It's not a question of where he grips the other gargoyle. It's a simple question of weight ratios! A 160 pound gargoyle could not carry a 120 pound gargoyle.
In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a gargoyle needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right? ....hence the flying scene was fake!
@SparkDrew Love the funny hat and goggles! That is rich!!! LOL!!! Glad someone caught the MP reference! One smart guy out of 6 million dullards! Carry on my good man!
evolved from a taradactyl rather than and monkey --- what the hey --- I was seven and it was a good movie --- the animated series should have been actors like in the movie instead of cartoons
Believe it or not this movie gave me many a nightmare when I was a kid. Did not remember Cornell Wilde being in this movie. All this time, I thought it was Robert Colbert from Maverick, The Time Tunnell, countless guest appearances, etc, etc, etc.
The Gargoyle special effects were created by the Late Great Stan Winston, who was responsible for The Terminator 1 -3, Predator 1 and 2, Jurassic Park 1-3, The Thing Dog Effect, Lake Placid, The Relic, Iron Man, and many more.
I thought there was another movie that had gargoyles in it and just assumed it was in the 50's or 60's because it was black and white. After watching this, I realized that I only had an old cheap black and white tv upstairs and probably watched it on that. That's why the memory was in black and white(which we didn't mind then..lol)
Gargoyle's laugh like my mean uncles. I remember watching this hundreds of times on CBS Sunday afternoons. Freaky movie back then. The humans should have cross bred. Humped the gargoyle women.
I am too young to remember when this originally aired since I was born that year (72) but when it re aired several times in the mid 70's it gave me horrible nightmares as a child, lol. To watch it again, as an adult, is so funny. I don't remember it being incredibly cheesy but it sure the hell is.
I remember watching this movie around 2 in the morning when I was a kid, and it freaked me out because I had just watched "In Search Of..." with Leonard Nimoy earlier in the day. He did a show on reptilians living in the hollow earth. I was only 12 or 13 at the time and it was way too much for me to handle.
the 70's were the bomb!!! while campy or simple by today's standards, this movie still has me looking to the side of the road when i'm driving the interstate at night. priceless.
I've always loved this movie! Just recently found it on DVD at Borders' Books during a 'going-out-of-business' sale....got $6.00 off the purchase, so , it ended up costing me around $13.00! What a lucky strike!!! This, along with two other creepy 'made'for television' classics have ranked among my favorites for years! The other two films? "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" and the original version of "Salem's Lot!" Reggie Nalder rules as Barlow!
I was a kid when this was on TV. So what if is low budget, it was so cool and I would love to see the entire movie again. Scared me then but I would enjoy it again. Thanks for this clip.
agree with billlyblackattacks. its funny. when I look at this now the make up and effects are terrible and not realistic but I watched this for the first time when I was 10 years old and it scared the shit out of me. It looked so real back then.
isnt there a scene where the humans are in a motel or something in bed and the guy looks down and sees claws coming up from the end of the bed? I have total respect for this movie, its just funny how it looked so amazing and scary when I was a kid...not so scary looking now
@billyblackattacks I remember that too. I also remember looking frantically in the dark at my foot board wondering when those claws were going to get me. LOL
Never saw this as a kid, but your reaction totally reminds of the first time I saw Killer Bees as a kid. Would not touch or look at my wall the whole night, as it looked liked it was crowded with bees, lol. Too funny!
Also, my siblings watched Grizzly one night and all five of us slept on two twin beds pushed together. We were a bit freaked out , lol I doubled checked the date and it 1976, I would have been 9 or 10.
@celeryg66 I remember seeing Grizzly in the theatre. IMO it was a JAWS rip off.. Despite the similarities it must have left an impression so it couldn't have been that bad.
I don't know what it exactly was about this movie but it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid in the '70's. I watched it with my 8 year old son recently and he was like, 'ho-hum'.
Babysitter let me watch this when I was 4 or 5 and it scared the holy hell outa me. She also watched the Exorcist and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark with my sister and I and we were terrified for months.
I use to watch it every time it came on tv when I was a kid. I remember the part were the head Gargoyle took the girl, I think her name was Diane, she fainted and he was playing with her hoop earring. Oh, and his wife was jealous of the kidnapped girl.
It was creepy good movie! At the time I thought it was well-made, I mean it fit with all the other movies of that era.
I like the look of the Gargoyle but his voice kills me. Actually, it's not his voice, it's the modulation they put over it. Whoever thought that was a good idea was wrong.
order a pizza.get some coke (in a bottle)pop some popcorn(on the stove with oil,melt the butter in a seprate pan)and watch this on friday night>and this actually scared me>(i was seven).Things were so simple then.Love the music.Watching this here makes me feel good.
to HELL with the haters! this is GOLD! GOLD I SAY! the device has not been invented yet that can measure the unintentional comedy going on here. (and yeah, it scared me witless when i was 6, too!)
I really liked this movie. It scared the bih-jibbies out of me. I would like to see a remake of this using today's technology. I think it would be cool! I am also looking for this movie for my collection as well. Thanks!
