While watching this, one gets the impression that the director's intention was not to produce a vampire movie. Lubie Nietoperze seems to be a kind of artistic parable of the relationship between man and woman, utilizing some elements of the vampire genre. It is true that viewed as a horror flick, this would probably infuriate most fans of vampire movies. There is no blood, we don't get to see the fangs of the central character until near the end of the movie and there are no scares (at least there are some bats in the movie). But if you approach I like Bats without the anticipation of blood, shiny fangs and wooden stakes hammered in the hearts of hideous bloodsuckers, it can be rewarding. There is a colorful set of secondary characters in the movie, some of them pretty bizarre. The heroine's aunt has a predilection for the esoteric and in one scene, she levitates (at least it appeared to me as levitation, but the VHS I viewed was in a bad shape). A bald headed man, who has hots for the female vampire and is repeatedly refused by her, attempts to murder her out of desperation, unsuccessfully. He gets his just reward later. There is also a sexual deviate who jumps the heroine in the park but falls prey to her charms and is drained of blood. A bald headed, wig wearing joker selling novelty toys pays a visit to the heroine's aunt occasionally and makes one hell of a din. The main character herself has some interesting hobbies- she dresses as a hooker at night and searches for her new victims in joints populated with transvestites. When she falls in love with a psychiatrist named Jung (!), and she passes through the gates of a private sanitarium for the mentally unstable in order to get rid of her strange affliction, she encounters another herd of weirdos and is subjected to hypnosis and gamma-rays. All the shrinks of the world cannot help her, until she and Doctor Jung manage to make out. All of a sudden, the curse is broken and the heroine can see her reflection in the mirror.... One thing is for sure, Lubie Nietoperze is not a horror movie by any stretch of imagination.
Review of I Like Bats
