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Creepy Comedy: Unraveling Vincent Price's 'The Bat' - Episode 51
Ever wondered how a classic Vincent Price film could be both creepy and hilarious at the same time? This week on the Dumb, Cool, Weird Podcast, we munch on chips and unravel the quirky plot of "The Bat," where Price, as a doctor, gets tangled in a bizarre web of bank heists, forest murders, and hidden treasure hunts. Picture this: an author stuck in a mansion with a Freddy Krueger-esque killer, a bumbling servant, a shady butler, and a police force that couldn't find their way out of a paper bag. Tune in to find out how Vincent Price's impeccable timing adds an eerie yet thrilling twist to the escapades.
Surprised by the unexpected fun we had with a Vincent Price movie that we thought would be a horror flick? So were we! Misled by a spooky trailer, we found ourselves enjoying a film perfect for a chill Saturday night. We'll chat about why this flick, despite its misleading promotion, won us over and why it should be on your must-watch list. Plus, don't miss our exciting announcement of the new Movie Monday series, where we'll talk about more gems from the 20th century. Stay sexy, Atlanta, and make sure to join us next Monday for more cinematic shenanigans!
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dumb cool weird podcast welcome to the dumb, cool, weird podcast. We're eating chips, so sorry for the crunch yep, a little asmr for you oh yeah, so I watched a movie called the bat with vincent price and it's another zany vincent price movie man found his way through the source and the dictionary, this time Yep.
Speaker 1:So basically, in this one, you know, vincent is a doctor, shocker right, and he's on a hunting trip with his buddy, yep, and his buddy gets this wild idea to go, and, you know, rob a bank, rob a bank, his own bank.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he robs his own bank. And you know, rob a bank, rob a bank, his own bank. Yeah, he robs his own bank, mm-hmm. And he tells Vincent the whole plan and I love how it turns out. Oh, there's a fire outside Because they're talking about having to go and get, they're going to kill their guide, who's a hermit. And then, you know, vincent Price, using his Vincent Price logic, is like yeah, that wouldn't work if we have to show the local undertaker the local hermit's body.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:So then there's a forest fire outside. Guy puts his guard down. Vincent Price racks around inside the hunting rifle and shoots him right in the face.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's the most screen time that actor got in that entire movie the entire time. So then we cut back to um, you know, basically back to the, the main story, and um, basically, there's this author who is basically as as as you can see throughout the movie, is writing the story as it's going along and she's visiting at this mansion.
Speaker 2:essentially, Well, she lives there. Yeah, and the guy that Vincent Price killed was a landlord.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Kind of a weird dynamic right.
Speaker 2:And the fact that Vincent Price also is a bat researcher.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he loves bats, loves pendulums too.
Speaker 2:And Edgar Allen Poe books Yep.
Speaker 1:So basically there's been a killer on the loose called the Bat. Yeah, that motherfucker has no face because he's covered up, basically a morph suit. He's basically wearing a morph suit. He's basically Freddy Krueger before Freddy Krueger. Yep, he's got steel claws built. He's basically Freddy Krueger before Freddy Krueger Yep, he's got, like, steel claws built into a glove, like Freddy.
Speaker 2:Krueger Funny part is that whenever he kills people he mostly judo chops them in the throat first With a non-claw hand.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he has a gloved hand, like, not unlike OJ Simpson Chops him in the neck and then he slashes him with the fucking claw. But throughout this whole movie you know, this kind of sums up the movie Basically the entire time the cops don't know what's going on. They're a little suspicious. These women are staying in this. You know, this mansion, the author's servant is kind of an idiot.
Speaker 2:She's kind of a simpleton yeah, I mean, that is a good way to put it Make people not want to come To this part of the country and pretty much the whole course of the movie.
Speaker 1:They're just trying to find out where the money is. Vincent Price knows where the money is. Apparently, it's in the family crypt.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Not even in the fucking house, by the way. Yeah, it's, but the killer is trying to get into the house to find the money because he thinks it's in the house. Yeah, and basically this entire thing is just Vincent Price comes to the house, he leaves. Cops come to the house, they leave. That's really the whole fucking movie after the fucking killer comes through.
