Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Bats (2021)

10 years after nuclear contamination caused a town to be evacuated, people are told they can come back.  Most people don’t care since they’ve started new lives elsewhere. 

One family goes to their grandfathers house and finds a human sized bat in the attic.  The bat had previously killed kids who were partying in the house. The bat must be really adept at cleaning blood because there is no sign of the carnage that occurred. Also did it consume the kids entire bodies, bones and all?

The whole thing makes no sense.  The house has been abandoned for ten years, yet the water and electricity still work.  Multiple remarks are made about the dust in the house, but everything is clean.  If the movie weren’t named Bats, I wouldn’t know what the creature was supposed to be. Also I don’t think there is anything specific to it being a bat, since it’s the size of a human and does nothing bat like.  

Worst of all, one of the teen or college age daughters is the least convincing crier in movie history.  It reminded me of some purposely fake crying I’d seen in an episode of Black Adder.  Did the filmmakers think this was good, or was it just the best she could do and they gave up?  It is so bad that it becomes the only thing you can focus on. Not only do you want to slap her, you’re praying for a bat attack. Just make it stop.

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