A prime example of the many scary TV moves in the early '70s when supernatural horror and occultism was the big trend. Others include: The Night Stalker, The Norliss Tapes, Night Gallery pilot film, Satan's School for Girls, Baffled (with Nimoy). This stuff, with all its flaws, is still 100 times better than the awful, cheesy horror films produced today by the Syfy Channel.
I have this movie, which was originally on the CBS Tuesday Night Movies, on videotape. I try to enjoy it for it's nostalgia value and ignore the Grand Canyon- sized credibility gaps that fill it from beginning to end.
I'm with Adamstrange2000...I was scared as hell too, when I saw this back in 1972. So scared, that I was too scared to get out of bed at night and go to the bathroom and pee! Yes, this was cheap and low budget, but, look back what we had in comparison to today. back then, you had to use your imagination. Nowadays, it's literally thrown at your face. This is GOOD STUFF for what it's worth and I'm defintiely getting the DVD...along with "The Thing with Two Heads" with Rosey Grier and Ray MIlland.
I remember watching this as a kid and loved it! On our familiy trips to California from Kansas City as a kid, we had to pass through the arizona desert! Talk about being freaked out. Classic Horror movie.
When I was a kid, my dad used to watch this ... anyway, I would watch this with him and literally pee my pants! Especially when the character says "Di-a-na" - saying her name haunted me for years :()
Please remember, kids, that this was made-for-tv(when there were a mere three network stations). This one and A Cold Night's Death scared the poop out of me as a kid. As an adult, I'm catching all the humor of it...like how the motel manager knows where the Sheriff hides his bottle. I didn't catch any humor in A Cold Night's Death, though. That movie still gives me the willies.
OMFG The robotic maniacal laughter is KILLING ME! I remember my mom covering my eyes at the scary parts when I was a rugrat. HOLY CRAP. She should've plugged my ears at the bad acting and lame dialog.
The voices sucks. Like way they speak is NOT what id expect from a Gargoyle- they sound more like robots.... Kinda lame. Thats what turns me away from this right away. And if Id seen it as a kid I think it woulda then too honestly.. Cuz you know, they arent robots.. :/
To everyone who said this movie freaked them as a kid, welcome to the club. This and "Dont Be Afraid of the Dark" were definitely two of the scariest movies Ive ever seen.
When and why did someone decide that a gargoyle was anything other than a decorative water spout carved into the shape of a face, animal or mythological creature?
@Thebearcat66 Calling it a gargoyle is a failure to use your imagination. It is nothing remotely like a gargoyle; it is as much like a gargoyle as it is like a festive tea pot or a roadblock.
I assure you that it's quite possible to make up new words for imaginary things instead of flicking open a random page of a dictionary and using the first noun you can find.
No SGI here there use to be a lot of good made for tv horror and sci-fic movies in the 70's I loved it. You can't find this type of movies on cable or DVD. I remember watching this movie on tv on Saturdays "CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE" here in Boston in Channel 56 when it was an Independent channel on tv.:)
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I don't want to sound like i'm hating on you but, this movie is just flat out terrible. Even for it being a low budget and all it still is very terrible.
To me, it depends on what you like and why you like it. I have fond memories of watching bad science fiction movies with late-night Cleveland, OH movie hosts like “Big Chuck & Little John” or “The Ghoul.” Their comedy bits were as bad (or worse) than the movies. So movies like “Gargoyles” or “Creature from the Black Lagoon” fit right in. When I was a kid, we couldn’t wait to stay up till midnight on a Friday or Saturday to watch this kind of thing.
There were A LOT of bad sci-fi / thriller movies made either for TV of the theaters in the 1970s. Think about all those movies where you only saw “the creature” or whatever the thing was - on screen for like 60 seconds out of the whole movie. And when you DID see it…it was a pretty silly and disappointing sight. This movie actually tried to develop a plot, a story line, give these creatures some dialog. They got Stan Winston to make the gargoyle costumes with a budget of maybe $263..
From Wikipedia: In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm GARGOYLES. Winston worked on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands. James Cameron drafted Winston and his team for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen.and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
@albydarned Don't defend yourself to this schmuck. I watched this as it aired and in replay on Superhost, BC & LJ, The Ghoul, ETC. This is a classic. I would love if a mainstream horror flick these days could be half as good. But it won't happen. This is a good horror film. Don't apologize for liking it. Take care now!
@albydarned Winston also worked on the Iron Man movie armor before his death. I thought he was one of the best artists around.When I was a kid I remember seeing Gargoyles, it scared the crap out of me. But I was too curious too ask the folks too change the channel. lol
@albydarned Big Chuck and Lil John were awesome to watch as a kid. I too couldn't wait to stay up to catch them and their movies. "Mary Hartski, Mary Hartski" "Ben Crazy".........good times!!
Just the opposite to me. Gargoyles and Burnt Offerings are two of the very best movies that Ive ever seen in my 45 years and I'm a horror movie freak that has seem them all.
