Product Details

• Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon, Carlos Jacott
• Directors: Louis Morneau
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (THX Surround EX)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: February 22, 2000
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003L9CQ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,537 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Bats" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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

Product Description
Genetically altered super-bats have been unleashed by a deranged scientist and its up to a small town sheriff and a team of bat specialists to stop this blood-thirsty menace from spreading. Special features: never-seen-before footage uncut r rated version batty bloopers photo galleries and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/23/2004 Starring: Lous Diamond Phillips Dina Meyer Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Director: Louis Morneau

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Pinsoneault (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bats (1999) [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!

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst movie i ever saw., January 16, 2000

By	Erin Thompson (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

Bats, how many words are there to describe it.It was probably the worst movie i've ever seen next to Dudly Do-right. IT was a cheap rip off of of the movie "the birds" by alfred Hitchcock. The acting wasn't to bad but the story line on the other hand was the worst. The ending was stupid and there was no plot. They just ran around and did what ever, there really was not point except to get rid of the bats, some stuff was taken out of nowhere and just shoved into the movie. Well thanks.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars AAIGHT, March 26, 2000

By	ricky - See all my reviews

when i saw this i did not think it would be so corny. i mostly thought it was funny i was laughing so much hey manny got any ketchup?