Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
The Devil Bat has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Devil Bat was released in 1940 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 51 reviews, giving The Devil Bat (1940) an average rating of 46%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 73%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 67%.
With a score of 46%, The Devil Bat is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1940, which stands at 63%.
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