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5.2/10
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Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Charlie L. Bird
- Beejay
- (as Charlie bird)
José Toledo
- Harold Masito
- (as Jose Toledo)
Flavio Martinez
- Isla Laloma
- (as Flavio Martinez III)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe interiors of the vampire bat cavern, which featured in the film's grand finale, was a set construction standing sixty feet tall built on the Stage 16 sound-stage at the Burbank Studios in Hollywood, California.
- GoofsDuran Nick Mancuso could not have ignited the crude oil with his lighter. The ignition temperature of crude is too high for what the lighter could produce.
- Quotes
Abner Tasupi: The winged animals are Yehwah's messengers
- Crazy credits[postscript] In recent years, vampire bats were discovered and destroyed in a cave in Val Verde County near Del Rio, Texas.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Sneak Previews: Prophecy/Bloodline/Moonraker/Dracula/Nightwing (1979)
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This movie's fun, if based on a questionable premise. We have the stereotypical Menace -- in this case, vampire bats -- who have to be exterminated before they Get Us All, and the pivotal character is an American Indian cop.
A tribal elder on a reservation is apparently behind the appearance of the bats, as he apparently shamanistically summoned them to "end the world." This because sacred grounds are being threatened by an industrialist, who wants to exploit resources.
Now, a word of reality here: movies to the contrary, real Vampire Bats don't suck blood. They evolved from fruit bats, and they nip their sleeping victims and lap the blood. The astonishing thing is that they do this without waking their victims. Their bite and anticoagulant saliva are being studied by medical institutions for new technological advances (in surgery and anesthesiology). They're neither aggressive nor dangerous.
Nonetheless, the movie bats are a menace, and a force of nature. The film reaches a satisfactory ending, which solved the problem set up by the industrialist, too. Fun, but not to be taken seriously.
A tribal elder on a reservation is apparently behind the appearance of the bats, as he apparently shamanistically summoned them to "end the world." This because sacred grounds are being threatened by an industrialist, who wants to exploit resources.
Now, a word of reality here: movies to the contrary, real Vampire Bats don't suck blood. They evolved from fruit bats, and they nip their sleeping victims and lap the blood. The astonishing thing is that they do this without waking their victims. Their bite and anticoagulant saliva are being studied by medical institutions for new technological advances (in surgery and anesthesiology). They're neither aggressive nor dangerous.
Nonetheless, the movie bats are a menace, and a force of nature. The film reaches a satisfactory ending, which solved the problem set up by the industrialist, too. Fun, but not to be taken seriously.
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- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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