The Vampire Bat (1933) Drama, Horror, Mystery | Full Movie | Subtitled

[@b.mariejarreau828]

I’m 74 years old, have been watching the B/W classics all my life - I can’t believe I’ve never seen this most exquisite movie!!! So glad I “stumbled-upon” The Vampire Bat! What an excellent movie! Thank you so much for posting this!!

[@murtazaarif6507]

It is good to know that you have been watching B/W movies for so long. This gives me hope that there are enough movies from yesteryear to last my lifetime too particularly if I include colour and other than horror genres up to about 1980's because these days movies are no longer proper movies in my opinion.

[@101Volts]

It's a bit funny you hadn't, because this has Dwight Frye in it, who was Renfield in Dracula and Fritz in Frankenstein. He's Herman in this one. Then again, this film went to Public Domain some time ago, since I have it in one of those 50 Movie Pack DVD sets. It probably doesn't get as much fanfare.

[@danielwegrzynek494]

Such a treasure when this happens. I'm 72, and it doesn't happen that often anymore. Enjoy, my friend.

[@gregorywellssr7857]

​@@101VoltsDude,this movie has nothing but stars in it,look em up,the cast is all-star. I think the movie was pretty much unknown until it went PD and started showing up in collections. As I commented elsewhere,to me it is the best motion picture ever made. From the opening music I'm captivated,and the music continues with the rhythm of the dialogue. It's so aurally beautiful that I often just listen.

[@gregorywellssr7857]

I first saw it in that 50 pack also,a lot of truly great movies in that pack. It had some trash,some it great but still trash. But it had several historically great movies, many rightly famous ones and a few unknown greats like this. That collection started me on this path for sure.

[@Mr22thou]

Bravo to CCC for uploading such high quality prints when available. It really makes such a big difference in viewing enjoyment.

[@bradnoneofyourbusiness9984]

Poor Herman...so misunderstood. Great movie!!! Well worth the watch!

[@mr.astrophysics9115]

Dwight Frye was excellent in every horror movie he did one of my all time favorites

[@darealslimshady702]

came to the comments to say the exact same thing frye was such an icon 🫶

[@feralbluee]

Yes, he was fantastic in this movie. He wasn’t a caricature, but a real person - excellent actor. Thanks for letting me know his name :) 🎭🧟🌷🌱

[@grandmoffwilhufftarkin4109]

Lionel Atwill was one of the most talented and handsome classic Hollywood actors! Love his voice too!!

[@feralbluee]

Saw a photo of him as a young man - gorgeous :) Very good actor! This part was a little over the top, but he worked it so well, just a little nuts.

[@anonagain]

Poor Herman - he was just a misunderstood animal lover. Thanks @CCC!

[@richardewald9545]

Melvyn Douglas is terrific in this. Love his casual acting style. And quite handsome.

[@jrsygrl72]

for any first-time viewers: The flaming torches 🔥were actually original to one version of the 1933 film. From IMDb: "At least one original release print had the torches 🔥 in the Bronson Canyon sequence hand-colored by Gustav Brock. Thereafter, the film remained completely B&W until 2017, when UCLA digitally restored the color in its new preservation negative." 😊

[@gregorywellssr7857]

Where do we find that 2017 restoration?

[@9284vr]

WOW!! For such an old movie, this is an excellent quality print. Thank you CCC!

[@leelarson107]

Look at that great cast. Melvyn Douglas, the suave hero. Lionel Atwill, the sinister villain. Fay Wray, always a class act. Dwight Frye, the quintessential screwball.

[@micha2023]

CCC... I'm currently binge watching your channel. I can't believe what clarity and high quality these old movies are. Great Job!!!!

[@CultCinemaClassics]

You are very welcome Micha Thanks for subscribing and welcome to the club for crazy cinephiles! Hope to CCC ya soon 🍿

[@SlimSeamus1]

Adding colour only to the flame of the torches was a nice touch...

