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* BatOutOfHell: The bats have been genetically engineered to be more intelligent and omnivorous in an attempt to create the ultimate predator.
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* BatOutOfHell: The bats have been genetically engineered to be more intelligent and omnivorous in an attempt to create the ultimate predator. Sheila immediately says something must be wrong when she finds out that bats (specifically flying foxes) are involved, saying they don't act like this.
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Subverted. Jimmy, Sheila's tech support/boyfriend, is Black and ends up in the thick of the action thanks to following her. A number of people die, including [[spoiler: the sheriff's deputy, the CDC agent who brought them in, and the scientist who altered the bats]], but Jimmy survives to the end credits.
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Subverted. Jimmy, Sheila's tech support/boyfriend, is Black and ends up in the thick of the action thanks to following her. A number of people die, including [[spoiler: the sheriff's deputy, the CDC agent who brought them in, and the scientist who altered the bats]], but Jimmy survives to the end credits.
* IronicLastWords: Dr. [=McCabe=] expresses his belief that he can control the bats and calls them to come to him. They do...and immediately go straight for the blood vessels.
* LovableCoward: Jimmy is played as more comedically scared than the sheriff or Dr. Caspers, quickly wishing he could head for Antarctica to avoid the titular beasts. (It doesn't help that he's freaked out even by harmless bats.) However, he stays with them the entire time they're trying to stop the crisis, helping to get civilians away from the carnage and to make sure the bats don't spread.
* LovableCoward: Jimmy is played as more comedically scared than the sheriff or Dr. Caspers, quickly wishing he could head for Antarctica to avoid the titular beasts. (It doesn't help that he's freaked out even by harmless bats.) However, he stays with them the entire time they're trying to stop the crisis, helping to get civilians away from the carnage and to make sure the bats don't spread.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Jimmy describes himself as being unconformable around the bats up close while Shiela goes into the caves after them, which is why Jimmy is the one who stays outside with the equipment and talks into her radio while she stays away.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Jimmy describes himself as being unconformable uncomfortable around the bats up close while Shiela Sheila goes into the caves after them, which is why Jimmy is the one who stays outside with the equipment and talks into her radio while she stays away.radio.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jimmy doesn't like bats to begin with and he's very quickly scared and unhappy when it turns out that Gallup has a swarm of human-killing bats on the rampage.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jimmy doesn't like bats to begin with and he's very quickly scared and unhappy when it turns out that Gallup has a swarm of human-killing bats on the rampage.
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* HotScientist: Sheila Casper. A lot of the UST between her and Sheriff Kimsey is him being unable to sneak the occasional peek while all the mess is going on.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Jimmy describes himself as being uncomfotorable around the bats up close while Shiela goes into the caves after them, which is why Jimmy is the one who stays outside with the equipment and talks into her radio while she stays away.
* ZergRush: The bats keep coming in great numbers, at one point there's enough fo them in the sky to block out the full moon.
* ZergRush: The bats keep coming in great numbers, at one point there's enough fo them in the sky to block out the full moon.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Jimmy describes himself as being uncomfotorable unconformable around the bats up close while Shiela goes into the caves after them, which is why Jimmy is the one who stays outside with the equipment and talks into her radio while she stays away.
* ZergRush: The bats keep coming in great numbers, at one point there's enoughfo of them in the sky to block out the full moon.
* ZergRush: The bats keep coming in great numbers, at one point there's enough
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* SequelGoesForeign: The continuation film by the Sci-Fi Channel involves a new swarm of bats raising hell somewhere in Eastern Europe.
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* TheSwarm: The bats attack the town in their thousands.
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* TheSwarm: The bats attack the town in their thousands.thousands, [[ZergRush easily overwhelming even the most heavily-armed opponent]].
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* FlashFreezingCoolant: The plan to get rid of the titular bats is to use an industrial refrigeration unit to disperse coolant above and into their cave while they sleep, so they go into hibernation and eventually freeze to death.
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* BadassBystander: When the Bats attack the town, as mot of his customers just sit there, the bartender grabs his shotgun and races onto the street shooting bats for a while. Unfortunately, when he runs out of ammo he then proceeds to accidentally endanger both Shiela and Kimsey, s gets into the nearest car to flee, it happens to be the car Kimsey was hiding under for cover. He then proceeds to crash the car and knock out a ticket booth that Shiela was hiding in.
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* BadassBystander: When the Bats attack the town, as mot most of his customers just sit there, the bartender grabs his shotgun and races onto the street shooting bats for a while. Unfortunately, when he runs out of ammo he then proceeds to accidentally endanger both Shiela Sheila and Kimsey, s as he gets into the nearest car to flee, it happens to be the car Kimsey was hiding under for cover. He then proceeds to crash the car and knock out a ticket booth that Shiela Sheila was hiding in.
