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An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Woodrow Chambliss
- Uncle Willie
- (as Woody Chambliss)
Timothy Burns
- Morris Ray
- (as Tim Burns)
Rock A. Walker
- Gargoyle
- (as Rock Walker)
Vic Perrin
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
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- TriviaThe entire film was shot with a single camera.
- GoofsThe cops' car speeding down a dirt road, chasing the dirt bikes, changes back-and-forth from a Chevy Impala to a Ford LTD a few times.
- Quotes
James Reeger: [very bad-boy, looking her over] So you and your old man, you're not afraid of them gar-things, huh?
Diana Boley: [cooly, looking back] Gargoyles are a scientific fact. And they're no more dangerous than a high school drop-out on a motorcycle.
- Alternate versionsThe version available on DVD is the 74 minute European theatrical cut, which runs slightly longer than the original US TV broadcast version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Elvira's Halloween Movie Schlock-A-Thon (1993)
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Very decent little TV movie
I have to say that I'm largely impressed with the seventies made for television horror movies that I've seen, and while Gargoyles isn't exactly a great film; it has more than enough going for it to ensure that my overall opinion of these films has gone up after seeing it. The film is not exactly original, although it goes about portraying its subject matter well. The film professes that Satan sent his minions, the Gargoyles, down to Earth and they have been subdued by humankind. We follow the fortunes of Dr. Mercer Boley and his daughter Diana as they travel across the desert, and end up finding a colony of the aforementioned Gargoyles. The film doesn't take itself very seriously, and this turns out to be a good thing as director Bill L. Norton is not held back by trying to make the film credible, and instead is given licence to fully explore the subject material. It's hard not to laugh at certain points during the film, but the ideas on show are mostly good and that is all you can really expect from a film like this. The story is entertaining too and more than adequately fills the 75 minute running time, and the director also manages to create a creepy atmosphere and a fair few scares. Well worth seeing.
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- May 22, 2007
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