The slow motion movements of the Gargoyles added a creepy effect, as did their little groans and grunts. I now have it on DVD.
Gargoyles won several awards and has become a cult classic. Incidently, the genius behind the make-up of the creatures was Stan Winston - who later did Aliens, Predator, and The Terminator !!
@ShadetheShadowbender No this movie is great cheese for a lonely saturday afternoon. unlike todays TERRIBLE wanna be horror flicks like, The Last Exorcism. at least this has a story of some sort.
@ShadetheShadowbender With all due respect, I must disagree. Within its own premises---its own "universe"---this is actually a reasonably well-done film.
I'm not sure but the airport at the beginning of the film looks very similar to the airport our family would go by when visiting the city of Laredo, TX.
@babalon1919 If I'm not mistaken, I thought I saw Texas written on the side of the plane as it was coming to a stop on the runway. I think your right, it's probably El Paso, TX.
- the 70s networks featured several horror gothic movies during the week called movie of the week. Friday and Saturday often featured late horror and gothic movies as well often with some goulish host. It definitely was the golden age of TV horror movies.
yeah, this movie used to scare the hell out of me as a kid, my brother and i used to watch it and back then it seemed like being dragged into HELL lol
I'm from the 90's and Im really intrigued by this movie, specially since gargoyles are my favorite mythological creature. I really liked the fact of the gurgling voice, most people have forgotten about that since the Disney series. I'm really looking forward to watch the whole thing!
It still scares the heebie jeebies out of me, but now I can see the humor in it, like the hostess of the motel who knows where the sheriff keeps his hooch. I would love to see this on the big screen. A lot of these TV movies are far superior to the current slasher flicks. A Cold Night's Death, Gargoyles, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark(a chill just went down my spine), or any of the Night Stalker series would scare the poop out of my nephews and nieces.
I think I remember watching this as a little girl, my mother use to scare us with this movie... At least I think this was it....I remember that when the gargoyles would run the ran real slow and there was this cheesy music playing in the background....Is this the right movie?
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@DennyAlbert I just found it on Amazon for $25 used N $29 new! VHS of course no DVD back then., Man this was scary when I was growing up. C N it many times and it always scared me. But I'll fight them now. LOL!
Jennifer Salt! Nice T!ttys. Man Ive missed out in so much of life but...I got to see Gargoyles when it first came out on TV!!!!!!
stomp919 2 weeks ago
I really liked back then movies.
manufactuering 3 weeks ago
Hell Yeah scared the crap outta me back in the day!
Djvdzss 3 weeks ago
I actually enjoyed this movie
readynow12345 1 month ago
Diana's pretty hot
SparkDrew 1 month ago
It's not a question of where he grips the other gargoyle. It's a simple question of weight ratios! A 160 pound gargoyle could not carry a 120 pound gargoyle.
In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a gargoyle needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right? ....hence the flying scene was fake!
DinjenPolevaulter 2 months ago
@DinjenPolevaulter Monty Python meets The Gargoyle. Nice!
SparkDrew 1 month ago
@SparkDrew Love the funny hat and goggles! That is rich!!! LOL!!! Glad someone caught the MP reference! One smart guy out of 6 million dullards! Carry on my good man!
DinjenPolevaulter 1 month ago
Classic!
1969Fever 2 months ago
evolved from a taradactyl rather than and monkey --- what the hey --- I was seven and it was a good movie --- the animated series should have been actors like in the movie instead of cartoons
mrstevenos 2 months ago
Believe it or not this movie gave me many a nightmare when I was a kid. Did not remember Cornell Wilde being in this movie. All this time, I thought it was Robert Colbert from Maverick, The Time Tunnell, countless guest appearances, etc, etc, etc.
DonkeyStomper 2 months ago 3
The Gargoyle special effects were created by the Late Great Stan Winston, who was responsible for The Terminator 1 -3, Predator 1 and 2, Jurassic Park 1-3, The Thing Dog Effect, Lake Placid, The Relic, Iron Man, and many more.
aussieguy6908 2 months ago
The end of this movie scared me as a kid. Watching the Gargoyle fly away creeped me out.
MinisterPrimeDNice 3 months ago
Okay, this came out when I was 17 and I probably liked it as much for Jennifer Salt as anything else...
richardlynnbell 3 months ago in playlist Red Skull
My sister and I used to watch this all the time with my mother on the weekends. It was a favorite and had good effects for that time.
YourShorty68 3 months ago
I thought there was another movie that had gargoyles in it and just assumed it was in the 50's or 60's because it was black and white. After watching this, I realized that I only had an old cheap black and white tv upstairs and probably watched it on that. That's why the memory was in black and white(which we didn't mind then..lol)
Shilohseye 3 months ago
Gargoyle's laugh like my mean uncles. I remember watching this hundreds of times on CBS Sunday afternoons. Freaky movie back then. The humans should have cross bred. Humped the gargoyle women.
