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Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne, George E. Stone ... see more see more... , Dwight Frye , Robert W. Frazer , Rita Carlisle , Lionel Belmore , William V. Mong , Fern Emmett , Harrison Greene , William Humphrey , Carl Stockdale , Paul Weigel , Stella Adams

Bloodsucking winged creatures who may take human shape appear to have returned after centuries of dormancy to the middle-European municipality of Kleinschloss in this atmospheric, low-budget thriller ... read more read more...from small-scale Majestic Pictures, and the burgomaster (Lionel Belmore) demands answers. With victims scattered everywhere, all bearing the distinctive puncture marks, police detective Karl Brettschneider (Melvyn Douglas) finds himself completely stymied. Brettschneider, who refuses to accept what he considers mere superstition, is not pleased when that eminent physician Dr. Otto Von Niemann (Lionel Atwill) hints that there may indeed be such things as murderous human bats. Herman Gleib (Dwight Frye), the village idiot, meanwhile, just happens to have a fondness for the nocturnal creatures -- "They're so soft!" -- and the villagers, as they are wont to do, grab their torches and commence a manhunt. Poor Herman is destroyed, but there is another killing. And this time the victim is Georgiana (Stella Adams), Dr. Von Niemann's housekeeper, who failed to serve the physician his late-night coffee. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 9 min.

Directed by: Frank R. Strayer

Release Date: January 21, 1933

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DVD Release Date: March 1, 2005

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  • FilmFanatik
    May 14, 2011
    FilmFanatik
    An extremely silly film, but with an interesting plot. It's always nice to see Fay Wray on the screen. Melvyn Douglas does some nice work, as does Lionel Atwill, but it's a very poor package that they're wrapped up in that has only the slightest promise.
  • 366weirdmovies
    November 1, 2010
    366weirdmovies
    Quickie poverty row Dracula knockoff about a plague of vampiric activity in a German village: is it a real vampire, bloodsucking bats, or a human killer posing as a nosferatu? The flick features a good cast (Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye) and it starts... read more with strong Gothic atmosphere, but fizzles out as the plot is revealed.
  • ajv2688
    September 6, 2010
    ajv2688
    This movie is kind of silly, and I hated the ending.
  • sykora259517
    December 16, 2007
    sykora259517
    I'm not sue this is the movie I saw but the same name...
    The Detective in it had me laughing in a part with the sarcasm. The way he gets the grandmother going!

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Ken Hanke
December 29, 2002
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Great cast and borrowed sets (from Universal) distinguish this poverty row thriller.

August 8, 2006
New York Times

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January 1, 2000
Chicago Reader

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Emanuel Levy
July 21, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Carol Cling
August 29, 2003
Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Christopher Null
May 4, 2003
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

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January 26, 2006
Time Out

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