Bats in the Attic

By J .C .

CHRISTINA

Directed by PAUL KRASNY Screenplay by TREVOR WALLACE

Some movies are like sloppy crimes--they leave easy clues all around. In the case of this walleyed exercise in terror, we are presented with a down-at-the-heels aircraft designer (Peter Haskell) accosted by a regal beauty down at the local unemployment office. All pretense of reality having been thus jettisoned, the beauty (Barbara Parkins) offers an unconventional proposal. Over a fancy meal, she suggests that they marry for strictly business reasons. The Immigration Department is hassling her--beauty is no barrier when the Government sees its duty--and the only way she can stay in the country is as the wife of an American citizen. The designer accepts the proposal, persuaded by the offer of a $25,000 fee and frequent flashes of cleavage from the other side of the table. After that comes the familiar crescendo of scare scenes. Parkins evaporates, but the bewitched Haskell traces her to a secluded--is there any other kind--mansion, where he is promptly zapped. That is followed by a defenestration, a complicated underworld search and a huge conflagration.

The movie was made in Canada, although its only real scenery is provided by Parkins' planes and valleys. Haskell, a displaced person from television, wears a wardrobe apparently tailored to suit his origins. He looks like a living test pattern. . J.C.

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