The Vampire Bat (Blood Sucker) (Forced to Sin) (1933)
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29% of users liked it
(395 ratings)
Bloodsucking winged creatures who may take human shape appear to have returned after centuries of dormancy to the middle-European municipality of Kleinschloss in this atmospheric, low-budget thriller from small-scale Majestic Pictures, and the burgomaster (Lionel Belmore) demands answers. With… More Bloodsucking winged creatures who may take human shape appear to have returned after centuries of dormancy to the middle-European municipality of Kleinschloss in this atmospheric, low-budget thriller from small-scale Majestic Pictures, and the burgomaster (Lionel Belmore) demands answers. With victims scattered everywhere, all bearing the distinctive puncture marks, police detective Karl Brettschneider (Melvyn Douglas) finds himself completely stymied. Brettschneider, who refuses to accept what he considers mere superstition, is not pleased when that eminent physician Dr. Otto Von Niemann (Lionel Atwill) hints that there may indeed be such things as murderous human bats. Herman Gleib (Dwight Frye), the village idiot, meanwhile, just happens to have a fondness for the nocturnal creatures -- "They're so soft!" -- and the villagers, as they are wont to do, grab their torches and commence a manhunt. Poor Herman is destroyed, but there is another killing. And this time the victim is Georgiana (Stella Adams), Dr. Von Niemann's housekeeper, who failed to serve the physician his late-night coffee. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Directed By
- Frank R. Strayer
- Written By
- Edward T. Lowe
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Jan 21, 1933 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Great cast and borrowed sets (from Universal) distinguish this poverty row thriller.
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Cast
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Lionel Atwill
as Dr. Otto von Niemann
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Fay Wray
as Ruth Bertin
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Melvyn Douglas
as Karl Brettschneider
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Maude Eburne
as Gussie Schnappmann
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George E. Stone
as Kringen
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Dwight Frye
as Herman Gleib
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Robert W. Frazer
as Emil Borst
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Rita Carlisle
as Martha Mueller
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Lionel Belmore
as Burgermeister Gustave Schoen
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William V. Mong
as Sauer
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Fern Emmett
as Gertrude
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Harrison Greene
as Weingarten
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William Humphrey
as Dr. Haupt
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Carl Stockdale
as Schmidt the Morgue Keeper
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Paul Weigel
as Holdstadt
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Stella Adams
as Georgiana