KickDownDoors 3 months ago 2
This is my favorite Gargoyle Movie ever !!! And I don't think it's cheesy for what they had to work with back then!!!
HUSH2112 3 months ago 2
This is my favorite Gargoyle Movie ever !!!
HUSH2112 3 months ago
my teacher told me that these things are supost to keep evil spirits away from
places.........how come they didnt work in ghost busters
brooke8511 4 months ago
Good movie, but looks so cheesy now!
SHpuppies 4 months ago
I am too young to remember when this originally aired since I was born that year (72) but when it re aired several times in the mid 70's it gave me horrible nightmares as a child, lol. To watch it again, as an adult, is so funny. I don't remember it being incredibly cheesy but it sure the hell is.
Metalmanmania357 4 months ago
3:10 the biggest egg scramble in the history of cinema
spar4tee 4 months ago
This movie was better than most features. It had everything and on a small budget. Just brilliant.
MugsySkull 4 months ago
I remember watching this movie around 2 in the morning when I was a kid, and it freaked me out because I had just watched "In Search Of..." with Leonard Nimoy earlier in the day. He did a show on reptilians living in the hollow earth. I was only 12 or 13 at the time and it was way too much for me to handle.
I miss those days. lol
gkamericoast 4 months ago
Bernie Casey did a good job as the Gargoyle leader.
Albacorewing 4 months ago
Love this film and I found it here at artiflix
artiflix 5 months ago
Dated by today's standards, but it was really scary when I was 10 years old. Just watched it again, it has its charm.
pvagnier 5 months ago
the 70's were the bomb!!! while campy or simple by today's standards, this movie still has me looking to the side of the road when i'm driving the interstate at night. priceless.
cookieDaXapper 5 months ago
I've always loved this movie! Just recently found it on DVD at Borders' Books during a 'going-out-of-business' sale....got $6.00 off the purchase, so , it ended up costing me around $13.00! What a lucky strike!!! This, along with two other creepy 'made'for television' classics have ranked among my favorites for years! The other two films? "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" and the original version of "Salem's Lot!" Reggie Nalder rules as Barlow!
Titan52berg 5 months ago
@Titan52berg You did get a good deal. Love your other choices too. Check out the 1967 "The Shuttered Room"
phillip4644 5 months ago
@Titan52berg And never forget the first " Night Stalker " ! 1972
MrSpencerport 4 months ago
I was a kid when this was on TV. So what if is low budget, it was so cool and I would love to see the entire movie again. Scared me then but I would enjoy it again. Thanks for this clip.
Strikesis 6 months ago
thanks you just save me 2 hours i just got this on netflix and now im sending it back..lol
oldjedi30 6 months ago
agree with billlyblackattacks. its funny. when I look at this now the make up and effects are terrible and not realistic but I watched this for the first time when I was 10 years old and it scared the shit out of me. It looked so real back then.
Lakekepler 6 months ago
isnt there a scene where the humans are in a motel or something in bed and the guy looks down and sees claws coming up from the end of the bed? I have total respect for this movie, its just funny how it looked so amazing and scary when I was a kid...not so scary looking now
billyblackattacks 6 months ago
@billyblackattacks I remember that too. I also remember looking frantically in the dark at my foot board wondering when those claws were going to get me. LOL
Goo Times.
knightflyte 4 months ago
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Never saw this as a kid, but your reaction totally reminds of the first time I saw Killer Bees as a kid. Would not touch or look at my wall the whole night, as it looked liked it was crowded with bees, lol. Too funny!
Also, my siblings watched Grizzly one night and all five of us slept on two twin beds pushed together. We were a bit freaked out , lol I doubled checked the date and it 1976, I would have been 9 or 10.
celeryg66 4 months ago
@celeryg66 KIllers bees was 1974
celeryg66 4 months ago
@celeryg66 I remember seeing Grizzly in the theatre. IMO it was a JAWS rip off.. Despite the similarities it must have left an impression so it couldn't have been that bad.
knightflyte 3 months ago
My mom love this movie. I remember when i was a child I couln't sleep at all after watching this movie for about a week or two hahahahahaha
xknlion66 6 months ago
Thank you for posting this; I remember it well when it was first broadcast.
intormentis 6 months ago
Scared me to , first watched it when I was 6 and it gave me nightmares.
Sallen6366 6 months ago
I don't know what it exactly was about this movie but it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid in the '70's. I watched it with my 8 year old son recently and he was like, 'ho-hum'.
rubicon1983 6 months ago
Bernie Casey's costume is scarier compared to the other ones. The others look like something out of Land of the Lost.
DCNY31279 6 months ago in playlist night stalker
Good MFTV movie, in the 70's there were many of them.
cheapcape 7 months ago
I remember this movie!!!
rudge1982 7 months ago
Babysitter let me watch this when I was 4 or 5 and it scared the holy hell outa me. She also watched the Exorcist and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark with my sister and I and we were terrified for months.
madogofwales 7 months ago
Ooohhh, I remember this movie!
