Speaking of budget, the film was shot with just one camera over 18 days a fact that chased away the original director. It’s big budget worthy work on a shoestring budget. And the leader (Bernie Casey (Felix Leiter in Never Say Never Again, UN Washington in Revenge of the Nerds) has the perfect look that balances a regal bearing with an otherworldly aura. The look of the creatures is wonderful, as they don’t all look the same. It’s one of the first films Stan Winston ( Terminator, Aliens) worked on, providing a variety of gargoyle makeup. Norton ( Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, More American Graffiti) and written by Steven and Elinor Karpf ( Devil Dog: The Hound from Hell, The Jayne Mansfield Story), Gargoyles may be uneven, but has moments of pure joy. Originally airing on CBS on November 21st, 1972, it was directed by Bill L. Even today, it’s hard to find on DVD (but YouTube is a whole different story). It just looked strange and in the late 70s, it wasn’t like I could on demand find it. He answered Night of the Living Dead and Gargoyles, so I was always nervous to watch this movie. As John Kenneth Muir relates here, it's a nice little allegory for racial tension with Emmy-winning make-up: Planet of the Apes with Wings.When I was a kid, I remember asking my dad what movies he thought were scary. All in all, a really awesome coffee table book.Īnd seriously, watch Gargoyles. I love gargoyles hell, I nearly put a gargoyle cop on the cover of Murder With Monsters. That's a walking tour I want to take, next time I'm in Manhattan. If that isn't enough, there's a location appendix! You can locate every gargoyle pictured inside.

It's one of the few VHS tapes I've kept, but it's on Dailymotion. He muses on gargoyles, why they unnerve us, and he and his son's love of the 1972 made for TV movie. His prose always reads like he's sitting with the reader on a porch, leaning forward, eyes alight, beer in hand. I love Stephen King, and I particularly love his nonfiction, like Danse Macabre and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. So I flip to the introduction, and find Stephen King pontificating on gargoyles. I fully expected a panoply of awesome and varied gargoyles. Serendipity abounds, because it's even neater than I thought. So I saw this at my local library and decided to pick up a company.

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