Bats: The Awakening

You want to know why you've never heard of this film? Most likely because anyone ever associated with this film never worked again and expunged it from their resume. The title mix-up doesn't help either (is it Bats or is it Bats: The Awakening, does anyone care?). This film makes the Lou Diamond Phillips Bats movie look like an award winning film.

The acting in this film may be the worst I have ever seen and I've seen some stinkers. I love B films usually! The lead girl in this brings to mind Jessica Caufiel from Urban Legends: The Final Cut. She plays an actress playing a terrible actress and she screams so ridiculously. The actress from this Bats movie is like that but she's not pretending to be bad, she's just bad! And she screams through her nose or something. Just awful.

And don't get me started on the 'monster' (guy in a big bat suit). Just, wow! Or the lack of script and storyline.

One star for making me laugh at loud when the bat screeches and the guy's head splits open like a cuckoo clock. I mean, what was that?!

With every scene nearing its end one just hopes that the bat arrives, but sadly it doesn't. Now that's the spell binding part in this movie and collectively this this movie can be called a spell binder. And finally the bat arrives and you suddenly lose base with the reality with what real bat looks like. And that's what I call it nerve wrecking!

Right, well the track record of creature features with bats haven't really been the most successful, famous or entertaining. Yet, there is something alluring to me with these creature feature movies, so of course I sat down to watch the 2021 movie "Bats: The Awakening" from writer Scott Jeffrey.

But wow, this movie was just altogether bad. The storyline was rather simplistic, to the point where I was starting to wonder if writer Scott Jeffrey actually had written anything, or if it was just left up to directors Scott Jeffrey and Rebecca Matthews to make things up as they went along.

The acting in the movie was adequate enough. Nothing outstanding, mind you. But the actors and actresses were doing okay enough jobs with their given roles and characters, taking into consideration the lack of a well-written script and storyline.

Then there was the bat creature. Well, no, just no. It didn't work on any level. It was so painstakingly clear that it was just a guy in a hairy costume, wearing oversized latex hands and a dubious latex mask with really poor quality fake fangs glued on to it. I was baffled by the sheer level of crappy craftsmanship that had gone into constructing that costume. It was such an eyesore, and it made it utterly impossible to take that creature seriously as a dangerous creature of the night.

You might want to do yourself a favor and stay well clear of the 2021 movie "Bats: The Awakening" and instead opt to sit down to watch the likes of the 1999 movie "Bats" or the 2005 movie "Vampire Bats".

My rating of the 2021 movie "Bats: The Awakening" lands on a mere two out of ten stars. This was definitely not an outstanding creature feature, nor an impressive addition to the horror genre.

Straight dog water. Literally makes no sense. Save yourself and don't watch this. I could write so much more but it's not worth the effort.

I understand that in a zero to ten rating system that minus numbers are not possible, but if I could I would give this movie a -3.75. It's not a full minus 4 movie, but almost as bad as that. The acting is pretty bad and the directing is just as bad. It's just not a good movie. But I bet they had fun making it. Good luck next time.