American monsters
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | American monsters |
| Original title | Q: The Winged Serpent / Q |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Larry Cohen |
| script | Larry Cohen |
| production | Larry Cohen |
| music | Robert O. Ragland |
| camera |
Robert Levi , Fred Murphy |
| cut | Armond Lebowitz |
| occupation | |
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American Monster is a 1982 horror film directed by Larry Cohen .
action
In New York one day, a series of strange deaths occur: a window cleaner will be demolished in his work the head, a young sunbathing woman is kidnapped from her beach chair on the roof of a skyscraper, and a construction worker is looking for his lunch sandwich itself to the meal of a monster. The finds of a skinned corpse in a hotel room and a corpse whose heart has been removed lead Detective Shephard on the trail of the Aztec culture and their deity Quetzalcoatl .
The piano player Jimmy Quinn meanwhile gets by with little crooked tours. When he is supposed to drive the getaway car for his buddies during a diamond theft and flees with the loot, he discovers the monster's nest high up in the Chrysler Building . When Quinn's cronies demand the prey, the latter leads them to the monster's nest, which kills them both. On the way home, Quinn is arrested for stealing diamonds. While in custody, he reveals the monster's hiding place, but demands impunity and $ 1 million. One unit climbs up to the Chrysler Building under Shephard's direction and finds only the monster's egg.
Meanwhile, the police disrupt a ritual in which another man should be sacrificed, and one of the police officers involved becomes the next victim of the monster, which turns out to be a kind of flying reptile. As it returned to the roof of the Chrysler Building, Shephard's unit met it with submachine gun fire until it fell fatally wounded on the streets of New York. There is another egg on a plot of land far away.
backgrounds
The flying monster (one of its first victims is played by David Carradine's brother Bruce Carradine) was set in motion by animation specialist David W. Allen using stop motion . American Monster is a remake of the 1946 film The Flying Serpent directed by Sam Newfield.
Reviews
“A winged serpent monster nests in the Chrysler Building and feeds on the residents of New York before it is hunted down with machine gun salvos. Staged in a boring and superficial way, the abundantly disgusting story also denounces Indian myths and neurotic drug addicts. "
“[E] a gorgeous example of lustfully exaggerated“ bad ”acting that could be described as the perfect parody of Lee Strasberg's method-acting style. With its affectionate "King Kong" references, self-parodic approach and casually added anti-authoritarian and anti-religious accents, this is the most entertaining horror since Joe Dante's The Beast . "
Individual evidence
- ↑ American Monster. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Helmut W. Banz: Entertaining . In: The time . No. 5/1983 , January 28, 1983, Im Kino, p. 42 .
Web links
- American Monster in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions unchecked (16+) - r-rated by American Monster at Schnittberichte.com