Lucy Lawless
and Dylan Neal, who starred in a CBS nature-disaster movie
called Locusts in April, return for a horror thriller about bats
that display an unusually lusty appetite for blood. The
creatures wing down at night to suck on their victims--students,
fishermen, the random deer--and leave them as dry as a
Transylvanian support meeting of reformed vampires. It's silly,
although at least there's a criminal twist as Lawless,
playing a science professor, hunts the bats.
The preview tape I saw was lacking some digital special effects,
but it did include close-ups of the bats feasting on blood. They
appear to be puppets with doughy-fuzzy heads. They look like
day-old fruit muffins with fangs. [11/2 star]