[@godfreecharlie]

4 in the morning and I'm enjoying a fine vampire movie thanks to CCC! The neatest thing for me is the B/W film is so nice in a dark room but in a scene where villagers are hoisting torches in a cave the flames were colorized. Great effect! I'm not a fan of colorized movies but this small use is interesting. Thanks again CCC.

[@lotteweill]

not colorized. the 1933 film had a technicolor sequence

[@godfreecharlie]

@@lotteweill I only remember seeing the flames being bright orangeish yellow. Don't know the technique or pretend to. I just know I liked it.

[@lotteweill]

@@godfreecharlie Hi Charlie, UCLA Film and Television streamed their 2017 restoration of the film today 10/29/20 on Vimeo. The flames in the 1933 original were in color. UCLA digitally restored the color for their restoration. Fay Wray's daughter did an informative interview today after the film. She said Wray never talked about the film. Wray made 11 films, including King Kong in the single year 1933

[@jeffolsen4983]

Thanks folks. I just asked the same in a separate comment.

[@gregorywellssr7857]

Oh ,I see, it's this one. Dur

[@satanasdelincuente]

The scene where the beaker pops is one of the greatest half seconds in film history...

[@gregorywellssr7857]

This is the greatest motion picture ever made.

[@marks9820]

The sound of the pump, the splattering of blood into the collection beaker must have been pretty intense for a 1933 audience.

[@candacegladden5313]

This is an oldie but goodie thanks for posting for us to enjoy keep them coming

[@mariosanchezgumiel7757]

Thank you, Cult Cinema Classics, for posting "The Vampire Bat" with such a great quality. It's one of my favorite movies, and I'm never tired of it. Frank R. Strayer directed many unsettling excellent films, but (I don't know why) this one is the best for me. :D

[@echeatwood]

Just love Fay Wray. Such classic beauty.

[@Daisnap]

Let’s have some kudos for Maude Eburne’s hilarious aunt, whose moods change like quicksilver, whose medical terms - real and unreal - roll off her tongue with ease, and who nails every comic moment with speedy, spontaneous perfection! Well done, Maude!

[@anthonyfrew1571]

Atmospheric modestly budgeted film - good use of the camera - Lionel Atwill only made a modest number of spook films - but what fine movies they were - strong cast Fay Wray, Dwight Frye, George E Stone and a young Melvin Douglas - what a fine voice Lionel had - and at just over an hour - it does not waste a second

[@OriginalRocketJock]

Dwight Frye SIXTH billed? That is criminal.

[@gregorywellssr7857]

The cast was stacked.

[@Rafael-lr4gn]

Fay wray beauty. God bless you wherever you are

[@abrahamulagay4495]

I love these good old spookies, thank you for sharing this joyful horror 🦇

[@bernardrequena9124]

Très bon film, bonne réalisation, excellente photographie, qui rappelle l'expressionnisme allemand ; et un acteur qui interprète Herman d'une façon magistrale !

[@lionheartroar3104]

Nice to see this restored.

[@marekstachowiak7773]

Lubię stare filmy o tej tematyce. Mają swój klimat.

[@robertoaudiffred7936]

I love anything with Fay Wray.

[@n91605]

Wow pristine quality print what a gem!

[@hollysterland]

32:07 is my absolute favourite part! Bless the Nice Soft Bat 🦇

[@janupczak1643]

Just saw Melvyn Douglas in The Changeling... Such a difference 50 years makes.💔😞

[@SBCBears]

I finally found him in that movie. It's ever a shock to me when I see what age does to youth and beauty.

[@janupczak1643]

@@SBCBears Yes indeed...time is a thief 💔

[@zanti209]

He was unrecognizable. Time does that. He did a good job in Changeling, tho. A pleasure to watch.

[@NefertitiNubianQueen]

Brilliant from start to finish. Thank you for this.

[@allenwatkins4972]

The colorized flame effect was good.

[@jrsygrl72]

(better late than never) The flaming torches 🔥were actually original to one version of the 1933 film. From IMDb: "At least one original release print had the torches 🔥 in the Bronson Canyon sequence hand-colored by Gustav Brock. Thereafter, the film remained completely B&W until 2017, when UCLA digitally restored the color in its new preservation negative."

