The Devil Bat (1940)

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CURRENT RANK#1020 VOTES12
STATUS DROPPED OUT
LAST APPEARANCE 2023AT#735
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Film details

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Year1940
CountryUSA
TypeMovie
Runtime68m
CastBela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Guy Usher, Yolande Donlan, Donald Kerr, Edmund Mortimer, Gene O'Donnell, Alan Baldwin, John Ellis

Review

"Poor Bela [Lugosi] really never got the love he deserved in Hollywood, and his infamous career crash was in full tilt boogie when he made this fun little nonsense-fest, and yet he still gives it his all. Overacting and hamming it up like the legend he truly was. Any film with Lugosi playing a mad scientist is always worth a watch. The film itself is, of course, a ridiculously plotted mess, that deals with a vengeful, bitter-ass scientist, an electrically enlarged pissed off bat that screams like a little girl, and a fragrance that's more dangerous to your health than your fathers ‘Old Spice'. At just over an hour, it's a quick watch and is a ton of fun for all the Bela fan's out there." - Kyle Scott, The Horror Hotel

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,0002
HIGHEST#7352023
LOWEST#1,7922024
#650#1,264#1,877TOP 1,00020192020202120232024202520262019 — #1,050 · Outside Top 1,0002020 — #1,688 · Outside Top 1,0002021 — #880 · Top 1,0002023 — #735 · Top 1,0002024 — #1,792 · Outside Top 1,0002025 — #1,045 · Outside Top 1,0002026 — #1,020 · Outside Top 1,000
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