Fangs (2002)

It's the attack of the killer, genetically-altered bats!

Director:

Kelly Sandefur

Writer:

Jim Geoghan

Stars:

Corbin Bernsen, Tracy Nelson, Whip Hubley

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Corbin Bernsen	...	Carl Hart
Tracy Nelson	...	Ally Parks
Whip Hubley	...	Dr. John Winslow
Katie Stuart	...	Genny Winslow
Lukas Behnken	...	Logan
Michael Gregory	...	Police Chief Sam Taylor
Mark L. Taylor	...	Prof. Arthur Fuller (as Mark Taylor)
Scott Davidson	...	Howard Spiegel
Tony Longo	...	Louis
Nicole Clendenen	...	Alexis Hart
Corina Marie	...	Heather
Deborah Brown	...	Diane
Sarah Rush	...	Lois Bostwick
Dennis Fimple	...	Willy Kramer
James Lee Hymes	...	Yuppie #1 (as James Hymes)

Storyline

Scottsville is a sleepy town, where the yearly apple blossom festival is usually the only 'memorable' event, so Police Chief Sam Taylor is furious when young cop Ally Parks -who comes from the big city- insists on investigating the death and mutilation of prof. Fuller, who experimented on bats, and soon several other victims, as unnatural bat attacks. She finds a helpful 'expert' in animal controller Dr. John Winslow, and the couple gets help from his inquisitive daughter Genny and her practically in-living high school-friend Logan to unravel how it all ties in with local real estate mogul Carl Hart's dishonest and corrupt practices.

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Plot Keywords:

bat | gene manipulation

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violent content

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 March 2002 (Norway)

Also Known As:

Bat Attack - Angriff der Fledermäuse

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

PorchLight Entertainment, PorchLight Pictures, Videal GmbH

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When John's daughter shows him the video footage she has made, the scroll bar under the video (and the display showing the elapsed time) suddenly goes from twenty-something seconds to more than one minute, and then goes back again, with nobody touching "rewind" or anything similar.

User Reviews

Please say you're kidding me.

The only thing that FANGS seems to have been made to do is make the theatrically released BATS look like it deserved every Oscar award that is given out. I was actually happy to own BATS after seeing this, because after I was done watching this film, I watched BATS just to let myself know that not all films suck this badly.

The first thing that really lets you know this film will be major low-budget and hokey all the way is that it stars Corbin Bersen. A good actor, but then again, he did star in the highly terrible, direct-to-video flicks RAPTOR and KILLER INSTINCT. So, forgetting Bersen, there is the rest of the cast. Whip Hubley (brother of Season Hubley) isn't all to bad, but the main thing that kills FANGS is sloppy direction and a screenwriter who tried all too hard to try to make this film funny. Basically, he wanted to try to make FANGS into a BATS, that had the humor that David E. Kelley gave LAKE PLACID. But, it fails miserably here and most of the 'humor' just sounds plain retarded. It's sad too. It always upsets me when somebody says something that you know was meant to be funny and it just isn't.

Having not been given very many killer bat flicks in the past (the only two I can think of would be BATS and an early 70s film called NIGHTWING) so I guess FANGS does well considering that only two other films of this caliber have come before it. But, it borrows heavily from them and end is almost laughable. Like other users said, it seems like you were almost expecting the line "The killer is really..." somewhere in there. The thing that saves FANGS from being a complete atrocity is the fact that the special effects were not *that* terrible (but still, you could obviously tell the bats were computer designed) and the fact that there are a few sarcastic lines that are given by performances that are not all that bad. But, the film is loaded with mindless cliches and has dialogue and situations that are just n-o-t belivable.

FANGS: 2/5.