[@melodiefrances3898]

I HATE mobs. They are an example of the worst in supposedly "normal" people.

[@contour157]

The first post-Dracula vampire movie.

[@Daisnap]

Let’s have some kudos for Maude Eburne as the hilarious aunt! The way her moods changed like quicksilver, the way medical terms (real or not) rolled off her tongue with ease,

[@Richard-vu7kh]

The scene with the dog cracked me up ! 😂🤣

[@alien2836]

THAT'S WHAT I CALL A MOVIE, A GREAT MOVIE. AND NOT THE CRAP TODAY WHAT MAKE HOLLYWOOD

[@0816M3RC]

What? This movie is ok at best. There are plenty of much better movies made today.

[@cindytartt4048]

Don’t be such an idiot.

[@cheryldevine42]

Movies were creepier back in the old days! This was great quality. And a very good movie, especially with Fay Wray 🦍❤👍

[@leelarson107]

Movies today aren't as creepy, but real life in our cities most definitely ARE. Rather than vampire bats, we have 'peaceful protests' burning our cities, 'woke' thought pervading our classrooms and military, and 'political correctness' teaching that all of that, the lies and destruction, are good for us.

[@hamburgareable]

Now, poor little, scaredy Herman. Because your intentions were misunderstood, you met an untimely demise. What could you have done to make em treat you like that?

[@musicalme27]

😢😢

[@marks.8823]

"Yes Yes night after night laying awake until dawn waiting" "For what?" ""I don't know " "That's what I thought "

[@RRaquello]

A double dose of creepy little hunchback guys in this one, with both Dwight Frye and George E. Stone, but Frye wins the battle of the creeps. I think he was actually playing this one more for laughs.

[@ritataylor324]

❤ fabulous old spook movies. They are the best. Want to see more of these old movies.

[@robertszvetics210]

great print looks like it was restored.

[@JohnMartinelli-r5b]

Cloris Leachman is so believable and young in this picture.

[@musicalme27]

This is one of my favorite horror movies of the 30's

[@janupczak1643]

Happy Birthday to me! Thanks for the great gift...you are awesome. Loved it!❤

[@SILENTLY9]

Happy Birthday hun ,,, from Dusty Willams of T.A.P.S. GHOSTHUNTERS .

[@janupczak1643]

@@SILENTLY9 Oh you are so sweet! Thank you so very much...hope wherever you are in the world, you're staying well...❤❤❤

[@janupczak1643]

@@SILENTLY9 And who doesn't love T.AP.S. GHOSTHUNTERS??!😊❤

[@finaganchillo]

como disfruto con estás películas 😢😮

[@JohnMartinelli-r5b]

Fay Wray wanted Kong to play her lover in this but the studio said no. Animals!

[@HotDogRock]

Came for Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas, Fay Wray and Dwight Fry. Love to see this in such great quality. Now I know where the band "Dog Faced Hermans" got their name from. Came for acting, stay for the witty writing. I'm surprised that the whole thing ends on a toilet joke! But hey, if you didn't catch on to running gags of hypochondriac medial jokes before the end, I mean, It's not too "on the nose".

[@gregorywellssr7857]

And I didn't know there was a band named Dog Faced Germans.

[@CrushingOnSpongeBob]

I came here for Dwight Frye 🥰😍🤩🥵

[@tomburns70]

Great movie-- When a 'B' movie then, can easily be an 'A' movie in our year 2020--At a midnight matinee ? (kidding) Loved it !

[@Mr22thou]

I used to live in Los Angeles where there were & still are theaters that show old movies on the big screen. Some show double features - sometimes at midnight. One theater showed a Marx Bros. triple feature. It was so much fun! I actually got physically tired of laughing!! I now live in a much smaller town that doesn't do that & I really miss it.

[@richardewald9545]

Fay Wray looks gorgeous !

