Watch The Vampire Bat (1933) Free Online

Release Date: 1933

Cast: Dwight Frye, Fern Emmett, Fay Wray, William V. Mong, Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas, George E. Stone, Robert Frazer, Maude Eburne

Categories: Movies, Horror, Thriller, Black-And-White, Mystery, Crime Thriller

The Vampire Bat (1933) is an American horror movie starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye. When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop. Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill had been in the successful film Doctor X the previous... MORE

The Vampire Bat (1933) is an American horror movie starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye. When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop. Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill had been in the successful film Doctor X the previous year and had already wrapped up work on Mystery of the Wax Museum for Warner Bros. This was quite a large scale release and would have a lengthy post-production process. Seeing a chance to exploit all the advance press, skid row studio Majestic Pictures Inc. contracted Wray and Atwill for their own "quickie" horror film, rushing The Vampire Bat into production and releasing it in January 1933. Majestic Pictures had less overhead than the larger studios, who were struggling at the time during the Great Depression. Part of the reason that The Vampire Bat looked almost as good as any Universal LESS