The Devil Bat

Year: 1940

Runtime: 68 mins

Language: English

Director: Jean Yarbrough

CrimeScience FictionHorrorHorror the undead and monster classicsChilling experiments and classic monster horror

Dr. Paul Carruthers, angry that his employers Mary Heath and Henry Morton have swindled him out of company profits, engineers bats to double their size and programs them to strike when they sense a perfume he devises. He disguises the scent in a lotion he gives as a gift, leading to their deaths, which draw a newspaper reporter into the mystery.

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