Speaker 2:Honestly, you think, going through this movie, it's Vincent Price, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:You think?
Speaker 2:that the entire time. And then eventually you're going to meet this butler who seems like a British guy and he just seems very odd. He always disappears whenever the bat comes around, you know, along with the police officer who's saying I'm chasing the bat.
Speaker 1:Yep, and you know, the funny thing is, when he gets, when he definitely thinks he's on the case, he ends up leaving mysteriously and then he comes back mysteriously. All these cops are just incompetent. You know, one guy was passed out drunk on the fucking chair. He was drugged wes oh, yeah, I was.
Speaker 2:I was drugged. Yeah, like I believe that I love. I was like well, she said I can help myself to whatever I wanted.
Speaker 1:It's like yeah, not the alcohol you degenerate yep and yeah, and basically, like I said, this entire movie is just musical chairs, with just this fucking criminal going through this house trying to find a way in, and then he tries to get into the wall which, by the way, that that that was really loud, and that's when you can tell that obviously that guy wasn't Vincent Price, Because why would Vincent Price be looking in the walls if he already knew he had to look in the crypt. That's when he suspected the butler.
Speaker 2:Exactly Because it would only make sense if the butler was that incompetent.
Speaker 1:Yep. And the butler was a little suspicious too, because he had dirt on his shoulder.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was all messy and everything he was like. Well, I was following you through the woods when you were chasing the bat and then I got hit in the back of the head.
Speaker 1:Yep Seems plausible.
Speaker 2:And then Vincent Price comes back, says he's getting into a car accident accident. Oh, and, by the way, leading up to this, the ladies found the bat and he killed. And then our main character, the storyteller, threw a fire poker and hit him in the back of the head.
Speaker 1:Didn't knock him over either.
Speaker 2:But you know, vincent Price comes back and he's like, oh, I got a car accident because he just mysteriously showed up where no one could have called him to do doctor things Like what his doctor senses just started kicking in. Yep, like a spidey sense. Well, comes in, he's got a big gash on the back of his head. He's like, well, I was in a car accident and they're like very suspicious.
Speaker 1:Yep, and so you think it's Vincent Price again. But then it turns out it's not because he goes back to his office and he pulls out the gun, because he sees the bat there and he's like ah, I knew you'd be here you tried to frame me for my, and then didn't he also tell the bat that it was in the crypt?
Speaker 2:oh no, he didn't do that.
Speaker 1:He didn't tell him where the no, he just said I know where the money is, and once you're dead, it'll be all mine and and I'll be living an extravagant life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was really weird, though, because then he shouldn't have told them any of that. He should have shot him first, told them some of that and then shot him again. But no bad reaction time. The bat was so quick to pull the lights out of the ceiling, and then they wrestled for Vincent Price's gun.
Speaker 1:Distraction. It was a distraction and itraction. It was a distraction and it worked. It was a diversion, a distracting diversion Got him, didn't even see it coming. And so we go back to the house and for some fucking reason, the house is on fire. It was the garage. It was the garage. Well, it's part of the house. So, yeah, part of the house was on fire. And you know, in this whole mess well, you know, there was a scene, though, where the author lady gets trapped, so this will come up later when we talk about what's dumb about this movie. But basically this lady gets trapped in this vault and they get her out and they basically say oh, there's a trap door down there. These two open up and basically there's a safe, and so it's implied that maybe the money's in there. But that still doesn't make any sense, because he said it was in the crypt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the literal main character that Vincent Price kills at the beginning stole the money from his own bank and said it was in the crypt. Yep.
Speaker 1:And so basically after that happens, after this one girl gets slashed and dies, and we get to the very end of the movie, it turns out the guy who was the actual bat was the fucking chief of detectives. Yeah, the chief of detectives, yeah the entire time and you were led to believe the entire movie that he was hot on the case. Yeah, and he got shot by the butler. The butler did it, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, after he shot one of his officers, of course.
