Fangs

2002 "Things that Go Squeak in the Night"
3.4| 1h34m| PG-13| en
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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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Alicia I love this movie so much
FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Tss5078 When it comes to horror, either you get it or you don't. Those who don't, think it's all about blood, monsters, and scaring people, but in fact there are actually five distinct forms of horror. Films like Fangs are bad, and they are that way on purpose. There are franchises and even entire production companies that are dedicated to making films like this, where the story is insane, the effects are terrible, the acting is ridiculous, and it's all done on purpose, because it's supposed to make laugh just as much, if not more than it's supposed to make you cringe, that's the point! Fangs is somewhat different in two ways, first it was produced by a major film company and second the film wasn't all that bad. Basically some bats at a university escape in the lab and get into some chemicals they shouldn't have. As a result, they become super aggressive and wreak havoc on a small town. From there, the story follows a local veterinarian and the town sheriff, who try to track the bats and put an end to their reign of terror before more innocent lives are lost. As with many similar films, the dialogue is quite comical and there are lots of cheesy jokes and obnoxious characters you just can't wait to see get attacked, but for what it was, the effects weren't all that bad and the science behind it seemed somewhat plausible. This isn't the kind of film that makes you run to amazon to buy it. Fangs isn't going to win any awards, it doesn't feature any outstanding performances, and it probably isn't even the kind of film you'd want to see twice. However, if you're in one of those moods, where you just want to see something simple and stupid, that's going to make you laugh a few times, then Fangs is absolutely perfect for that.
mr_spaceman If you look at this page you already know that Fangs is a quite lame movie. So instead of a review I want to give you some logical errors that may upset people while watching this movie because they are so obvious. The bats are sreaming all the time. But a human will never hear a bat screaming with his own ears. - This little village in which the story takes place has it's own university?! - The professor has only one enemy so why does he kill all the other people? - The scene with the shredded aluminum cans (mentioned by the IMDb). This is not possible. - I guess you can't find the bats using the antennas at the end of the movie (at least not alone but they hast had _only_ these antennas)!Beside this idiotic mistakes (probably they also had some spelling errors in the script - but that's another story) they mentioned every minute this apple-blossom festival. So you think that's the biggest party in this forgotten village (with university...) but when it finally comes to the scene we see that they even couldn't afford a small crowd to fill the room. When the bats attack the people had to run circles to show some action!1/10 ... Dirt
Theo Robertson If there`s one good thing about genetic engineering it is that it allows film makers to have a ready made plot to kick start a movie . Alas many film makers use genetic engineering to kick start not very good movies.I could have put the boot into FANGS , in fact I could have kicked its teeth in , but I often get too serious about reviewing films I didn`t like much , and I`m in a fairly nice mood , and FANGS is fairly inoffensive and is not to be taken seriously from the opening sequence with the teenage bimbo lab assistants all the way through to the silly protection against bat attack this is a goofy dumb movie , but at least it`s a well lit goofy dumb movie that doesn`t use gore for gore`s sake
Dr. Gore *SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*Bats attack a housing community. Corbin Bernsen is the no nonsense developer who doesn't want to hear about any bat problems. So he pretends they don't exist. Too bad for him they do exist. Many fake looking bats attack."Fangs" is a typical example of what happens when you try to make the dreaded horror/comedy. Rarely does this mix of genres succeed. The horror gets diluted and the comedy is usually not funny. It's a lose/lose situation. "Fangs" had a lot of fake bats but bat attacks do not equal laughter. There was no joy watching "Fangs". Nor was I scared. It was lame. If you want a good laugh, click on the writer's name on the IMDb page for "Fangs", (Jim Geoghan). Something tells me the picture posted there is not the writer of this movie. Now that was funny. If it is him, he might want to use the cash from "Fangs" to get a haircut and a shower.