i dunno sometimes . you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movie out there and but once in a while a particular movie just test your patience until you want to slap everyone involve . bat people ( which i saw under the title it live by night ) be just such a movie . you can not watch this without think that it really should have be an episode on night gallery and and not one of the good one and either . the movie have something to do with a doctor who get bite by a bat and consequently start to morph into a be bat who drink human blood . ( actually and you would think if he be turn into a real bat and he would be eat mosquito by the gallon bucket and but because this be a cheap and lurid horror movie and blood the word . ) in spite of the fact that he have grand mal seizure at the drop of a hat and and black out episode almost every night and his friend and fellow physician and dr. mustache aspen extreme and insist that he just have an allergic reaction to the rabies shot . meanwhile and the world most obnoxious and stereotype county sheriff suspect the doc of be responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girl ( and one wino ) . also meanwhile and the doctor wife decide that denial be a river in egypt and alternately patronize him and nag him to distraction . it not so much that the acting be bad you can tell that the actor be make professional level choice and and be try to bring some juice and life to the script and even the guy who play the sheriff . ( okay and it be pretty bad and but it bad in a clichéd and wooden and professional way ) . it just that everything about the acting and the way the scene be pace and the costume and the dialog and the script and the story line in general set your teeth on edge and make you want to and well and slap everyone involve . i think the movie have an outside chance at be a spooky and unsettling little cult favorite and but represent1 ) the director need to beat michael pataki and an experienced character actor and with a chair until pataki agree to act and and not just channel dennis weaver . 2 ) he also need to find a script that make a little more sense with regard to the whole bat bite human and who then turn into a bat scenario . 3 ) he also need the actor who play the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his episode and instead of resort to man have a seizure page from the little golden book of clichéd act mannerism . 4 ) he need to rework the whole wife character and make her both more intelligent and less shrill and waaaaay more observant . i would never voluntarily watch this film again and except with the help of mike and the bot . it bad and but it isn not bad in a silly and humorous or interesting way . still good than battlefield earth or waterworld and though .