Goooood bye! :D


Anyone else find it hilarious when the crazy scientist says "Gooooood bye!" to every one of the victims of the devil bat? :D

The Devil Bat may not be a masterpiece, but nevertheless it is an enjoyable film, definitely worth watching!

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I agree, but I thought the funniest part of the movie was the hilarious squawk the bat let out before it attacked someone.

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"Goood-bye" is classic & another thing that kills me is Bela's instructions on how the (saps) victims should apply the shaving lotion: "Just rub a little bit on the tender part of your neck".





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I too was quite amused by Lugosi saying "Goodbye" to all his victims. The inspired touches of black humor added substantially to the entertainment value of this endearingly corny poverty-row cheapie.

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Also funny is that the phrase, "The bat is not a bird, it's a mammal!" is uttered TWICE-- once by O'Brien and again by Lugosi. One wonders if this echo was intended to be humorous. (?)

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I've been on one of them kicks lately where I'm watching a lot of old horror movies with Lugosi, Chaney, Karloff, etc., and I realized "The Devil Bat" actually has some pretty good special effects for its time.

Sure, the bat was fake, but it wasn't too fake like some of the bats in other movies of the time. It's too bad there isn't a nice, cleaned up copy of this one floating around on the market. It's really nice to see studios like Universal releasing many of its classic titles in digital, clear copies on DVD, but a shame nobody puts much care into many of the public domain flicks like "The Devil Bat."

Lugosi was really good in this one, too. I actually found myself rooting for him.

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I know I'm going to open up a hornet's nest by even suggesting this, but if you're looking for a good cleaned up copy, I would suggest the colorized version put out on DVD by Legend Films.

The subtle addition of color actually improves the film's production value and gives it the look of a bigger-budgeted picture. The interior scenes, especially, look just as they would if it had been filmed using one of the poverty-row color processes (Technicolor wasn't the only color out there; Tru-Color, Natural-Color and several other lower-priced processes were available).

The DVD also include the original black and white.

There is also a DVD out there authorized by the Lugosi Estate (I believe it is called The Bela Lugosi Collection) and features a very good looking B&W print with a commentary track by Bela Lugosi Jr., which by itself makes the disc worth buying.

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You make a valid point, but I stand by my comments.

One of the biggest mistakes made by previous colorizers was trying to make everything look like luminous Technicolor. This simply can't be done with every film. What Legend Films does is try to replicate what the film might have looked like if the studio had access to color film; a poverty-row studio like Monogram -which used grainy b&w film stock even for it's "A" pictures, would have used one of the cheaper color processes (like Tru-Color or Natural Color) and so Legend colored it accordingly.

For the Three Stooges shorts made by Columbia, they used brighter, more realistic colors in keeping with the better film stock used by that studio.

Even so, the results are just as I said, astonishing.

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Yeah, this is one of Bela's best and it isn't bad in its own right. I try to make this a perennial Halloween must.

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One of my favorite lines in a horror film... Just the way he says it!!! Nobody does it like Bela.

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yea that was kinda hilarious when he did that... sort of like Hitchcock's,, Goooood Evening....
are you going to bark all day little doggie,, or are you going to bite

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I saved "imbecile!" and "bombastic ignoramus!" as special sounds in my computer :)

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