Themes: Experiments Gone Awry, When Animals Attack
Main Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon, Carlos Jacott, Marcia Dangerfield
Release Year: 1999
Country: US
Run Time: 91 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
Beware of what goes "bump" (and "squeak" and "flap flap flap") in the night. Dr. Sheila Casper (Dina Meyer) is a respected zoologist dispatched by the government to Gallup, TX, a small community suffering from an unusual number of reported bat attacks. Casper finds this news puzzling, since bats are generally placid creatures who avoid contact with humans. The local sheriff, Emmett Kimsey (Lou Diamond Phillips), assures Casper that the reports are on the level and that something needs to be done about swarms of aggressive bats so thick they blot out the moon. Caspar and Kimsey discover that a new breed of genetically altered bats have escaped from a research facility and taken up residence in a cave near Gallup -- but the nocturnal bloodsuckers have no intention of leaving as quickly as they arrived. Bats was written by John Logan, who had two other projects hit the screen within a few months of Bats' release: Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday and Ridley Scott's Gladiator. The supporting cast includes Leon and Bob Gunton. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
David McConnell - Deputy Munn; Oscar Rowland - Dr. Swanbeck
Credit
Laura Schiff - Casting, Alexis Scott - Costume Designer, Marco Black - First Assistant Director, Louis Morneau - Director, Glenn Garland - Editor, Steven Stabler - Executive Producer, Dale Pollock - Executive Producer, Brent Baum - Executive Producer, John Logan - Executive Producer, Graeme Revell - Composer (Music Score), Philip J.C. Duffin - Production Designer, George Mooradian - Cinematographer, Brad Jenkel - Producer, Louise Rosner - Producer, Cynthia Epping - Set Designer, Eric Allard - Special Effects, K.N.B. EFX Group - Special Effects, Stephen A. Tibbo - Sound/Sound Designer, John Logan - Screenwriter
People start to die in a small Texas town and the prime suspects are bats. A specialist in bats is called in, and reveals that the bats have been engineered to be become a deadly human-hunting cooperative. The bats' hive must be found and destroyed, before they can spread.
