jacobjohntaylor1 This is very awful. Do not see it. The story line is awful. The ending is awful. This movie is crap. I hates this movie. I got a 2.2 which is not a very bad ratting. But this is such a stinky movie that 2.2 is overrating it. I give it 1. If you what to get scared see The Exorcist. The Exorcist II is also very scary. The Exorcist III is also very scary. But this is not scary. This is just stinky pooh pooh. With pee on top. This is very very stinky. Exorcist The beginning is a good movie to see if you what to get scared. But this is pooh pooh. Damnation is also very scary. Jaws is also very scary. This about a man who gets bitten by a mutant bat. He turns into giant bat. This could been a good movie. But awful story and an awful ending made share that is it stank. Do not see this movie.

Eric Stevenson This bad movie tells the story of a man who's bitten by a vampire bat and eventually turns into a giant one himself. I admit that when I first heard the premise, it seemed like it would be a movie about vampires. He was bitten by a vampire bat after all. Instead, it's just a guy turning into a giant bat. You rarely see him in this form at all, although I guess because the makeup was so bad. As with most horror movies, it suffers from being way too boring. What do you know? Yet another movie with the title "The X People". Dang, I thought these died out by the 1970's.The movie ends with the woman joining her husband presumably because she became a bat too. The end is probably the worst part, as I believe those are bats crapping on the car. Was she bitten by her husband? I don't remember seeing any bite marks, but like Tom Servo said, it was probably while they were having sex. The entire movie is pointless as nothing really comes out of it as the man (bat?) and his wife live. They should have just made it a movie about killer bats. *1/2

Scott LeBrun Underwhelming horror movie unfortunately just doesn't have a whole lot of "oomph" going for it. Now, if you're like this viewer and are a hopeless addict of B level genre movies, you may derive some entertainment out of it. But it's definitely not very memorable overall, even if one takes it on a "so bad it's good" basis.Dr. John Beck (Stewart Moss) and wife Cathy (Marianne McAndrew) make the stupid, fateful decision to wander off on their own while exploring caves with a tour group, and he's soon bitten by a bat. This leads to a standard enough plot wherein John starts to suffer violent seizures and succumbing to homicidal impulses, while his distraught wife stands by, unwilling or unable to believe something weird is going on.The movie serves as an early credit for makeup effects legend Stan Winston (here billed as 'Stanley'), but aside from one cool hand-turns-into-bat-wing sequence, it's clear his best work was ahead of him. We're made to use our imaginations as the monster stuff mostly happens off screen, until near the end. Then we finally see a bat head, which will more likely induce chuckles than anything else.The direction by Jerry Jameson, a journeyman type whose credits were mostly in TV, is basically competent, the music by Artie Kane decent enough (with the inclusion of the overwrought theme song that was actually fairly common among '70s genre efforts). The many shots of real bats may do the trick for any viewer with an aversion to these animals. The better scenes tend to take place towards the end, especially as the bats swarm on one very unfortunate victim. Gore lovers may be somewhat disappointed, at least until this moment occurs.The leads, Moss (whose looks and manner are reminiscent of Bradford Dillman) and McAndrew (an attractive lady who also appeared in Russ Meyers' "The Seven Minutes") are okay; they actually were married in real life as well. Michael Pataki delivers a standout performance as a persistent cop who's also a lecherous creep. Veteran actor Arthur Space does a nice job as a drunken, philosophizing hobo, in another of the movies' better scenes.The main problem is making the effort to care very much about the characters or this tragic story as it plays out. Cult horror aficionados may want to give this one a try, and it's watchable enough, at least for this viewer. It just isn't as much fun as it could & should have been.Five out of 10.

MartinHafer Currently, this film is listed on IMDb as the 42nd worst film ever made--which is exactly why I rented it from NetFlix. However, I am saddened to report that the film, while bad, is no where near bad enough to merit being in the bottom 100 films ever made list. I have personally seen at least 100 films worse than this one. Hardly a glowing endorsement, but it just didn't meet the expected level of awfulness to be included on this infamous list.The film begin with Stewart Moss and Marianne McAndrew on their belated honeymoon (by the way, they are married in real life as well). He's a doctor who is obsessed with bats and insists they go to a nearby cave. Once there, they behave very, very, very stupidly (hallmark of a bad film) and are soon bitten by a bat. According to this film, bats love to attack people and there are vampire bats in the US--both of which are not true at all.Oddly, after being bitten, the man doesn't even bother going to the hospital!! The first thing on anyone's mind (especially a doctor) is to get medical help immediately, but not this boob. Soon, he's having seizures--yet he STILL isn't interested in seeking help! Again and again you keep thinking that this must be the stupidest couple in film history!! After a while, he eventually goes to see a doctor and is sent to the hospital. But, by then it's too late and his attacks become more violent and he begins killing people to suck their blood. When it's totally obvious to everyone that the man is a crazed killing machine, the wife (who, like her husband, has a grapefruit for a brain) refuses to believe he's dangerous--even after he attacks people, steals an ambulance and runs a police car off the road!! Now most of the time Moss is going through these episodes, his eyes roll back and he looks like a normal person. Oddly, however, a couple times he develops bat-like hands and towards the end they used some nice prosthetics on him to make him look quite bat-like. Had this been really cheesy, the film would have merited a 1.In the very end, in a twist that hardly made any sense at all, the wife inexplicably turned into a crazed bat lady and had a swarm of bats kill the evil sheriff. How all this was arranged was a mystery as was Moss' and McAndrew's belief that this film would somehow help their careers--though they both have had reasonably long careers on TV playing bit roles since 1974.Overall, very dumb. The plot is silly and makes no sense and strongly relies on people acting way too dumb to be real. Not a good film at all, but not among the worst films of all time either.NOTE: For some reason, IMDb shows the graphic for the three DVD set for IT'S ALIVE and it's two sequels of the web page for THE BAT PEOPLE. While THE BAT PEOPLE has been seen with the title "It's Alive", the two movies are not at all related. It's easy to understand the mistake--especially since they both came out in 1974, but the movie I just reviewed starred Stewart Moss and Marianne McAndrew and the other film starred John Ryan and Sharon Farrell.