Since its video release, it has attracted a cult following among exploitation and pornography fans for its perceived poor quality, with most reviews criticizing its technical flaws, dialogue, and the lead actors, who are known only by the names they receive in the film itself.
Purportedly set in Gotham City, the loose plot of Bat Pussy primarily focuses on married couple Buddy and Sam in the bedroom of a small apartment.
They immediately engage in a threesome involving the use of a dildo until Bat Pussy abruptly gets up from the bed, takes her costume, and walks out, leaving Sam and Buddy to bicker and argue again.
On February 14, 2019, the American Genre Film Archive announced that Something Weird's Lisa Petrucci had located a second 16mm copy which included footage missing from the ending of the previously found print.
[16] Since its initial video release, Bat Pussy has achieved cult status as the worst pornographic movie ever made, with Gawker Media's io9 proclaiming it "the absolute nadir of pornography, period.
[19] Something Weird Video described the two actors' seemingly unscripted dialogue—consisting mostly of insults and vulgar non sequiturs such as "My horoscope says I'm going to fuck you in the nose"[10]—as "almost surreal", likening it to the "babbling" of "two escaped mental patients".
[21][19] The Snipe concurred, describing Bat Pussy as "the boner-killer of all time[...] Only a psychopath or possibly a replicant could withstand let alone enjoy a document so barren or unflinching in its contempt for humanity".
[23] Cult film website Movies About Girls concurred that it "does not work, on any level" but was nevertheless "stunningly weird, grubby, and ugly, an unintentionally hilarious bit of homespun cinematic folk-art so senseless, so maddeningly random in its execution that it very nearly approaches some sort of terrible genius".
[25][26] Cinepunx, admitting the film was "exceptionally, peerlessly excruciating...a fleshy, unsightly Groundhog Day of torturous porn purgatory", called it a "genuinely fascinating time capsule of regional filmmaking", noting "any fan of oddball trash cinema owes themselves at least one viewing of this strange, cinematic car crash".
[27] FilmMonthly singled out Bat Pussy as "a bizarre artifact", "unquestionably one of the strangest, most mysterious, and most outrageously entertaining" titles in Something Weird's archives and "spectacularly un-erotic", calling it a "must-have" for exploitation fans.
Death., however, was less enthusiastic, acknowledging "it's difficult to describe just how fucking bad it is" but claiming "the absurdity wears out its welcome rather quickly" and concluding "Bat Pussy is nothing more than a morbid curio for those who have seen it all – a campfire tale whose origins are probably best left to the imagination".
[20] However, reviewers have also criticized the parody aspects of Bat Pussy: the book The Many More Lives of Batman edited by William Uricchio, Will Brooker and Roberta Pearson—also describing it as "the worst porn ever made"—wrote that the film contains none of the core components of the character beyond "a pun in the title and a limited attempt to recreate some of the recognizable costumes".