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* YourCheatingHeart: The first victims of the bats are a teenage couple having an argument about how the girl found out her boyfriend has been seeing another girl.
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* EnemyRisingBehindMe: When the Bats attack the town in force, Kimsey's deputy Wesley is chased into an empty building and shoots at bats for a while, not seeing that one is behind him and beginning to crawl up his jacket.
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* ApatheticCitizens: Several bar customers just sit and drink without any concern as people are being attacked and killed in the streets.
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* BadassBystander: When the Bats attack the town, as mot of his customers just sit there, the bartender grabs his shotgun and races onto the street shooting bats for a while. Unfortunately, when he runs out of ammo he then proceeds to accidentally endanger both Shiela and Kimsey, s gets into the nearest car to flee, it happens to be the car Kimsey was hiding under for cover. He then proceeds to crash the car and knock out a ticket booth that Shiela was hiding in.
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* ZergRush: The bats keep coming in great numbers, at one point there's enough fo them in the sky to block out the full moon.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Jimmy describes himself as being uncomfotorable around the bats up close while Shiela goes into the caves after them, which is why Jimmy is the one who stays outside with the equipment and talks into her radio while she stays away.
* YourCheatingHeart: The first victims of the bats are a teenage couple having an argument about how the girl found out her boyfriend has been seeing another girl.
* YourCheatingHeart: The first victims of the bats are a teenage couple having an argument about how the girl found out her boyfriend has been seeing another girl.
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* SpeciesTitle: About genetically engineered killer bats.
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* BioweaponBeast: [[spoiler:It it eventually revealed that the U.S. government asked Dr. [=McCabe=] to create omnivorous, intelligent and murderously vicious bats as a weapon for an unspecified purpose. The Doctor took the task eagerly [[ForScience just to see if it could be done]].]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: Subverted. The closing scene shows the lone surviving bat slowly and menacingly rise up from the dirt in preparation to [[VillainExitStageLeft fly off into the sunrise]], only to get run over by the heroes' SUV as ''they'' drive off into the sunrise.
** Didn't stop Sci-Fi Channel from making a sequel, though...
* TheEndOrIsIt: Subverted. The closing scene shows the lone surviving bat slowly and menacingly rise up from the dirt in preparation to [[VillainExitStageLeft fly off into the sunrise]], only to get run over by the heroes' SUV as ''they'' drive off into the sunrise.
** Didn't stop Sci-Fi Channel from making a sequel, though...
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* BioweaponBeast: [[spoiler:It it It's eventually revealed that the [[spoiler:the U.S. government asked Dr. [=McCabe=] to create omnivorous, intelligent and murderously vicious bats as a weapon for an unspecified purpose. The Doctor took the task eagerly [[ForScience just to see if it could be done]].]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: Subverted. The closing scene shows the lone surviving bat slowly and menacingly rise up from the dirt in preparation to [[VillainExitStageLeft fly off into the sunrise]], only to get run over by the heroes' SUV as ''they'' drive off into thesunrise.
**sunrise. Didn't stop Sci-Fi Channel from making a sequel, though...
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''Bats'' is a 1999 American adventure-horror film, directed by Louis Morneau and produced by Bradley Jenkel and Louise Rosner. The film stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, Creator/DinaMeyer, Creator/BobGunton and Leon. It was the first film released by Destination Films.
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* BioweaponBeast: [[spoiler:It it eventually revealed that the U.S. government asked Dr. [=McCabe=] to create omnivorous, intelligent and murderously vicious bats as a weapon for an unspecified purpose. The Doctor took the task eagerly [[ForScience just to see if it could be done]].]]
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* KillItWithFire: The PluckyComicRelief uses a home-made flamethrower to (quite gleefully) burn several bats when they come to attack the school the heroes turned into their headquarters.
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* MadScientist: Dr. [=McCabe=] created the bats with the specific intention of killing people. He is killed attempting to communicate with them.
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* MadScientist: Dr. [=McCabe=] created the bats with the specific intention of killing people. He is killed attempting to communicate with them.them, although a minute before being killed [[EvilAllAlong he also makes clear]] that he deliberately released them (it was said earlier in the film and taken as truth that the bats had accidentally escaped) and that he has no desire to order them to stop.
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* MilitariesAreUseless: They U.S. Army only provides the heroes with intel in order to determine where the bats could be, obtains the refrigeration unit that will kill the bats for good and then decides to go deliver it into the nest... ''at night''. The heroes finish the job with the gear they scavenge from the detachment's base.
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* MilitariesAreUseless: They The U.S. Army only provides the heroes with intel in order to determine where the bats could be, obtains the refrigeration unit that will kill the bats for good and then decides to go deliver it into the nest... ''at night''. The heroes finish the job with the gear they scavenge from the detachment's base.
