![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The dusty and mountainous desert landscape makes for an evocative space, even if the basic premise of a colony of living gargoyles hiding out in the hills is patently absurd. In addition to employing the talents of Stan Winston, another good decision was to shoot entirely on location in Carlsbad, New Mexico and in Laredo, Texas. You can always tell a film is in a spot of bother when the best thing about it is a costume! I had no option to conclude that Steven and Elinor Karpf’s pitiful and laughable screenplay was totally undeserving of Mr. The most distinguishing feature of this patchy 74 minute effort is the excellent costume design and special make up effects created by Stan Winston the most impressive of which is rightfully reserved for the lead gargoyle played by Bernie Casey. The latest allegedly brilliant and/or terrifying TV horror movie to cross my desk is Gargoyles, which was broadcast on CBS in November 1972. Thus far I have only come across a select handful of these movies that live up to the unhelpful hype and stand up to modern scrutiny both Duel (1971) and Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) remain towering examples of the form, and anything with the name Dan Curtis attached to it offers a seal of quality that was not replicated elsewhere. On my journey it has become impossible to ignore the most recurrent feature of these old ’movies-of-the-week’ namely that the quality and effect of many of these films have been grossly exaggerated by the nostalgic twittering of writers/reviewers who now seemingly find it impossible to be objective about them. Over the past few months I’ve watched a number of American TV horror movies from the 1970’s and 1980’s in a bid to bolster the cult television section of the site. ![]()
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