Number Rolled: 57
Movie Name/Year: Vampire
Bats (2005)
Genre: Horror
Length: 89
minutes
Rating: NR
Director: Eric
Bross
Writer: Doug
Prochilo
Actors: Lucy
Lawless, Dylan Neal, Liam Waite, Timothy Bottoms, Brett Butler, Tony Plana,
Jessica Stroup, Arnie Pantoja, Brandon Henry Rodriguez, Robin Hines, Josh
Segarra, Andrew Matthews, Donna Duplantier, Damon Lipari, Jerrod Paige, Bobby
Campo, Stephanie Honore, Jacque Henry, Emily Michel, Peggy Walton-Walker, Craig
Ferguson
“Vampire Bats” is the follow up to “Locusts” from earlier in
2005. Dr. Maddy Reardon and her husband, Dan, have just moved to a new town in
order to build a calmer, easier life – preferably away from evil locusts. While
teaching, Dr. Maddy is informed of the death of one of her students and begins
an investigation to find out what did it. She knows for sure it wasn’t the two
students the sheriff arrested.
I haven’t seen “Locusts.” I didn’t even realize this was a
sequel until the characters in the movie said something suspicious that made me
decide to look it up. To be honest, although I might look for “Locusts” in
order to see it, it wasn’t necessary. This movie did well standing on its own. In
fact, this movie did really well altogether.
It was a B movie, but the story and the actors were really
on the ball. The bats might have been one step up from claymation, but I found
that forgivable. In movies like this, I often find myself really bored. In the
beginning, I was fairly certain nothing would be different. However, the
storyline wound up breaking stereotypes and Lawless certainly showed just how
amazing she still is. There was a little bit of a secondary love story that I
found unnecessary, but they really didn’t spend much time on it, so it didn’t
affect my opinion all that much.
“Vampire Bats” was a good, solid, B-movie. A creature
feature, without a doubt, but one that was absolutely worth it.
Overall Opinion – 3.5/5
P.S. The Random Rating: PG-13 (For sex references and blood/moderate
violence)
P.P.S. The sound started to come on a delay in the last half hour or so.