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A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

When a series of strange deaths surrounding an Indian reservation are shown to be the work of vampire bats, a scientist enlists help from a local priest to help rein in the beasts' rampage before they can spread out to other areas.A pretty average creature feature, this one's watchable but certainly not without a few problems. As is typical of the time, there's far too much bull-headed characters that, instead of showing them to be free-spirited and display strong core values, paint them as backwards and far too tightly controlled by their spiritual past which makes it hard to get involved in the beginning here with the reservation under conflict with the oil mining companies that come off as just stale in this day-and-age. We still get a nice, modern build-up of the creatures' appearance with animal attacks giving the tell-tale clue to their existence and it's not until people are attacked do we even see the creatures, as they make their first on-screen appearance quite late in the film, resulting in the two sides coming together and using their skills to rid themselves of the menace. This is all good stuff, with some nice action scenes that show the creature attacks as well as the tactics to get rid of them, the finale is tons of fun and there's even some decent special effects for the creatures that aren't as laughable as expected. Overall, it's quite fun if still flawed.Rated R: Violence and Language

"Nightwing" is one of those rare movies that is far more entertaining than it should be, and most definitely the film never allows a few facts to get in the way of imaginative story telling. It has a plethora of misinformation regarding vampire bats. Nevertheless "Nightwing" has some of the finest southwestern landscapes on display, and a terrific and appropriate score by Henry Mancini. It should also be mentioned that Strother Martin delivers a colorful supporting performance in one of his last films. Though lacking in the logic department, I still consider this to be one of the best bat movies, because despite it's faults the film is interesting. - MERK

I absolutely loved this movie. A young, Hot Nick Mancuso was definitely a bonus! :-) I liked how it delved into Native American lore...the visions inside the cave were awesome. The familiar faces of Stephen Macht and David Warner were also a plus. I can't believe I haven't seen this movie until yesterday. True, the story line could have been a bit better, but remember, this was made in 1979. They didn't have the tricks of the trade that the movie makers have now-a-days. The bats looked true to life enough to be convincing. The methods of the vampire bat hunter were a bit weak and..a bit silly. Would you lean over the top of a cave without being secured to something safe? YIKES! The music was great. Mancini scores always are. :-)

In this movie a educated Idian who has become rich wants to become richer by destroying tribal lands and ruin the environment by striping the area for the shale oil reserves, BTW you cant drill to get it you strip mine it out. An old Indian, Durans "granfather" calls on the spirits of the tribal ancients to bring a colony of Vampire bats to destroy the invaders into the sacred lands, Payne in a scientist and vampire bat killer who seems to hate them on a almost psychotic level then again there is the Van Helsing syndrome for the movie. Duran is the hero who tries to stop the mining and the killings with little success, Ann is his girl friend trapped in the dessert the only survivor of a bat attack(FYI: VAMPIRE BATS OR FOR THAT MATTER ANY BAT ARE NOT THAT Aggressive, ARE EASILY SCARED AND ALMOST NEVER ATTACK LARGE ANIMALS IE: HUMANS, UNLESS PUSHED, VAMPIRE BATS DO FEED ON CATTLE AND SOMETIME HUMANS BUT THEY HAVE ALL BUT NEVER BEEN REPORTED AS KILLING THEIR PREY EVEN IF IT IS PEOPLE) In the end Duran saves the girl, the scientist, traps the bats sets the oil on fire killing them, thus the land is free from being ruined by miners/oil hunters until the fire burns out as Duran says in a few hundred years. It is a good film made with 1970's fear of all thing not cute and cuddly but worth seeing.