The Vampire Bat

Name: The Vampire Bat
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 1933-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 5.5

About The Vampire Bat

A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.

Frank R. Strayer's The Vampire Bat is a 1933 horror thriller film. It runs 62 minutes and was released in January 1933.

Its themes are pre-code, police inspector, bat, and death.

Lionel Atwill takes the lead as Dr. Otto von Niemann, Fay Wray as Ruth Bertin, Melvyn Douglas as Karl Brettschneider, and Maude Eburne as Aunt Gussie Schnappmann. The screenplay is by Edward T. Lowe Jr.. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and AMC+.

Dracula, Mark of the Vampire, and Daybreakers make useful companions to The Vampire Bat, all filed under vampire. TMDB voters put it at 5.5 out of 10 across 77 votes and it carries a NR rating.