The work of Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) has earned his company millions, and all they give him is $5,000. But didn’t he take a buyout early rather than become a partner? Isn’t that the way corporations work?

So why wouldn’t he grow giant bats and have them kill anyone who wears a new aftershave he’s created? He’s destroying the CEO class —the elite —well, really everyone. He’s got Devil Bats — big, bad rubber bats that scream right at the camera — and he leads the first horror film from the poverty-row Producers Releasing Corporation studio, a movie that played alongside Man Made Monster.

Carrruthers destroys everyone that owned the company other than Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren), the daughter, who is saved by Chicago Register reporter Johnny Layton (Dave O’Brien) and the aftershave lotion gets dumped all over Carruthers, his bats attacking their master, following the way that he killed those who held him in chains.

Or maybe not, as he speaks from the shadows in the non-horror sequel, Devil Bat’s Daughter. There was also a 2015 movie, Revenge of the Devil Bat, starring Lynn Lowrey. Another PRC movie, The Flying Serpent, is almost the same movie.

Director Jean Yarbrough’s career spanned the days of television. He also directed one of my favorite movies, Hillbillys In a Haunted House, as well as Footsteps In the Night, She-Wolf of London and The Creeper. Based on a story by John T. Neville, the script was written by George Bricker, who also wrote an early wrestling movie, Bodyhold.

More movies should feature fake bats. I recommend A Lizard In a Woman’s Skin, as man, that bat attack was so good it ended up on the U.S. poster.

You can watch this on Tubi.