The Vampire Bat

During those breaks, she kept working elsewhere.

Around this same time, she would also make Doctor X, The Vampire Bat, and Mystery of the Wax Museum.

As the summer of 1932 went on, the production expanded beyond the borrowed jungle.

RKO assembled the island village from pieces left behind by other pictures.

And so they watch them all together, and the dad geeks out 'cause he's a bit of a horror nerd.

But as they're getting ready for it, the dad's saying that they picked a movie called The Vampire Bat, and that seems to scare little Jenny.

And so [laughs] kid Joshua can't help but tease his sister, saying, "Oh, yeah, be careful.

They'll suck your blood." And his little sister's freaking out, and she actually screams, and she goes, "Ah, leave me alone, or I'll tell Mom and Dad what you and Margaret were doing." And obviously his mom hears this and turns and says, "What were you and Margaret doing?" And he has to quickly explain 'cause Jenny's saying, "They were kissing." He's like, "No, no, no, no, no.

It's statistics, so we need to go to the library because they have all the records of the town statistics.

You know, the, none of it's online, so we have to go to the library." And so she manages to believe this lie.

But before we move on, I'll quickly say one thing that this does do that annoys me is the reason why Jenny gets scared is 'cause they watch a movie, The Vampire Bat, and she says, "Mom, are vampire bats real?" And her mom says, "No, honey, vampire bats aren't real." To which, uh, [clears throat] actually vampire bats are real.

Obviously Dracula and vampires aren't real, but there are bats that drink blood.

But in Frankenstein, you have these incredible sets that they built to show us stuff that we'd never seen before.

Speaking of sets, I wanted to mention, so the Vampire Bat is a good example, right? Of a film that was filmed, was a poverty row film, but it was shot on Universal sets.

And I also kinda misspoke.

I didn't really think about it, but White Zombie, that's got Lugosi in it as early as '32, and that's not made by a major.