![]() The cops have to believe it all when Diana is taken by the head of the gargoyles (played by Bernie Casey but voiced by Vic Perrin. But the body of the dead gargoyle spawns a second attack. ![]() When she tells Reeger about the gargoyles he thinks she’s nuts. The duo tell the cops about Willie and meet a gang of bike riders that includes James Reeger (Scott Glenn), a low-level love interest for Diana. Now they have a whole body, not just a skull. ![]() There they will be attacked again when the gargoyles come for the skull. They take the car to garage to be fixed then go to a motel. They drive off but a monster lands on the roof of their car, tearing the metal with its claws. Mercer and Diana grab the skull of the skeleton and flee. Willie dies when the ceiling collapses on him, setting the barn on fire. The shed the three are in is attacked by something unseen. They met Willie (Woody Chambliss), who shows them no fakes but a skeleton of an unknown creature. They arrive at Uncle Willie’s Desert Museum, a collection of frauds and phoneys for tourists. His interest is in the anthropological aspects of magic, not the practical. Boley is professor of the occult and has written several bestsellers on the subject. Mercer Boley (Cornell Wilde) and his daughter, Diana (Jennifer Salt) traveling to New Mexico to see a man who claims to have a strange discovery worthy of their time. (Despite my feeling this, Stan Winston won an Emmy for Outstanding Make-Up for the film.) As any good Doctor Who fan can tell you ( especially back in 1972), it’s all about the writing. The budget wasn’t going to be in the millions. ![]() This wasn’t going to be about good special effects. The cops assume you’re a “doper” if you ride a motor cycle, etc…) But I knew this going in. (The leader of the gargoyles gives the winged female a slap on the ass that any male chauvinistic pig would recognize. The costumes and other special effects are quite dated along with some attitudes. So many television movies are taken from bad video copies making them hard to watch for the wrong reason. They have a free version that isn’t hard to watch visually. I recently re-watched The Gargoyles (1972) on Tubi.
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