Are Vampire Bats Killing People?
The Vampire Bat (1933) é unha película de xénero flexión protagonizado por Lionel Atwill. Ostensivamente, it is a horror film but is actually more of a mystery. It would fall into the “B” movie category, un curtametraxe feito para ser o aperitivo para o principal película sobre un proxecto de lei dobre.
Majestic Pictures produciu o filme, que foi dirixido por Frank R. Strayer. Strayer utiliza principalmente mis-en-scène para crear a atmosfera da película. A película comeza cun vixía cidade camiñando polas rúas da lámpada acesa. The watchman looks up in a tree, que está habitada por morcegos. A scream is heard from a nearby street causing the bats to scatter.
Aínda de The Vampire Bat (1933)
Strayer logo corta para o cargo de Burgermeister Gustave Schoen, where town leaders are discussing the recent murders. Schoen, interpretado por Lionel Belmore, reads from a 1643 town record about the hanging of a man convicted of vampirism. The record also states all bats were caught and killed. The Chief of Police dismisses the record and tells them strongly they are looking for a human being not a vampire or bat.
Aínda desde o bastón de vampiro (1933)
O Xefe de Policía Karl Brettschnieder,played by Melvyn Douglas, é auxiliado na súa investigación polo Dr. Otto Von NIEMAN, retratada por Lionel Atwill. Von Nieman does not know what to think about the murders but believes people can transform into strange apparitions due to evil or illness. Asistente de Von NIEMAN, Ruth, played by Fay Wray, é o interese amoroso de Karl. She would be King Kong’s love interest in the movie King Kong (1933) released in the same year as The Vampire Bat.
O sospeitoso veciños Herman Glieb, interpretado por Dwight Frye. Glieb keeps the bats as pets but Brettschnieder doubts Herman could hurt anyone. Glieb reinforces this impression, when he runs away screaming after the latest victim is found.
Despite it’s status as a “B” película, Strayer’s use of mise-en-scene to recreate the atmosphere of Dracula (1931) e Frankenstein (1931) makes this film a classic 1930s horror film. The acting of Lionel Atwill also helped. The film (enlace de afiliado) runs about 65 actas.
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