The Devil Bat (1940)

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.

Released

1940-12-13

Genres

Horror, Science Fiction, Crime

Runtime

68 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Jean Yarbrough, John T. Neville

TMDB rating

5.3/10 from 89 votes