marianne McAndrew and Michael Pataki             ││
 ││ director: Jerry Jameson                                                  ││
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 ││ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071198/                                     ││
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   ├┤ :: checklist ::                                                      ├┤ 
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 ││     * Bat .......................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Transformation ............................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Cave ......................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Honeymoon .................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Vampire ...................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Hospital ..................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Rabies ....................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Animal Attack ................................................ [X] ││ 
 ││     * Desert ....................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Grindhouse ................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Violence ..................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Mutant ....................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Drunkenness .................................................. [X] ││ 
 ││     * Monster ...................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Movie With Twist In The End .................................. [X] ││ 
 ││     * MST3K ........................................................ [X] ││ 
 ││     * Man Beast .................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Scientist .................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Blood ........................................................ [X] ││ 
 ││     * Police ....................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Skiing ....................................................... [X] ││ 
 ││     * Independent Film ............................................. [X] ││ 
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   ├┤ :: notes ::                                                          ├┤ 
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 ││ Don't get me wrong...I know this is a terrible movie. But let me point   ││ 
 ││ out a few things that make it an enjoyably terrible movie, and even a    ││ 
 ││ few things that reveal that it may not have started out so terrible to   ││ 
 ││ begin with.                                                              ││ 
 ││                                                                          ││ 
 ││ The plot is a standard werewolf cliche with bats substituting for        ││ 
 ││ wolves, as Moss and McAndrew make an unwise decision to veer from their  ││ 
 ││ cave-exploring party and fall into a pit, where they are attacked by a   ││ 
 ││ bat. The bat bites Moss and immediately the kookiness begins, with Moss  ││ 
 ││ suddenly launching into convulsions at inopportune moments. The minimal  ││ 
 ││ special effects, by Stan Winston no less, allow for a single bat-hand    ││ 
 ││ and a climactic bat-head, but other than that we just have to use our    ││ 
 ││ imaginations to picture the doctor's alter-ego. All we really see of the ││ 
 ││ much-mentioned murders are a couple of point-of-view shots of the        ││ 
 ││ victims cowering from the "monster".                                     ││ 
 ││                                                                          ││ 
 ││ Yes, the horror is annoyingly non-existent in this picture, but look at  ││ 
 ││ what else we have to make up for it. First of all, a wonderful           ││ 
 ││ characterization of a distressed b-movie wife by McAndrew. Second, there ││ 
 ││ is Michael Pataki, a veteran of grade-Z silliness like "Grave of the     ││ 
 ││ Vampire" and "Dracula's Dog". Come to think of it, he must have only     ││ 
 ││ liked to appear in offbeat vampire films. Last and best is the brief     ││ 
 ││ appearance of Arthur Space as a tramp that Moss briefly encounters.      ││ 
 ││ Hardcore fans of the genre may recognize him as the zany cannibal        ││ 
 ││ husband in "Terror House", aka "Folks at Red Wolfe Inn".                 ││ 
 ││                                                                          ││ 
 ││ The locations are bizarre but effective. One other reviewer mentioned    ││ 
 ││ the jarring shift between snow-covered mountains and the desert, and     ││ 
 ││ this movie seems to take place in a no-man's land of uninhabited trailer ││ 
 ││ parks, shacks, motels, caves, and hospitals. The fate the befalls the    ││ 
 ││ obnoxious sheriff is poorly realized but undeniably creepy. I remember   ││ 
 ││ seeing the horrendous movie "Bats", made on a budget light-years ahead   ││ 
 ││ of this film, and it wasn't any worse than what "Bats" offered.          ││ 
 ││                                                                          ││ 
 ││ While the wife's inability to figure out what's happening is a little    ││ 
 ││ annoying, it does make for an intriguing and eerie conclusion, where she ││ 
 ││ seems to befall the same fate as her husband and wanders into the cave   ││ 
 ││ amid the flutter of bats.                                                ││ 
 ││                                                                          ││ 
 ││ The silly world that this movie creates is not without its charms,       ││ 
 ││ although you have to be a little patient to stick with it until the end. ││ 
 ││ There's something cool about films that are this void of substance, and  ││ 
 ││ the emptiness of this one gives it a certain style by default.           ││ 
 ││ Bleakness, in every sense of the word.                                   ││ 
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