Details

Release year: 1999

Storyline

Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.

Top credits

Directors

Louis Morneau

Writers

John Logan

Cast

Lou Diamond Phillips — Sheriff Emmett Kimsey
Dina Meyer — Dr. Sheila Casper
Bob Gunton — Dr. Alexander McCabe
Leon — Jimmy Sands

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Did you know

• Produced in just over five months, the picture continues to hold one of the top spots for fastest produced 35mm feature films (from script-to-screen) to receive a wide-release: * Pre-production: Script acquired/director hired: May, 1999. * Production: June and July, 1999. * Post-production: Edited (including 250+ visual effects), scored and mixed: August and September, 1999. The film was released on 2,540 screens in the U.S. on October 22, 1999.

• With a final budget of $5.25 million, the film recouped it all in its first week in theaters. It grossed well over $30 million worldwide in theatrical, DVD, digital, and television sales.

• Lou Diamond Phillips and Dina Meyer had a 5-year contract with Destination Films, in case of a possible sequel, the contract expired in 2004 while the sequel "Bats 2: Human Harvest" would just begin production in 2006 to premiere a year later.