Bats

The small town of Gallup, Texas is besieged by a colony of genetically mutated bats. It's up to the town Sheriff and a plucky zoologist to find the bat's roost and put a stop to the killer colony before the bats can spread across the country. Bats is a smorgasbord of b-movie characters and concepts. The trio of main characters are basically the same as the main trio from Tremors. The scientist responsible for creating the mutated bats is pretty much exactly like the scientist from Piranha. The movie's plot is almost identical to Gremlins, with just a hint of Aliens at the end. The bats, when in puppet form, look like Ghoulies. And when they hunt, the bats use the Predator's heat vision. Since the movie came out in 1999, there isn't a whole lot of CGI in the film, which I definitely appreciated. Needless to say, Bats isn't particularly original but, at the end of the day, there are worse ways to spend ninety minutes.

Rating: 62%

(Image from Wikipedia)