I use to watch it every time it came on tv when I was a kid. I remember the part were the head Gargoyle took the girl, I think her name was Diane, she fainted and he was playing with her hoop earring. Oh, and his wife was jealous of the kidnapped girl.
It was creepy good movie! At the time I thought it was well-made, I mean it fit with all the other movies of that era.
Great Post!
DoMoreGoodDeeds 8 months ago
I like the look of the Gargoyle but his voice kills me. Actually, it's not his voice, it's the modulation they put over it. Whoever thought that was a good idea was wrong.
akiratubo 8 months ago
LOL I remember this being played on TBS in the early-90s over and over again.
TheDystopiaInside 8 months ago
order a pizza.get some coke (in a bottle)pop some popcorn(on the stove with oil,melt the butter in a seprate pan)and watch this on friday night>and this actually scared me>(i was seven).Things were so simple then.Love the music.Watching this here makes me feel good.
bigdaddydaug 9 months ago
Campy, lousy script, but it was an imaginative story, but me and the other kids in 4th grade loved it when it first aired.
jaybird321 9 months ago
in every scene it's like you can hear ed wood's ghost "cut! perfect! print it! we're moving on!"
plasshopper 9 months ago
to HELL with the haters! this is GOLD! GOLD I SAY! the device has not been invented yet that can measure the unintentional comedy going on here. (and yeah, it scared me witless when i was 6, too!)
plasshopper 9 months ago 2
this is the ORIGINAL Jeepers Creepers
cj382 9 months ago
@cj382 Yeah, but at least in Jeepers Creepers the monster didn't talk. The monster talking in Gargoyles is just too cheesy, even for me.
1981bendover 8 months ago
I too was a kid when this came out, it gave me nightmares, I wish they would remake it with todays technology
Rodakgreen 9 months ago
For 6 bucks you can buy this at cheesy flix dot com....
mrgb46 9 months ago
That's the Bernie Casey?
DCNY31279 10 months ago
Everytime I go to Mammoth Ca. I think of this movie.
Maustrum 10 months ago
Horror novel see video book trailer
dltanner99 10 months ago
I remember how freakin' HOT Dianna was! The 70s Rock, baby!
eandatoo 10 months ago
I really liked this movie. It scared the bih-jibbies out of me. I would like to see a remake of this using today's technology. I think it would be cool! I am also looking for this movie for my collection as well. Thanks!
tmaichelc 10 months ago
So that's where liberal democrats come from.
Too bad they didn't destroy all their eggs!
imallpissedoff 11 months ago
A prime example of the many scary TV moves in the early '70s when supernatural horror and occultism was the big trend. Others include: The Night Stalker, The Norliss Tapes, Night Gallery pilot film, Satan's School for Girls, Baffled (with Nimoy). This stuff, with all its flaws, is still 100 times better than the awful, cheesy horror films produced today by the Syfy Channel.
jlovebirch 11 months ago 2
Classic!
G11354 11 months ago
I have this movie, which was originally on the CBS Tuesday Night Movies, on videotape. I try to enjoy it for it's nostalgia value and ignore the Grand Canyon- sized credibility gaps that fill it from beginning to end.
SuperImready 1 year ago
This movie horrified me when I was 8.
WheeoftheDead 1 year ago
I'm with Adamstrange2000...I was scared as hell too, when I saw this back in 1972. So scared, that I was too scared to get out of bed at night and go to the bathroom and pee! Yes, this was cheap and low budget, but, look back what we had in comparison to today. back then, you had to use your imagination. Nowadays, it's literally thrown at your face. This is GOOD STUFF for what it's worth and I'm defintiely getting the DVD...along with "The Thing with Two Heads" with Rosey Grier and Ray MIlland.
14adrano 1 year ago
Yep, I'm 42 and this thing scared the daylights out of me when I was a kid.
xxxx15us 1 year ago
As a kid the movie scared the heck out of me
Larry7652 1 year ago
This movie scared the CRAP out of me when I was a kid!!
miztammym 1 year ago
I hope i am going to buy this on the dvd if they sale
on Amazon and not the Disney cartoon series
hilarioph 1 year ago
This movie freaked me out as a kid! I'm 43 now,I remember when the game pong came out.Miss those days.
myexecutedlife 1 year ago
I remember watching this as a kid and loved it! On our familiy trips to California from Kansas City as a kid, we had to pass through the arizona desert! Talk about being freaked out. Classic Horror movie.