[@dawnsimons118]

Opening scene . helluva swagger for a gimpy guy

[@VersusFebrile]

Fay Wray wonderful! 🖤

[@murtazaarif6507]

This film has an intelligent way of fusing superstition with high intelligent characters that seek scientific proof in a Victorian society. This is achieved by giving a weak attribute to seemingly intelligent looking and sounding characters based on the way they think and behave in dealing with the presence of the destructive entity in the village. This is particularly observed in the detective with a light humour and informality he cannot shake off. With this approach the story delves deeper into the supernatural force helped also by the mid dark lighting turned darker particularly in scenes of gas lit lamps on streets at night typical of Victorian London.

[@musicalme27]

This film doesn't take place in London, but in some country in middle Europe ; the names are German.

[@murtazaarif6507]

​@@musicalme27 The names are actually Dutch. I am a European born national born in Brugge and grew up in West Flanders near Holland. When I look again I realize this film is actually set between Edwardian periods rather than Victorian based on the costumes, interiors, architecture and street gas lamps. The costumes are conventional for the period and not traditionally Dutch.

[@raquelmoran4612]

Love these movies ❤️

[@christinahighsmith4453]

Fay Wray resembles a young (and natural) Meghan Fox. Love these old 1930s movies.

[@TheHeater90]

Perfect line delivery by Dwight Frye at 32:45 ! LMAO

[@hamburgareable]

Thankz, CCC! This is a cool rarity.

[@angelsone-five7912]

It may be old but it`s a good film.

[@michaelkelley4188]

Good show thank you for sharing it!👍🦇

[@geoffdevore6321]

Great movie! Thamk you!

[@denisesaunders5473]

Dwight frye died young at only 44 rip

[@classiccraig8875]

Great movie, thanks for posting in HD. 12 commercial breaks in an hour-long movie was too many, though.

[@milankuzminac6035]

This opening, the fisrt music (wonderful sound🏅) was later in another famouse Bela Lugosi's movie: The corpse vanishes, nine years later, made 1942.

[@starsnstrife]

36:42 the torches are the only thing that have colour in this movie

[@jrsygrl72]

The flaming torches 🔥were actually original to one version of the 1933 film. From IMDb: "At least one original release print had the torches 🔥 in the Bronson Canyon sequence hand-colored by Gustav Brock. Thereafter, the film remained completely B&W until 2017, when UCLA digitally restored the color in its new preservation negative."

[@anthonyfrew1571]

Can anyone tell me if the colour moments belong to 1933 or have been added

[@jrsygrl72]

They were indeed a hand-colored "special effect" of the original 1933 film. From IMDb: "At least one original release print had the torches 🔥 in the Bronson Canyon sequence hand-colored by Gustav Brock. Thereafter, the film remained completely B&W until 2017, when UCLA digitally restored the color in its new preservation negative."

[@anthonyfrew1571]

@@jrsygrl72 Thank you for that information

[@jrsygrl72]

@@anthonyfrew1571 You're welcome. 😊Although, what we're seeing here is possibly the digitally restored torch color: "... 2017, when UCLA digitally restored the color in its new preservation negative." BUT the torch coloring was original to "at least one original release print" of the 1933 movie.

[@hannahcoffey9886]

Thanks for this, enjoyed!

[@stewartsanders3533]

Herman do herman do Dwight frye was a legend but died very young love Dwight frye he should have had top billing 👍

[@freds7988]

Torches have been colorized at 37: 03!

[@lotteweill]

not colorized. the 1933 film had a technicolor sequence

[@michaelsummerell8618]

Enjoyable film - thanks for sharing this!

[@satanasdelincuente]

That burgermeister had the same job in the 1931 Frankenstein

[@gregorywellssr7857]

Absolutely. He is Der Burgermeister.

[@virnamisra1657]

Mayhem in the underground laboratory. A fitting finish then

[@markbayer1573]

The movie's most interesting character is dispatched 75% through in an unsatisfying manner, and King Kong's leading Lady doesn't even get to scream! Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable early 1930s low-budgeter that can take it's place alongside the more famous Universal Pictures classics of the era whose sets it appropriated for a few days. These movies are all about atmosphere, and this one has plenty of it: appealingly overripe performances (including Melvyn Douglas's charming leading man turn), a genuinely impressive posse scene...and comic relief that's actually funny. I mean, how can you NOT like a horror movie that ends with a bathroom joke? 7/10.

