***SPOILERS*** With Prof. Arthur Fuller, Mark L.Taylor, genetically engineered bats escaping from their cages and with him ending up being their lunch it's suggested by Scottsville's second in command of its police department former L.A detective Ally Parks, Tracy Nelson, to cancel the towns annual Apple Blossom Festival. This is to avoid any more people ending up bitten to death by the killer bats until their all either killed or captured.The towns real estate mogul Carl Hart, Corbin Bernsen, is determined to keep the festival open in order to sell his cheaply made, and very overpriced, houses to a slew of out out of town clients who'll be coming to the festival. Hart being the person who pulls the strings in Scottsville then has Parks pressured by her boss Police Chief Sam Taylor, Michael Gregory, to falsify the evidence in Fuller's killer bat attack death and make it look like death by natural causes. All this doesn't go well with not only Parks but the towns new installed animal control inspector veterinarian Dr, John Winslow, Whip Hubley. Dr. Winslow is certain that there's a new breed of bats in the area that are twice and big and far more aggressive then the usual meek and inoffensive ones in and around Scottsville. It's these bats who we later find out are being used by someone unknown who has it in for Hart and all those, like Police Chief Taylor, who he's got on his payroll. And whoever this person is he's more then determined to wreck Hart's plans for using the Apple Blossoum Festival to sell unsuspecting home buyers, or suckers, his cheap houses that, the properties that their built on, he stole and finagled out of the vast majority of the good and hard working people of Scottsville!More of a revenge then a black comedy or horror film "Fangs" has the greedy and unethical villain in it Carl Hart-or Heartless-get his comeuppances both by being financially ruined as well as indited in a class action real estate fraud action suite! As well as for what Hart did in him driving a number of people, whom he defrauded out of their properties, into killing themselves.****SPOILER ALERT**** We do get a big surprise at the end of the movie in who's the person behind these killer bat attacks really is! He just happens to be the son of one of the people that Hart after stealing his home & farm then drove to commit suicide. Despite his very understandable actions, in punishing Hart for his father's death, the guy got so carried away with his beloved killer bats that he became more found of them, in trying to save them, then any family member or close friend of his! This lead to his incredibly insane actions at the end of the movie that proved that he was far from the cunning shrewed as well as explosives expert that we all thought-up until he completely cracked up-that he was.

"Fangs" is a low budget remake of a low budget movie.**SPOILERS**Two college students have a nasty experience in a laboratory. The bats inside the cages were more vicious than they were expected. The next day, the bats attack an office worker. When the body is discovered, Ally Parks (Tracy Nelson) a detective is called in to investigate. She meets town veterinarian John Winslow, (Whip Hubley) and they share information about the case. The clues lead to land developer Carl Hart, (Corbin Bernsen) who is going around town buying up homes for his development firm. Outraged by the possible connection, he orders the Chief of Police, Sam Taylor, (Mikael Gregory) to sweep it under the rug, which harms Ally's investigation. Another attack confirms Winslow's suspicions that a bat is the culprit, and he teams up with Ally and his daughter Genny (Katie Stuart) to prove that the bats are responsible.The Good News: The best part is that the film moves at a fast pace and never loses a lot of interest when it doesn't feature an attack. The rating prevents the film from really showing the gruesomeness of the attacks. It was a film about genetically engineered bats, and having a PG-13 rating severely hampers that from happening. The film could've been a good cult following if it had a few more deaths involved. Too bad that the deaths revolved around a unique subplot that carries the film. The subplot is very creatively done and is handled such that the rest of the film is determined by what that particular subplot. It is still a very simple film, but when you take the time to think about it after (which many may not do), it actually is a lot smarter than it appears to be. Those are perhaps the best kind of horror films; one that seems simple on the surface but becomes more complex and creative in afterthought.The Bad News: If you've seen "Bats" with Lou Diamond Phillips, you've seen this movie. This movie only changes the location and the cast, but otherwise it is practically the same movie. The remote town, the female inspector, the geek male lead, and the town authority that wants to keep it hushed because the news of the disaster could hurt the town. The plots are very similar and they both use the genetically engineered bats as the antagonists. Even the ending is the same, blowing up the bats' residence to stop them. It has that feel that it has been done before, and it has.The Final Verdict: It may not be the most original film ever made, but it is a creative one and does provide some entertainment for a such a film. Thinking about it after will be a better idea than thinking about it during, as it is a lot better than you think it is.Rated PG-13: Violence, Adult Language, and mention of an attack on an animal

Here we go again. Pretty predictable and no matter how cheesy this movie gets...something keeps you hanging in there for the finale. Is it the blood thirsty bats? An unlikely detective(Tracy Nelson)teams with an animal control officer(Whip Hubley)to uncover the mystery behind a small town being terrorized by genetically-created bats. Nelson is so wrong for the role it is pathetic. Corbin Bersen and Nicole Clendenen are more than a tad over-the-top. Redeeming is the cute Katie Stuart. There is an interesting solution to jamming the bat's radar. If you expect horror...prepare for a headache from the negative shake of your head.

About 20 minutes into FANGS I was almost convinced that this film wasn't new, but actually some movie made in the 80s by NBC that they would have aired sometime around Halloween hyping it as "spooky fun for the whole family." I can't begin to fathom the sheer number of people who are going to be suckered into renting this on the basis of its box art alone. That box art makes the film look like it's about vicious little bats up to no good. It lies! This is not a jolly good fangfest! While it may be about killer bats, virtually everything actually involving the bats takes place off-screen. A more honest title for the movie would have been OFF-CAMERA BAT ATTACK! Instead we have a never-ending sea of cutesy one-liners that wouldn't even be considered witty enough to be used on HeeHaw! You almost anticipate these jokes to be immediately followed by a few chords of a piano to help punctuate that something amusing has just been said. MAMA'S FAMILY was a laugh riot compared to this movie. Heck, SCOOBY DOO has more suspense and on-screen mayhem in a single half hour episode than this atrocious movie does in it's entire running time. Just a total bore. BATS looks like JAWS by comparison!There's no gore, no on-screen deaths, no profanity, no sex, no nudity, no cleavage, and no kissing because, as it turns out, FANGS was really supposed to be wholesome family entertainment about a lunatic who uses vicious bats to savagely maul people to death! That concept alone is an oxymoron. I got a family value the producers at Porchlight Entertainment need, it's called shame!FANGS isn't even so bad it's good. It's so bad it's worse!