Product Details

• Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon, Carlos Jacott
• Directors: Louis Morneau
• Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: August 8, 2000
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (68 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003L9CS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #691,672 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This movie is for everyone who misses the old Roger Corman monster movies, only it has animatronics and computer effects instead of papiermâché. The title of Bats pretty much sums up the plot: Crazed bats are running amok, disemboweling people and cattle. Only beautiful wildlife zoologist Dina Meyer (Johnny Mnemonic, Starship Troopers) and stalwart sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, the Young Guns movies, Courage Under Fire) can save the day! Let's be frank: The scenario is ludicrous, the dialogue God-awful, the special effects unconvincing--try as they might, the bats just aren't that scary--but what does it matter? The movie rips along effectively. There's always a bat attack just around the corner and the director makes liberal use of all kinds of editing and camera effects, including a distorted bat-cam point of view that makes no sense at all but is pretty entertaining. Various scenes imitate Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but lack even a hint of that movie's eerie precision. The actors play it straight without trying to be particularly serious. All in all, Bats knows what it is--trash-horror--and accomplishes its ends with good humor. Not quite up to the standard of Tremors (still the definitive trash-horror flick), but better than most recent efforts. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars i'm shocked at how low the movie is rated from other reviews, September 10, 2005

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Ronnie Clay "R.C." (Winnsboro, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bats [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is fun, fun film that's worth having fun with it despite many of the reviews to the contrary. I enjoyed the cheesy aspect of this film, it's almost classic watching Lou Diamond Philips shoot bats. It's in vein of They Live and movies of fun campy nature. Don't let the low rating fool you see it to enjoy it.

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Frightless, Unorignal, and Uninspiring, November 26, 1999

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Pinsoneault (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bats [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie was a severe dissapointment, and probably the worst I have seen. Not only was it a rip-off of "Birds", it lacked a plot, and contained poor dialogue. Do not buy this movie!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars very silly,but fun!, February 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Bats [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was very mad at a couple of things,plot and diolauge.This movie is also very chessy!I was even surprise to see it in the movie theater.I have only one good thing to say about this movie,it is fun to watch.I mean,who didnt think this movie was going to be bad.My advice to you is just sit back and have fun!It is still kinda bad.Who in the hect is LEON?I have not even heard of him.