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The Vampire Bat 1933
3/10

Majestic Pictures took advantage of the upcoming release of Mystery of the Wax Museum (which was to have a long post-production time) and grabbed it's two stars: Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill (who were done shooting Wax), leased Universal Pictures sets (formerly used for Frankenstein), and made and released The Vampire Bat a month before Wax Museum was finished and released.

The sets and cinematography are pretty good, and you get to see the great Dwight Frye try to make something out of a mentally handicapped bit part, Herman, who has lines like, "Herman get for you." Film needed Frye to star, because there wasn't much there for any actor. The story is a hodge-podge of horror elements: vampirism, hypno-telepathy, and the creation of artificial life. At least there's a mystery, but it's really MST2K fodder.