Gargoyles (TV film)
Gargoyles was a 1972 made for television movie, originally broadcast on CBS' The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies. Directed by Bill Norton directed the fantasy, horror film. The film is notable for being the first instance of the work of special effects make-up specialist work of Stan Winston. It was for Winston's work that the film won the 1973 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic).[1]
Cast
- Dr. Mercer Boley -- Cornel Wilde
- Diana Boley --Jennifer Salt
- The Gargoyle -- Bernie Casey
- Police Chief -- William Stevens
- Mrs. Park -- Grayson Hall
- James Reeger -- Scott Glen
Plot
Dr. Mercer Boley and his daughter Diana are traveling in New Mexico for scientific research. They happen upon a large skeleton at a gas station / curios shop. Reptilian gargoyles come to the station, marauding and burning down the station.
Dr. Boley makes off with the skull at keeps it at his motel room. Meanwhile, local police have locked up James Reeger and several other bikers, accusing them of the mayhem at the gas station.
Gargoyles come and intrude to the room. Dr. Boley repels them and they run to the road. And one of them gets struck by a truck. Boley takes the body back to his room. The alcoholic hotelier, Mrs. Parks, grows suspicious.
Diana runs to the police station and pleads for the bikers' innocence and asks for their release. The police decline.
She returns to the motel room. The gargoyles return to get the gargoyle body. In the nick of time, the Boyles flee through the window and take the gargoyle. They attempt to flee in their station wagon. However, the gargoyles stop them and rip the doors off the station wagon. The gargoyles, led by their lead gargoyle (played by Bernie Casey) take Diana to their cave, where they have hundreds of eggs.[2][3]
External links
References
- ^ Daz Lawrence, Gargoyles – USA, 1972 – reviews, 'Movies and Mania' May 31, 2013 https://moviesandmania.com/2013/05/31/gargoyles-1972-horror-tv-film-movie-review/
- ^ Scott Drebit, Gargoyles, 'Daily Dead,' January 28, 2018 https://dailydead.com/it-came-from-the-tube-gargoyles-1972/
- ^ Matt Barone, The 15 Best TV Movies Of All Time, 'Complex' August 27, 2011 https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2011/08/the-15-best-tv-movies-of-all-time/
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