Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

***SPOILERS*** With Prof. Arthur Fuller, Mark L.Taylor, genetically engineered bats escaping from their cages and with him ending up being their lunch it's suggested by Scottsville's second in command of its police department former L.A detective Ally Parks, Tracy Nelson, to cancel the towns annual Apple Blossom Festival. This is to avoid any more people ending up bitten to death by the killer bats until their all either killed or captured.The towns real estate mogul Carl Hart, Corbin Bernsen, is determined to keep the festival open in order to sell his cheaply made, and very overpriced, houses to a slew of out out of town clients who'll be coming to the festival. Hart being the person who pulls the strings in Scottsville then has Parks pressured by her boss Police Chief Sam Taylor, Michael Gregory, to falsify the evidence in Fuller's killer bat attack death and make it look like death by natural causes. All this doesn't go well with not only Parks but the towns new installed animal control inspector veterinarian Dr, John Winslow, Whip Hubley. Dr. Winslow is certain that there's a new breed of bats in the area that are twice and big and far more aggressive then the usual meek and inoffensive ones in and around Scottsville. It's these bats who we later find out are being used by someone unknown who has it in for Hart and all those, like Police Chief Taylor, who he's got on his payroll. And whoever this person is he's more then determined to wreck Hart's plans for using the Apple Blossoum Festival to sell unsuspecting home buyers, or suckers, his cheap houses that, the properties that their built on, he stole and finagled out of the vast majority of the good and hard working people of Scottsville!More of a revenge then a black comedy or horror film "Fangs" has the greedy and unethical villain in it Carl Hart-or Heartless-get his comeuppances both by being financially ruined as well as indited in a class action real estate fraud action suite! As well as for what Hart did in him driving a number of people, whom he defrauded out of their properties, into killing themselves.****SPOILER ALERT**** We do get a big surprise at the end of the movie in who's the person behind these killer bat attacks really is! He just happens to be the son of one of the people that Hart after stealing his home & farm then drove to commit suicide. Despite his very understandable actions, in punishing Hart for his father's death, the guy got so carried away with his beloved killer bats that he became more found of them, in trying to save them, then any family member or close friend of his! This lead to his incredibly insane actions at the end of the movie that proved that he was far from the cunning shrewed as well as explosives expert that we all thought-up until he completely cracked up-that he was.

I watched this piece of horse crap yesterday and I was disappointed."Fangs" offers literally nothing new aside from a shocking similarity to another really bad horror flick "Bats".Corbin Bernsen is completely wasted as a local businessman,the rest of the cast is also horrible.There is absolutely no gore nor suspense,so fans of horror will be disappointed.The film is bland,generic and completely anemic.Avoid this bloodless piece of crap like the plague.1 out of 10.

The production values of this movie aren't bad (the bat attacks are obviously animated but come off okay) but otherwise this plays like a parody of horror films with some miscast talent. Tracey Nelson plays a detective who teams up with animal control officer Whip Hubley to investigate bat attacks in a small town. Nelson, though having played investigative types before, comes across as a strange choice to play a bat hunter, though she does a good job. Hubley and the two kids aren't bad but it seems like no one takes this movie seriously. The plot twists involving the search for the person behind the bat attacks is entertaining, but overall Fangs isn't the most cerebral film ever produced. However, this is a movie worth watching as a mild diversion from serious horror films, or if you like Tracey Nelson (or really, really like bats).

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*Bats attack a housing community. Corbin Bernsen is the no nonsense developer who doesn't want to hear about any bat problems. So he pretends they don't exist. Too bad for him they do exist. Many fake looking bats attack."Fangs" is a typical example of what happens when you try to make the dreaded horror/comedy. Rarely does this mix of genres succeed. The horror gets diluted and the comedy is usually not funny. It's a lose/lose situation. "Fangs" had a lot of fake bats but bat attacks do not equal laughter. There was no joy watching "Fangs". Nor was I scared. It was lame. If you want a good laugh, click on the writer's name on the IMDb page for "Fangs", (Jim Geoghan). Something tells me the picture posted there is not the writer of this movie. Now that was funny. If it is him, he might want to use the cash from "Fangs" to get a haircut and a shower.