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Summary: Still Hiding Under the Coffee Table
Review: Like Mr. Tucker, I also used to see this classic piece of 70's horror on Channel 8's weekly Plenty Scary Movie. Along with "The Abominable Dr. Phibes," and "10,000 Years to Earth (Now available as "Quatermass and the Pit",) this was one of those great movies that just gets under your skin and sticks with you all your life. If "Gargoyles" doesn't give you the creeps whenever you drive down a rural highway, or whenever you stay at a small motel in a nowhere town, you must be watching the wrong movie! Great, great, campy stuff with excellent monster effects from Rick Baker.
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Summary: Memorable TV-movie from the 70's
Review: Not a bad excursion into mythology with anthropologist Cornel Wilde and daughter Jennifer Salt doing battle with legendary gargoyles in the American Southwest. Also on hand are "Dark Shadows" veteran and Oscar nominee Grayson Hall as a dotty proprietess of an inn and Berny Casey as the "Head Gargoyle" with a voice that is obviously dubbed by an unnamed actor.The film was one of my favorites while a college student and it still has a fond place in my memory.
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Summary: Memorable TV-movie from the 70's
Review: Not a bad excursion into mythology with anthropologist Cornel Wilde and daughter Jennifer Salt doing battle with legendary gargoyles in the American Southwest. Also on hand are "Dark Shadows" veteran and Oscar nominee Grayson Hall as a dotty proprietess of an inn and Berny Casey as the "Head Gargoyle" with a voice that is obviously dubbed by an unnamed actor. The film was one of my favorites while a college student and it still has a fond place in my memory.
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Summary: "How Much For Your Women?"
Review: Pop-anthropologist/occultist Cornel Wilde and daughter Jennifer Salt are shown a bizarre skeleton, by an old desert coot out to make a fast buck. The wheezy geezer insists the bones are intact as he found them, but Wilde's experienced eye is certain it has to be a fake - even if an expert one. What kind of creature has bull's horns, a beak, and oversized bat's wings? The question is quickly answered, as the deceased beastie's living relatives besiege the shack, starting a fire that kills the old man and sends Wilde and Salt fleeing. They are bedeviled for the rest of their road trip by the demonic beings, who initially are intent on retrieving the skull Wilde took with him from the shack. Once they have that, their leader takes a shine to Salt, and decides she'd make a wonderful mother of monsters to begin a breeding overrun of the Earth... The gargoyle masks and costumes won an award, and half deserved it - some of them look great (like the leader, Bernie Casey), and others look very much like the vacuformed plastic outfits they are. They're seen far too often to remain convincing for long. There's atmosphere to spare, but almost no suspense - a prologue to the movie gives away everything to come, in the first minute. The script should either have been expanded and developed, or shortened into a much scarier Night Gallery episode, which is essentially how it performs. The plot is pretty thin even for the short running time, and is heavily padded - a lot of time is taken up showing nothing more than gargoyles loping along the road. The ending, and a few of the plot transitions, are too abrupt. The cast, however, are quite good, and there's enough lurking-in-the-dark creepiness to keep things moving. Scott Glenn appears in one of his first roles, as a dirt biker who has some problems with local law enforcement, and Dark Shadows' Grayson Hall has a good minor support role as an alcoholic motel owner. The location photography is terrific, and the film's colors are especially vivid. The production is handsomely mounted. Uneven, but enjoyable.
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Summary: One to Remember from the 70's!
Review: Saw this one when I was about 10 back in 1972! Scared the you know what out of me then. Have seen it many times sinse, and still enjoy the fear of it! Every time I see a gargoyle statue, I can't help but think of this movie! CREEPY!
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Summary: Listen to Me - Not the Moaners!
Review: The transfer to DVD of this movie is spectacular-color and sound are great. The movie's the same-it's just that some of these reviewers forgot how to put themselves back into the "kid's frame of mind" that they had when they first saw it.
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Summary: Ugly little things arn't they?
Review: This is right up there with the big bug pictures. Like most pictures you hold different views from childhood to more sophisticated adult spooky movies. The top Gargoyle (Bernie Casey) makes me think of Disney's Fantasia ... The part with "Night on Bald Mountain." In short if you go walking around the desert at night in a halter-top, you have to expect that you may be picked up by a winged creature with a jealous wife. And be a little more discriminate of who's bones you pick. If you are looking for a movie that has not changed over the years and still can be adult spooky look at "It Came From Outer Space" ...
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Summary: Oh, but you'll be around to see it BOLEY......
Review: This is too cool. Take me back.. I used to catch this movie whenever it came on just to see the crazy half-baked bikers, fumbling cops.. listen to Uncle Willie talk about the "Nacadakachinko"...loved that cow skull with a nose job. (what a name!!!), and most of all...Grayson Hall..siren of Dark Shadows (aka Mrs. Collins to Thayer David's Count Petofy, always tossing the I Ching...)goin on about "uh huh..I've seen it all..dopers, drunks..whores.." stirring the cocktail with her bony finger..at the tackiest roadside motel ever filmed. But the best part was the peek at Stan Winston in his early days...great gargoyle costumes, for the most part..a few dogs but Bernie Casey was totally awesome. If you're a MFTVM freak..you need this DVD..I bought it just for nostalgic purposes..and every once in a while I need to hear "Oh, but you'll be around to see it BOLEY..the END of your world...the BEGINNING of MINE!"
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Summary: This led to many a sleepless night!
Review: This movie scared the daylights out of me and my sisters, but we would scan the TV Guide every week to see if it was on so we could watch it again! Glad it's on VHS/DVD now so I can share the same scary experiences with my kids!
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Summary: Early Stan Winston
Review: This movie used to be a staple on the UHF circuit and for good reasons. It's one of the first made-for-tv horror movies of the early 70's and it still stands up well almost thirty years later. Cornel Wilde makes the transition from the movie screen to the small screen without losing his presence. He is backed up by sexy Jennifer Salt who went on to star in SOAP and Scott Glen typecast as a biker. (Remember the biker movies he made with Gary Busey? Hex and The Shrieking.) The real star here is Stan Winston's costumes and there are many. Bernie Casey stands out underneath his makeup as the Garrgoyle leader. VCI has done an excellent job on the transfer, and all of these make this dvd an excellent purchase.
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