Diagonaldi Very well executed

Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

ellenirishellen-62962 Okay,so it isn't really scary,but it is well made.Agnes Morehead and Vinny Price are the stars,but there are so many great supporting actors.John Sutton as the chauffeur promoted to butler,Gavin Gordon as the cop,Lenita Lane as Lizzie the companion to Cornelia.Price is as much the star as Morehead and I loved every second he was on screen!Knew right away who was The Bat,but watching this film unfold was a great experience.Have the DowHour Of Great Mystery version with Helen Hays,so will have to watch,but what little I saw of that version didn't compare.Will also look at the 1941 film The Black Cat again,as this reminds me of that LOL film.

kfo9494 This was a typical class 'B' picture but at least there was a mystery that kept the audience in the program to the very end. Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead actually did a nice job with the light script they were given-- but for some reason the screen play writer threw in an aide to Ms Moorehead that ruined the entire process.Lenita Lane played Lizzie Allen the aide to Moorehead's character. It seemed that every time she had a speaking part she was trying to give a comical tone to the story but ended-up being an albatross around the neck of the movie. Her every line was like fingernails running across a chalkboard that made me shiver at each bewildering statement. Her acting ability ruined the entire experience.With that said, the mystery was a clever who-done-it tale that kept the viewer guessing to the very end. And with the weak script, I will give credit to the performances of all the actors, except for one. Too bad that one character was not killed off very early in the show. Where was the bat when you needed him?

Cristi_Ciopron Crane Wilbur's 'The Bat' is an unusual comedy ('don't you hear that awful noise out there?'), and I enjoyed its unwillingness to attempt the conventional suspense, and its dry, light style recalls sometimes that of Feuillade, if you wish, and of Hitchcock's TV, but mostly, increasingly, massively that of Ed Wood, unwilling to guide or patronize its public, it attempts something very different, with perhaps one of the most unflattering portrayals of a cereal killer ever, and the sense that all these events don't really matter that much, almost an Ed Wood soap opera …. The impression is that each actor did pretty much what he or she felt like; some of them were having fun, certainly the lead actress. As the movie nears its denouement, with that clueless, absurd cop, it becomes obvious that this is Ed Wood taken to the hilt. Possibly the 1st mystery movie where I guessed whodunit; and the whole subplot about the chauffeur was mere Ed Wood.

d_m_s Horrible crappy little low budget film. A female crime writer rents a mansion with a suspicious history to write a new novel. Meanwhile, said mansion owner steals a million dollars from his own bank and is murdered by Vincent Price for the money. He just has to find it, as it is hidden somewhere in the house. Meanwhile (again), a thief and murderer named The Bat is on the prowl in and around the mansion, also after the money. The story was pretty bland, the acting in some parts was so terrible it was weird (mainly the police detective) and I got too bored to watch to the end.