Last night we watched 'The Vampire Bat' on Amazon Prime. It's a 64 minute 1933 film featuring Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill and Dwight Frye. This was another of those wonderful 1930s horror films I enjoy so much...there is so much magic in these old B/W films I can't get enough of them. The story was a mystery with an interesting twist on what was happening. Is it a vampire committing the murders or a man ? All we know is there are strange marks on the victim's necks and all their blood has been drained out. We have to wait to find out why and how ? Vampire or man either way the viewer will not be disappointed by the weird finale. IMO, It's not as good as two other horror films with Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray from the same time period 'Doctor X' and 'Mystery of the Wax Museum', still it's fun and well worth watching for sure. About my only complaint is Amazon had a pretty mediocre copy, lots of scratches in the print and the sound quality was hardly understandable at times. I hope someday someone does a full restoration on this film if they haven't already done so.
Review of The Vampire Bat