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* TheSheriff: Sheriff Kimsey is not well-equipped to fight a swarm of killer bats, but the people of his county are under threat and it is his job to protect.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: [[spoiler:Turns out that the only bunch of people crazy enough to fund Dr. [=McCabe=]'s research was the U.S Government searching for a bio-weapon to unleash on their enemies. The government agent that tells so (to the lieutenant in charge of the detachment sent to hunt the bats) even does it with a matter-of-factly "yeah, we did it".]]
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* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The intelligent, omnivorous, killer bats were the result of genetic experimentation by a rogue scientist. Had the movie been made 30 years earlier, it is easy to imagine they would have the product of atomic tests in the desert.
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* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The intelligent, omnivorous, killer bats were the result of genetic experimentation by a rogue scientist. Had the movie been made 30 years earlier, it is easy to imagine they would have been the product of atomic tests in the desert.desert.
* HiddenDepths: Sheriff Kimsey turns out to be a fan of opera. He even lampshades that it'd make him lose points as a badass if anybody else in town knew it.
* HiddenDepths: Sheriff Kimsey turns out to be a fan of opera. He even lampshades that it'd make him lose points as a badass if anybody else in town knew it.
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* KillItWithIce: The plan for destroying the bats involves using an industrial coolant to drop the temperature in the mine till they start to hibernate and then freeze to death.
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* RedshirtArmy: The U.S. military detachment in charge of dealing with the bat problem goes to the spot where the bats nest, ''at night'', and is completely annihilated.
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* VillainByDefault: The eponymous monsters were genetically engineered by a "mad" scientist. When asked why he would create such a creature, his response basically sums up the premise of this trope: "Because I'm a scientist! [[ScienceIsBad That's what we do!]]"
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* TheEndOrIsIt: Subverted. The closing scene shows the lone surviving bat slowly and menacingly rise up from the dirt in preparation to [[VillainExitStageLeft fly off into the sunrise]], only to get run over by the heroes' SUV as ''they'' drive off into the sunrise.
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* ScienceIsBad: MadScientist Dr. [=McCabe=] initially justifies creating the rampaging super intelligent omnivorous bats with the words "I'm a scientist! [[ForScience That's what we do!]]". No one finds this explanation even the slightest bit strange.
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* ForScience: [[DevilInPlainSight Obviously Evil]] MadScientist Dr. [=McCabe=] initially justifies creating the eponymous (killer and super-intelligent) bats with the words "I'm a scientist. That's ''what we do''. Make everything a little bit better." It's later hinted that it was a [[spoiler:secret government project]], but still you have to wonder why the protagonists accepted that justification so well...
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[[caption-width-right:350:Where do you hide when the dark is alive?]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Where do you hide when the dark is alive?]]
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Bats, the result of a government experiment gone wrong, have suddenly become intelligent, vicious, and omnivorous, and are attacking people near Gallup, Texas. Bat specialist Sheila Casper and her assistant Jimmy are brought in and team-up with local sheriff Emmett Kimsey, but can they stop the bats before the military comes in and, in their ignorance, makes things worse?
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* AbandonedMine: The bats are roosting in the old Black Rock Mine. This is where the final confrontation between human and bat takes place.
* BatOutOfHell: The bats have been genetically engineered to be more intelligent and omnivorous in an attempt to create the ultimate predator.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [=McCabe=] is killed by the bats he genetically engineered to be the ultimate predator and to prey on humans.
* KarmicDeath: [=McCabe=] is killed by his own creations while attempting to communicate with them.
* KillItWithIce: The Plan for destroying the bats involves using an industrial coolant to drop the temperature in the mine till they start to hibernate and then freeze to death.
* MadScientist: Dr. [=McCabe=] created the bats with the specific intention of killing people. He is killed attempting to communicate with them.
* TheSwarm: The bats attack the town in their thousands.
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Bats, the result of a government experiment gone wrong, have suddenly become intelligent, vicious, and omnivorous, and are attacking people near Gallup, Texas. Bat specialist Sheila Casper and her assistant Jimmy are brought in and team-up with local sheriff Emmett Kimsey, but can they stop the bats before the military comes in and, in their ignorance, makes things worse?
!!Tropes
* AbandonedMine: The bats are roosting in the old Black Rock Mine. This is where the final confrontation between human and bat takes place.
* BatOutOfHell: The bats have been genetically engineered to be more intelligent and omnivorous in an attempt to create the ultimate predator.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [=McCabe=] is killed by the bats he genetically engineered to be the ultimate predator and to prey on humans.
* KarmicDeath: [=McCabe=] is killed by his own creations while attempting to communicate with them.
* KillItWithIce: The Plan for destroying the bats involves using an industrial coolant to drop the temperature in the mine till they start to hibernate and then freeze to death.
* MadScientist: Dr. [=McCabe=] created the bats with the specific intention of killing people. He is killed attempting to communicate with them.
* TheSwarm: The bats attack the town in their thousands.
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