Started out okay, minus the woman who was just a really bad actor. The story would've been OKAY if it was a killer or something...as much as I hate slashers, or even wild animals...but nope...they really went with giant CGI bats...they look like a 1999 SciFi channel movie...they're so bad I skipped the scenes with them... if the first 70 minutes weren't OKAY, it would be a 1 star easily ...horror fans, skip this one.
7 Reviews
Quickly outstays its welcome
Leofwine_draca26 September 2019
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LIKE A BAT OUTTA HELL is another indie horror film, this time hailing from Australia. Some nice establishing shots of the Australian countryside and a pleasant performance from old-timer Vernon Hells (MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR) are the best, and only interesting, things that this one has to offer. The story features the usual documentary crew hunting for legendary creatures and, unfortunately for them, finding them. There's minor bloodshed and well-designed but very poorly animated bat-human hybrids, but the whole thing is shoddily directed and quickly outstays its welcome.
Went nowhere fast!
ashe-8762720 January 2020
Movie was slow and went nowhere. Lost interest but decided to stick it out.
The acting was ok except for the lady that played Bianca. She was really terrible and her botox lips were distracting.
The green screen was also distracting and the cgi was horrible. Oh and the bats look like the crypt keeper.
I could've gone my whole life without seeing this movie.
Whole lotta nothing
africe30 August 2019
What a pile of guano
m-skee25 January 2021
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I thought it would never end, then it did, abruptly, with zero resolution. I cannot believe I watched that entire SyFy reject movie. I simply don't have the energy to list all the things wrong with it. So I'll hit the highlights.
Bad acting
A Dr. Evil wannabe with a henchman named Boris (no joke).
Random creepy but soft spoken old man.
Aborted love scene, with rape back story, after random attempted rape, followed later by an out of nowhere declaration of love.
No clue as to why they thought they were heading to wherever to film whatever.
Not one storyline was completed.
Suddenly the old man is an expert.
And the constant flashes to night vision/bat's eye view for no reason!
Not scary, not interesting, not memorable, not worth watching.
Decent movie till the last 10 minutes
geraldleejones-206394 January 2024
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A pretty typical vampire-ish film with some pretty good actors and a entertaining storyline leading up to probably the worst ending I have ever seen. Story line has a love triangle with rivalry between the two good looking males over the only female in the main story, the situation gets tense until the bat creatures get involved, but the "truce" ends quickly as one male is killed off.
After developing this subplot for the majority of the movie. It all comes crashing to nothing in a very anti-climatic first murder of the one rival. Within seconds of that murder EVERYBODY is attacked and almost all of them are killed.
During this sequence we are given a strange view of the town which supposed has only on citizen...abandoned houses and a church with a cemetery FILLED with graves and no back story explaining any of the situation.
One member of the group survives with no explanation of how the unarmed survives, then the single resident arrives and gets attacked, but survives with the help of our "Hero" and they discuss the situation and walk out together as the credits roll - NO DETAILS ON WHERE THEY ARE GOING OR WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO!!!
Sum total of the movie equals ZERO! Don't waste a minute of your time watching this!!!!
After developing this subplot for the majority of the movie. It all comes crashing to nothing in a very anti-climatic first murder of the one rival. Within seconds of that murder EVERYBODY is attacked and almost all of them are killed.
During this sequence we are given a strange view of the town which supposed has only on citizen...abandoned houses and a church with a cemetery FILLED with graves and no back story explaining any of the situation.
One member of the group survives with no explanation of how the unarmed survives, then the single resident arrives and gets attacked, but survives with the help of our "Hero" and they discuss the situation and walk out together as the credits roll - NO DETAILS ON WHERE THEY ARE GOING OR WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO!!!
Sum total of the movie equals ZERO! Don't waste a minute of your time watching this!!!!
Stop Creeping
nogodnomasters31 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Some young kids are hired to film in South Australia. They spend the night at Nowhere Else (population 2....now 1 since Ida died). There is some internal conflict and some other things going on behind the scenes. What they end up filming is the "Cryptid Bat" a huge bat with a human face described as being a reptile...which is odd since it is nocturnal and is supposedly all over the world...but they opt to film in the middle of Nowhere instead of Lodi, California, home of a sighting.
The movie is supposed to be found footage, but it is not. It is professionally shot- thank you. There is no ground cam, no running cam, only "what was that" cam. The acting goes on the negative side of the ledger with Rachael Murphy creating the most red ink with her teary flashback story. They could have cut that whole scene out and placed it in the "deleted scenes" section of the DVD.
The creature was fairy decent when they showed him.
Guide: No sex or nudity.
The movie is supposed to be found footage, but it is not. It is professionally shot- thank you. There is no ground cam, no running cam, only "what was that" cam. The acting goes on the negative side of the ledger with Rachael Murphy creating the most red ink with her teary flashback story. They could have cut that whole scene out and placed it in the "deleted scenes" section of the DVD.
The creature was fairy decent when they showed him.
Guide: No sex or nudity.
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