Watching Boley make his escape with his halter top wearing daughter in a Ford Country Squire while a dude in a gargoyle suit is riding on top of the station wagon is surely the greatest of all 1970s monster movie moments! (When a couple of gargoyles later team up to roll the Country Squire over on its top while Boley is still inside and they kidnap his daughter, you involuntarily mutter “damn, shit just got real, bruh!”) Willie then shows them his prized possession, a one of a kind, gen-you-wine gargoyle skeleton! Boley is disbelieving until the gargoyles attack and kill poor old Willie! This wasn’t even the first or most awesome encounter with the gargoyles though! Boley and his daughter get mixed up with all this to begin with while talking old Indian legends with Uncle Willie, proprietor of Uncle Willie’s Desert Museum. I was waiting for him to ask the alcoholic motel owner to borrow a shovel to give it a proper burial out back!) When Boley chases a couple of gargoyles out of his hotel room and right into the highway and one of those poor bastards gets pancaked by a semi becoming just another bit of forgotten desert roadkill, you don’t even have much of a chance to giggle at the absurdity of it all because there’s Boley rushing to the creature’s aid, cradling his bleeding head and having a freaking moment with it! (That he then drags its corpse back into his hotel room and lays it on the bed so he and his daughter can get a real good look at it is probably not surprising.

Peterman whenever he drops his gargoyles knowledge on the disbelieving local yokels.īut Gargoyles is one of those experiences where story and acting are simply irrelevant due to what is unfolding on screen.

Mercer Boley in such a stilted, aloof fashion, you can’t help but think of Seinfeld‘s J. There aren’t any performances that are going to win any Emmys happening here either (though the monster make up rightfully did win the legendary Stan Winston and others an Emmy!) with the aging and slumming screen icon Cornel Wilde essaying the role of Dr. Even when, as here, it’s some small town cops and dirt bikers. Monsters hiding out in the desert who appear every 600 years or so? If you couldn’t get the job done back in the Middle Ages when our ancestors were pooping in the streets and probably chased you off with nothing more lethal than a garden hoe, I’m not worried about you going up against us now. Gargoyles is a straight up stone cold classic TV movie.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way right up front.

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