Few creatures are as closely linked to being spooky as bats.
With their large ears, sharp teeth and eerie midnight flights, they have long fuelled fears of bloodsucking vampires and carriers of disease.
In films, they frequently symbolise disaster and evil – from the 2023 horror The Last Voyage of the Demeter, where a bat-winged Dracula terrorises a ship at sea, to the recently-remade vampire classic Nosferatu, whose vampire teeth evoke a bat’s fangs.
But are these creatures really as terrifying as they appear on screen?
“Bats are nocturnal, so we usually only glimpse them briefly, and their lives seem mysterious,” says Marcus Stiglegger, a film studies lecturer in Mainz. In cinema, their leathery wings and pointed teeth create an eerie visual shorthand.
“The less we know about the real animals, the more effective the symbol becomes,” he says.
Bats have long been associated with vampires. The most famous is Dracula, from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, though legends linking the undead to bats date back to the early 18th century.
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