Lionel's Little Lump of Life

 After yesterday's dross, a macarbre palette cleanser. "The Vampire Bat" is a public domain 1933 chiller I came across on Amazon, directed by Frank Strayer and starring Dwight Frye, Fay Wray, Melvyn Delveyn Douglas, and Lionel Atwill as Dr. Otto Von Niemann (a possible relative of the Niemann Karloff would later play in "House of Frankenstein"?): Villagers have been found dead in their beds, two puncture marks to their necks. The locals led by "Frankenstein"'s Burgomaster Lionel Belmore blame vampires, and single out Dwight Frye's village idiot. What's actually been happening however is revealed below, in an astonishingly Lynchian scene that comes out of nowhere and has everything "House of Dracula" lacked. This is the good stuff (that gurgling!) and you can watch more of it, the whole film in fact, on youtube here.