The danger in this movie mostly arises from someone off-screen swinging a plastic bat attached to a fishing rod, yet despite its absurdity, the film manages to convey a message. It centers on the clever scientist "Carruthers" (Bela Lugosi), who feels he was overlooked by his colleagues after they profited greatly from an invention he initially capitalized on. To get back at them, he created something that looks like …

A complete waste of space, overblown, and foolish. Jean Yarbrough directed The Devil Bat, which George Bricker and John T. Neville wrote. Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Donald Kerr, and Gary Usher are in the cast. This is what comes from Poverty Row! It's a PRC production that manages to be both crazy and enjoyable. The story involves Lugosi as a frustrated cosmetic chemist who feels he hasn’t been …