The Dragonbat is one of the Monsters held in Facility. It was listed on the whiteboard, but no one bet on it. It was later seen several times during the System Purge.
Physical Description and Attributes[]
The Dragonbat appears as a large, demonic bat/dragon hybrid creature of some kind, with segmented wings, red scales on each side of its body and a mouth that is divided into three parts. It's is one of the deadliest and most powerful monsters in the Facility. It is able to fly at incredibly high speeds and emits an ear-piercing screech. The Dragonbat also has an incredible sense of smell, as it was able to track the scent of Ronald the Intern as he hid inside a room during the purge.
It is unknown what item in the Cabin's cellar summons the Dragonbat, possibly a bat tooth or some similar trace or remains from a bat.
Appearances[]
The Dragonbat is first seen flying around sporadically in its cube prison, possibly looking for a way out. It is later seen during the first wave of the Purge, where it grabs a member of the Security Force, pins and eats him.
Later on, Ronald the Intern can be seen holding up a cardboard sign to one of the cameras in the control room, claiming that the Dragonbat has his scent and needs help fast. It is unknown if Ronald survived the Dragonbat or not.
It later flies through the window of the elevator lobby's control room that Marty and Dana are hiding in, forcing them to flee. Dana and Marty then run into a scientist who warns them that a sector of the Facility is blocked off, but before he can continue speaking the Dragonbat snatches him into a wall, eats him, and then flies away past the American Slow-Walking Creepy Girl, into another part of the Facility. It was not seen in the film after this.
Inspiration[]
The Dragonbat is very similar to the main monster in the Stephen King short story and film Graveyard Shift. A gigantic, mutant bat that savages and devours men alive. It could also be a reference to the hybrid animal creatures that appear in some monster movies, such as Sharktopus, Dinocroc and Bippy (caterpillar/dog) from House 2: the Second Story. The way the Dragonbat's mouth opens could also be a possible reference to the Reaper Strain of vampires in Blade II.
Numerous bat-like monsters have appeared in horror fiction over the years, so this creature could have been inspired by a number of sources, including Marcus Corvinus from Underworld: Evolution or the Man-Bat from the Batman comics.
A mythological reference could be the Aztec-Mayan god, Camazotz, a demonic god that was responsible for guarding the underworld and was associated with nighttime and human sacrifice.