The Bat People, A Stan Winston Spectacular

Okay, just because Stan Winston did the creature f/x does not mean this is a good movie. IMDB rated it a 2.8/10.  Still...I liked it. We have a heartwarming story of a marriage gone wrong.  Sure, we all change after we get married, but usually fangs and bat-like appendages are not part of that change.  Our feature today is 1974's "The Bat People," directed by Jerry Jameson.

John (Stewart Moss) is a scientist who studies...bats.  Nerd, I know.  He is married to Cathy (Marianne McAndrew), a nymphomaniac beauty.  She likes to have sex.  In fact, this is what starts the problem.  John, shortly after they are married, takes Cathy to see a cave.  She'd rather...have steamy sex.  Not to let an opportunity go through her fingers, Cathy decides they will have sex in the cave as bats watch. This doesn't go well...go figure. The passion goes out the window when John is bitten...by a bat. Cathy, being a good nympho...er, wife, makes John get checked out at the hospital. Dr. Kipling (Paul Carr), who does not try to have sex with Cathy, bandages John and gives him rabies shots...eek!  Now John begins having seizures.

You guessed it, John begins changing into a bat monster.  Pretty nurse in white (Jennifer Kulik), who is not a nymphomaniac, is ripped apart by John.  Cathy and Dr. Kipling are in denial, but John believes he is changing into a bat person...or a bat man!  More pretty nurses in white will be put in peril. Also in peril are some nubile young babes.  Unfortunately for many of these babes, they will die as the creature chews them up and drinks their blood.  A cop, Sgt. Wood (Michael Pataki) investigates and all his clues bring him back to John.  Oh yes, Wood does try to have sex with Cathy...she resists, though one may posit that she could have resisted harder...after all, she appears to be a nymphomaniac.  John's seizures come more often and more will die horribly.

With Cathy being a nymphomaniac, would she consider having steamy relations with a monster, or bat man?  Given John is a dweeb and has nerdy interests, would Cathy be better off having him as a fanged creature?  Why aren't nurses in movies clad in white and attractive anymore?  This is a good one.  Some may enjoy it in a MST3K type of view, but it is a terrific creature film, although the creature f/x are kind of lacking. See "The Bat People" and avoid most of those new "Batman" movies.