Burton really embraced the gothic elements of the Batman universe, which gave his films a totally engrossing feel. In fact, while everyone fondly recalls Lon Chaney Jr.’s transformation in The Wolf Man of the same year, that film merely attempted to lesser effect what Victor Fleming and his creative team accomplished in this film’s final moments when Spencer Tracy, through painfully methodical dissolves and make-up interludes, became Mr. Hyde. However, Clayface can also grow into an intimidating clay monster and shape his arms into weapons, which would have made for some fun action sequences. Yes he can turn into a bat, however not all Dracula's have been able too. As the Man-Bat, his strength, agility and endurance are all enhanced to superhuman levels. Oldman deserves much of the credit for offering a sweaty, bombastic performance that is somehow over-the-top sinister but nevertheless endearing. Zubat and its evolutions, which are also literal. Learn how your comment data is processed. – David. Follow us on Facebook at About Vampires or Some in. If Burton had made a third Batman film, the rumors were that he would have introduced a new villain in the form of the Riddler. The unsettling and creepy look seems like something that is right up his alley. Man-Bat is actually Robert Langstrom, a scientist whose experiments transform him into a giant bat. In fact it would be difficult to say who did, or even when, but it is known that vampires have had an association with bats for centuries or longer. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. And who is this creepy little mama’s boy who peeps at girls through a hole in the wall, anyway? By taking an antidote or if the bat-gland formula wears off, he can return to human form. What is the rising action of faith love and dr lazaro? Part of it is the shower murder itself, and part is dismay at realizing half an hour into the film, the star has just been killed off. See Good Wings, Evil Wings; evil wings tend to be batlike, while good wings are usually more feathery. Samhain Folklore - Halloween Superstitions and Legends, Projects to Celebrate Samhain, the Witches' New Year, Owl Folklore and Legends, Magic and Mysteries. After suffering a lab accident, he is turned into the sub-zero villain who will do anything to cure his wife. Probably this is the origin of the correlation between vampires and bats. I will argue with anyone until the next autumn moon that The Wolf Man is the finest werewolf film ever made, bar none. For about 16 minutes into this ostensible horror film, Whale has relied on satire and caricature at the English countryside’s expense when Dr. Jack Griffin shows up at Una O’Connor’s Sussex inn. Bottin’s work may have been overshadowed that year by Baker, but this scene still sticks with us. It’s such a terrific moment that it can let you almost forgive the casting of Lana Turner as the movie’s “good girl” (Ingrid Bergman was the doomed vamp) or that Paramount Pictures ruthlessly tried to have all prints of the 1932 version destroyed before this film’s release. But for my money Joe Dante’s The Howling, whose own effects made a splash when it was released a few months earlier, remains the creepier of the two. While the character was fun in that film, Burton could have really embraced the comic book take on Black Mask and delivered a memorable bad guy. In Nosferatu the first proper vampire film based on Bram Stonebinders can spit this saliva with great accuracy from a meter away, and its effects spread from the area of contact until the victim is entirely petrified within a few hours.