Hardly - he's just fighting killer bats. If he wants to experience a real nightmare, he should be forced to sit through this atrocious film. Movies as numbingly awful as Bats are rare. Most films have some minor saving grace - a nicely underplayed scene, a sharp performance, a good joke or two.
Bats wants desperately to be Tremors .
That tale of giant burrowing worms was a wildly entertaining romp that never took its tongue from its cheek. The filmmakers realized that horror films about mutant animals benefit from a light touch, so that the audience can laugh at the ludicrousness of the premise while enjoying the thrills. But director Louis Morneau's single-minded insistence on gore undermines these attempts at campy humor, so Gunton ends up stranded in a film that doesn't know what to do with him. Tremors also benefited from a strong, eccentric cast that played the situation for laughs. The film also bungles technical details.