[@GhostOfThisHouse]

dwight frye is so cute

[@eduardoacosta3339]

Demasiados comerciales se pierde todo el hilo de la película.

[@hollysterland]

Where can you find this full version on DvD? Or which version is it? I can't seem to find the full restored version anywhere besides here! The dvd we have had a good 3 minute part cut out of it!

[@richardkennedy8481]

The flames in the torches are in color. How did they do that? I've never heard of this.

[@djramshead]

56:30 Dracula, two years before only allowed offscreen implication of the count biting Renfield to avoid homoerotic implications - great to see another production seeing past that silly notion and just treating this as another vampire’s victim

[@benjamincjholmes]

I came for Dwight Frye

[@scombs6543]

Same

[@menendez-ghoul89]

Me too. Underrated gem.

[@vivianagonzalez2604]

Excelente pelicula.los felicito.👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍.

[@Zakkliar]

Anyone else find the fact they ended the movie on a "funny" note strange? I guess the theme of life and death was never taken seriously in the movie but finishing it on such a bad joke was an unfortunate choice.

[@satanasdelincuente]

Lionel Atwill would've made a good Doctor Who.. the negative 2nd Doctor maybe

[@Laura-tp8wz]

Thanks

[@cathy5072]

Awesome movie 🎥 🍿

[@el_loote]

36:12 Colors?! In a B/W B-Movie from a Poverty Row Studio? Wowzer! Must have been quite a surprise back then!

[@marcdelente2456]

Un petit budjet formidable avec la divine Fay Wray qui n avait pas encore tourné dans le film de Meriam Cooper et Ernest shoedsack de 1933 pour la RKO le chef d'oeuvre absolut KING KONG . Elle dans ce petit film elle s en sort relativement bien.

[@travishimebaugh8381]

Fan theory, Otto Niemann is related to Dr. Niemann from House of Frankenstein

[@jeffolsen4983]

Are the red flames of the torches original to the black and white release?

[@jrsygrl72]

(better late than never) The flaming torches 🔥were actually original to one version of the 1933 film. From IMDb: "At least one original release print had the torches 🔥 in the Bronson Canyon sequence hand-colored by Gustav Brock. Thereafter, the film remained completely B&W until 2017, when UCLA digitally restored the color in its new preservation negative."

[@natwhite1679]

Wow classic.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

7:07 dynamite!

[@archenema6792]

Nice title. I love Chinese food.

[@skinithpuppy5025]

That is funny!

[@hertzair1186]

ArchEnema 67 : you’ll get the bat stew flu

[@stellahope2911]

thanks CCC great movie , but then a couple of trolls turn up in chat again , so it put me of the movie

[@NancyDrewe]

-Don't VAX me bro- Like what happened with Lady Gangster today?

[@marcoskeppe9922]

Embora não tenha conseguido a projeção merecida em sua carreira eu adoro as atuações de Dwayght Frye.

[@feralbluee]

I thought I’d seen every B&W scary movie - guess not. TV was wonderful in the 50’s. In and around NYC, there were so many B&W movies on TV - Them, The Philadelphia Story, Bette Davis, Abbott & Costello, Charlie Chan movies with Mantan, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, Flash Gordon, Hitchcock, “Chiller Theater”, ghosties :), Ray Harryhausen movies - so, so many. Anyway, I did not see this one. Melvyn Douglas had such stage presence and he was so good in drama and comedy. This was a great movie of its genre - loved it :) Thank you soo much! 🫣🍁☠️🙀🧛🏻‍♂️🧟🧖🏽

[@bernardagonzalez1659]

Subtítulos porfavor 🙏Español

[@DuanTorruellas]

Goodnight, sleep tight , dont let the vampire bats bite.

[@alfredstjohn]

I love Herman

[@MooseCall]

Scary thumbnail

[@beatrizferreira7809]

Me encanta el genero es uno de mis favoritos, lastima que no siguieron con el ser sobrenatural