MAXKC1 1 year ago
loved this movie as a kid thanks again for the brief scenes ;)
ferreirj123 1 year ago
When I was a kid, my dad used to watch this ... anyway, I would watch this with him and literally pee my pants! Especially when the character says "Di-a-na" - saying her name haunted me for years :()
Burnsengine 1 year ago
@Burnsengine yes way he says Di-a-na as also haunted me all these year had a friend named Diana every time i heard her name i remmbered this movie
ferreirj123 1 year ago
This is Aliens, only 100xs better. James Cameron is a thief.
jetszombie64 1 year ago
Scared-me-to-death as a kid. Makes me wonder how the hell I was allowed to watch it.
rp78100 1 year ago
when i was a kid i movie , always looked forward to halloween to see it,ohio fritz the night owl lol
pammiefay16 1 year ago
Gargoyle dude looks like Jeepers Creepers.
joemamamatt 1 year ago
I do like the way he tossed the guy though. Lol
GeoGarcia10 1 year ago
That basically sums that movie up in five minutes. I've seen it on TV before, I dig the unrelated cartoon.
GeoGarcia10 1 year ago
Please remember, kids, that this was made-for-tv(when there were a mere three network stations). This one and A Cold Night's Death scared the poop out of me as a kid. As an adult, I'm catching all the humor of it...like how the motel manager knows where the Sheriff hides his bottle. I didn't catch any humor in A Cold Night's Death, though. That movie still gives me the willies.
ThatsMrMoronToYou 1 year ago
OMFG The robotic maniacal laughter is KILLING ME! I remember my mom covering my eyes at the scary parts when I was a rugrat. HOLY CRAP. She should've plugged my ears at the bad acting and lame dialog.
CampysPornShack 1 year ago
The voices sucks. Like way they speak is NOT what id expect from a Gargoyle- they sound more like robots.... Kinda lame. Thats what turns me away from this right away. And if Id seen it as a kid I think it woulda then too honestly.. Cuz you know, they arent robots.. :/
Akotway 1 year ago
i always liked this movie,wouldnt mind seeing this again
redlabs 1 year ago
To everyone who said this movie freaked them as a kid, welcome to the club. This and "Dont Be Afraid of the Dark" were definitely two of the scariest movies Ive ever seen.
truthseeker33169 1 year ago
When and why did someone decide that a gargoyle was anything other than a decorative water spout carved into the shape of a face, animal or mythological creature?
soylentgreenb 1 year ago
@soylentgreenb Its called using an imagination for the purpose of entertainment. Dumb comment bud!
Thebearcat66 1 year ago
@Thebearcat66 Calling it a gargoyle is a failure to use your imagination. It is nothing remotely like a gargoyle; it is as much like a gargoyle as it is like a festive tea pot or a roadblock.
I assure you that it's quite possible to make up new words for imaginary things instead of flicking open a random page of a dictionary and using the first noun you can find.
soylentgreenb 1 year ago
@soylentgreenb Goof ball. You must be a nerd.
Thebearcat66 1 year ago
Also...one of the scaredest I've EVER been as a kid....Still remember the movie...Effects are dated, but still a great one!
flogderf 1 year ago
WOW...I was a child and THIS T.V. FILM scared me and made a HUGE impression on me for years thereafter!
princeeverlove 1 year ago
What I'd like to know is HOW THE HELL THE GARGOYLES LAID THOSE EGGS!!! Either that or whether the mothers all just DIED laying them. . .
BigStr8Al 1 year ago
I remember watching this film in the early 80's on the friday night local tv horror slot. I always seem to remember it starred Ernest Borgnine.
loxi59tica 1 year ago
No SGI here there use to be a lot of good made for tv horror and sci-fic movies in the 70's I loved it. You can't find this type of movies on cable or DVD. I remember watching this movie on tv on Saturdays "CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE" here in Boston in Channel 56 when it was an Independent channel on tv.:)
EFPLOIZA 1 year ago
Gotta love those wings!!!
DVROFFMAN 1 year ago
it's interesting to see who stared in this movie....for a made for tv movie..it wasn't bad
1942PANTHERV 1 year ago
The animated show "Gargoyels" kicks this one right in the stones
Bigdrumnerd101 1 year ago
@Bigdrumnerd101 Never!
robfergusonjr 1 year ago
I remember seeing this one night when I was 9 years old. I was in the hospital having hip surgery in Kansas City. I'll never forget it!
JayH7745 1 year ago
these are pretty cool effects
TheComingApocalypse 1 year ago
GREAT FLICK!
titanosuarus 1 year ago 2
OMG! I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
TodAG69 1 year ago
OMG! Great!!!! I have been looking for the name of this movie for years~ I remember this movie as a kid
sdangela 1 year ago
Man!!! This movie scares me to death when I was a kid !!! specialy the part when one of that monsters emerges from a bed in a dark motel room.
Thanks for posting!!!
citroneto 1 year ago
this movie scared the shit outta me when i was like 5
Fireball69 1 year ago
Bernie Casey makes (1) sexy gargoyle. Did DIana develop a crush on the gargoyle?
2dasimmons 1 year ago
Is it just me, or do the gargoles in this movie look like the creature from Jeepers Creepers?
EdenJAM 1 year ago
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I don't want to sound like i'm hating on you but, this movie is just flat out terrible. Even for it being a low budget and all it still is very terrible.
