Gargoyles - monsters made of stone
| Movie | |
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| German title | Gargoyles - monsters made of stone |
| Original title | Reign of the Gargoyles |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Ayton Davis |
| script | Chase Parker |
| production |
Jeffery Beach , Phillip Roth |
| music | Mike Rubino |
| camera | Lorenzo Senatore |
| cut | Matt Michael |
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Gargoyles - monsters of stone (Original title: Reign of the Gargoyles ) is an American horror film directed by Ayton Davis , which was released in 2007. An alternative German title is Vorthon, King of the Gargoyles .
action
At the time of the Second World War on the German-Belgian border: Nazi officers bring a stone sculpture to life in the underground vault of a castle by performing ritual acts on it. Then several winged monsters - gargoyles - leave the walls.
Change of scene to a US air force base on Jersey : During a dance evening, an aircraft returning home from a mission goes down on the barracks. The seriously injured pilot, whom the rushing comrades rescue from the crashed plane, stutters something about winged demons. Unusual damage to the wreckage causes the soldiers to speculate as to what might have caused the crash. At the command center, Major Gustavson, Gus for short, was assigned a few hours later to fly the mission again and wipe out all life in the vicinity of the castle, which was obviously the target of the first failed squadron. This will be a difficult endeavor, as Gus doesn't know what resources his opponents are working with.
Several warplanes take off the next morning under Gus' leadership. A few kilometers from the destination, one machine after the other is attacked by flying monsters and crashed. Gus and his men save themselves by parachute jump and make their way through the woods on foot. As they approach a village at night, they are attacked again by one of the creatures. Since they do not have any firearms, a villager comes to their aid and scares the attacker away with gunfire. They find protection in the church of the village, where the villagers have already holed up from the monsters. A young woman (Sophie) informs the newcomers. These are gargoyles, whose alpha animal is called Vorthon, and several smaller gargoyles, which, in contrast to Vorthon, are vulnerable to ammunition fire and can be defeated. Centuries ago, when the Chateau Ardonne was being built, residents found extraordinary stones deep underground. From one of these stones they chiseled a sculpture depicting their highest pagan god Vorthon. The statue came to life during a blood sacrifice ritual. From then on, the gargoyle is up to mischief. Vorthon expanded his power by creating an army of gargoyles from nothing. The whole thing got out of hand, because Vorthon first destroyed its creators and then began to decimate even the townspeople. But then the residents found the "spear of destiny", the only weapon with which one can take out Vorthon. A Catholic knight managed to kill Vorthon with it. Vorthon and his entourage turned to stone again - the spell was broken. When the knight died years later, the spear was placed in his grave.
With a military transport that the Nazis left behind, they make their way to the cemetery to get the mystical spear. Sophie knows the way and accompanies her. They are attacked several times by Germans and lose three of their men, but they can still find the spear and get back to the Chateau Ardonne. There is dead silence in the castle. This time, too, the gargoyles turned against their employers and wreaked a bloodbath among them - as they did centuries ago. Two of the soldiers, Deacon and Will McAllister, take a plane left behind by the Germans in the air to hunt Vorthon - the “spear of determination” always with you. When a crowd of gargoyles attacks them again, McAllister makes the daring decision to ram Vorthon with the tip of the plane. The windshield breaks and McAllister, who has attracted negative attention in the past for being too brash, brings the mission to a successful conclusion by thrusting the spear into Vorthon, who is half stuck in the cockpit . All gargoyles then turn to stone and fall to the ground.
background
The film was shot in Bulgaria , according to IMDb . The fortress Kaleto near Belogradchik served as Chateau Ardonne . For the flashbacks, scenes from Stephen Furst's film Dragon Storm were mostly used.
McAllister's exclamation "We fly the Heinkel" refers to an unspecified type of aircraft from Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke AG, whose bombers and fighter planes were actually used in World War II.
Reviews
"The crazy idea doesn't get any better with lousy CGI effects, but some dogfights are pretty cute!"
The lexicon of international films judged negatively and spoke of "second-class special effects and just such actors".
Web links
- Gargoyles - Monster stone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clearance Certificate for Gargoyles - Monsters of Stone . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2015 (PDF; test number: 151 215 V).
- ↑ IMDb Trivia
- ↑ TV feature film , accessed April 24, 2016
- ↑ Gargoyles - monsters made of stone. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 25, 2016 .