Gargoyles - wings of horror

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Movie
German title Gargoyles - wings of horror
Original title Gargoyle
Country of production USA , Canada , Romania
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jim Wynorski
script Anthony L. Greene
Ion Ionescu
Bill Munroe
production Ion Ionescu
music Neal Acree
camera Andrea V. Rossotto
cut Michael Kuge
occupation

Gargoyles is a horror film by Jim Wynorski from 2004. Wynorski appears here under the pseudonym Jay Andrews. The story of the film comes from the pen of Ion Ionescu, who also appears here as a film producer. Wynorski worked the story into a script with Anthony L. Greene and Bill Munroe. In addition, Wynorski took on a small supporting role as bartender Boggy .

action

A CIA team is in Romania to end the kidnapping of a millionaire's son as bloodlessly as possible. One of the kidnappers is found impaled on the spire of Orlock Castle after a wild chase through the capital. At the same time, the historian Christina Durant, also American, reports her colleague Richard Barrier as missing. What she does not yet know: A slight earthquake exposed an underground cave in a vault under the cemetery of the church, whose wall painting she is currently researching, in which an airworthy monster belonging to the genus of gargoyles has been trapped for about 500 years or was. One of his first victims is the historian when he curiously descended into the cave of the Gargoyle. The bloodthirsty monster keeps attracting new victims from the city. With their entrails, it feeds its brood deep underground.

Durant and CIA Agent Griffin work closely together on the missing person. A bishop tells them how a gargoyle can be killed in the Vazlav monastery outside the city gates. The historical crossbow, with which the last gargoyle was killed 500 years ago, has been kept in a shrine in the monastery over the centuries. The arrowhead, however, must be soaked in the blood of an ordained good-hearted priest. While walking in the monastery garden, they are suddenly attacked from the air by the recently liberated gargoyle. The bishop is seized by the claws of the gargoyle and carried away. Griffin and Durant take the crossbow and flee back to Bucharest, where Griffin calls in heavily armed units for reinforcement.

You will find what you are looking for in the crypt under the cemetery. When the special forces arrive, the offspring of the gargoyle begins to hatch. The first attempt to destroy the flying dog-like creatures with conventional handguns fails. Griffin then blows up the tomb. With this, of course, he draws the gargoyle's wrath. From the air he attacks the men who are still in the cemetery. Now the stolen crossbow is used. Griffin hits on the first shot. The gargoyle falls into the vault, the hatch of the floor still open. Those involved can breathe a sigh of relief. You are sure the power of the gargoyle is broken.

After taking a breather, Griffin receives the news that an unknown flying object has been sighted over Siberia. So the fear continues.

background

Bucharest Bellu Cemetery - Gargoyle's fictional hotbed is located in an underground burial chamber.

English title, also mentioned in the opening credits, is Gargoyle's Revenge . The title Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness was chosen for US television .

Parts of the film were shot in the Romanian capital, Bucharest , in particular the Bellu cemetery with its cemetery chapel. The Mogoșoaia Castle , located just outside the city, served as the episcopal monastery . Short fade-ins show the Orthodox Church in Bucharest's noble Cotroceni district and the Poenari hilltop castle in the Carpathian Mountains. The spire on which the gargoyle impales one of his victims belongs to Bran Castle in Transylvania, at the time of shooting it was still state property.

criticism

The criticism was not very enthusiastic; the lexicon of international films rated the work as “cheap horror produced in Romania on the basis of a film from the 1970s, which at best offers ridiculous effects.”, while cinema becomes even clearer: “In Eastern Europe you can shoot cheaply, But B-films don't get any better: Every old duster shudders more than this lousy, tricked, mythical wing demon in a confused story. ”Kim Newman also notes in his genre overview Nightmare Movies that the film has the earlier mild charm of the cheap productions, the director Wynorski's works inherited, this time missing.

Web links

Commons : Film locations of Gargoyle's Revenge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clearance Certificate for Gargoyles - Wings of Horror . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 466 DVD).
  2. ↑ Cemetery chapel at Bellu Cemetery ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.comunicatemedia.ro
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  5. Jump up ↑ Gargoyles - Wings of Horror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Short review at cinema.de
  7. ↑ Kim Newman: Nightmare Movies: Horror on the Screen since the 1960s . 2011, p. 196 .