ShadetheShadowbender 1 year ago
To me, it depends on what you like and why you like it. I have fond memories of watching bad science fiction movies with late-night Cleveland, OH movie hosts like “Big Chuck & Little John” or “The Ghoul.” Their comedy bits were as bad (or worse) than the movies. So movies like “Gargoyles” or “Creature from the Black Lagoon” fit right in. When I was a kid, we couldn’t wait to stay up till midnight on a Friday or Saturday to watch this kind of thing.
albydarned 1 year ago 12
There were A LOT of bad sci-fi / thriller movies made either for TV of the theaters in the 1970s. Think about all those movies where you only saw “the creature” or whatever the thing was - on screen for like 60 seconds out of the whole movie. And when you DID see it…it was a pretty silly and disappointing sight. This movie actually tried to develop a plot, a story line, give these creatures some dialog. They got Stan Winston to make the gargoyle costumes with a budget of maybe $263..
albydarned 1 year ago 3
From Wikipedia: In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm GARGOYLES. Winston worked on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands. James Cameron drafted Winston and his team for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen.and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
albydarned 1 year ago 5
@albydarned Don't defend yourself to this schmuck. I watched this as it aired and in replay on Superhost, BC & LJ, The Ghoul, ETC. This is a classic. I would love if a mainstream horror flick these days could be half as good. But it won't happen. This is a good horror film. Don't apologize for liking it. Take care now!
nobodyspecial2nite 1 year ago
@albydarned Winston also worked on the Iron Man movie armor before his death. I thought he was one of the best artists around.When I was a kid I remember seeing Gargoyles, it scared the crap out of me. But I was too curious too ask the folks too change the channel. lol
hulkster46a 7 months ago
@albydarned Stan Winston only did a few of the background masks and was hired later...The makeup effects in this film are the work of Sonny Burman.
Valkonnen 1 year ago
@albydarned that's funny I'm from Cleveland and I remember watching all of the shows you mentioned.
calscott1 1 year ago
@albydarned I'm from cleveland and we stayed up to watch all of those too
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callscott1 9 months ago
@albydarned same here
callscott1 9 months ago
@albydarned Big Chuck and Lil John were awesome to watch as a kid. I too couldn't wait to stay up to catch them and their movies. "Mary Hartski, Mary Hartski" "Ben Crazy".........good times!!
mrkeys1111 6 months ago in playlist Gargyoles
Just the opposite to me. Gargoyles and Burnt Offerings are two of the very best movies that Ive ever seen in my 45 years and I'm a horror movie freak that has seem them all.
The slow motion movements of the Gargoyles added a creepy effect, as did their little groans and grunts. I now have it on DVD.
Gargoyles won several awards and has become a cult classic. Incidently, the genius behind the make-up of the creatures was Stan Winston - who later did Aliens, Predator, and The Terminator !!
laceypacey 1 year ago
@ShadetheShadowbender No this movie is great cheese for a lonely saturday afternoon. unlike todays TERRIBLE wanna be horror flicks like, The Last Exorcism. at least this has a story of some sort.
sheilaboy44 1 year ago
@ShadetheShadowbender No it isn't and you're a fucking idiot.
paulieb60 1 year ago
@paulieb60 I second that.
Mality 10 months ago
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@ShadetheShadowbender
No it isn't and you're a fucking idiot.
paulieb60 1 year ago
@ShadetheShadowbender With all due respect, I must disagree. Within its own premises---its own "universe"---this is actually a reasonably well-done film.
MCP2012 10 months ago
this would be a cool sequel to see
TheBlindDyslexic 1 year ago
Thanks for posting! The film gave me major nightmares as a child but seeing it now, it's kinda bad.
daddydearest36 1 year ago
most of the bitches today are a bunch of tatooed fat ass pigs . loved the 70's.
esp1964 1 year ago
I LOVE this Movie!!!!!
TodAG69 1 year ago
I'm not sure but the airport at the beginning of the film looks very similar to the airport our family would go by when visiting the city of Laredo, TX.
- does anyone know where that scene was shot?
chroniclerofthe70s 1 year ago
@chroniclerofthe70s
i think it was in Carlsbad, New Mexico
if not, then El Paso, Texas
but i'm pretty sure that is the Carlsbad airport
the egg-hatching scene is set in the actual Carlsbad Caverns
one of the rooms off the lunchroom, i think.
babalon1919 1 year ago
@babalon1919 If I'm not mistaken, I thought I saw Texas written on the side of the plane as it was coming to a stop on the runway. I think your right, it's probably El Paso, TX.
chroniclerofthe70s 1 year ago
- the 70s networks featured several horror gothic movies during the week called movie of the week. Friday and Saturday often featured late horror and gothic movies as well often with some goulish host. It definitely was the golden age of TV horror movies.
chroniclerofthe70s 1 year ago
wow women back then look sexy wish they were like that today wow too bad
meterman432110 1 year ago
Man This Movie Scared The Hell Out Of me as a kid...cant believe its on you Tube, good job, now where can i get the DVD?????
