 Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill had been in the successful film "Doctor X" the previous year, and had already wrapped up work on "Mystery of the Wax Museum" for Warner Bros.This was quite a large-scale release and would have a lengthy post-production process.Seeing a chance to exploit all the advance press, poverty row studio Majestic Pictures Inc. contracted Wray and Atwill for their own "quickie" horror film, rushing "The Vampire Bat" into production and releasing it in January 1933.