Tss5078 When it comes to horror, either you get it or you don't. Those who don't, think it's all about blood, monsters, and scaring people, but in fact there are actually five distinct forms of horror. Films like Fangs are bad, and they are that way on purpose. There are franchises and even entire production companies that are dedicated to making films like this, where the story is insane, the effects are terrible, the acting is ridiculous, and it's all done on purpose, because it's supposed to make laugh just as much, if not more than it's supposed to make you cringe, that's the point! Fangs is somewhat different in two ways, first it was produced by a major film company and second the film wasn't all that bad. Basically some bats at a university escape in the lab and get into some chemicals they shouldn't have. As a result, they become super aggressive and wreak havoc on a small town. From there, the story follows a local veterinarian and the town sheriff, who try to track the bats and put an end to their reign of terror before more innocent lives are lost. As with many similar films, the dialogue is quite comical and there are lots of cheesy jokes and obnoxious characters you just can't wait to see get attacked, but for what it was, the effects weren't all that bad and the science behind it seemed somewhat plausible. This isn't the kind of film that makes you run to amazon to buy it. Fangs isn't going to win any awards, it doesn't feature any outstanding performances, and it probably isn't even the kind of film you'd want to see twice. However, if you're in one of those moods, where you just want to see something simple and stupid, that's going to make you laugh a few times, then Fangs is absolutely perfect for that.

lost-in-limbo A scientist is experimenting on genetically engineered bats that are controlled by a black device that sends out a signal for the bats to attack whoever is near that device when switched on. Though, the scientist is killed and now they've been released into the quiet town. One by one victims fall, but there's someone behind all this and is there a purpose for these deaths, with a dark figure lurking about after each attack. So now it's up to a new cop in town and veterinarian to figure out this mystery.Dear-oh-dear is what I got to say about this utterly incompetent piece of unimaginative garbage. How did this lousy film ever get made I was thinking throughout my whole viewing. This is definitely a poor man's version of "Bats" and why would you want to copy that dud of a film… who knows? The film is a complete mess and makes really no sense. Everything and I mean everything is executed in such an empty manner… well, maybe one or two few exceptions. You could say that there's some creative camera-work on show and the production valves were fair for a cheap-budget film. I was expecting maybe lousy rubber bats, but well there was rubber spider on a string, but the bats were actually CGI. The problem was that the effects were too artificial and because of that they looked incredibly ridiculous. This was supposed to be a horror movie, I think? The only horrific thing is that it got made. What we actually get is unintentionally humorous sequences and when it tries to be funny it's unbearably awful. Inept performances are achieved with implausibly stupid and irritating characters. These characters are your very stereotypical type. Dialogue is mindless tripe and rather inane that it just makes your groan especially at the gag lines that flow throughout the film and to end it off it's a tiresome story with too many plot holes and too many coincidences.The predictable story is mainly uninteresting and it leads to a far-fetched outcome. Too many unbelievably over-exaggerated situations occur and unconvincing characters pop up. Scenes just felt forced and rather stale. Also included are some irrelevant situations. The films finale is incredibly tense… uh, I mean laughable. The characters try to sound intelligent, but you just roll your eyes at mostly everything they said. The only thing I cared for was the dog; it had far more talent than the cast put to together. The violence is very tame with no blood on show and it mostly happens off screen. No suspense or atmosphere is built and it goes for cheap scares that you see coming a million miles before hand. The music score didn't add anything too the flow and came across like something out of a TV show. The direction lacked any sort of panache and conviction. It's nothing but lifeless and embarrassing film-making. It's not really worth the time to view.Overall, just steer clear of this bottom of the barrel drivel, but unless you love your incredibly awful or laughably dumb trash. Go right ahead.

mr_spaceman If you look at this page you already know that Fangs is a quite lame movie. So instead of a review I want to give you some logical errors that may upset people while watching this movie because they are so obvious. The bats are sreaming all the time. But a human will never hear a bat screaming with his own ears. - This little village in which the story takes place has it's own university?! - The professor has only one enemy so why does he kill all the other people? - The scene with the shredded aluminum cans (mentioned by the IMDb). This is not possible. - I guess you can't find the bats using the antennas at the end of the movie (at least not alone but they hast had _only_ these antennas)!Beside this idiotic mistakes (probably they also had some spelling errors in the script - but that's another story) they mentioned every minute this apple-blossom festival. So you think that's the biggest party in this forgotten village (with university...) but when it finally comes to the scene we see that they even couldn't afford a small crowd to fill the room. When the bats attack the people had to run circles to show some action!1/10 ... Dirt

uds3 What am I saying? RPM was a classic piece of quality entertainment besides this. Billed as a horror film - the reality is, this piece of juvenile tripe is a fright-fest ONLY from the script, direction and acting viewpoint! Horror - Sesame Street style! To be honest, Bert is more terrifying!How the hell did they get Whip Hubley and worse, Corbin Bernsen (LA LAW??) roped into this? Not professional enough to be even called a "student film," this lamer than lame tale of a few genetically altered and frenetically digitised bats terrorising Bernsen's housing estate is so pathetic it defies serious critique.Has anyone in the history of cinema looked and acted LESS like a cop than Tracey Nelson? The only thing worth watching is spunky Katie Stuart as Hubley's sexy daughter Genny! That's sexy, as opposed to intelligent!As someone mentioned, yeah it is very clear and colorful however - just like a child's finger painting. On DVD even more so, I can't believe I wasted $6.95 on this offal!