Speaker 1:Yes, because you've got to have a little bit of that right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, honestly that was hilarious, but the craziest part about it was he could tell what he was planning.
Speaker 1:He was trying to light the garage on fire to draw everybody outside so he can kill them in the woods yep, but everybody else was smart and decided to hide inside the house yep, smart, right, but that's basically the entire movie, because the movie ends with the author going like oh, and then she looks into, the camera breaks forth while it says, oh yeah, crime doesn't pay, or some stupid shit like that no, no it was.
Speaker 2:you can get away with anything, anything but murder. So fucking stupid dude. But yeah, that was the movie.
Speaker 1:Yep, and now brings me to the dumb, cool and weird. The dumbest part of this entire fucking movie is the main character. Who's the author? She gets locked in this fucking room, can't get out, supposedly suffocating. And then the other cop comes in there and it starts to lock on him. They go oh no, he's gonna get locked in. He goes oh wait a minute, there's buttons behind this poster here. Yeah, a painting that's inside the thing.
Speaker 2:She is that in minutes. She was suffocating.
Speaker 1:Yeah, minutes.
Speaker 2:But they were in there for minutes as well, hanging out with more people, which would mean less oxygen.
Speaker 1:Yep, now that's really stupid and dumb Is when that cop clearly shot him inside that room and then somehow he shot him in the chest, even though he shot him first.
Speaker 2:That was dumb. No, no, that was weird. It looked like he shot him in the head, but he also. He was on the ground holding his arm, Yep.
Speaker 1:Makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 2:The weird portion. The weird portion.
Speaker 1:Oh, we forgot the cool. Yeah. Well, what was really cool about this movie is it's always a blast having Vincent Price on the movie.
Speaker 2:Vincent Price just saying anything is great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the man is a walking encyclopedia and thesaurus of knowledge, just like all of his. You know his vernacular is so funny.
Speaker 2:I wonder if he even watched his own movies or any television. Probably not, he just read books.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he, you know he always does things in movies. It's always so cool, but it's funny at the same time the way he looks at people. He kind of like shifts his head a little bit and kind of does this eyeball thing. Yeah, but he was definitely the coolest part of the whole movie, just oh yeah, just because of what he was doing. What was weird about this movie?
Speaker 2:Hmm, it was weird that at the beginning of the movie the guy stole from his own bank and then told his doctor about it on a hunting trip, I mean.
Speaker 1:I just think that's stupid. Well like, well, price even said. Why are you telling me this?
Speaker 2:right. Like you know, I have a gun too yep, didn't really think that through like and not only that, he told him every little piece of the plan. He left nothing up for him to guess. So he knew where the money was. And he then told them what his plan was was to fake his death on that trip. But he needed a body double. The Hermit, yeah, the Hermit. And Vincent Price is like well, I know somebody who's better at being you, I'll just kill you, yep, and toss you in the fire that's happening outside.
Speaker 1:Randomly, by the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like you're telling me that that was a smart idea. I'm going to tell this one guy my whole plan and hope it doesn't backfire.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's how it happened and that was, uh, the bat. It was, um, you know, honestly, I thought it was going to be like a horror movie, because the trailer had vincent price look around the cat like a chair and go, come closer, come closer. But we didn't actually see that in the movie. That, in, in fact, did not happen.
Speaker 2:But what did happen was we did come closer and watch the movie. We did and honestly, that sold us immediately.
Speaker 1:It's a Vincent Price movie. It's entertaining, it's fun. You get some time on a fucking Saturday night, nothing going on. Give it a watch. This has been the Dumb, cool, weird Podcast, nick, sign us out.
Speaker 2:Stay sexy Atlanta.
Speaker 1:Thanks for checking out the Dumb, cool, weird Podcast. We're a movie podcast now, so Movie Monday is every Monday about crappy movies from the 20th century. It's going to be great folks. I can't wait to show y'all.
