Bats

Bats

When a movie like "Bats" comes around you can get a general idea of what the movie is going to be about just based on the title. With progressively increasing budgets limiting the capacity of the movie, filmmakers are left with a catastrophic product. This is a completely mediocre, unexciting, and unoriginal example of the normally-harmless-animals-eating-people genre. It is a miracle that this movie was made, let alone released to theaters. It wasn't such a shock to find out that this film was a disaster at the box office.

Unfortunately, mediocrity permeates every aspect of this film. The entire movie is filled with typical slasher scenes that we have seen over a hundred times in other horror films. It has the usual horror plot with uninteresting dialog, along with stereotypical characters. The first scene of the movie shows two young lovers driving out to and parking in a secluded area. After a while the man notices something weird happening outside his car. Instead of doing what a real person would do, the man decides to get out of his vehicle and investigate. Naturally, he finds nothing and returns to his car. Predictably,