Picked up some cheapies in the bargin bin nearby and watched a few last night
The Devli Bat(1940) - Bela Lugosi is a scientist who's discovery of a perfume that he sold the rights to for cash led many people but him to get rich. So for revenge he creates a giant bat attracted to a particular scent, which he puts into an aftershave he gives to his intended victims. The Bat then attacks and kills the people wearing the scent. Decent FX for the time and Lugosi shows again that his acting chops were way above his typecasting
Bullet Down Under(1994) - Martin Bullet (Christopher Atkins) plays a cop from the US who goes to Australia after accidentally shooting an innocent kid. There he teams up with Jack Moran ("Jacko" Jackson of Energeizer Battery fame, Oy!) to hunt down the killer of Jack's partner. Pretty straightforward and mindless 'cop buddy action' movie. Christopher Atkins looks like a young Luke Skywalker, Jacko can snarl but not act, but the movie is made more interesting by a lot of intentionaly funny tongue-in-cheek dialog, and a surpsingly sexy Virgina Hey, somewhere in her career between "Warrior Women" of Road Warrior and "Zhan" of Farscape
Also managed to catch the beginning of poor Boris Karloff iin the very bad, very cheap
The Fear Chamber. Also on the disk with The Devil Bat is Lugosi in The Ape Man, and picked up a very young Jack Nickleson in an old Roger Corman film, "The Terror" which I'l watch over the next few nights