AdamStrange2000 1 year ago 17
@AdamStrange2000 Hey ME TOO!!! I was scared sh_tless. I saw this movie when I was 4 and was spooked for quite some time - lol.
eandatoo 10 months ago
@AdamStrange2000 It is available on DVD at Amazon right now.
wrght9185 7 months ago
A pretty decent film for its day. You have to forgive the rubber suits.
Albacorewing 1 year ago
YES THAT GARGOYLE DOES LOOK LIKE THE DEVIL...HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheAMERIKANPSYCHO 1 year ago
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@TheAMERIKANPSYCHO It was a pretty good film for its day.
Albacorewing 1 year ago
Intro narrated by Vic Perrin! You can't be that!
vjreejr 1 year ago
oh, yeah the Diana chick... *SHWING* she was extremely hot.
flarbton 1 year ago
yeah, this movie used to scare the hell out of me as a kid, my brother and i used to watch it and back then it seemed like being dragged into HELL lol
flarbton 1 year ago
this movie scared the shit out of me when i was a kid during the 80s.
PRod745 1 year ago
this movie freaked me out as a kid
ohmah70 1 year ago
@ohmah70 me 2 !!!
IvanDaTerror 1 year ago
Add this to your TAGS, the gargoyle make up was an early, possibly the first job by the late, great, Academy Award winning Stan Winston.
feverdeanmg 1 year ago
yes jennifer salt was crazy annie in the movie midnight cowboy. "your the only one joe, your the only one... he is the one he is the only one ."...
123ihatethiscrap 1 year ago
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Is it my imagnation or does that main gargoyle look A LOT like Michelle Obama? I'm just sayin'....
YinzRallJagoffs 1 year ago
God she is so hot, that halter top OMG
Fridayfanfilm 1 year ago 2
I'm from the 90's and Im really intrigued by this movie, specially since gargoyles are my favorite mythological creature. I really liked the fact of the gurgling voice, most people have forgotten about that since the Disney series. I'm really looking forward to watch the whole thing!
Rejectedfreesoul 1 year ago
They should had use a lincoln rail gun to kill those Gargoyles
tammynewman 1 year ago
They needed a lincoln rail gun to kill those Gargoyles
tammynewman 1 year ago
It still scares the heebie jeebies out of me, but now I can see the humor in it, like the hostess of the motel who knows where the sheriff keeps his hooch. I would love to see this on the big screen. A lot of these TV movies are far superior to the current slasher flicks. A Cold Night's Death, Gargoyles, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark(a chill just went down my spine), or any of the Night Stalker series would scare the poop out of my nephews and nieces.
ThatsMrMoronToYou 1 year ago
why does the Gargoyles sound like droids from Dr.Who?
TheAmusingHeckler 1 year ago
does this have any relation to the kick-ass 90s show i grew up with? if not i'd still probably watch it - i love watching silly b-movies
movieman2000 1 year ago
Did somebody say bad acting?!
AmateurShows 1 year ago
I think I remember watching this as a little girl, my mother use to scare us with this movie... At least I think this was it....I remember that when the gargoyles would run the ran real slow and there was this cheesy music playing in the background....Is this the right movie?
lovec78 1 year ago
ain't so scary when you know the name of the head honcho gargoyle is actually bernie casey.
lol @3:43 when the older dude hits the gargoyle with a rock. lame as anything
055697 1 year ago
This movie scared me as a child. This kind of crap still scares Fundamentalist Christians as adults.
virtualsurrealism 1 year ago
I remember this movie well, I always was a fan of it.
smfcpthowdy 1 year ago
now thats the devil him self
1spider31 1 year ago
Every stupid movie that comes out these days has vampires or zombies in it (YAWN). It's about time we had gargoyles.
horsedoctorman 1 year ago
LOVED this movie... used to watch it every time it was on!!!
chyrd 1 year ago
Freakin classic. havent seen this since i was 10
DTHECHEMIST1 1 year ago
I remember seeing this as a kid and thinking it was pile of crap even then.
djbethell 1 year ago
THIS MOVIE SCARED THE Devil outta me when I was a kid! When I heard him say Diana just now I kinda jumped inside. LOL! I luv this!
AMOVIEROOM 1 year ago
I was probably about 8 years old when I saw this on TV. For some reason I was home alone watching TV, and I was scared as **** all night.
Of course it looks corny now. Except for when they molest the fuzzy stuff off of the eggs. That part still gives me the creeps.
dgdfhfghgfhgfgffjhj 1 year ago
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JohnnyT247 1 year ago
I love this movie. Where can I buy it?
DennyAlbert 1 year ago
@DennyAlbert I just found it on Amazon for $25 used N $29 new! VHS of course no DVD back then., Man this was scary when I was growing up. C N it many times and it always scared me. But I'll fight them now. LOL!
AMOVIEROOM 1 year ago
@AMOVIEROOM Thanks for the info. If I can, I will definitely buy it from Amazon. I always thought this movie was one of the scariest!! :-)
DennyAlbert 1 year ago