"Does anyone remember 'Gargoyles' (1972)?" Topic

This is the one, with Cornell Wilde:

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YES!
Scared the crap out of me as a kid!
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I have it on VHS.

good stuff.

Yes, I liked it a lot!

Oh yes. Scared me silly when i saw it at a young age,

Mark

Loved to watch that movie as a kid, it seemed that cable had it on a couple of times a year in the 80s.

Jason

My dad was a preacher, and loved scary movies, but wouldn't let me watch this one. I saw it when I was in college, though – loved it.

I faintly remember it. Wouldn't mind seeing it again.

And his movie daughter was a hottie in halter tops!!!

Weirdly enough, Bernie Casey is still very recognizable despite all that gargoyle makeup, horns, fangs, and so forth…

I remember watching it with my brother and grandfather, what a great memory.

a Classic.

No

I enjoyed it. In a way the 'cheap' effects and lame acting made it more real for me. Like it was almost a documentary.

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Yes, special effects weren't to bad. Cornel Wilde in one of his last films IIRC.

Heck, yeah, I even rented it on Netflix a couple months ago to watch with my family. I loved it when it first came out on TV, and I'd seen it a few times in the 70s and 80s, but not since. Sadly, it didn't hold up as well as I'd hoped, but a few of the scenes were still creepy – I especially like the bloody pickup circling in the desert. And, yes, Jennifer Salt wore those halter tops well.

Cool film! I saw it as a kid and couldn't sleep for a long time.

A great TV flick. Check out Cornel Wilde's other scifi movie, "No Blade of Grass." It's a wonderful end of the world, all grasses succumb to a disease, movie with the incomparable Nigel Davenport as the hero, Custance One-Eye.

It also had Grayson Hall in it — Dr. Julia Hoffman from the original Dark Shadows. She ended up hanging from the power lines.

Because I liked this movie, I was really interested in seeing Sci-Fi Channel's Gargoyles movie. Unfortunately I missed it, and surprisingly for SFC, it hasn't been rebroadcast ad infinitum. It also hasn't been released on DVD that I can find. Did anyone see it? Did they manage to make it even cheesier than its 33-year-old predecessor?

Scared the crap out of me at age four! My dad fell asleep in the recliner one night, and I sneaked in the living room to watch the whole thing. I had nightmares about them tearing through the roof like the movie scene for years afterwards…

Same as everyone else, it freaked me out as well, notably the gargoyle's makeup (especially the eyes), the way he talked (like a synthisized double voice), and the eerie slow-motion flying that the gargoyles did.

I gotta go find this one.

Netflix.

The part were the critters hands slowly creep over the end of the bed scared the crap out of me as a kid.

Not to change the subject,but what was the tv movie from around around that era where the little demonic gnomes tormented the woman in a house,and the chimney was a gateway to hell? Still creepy.

Still love Gargoyles,especially the way their voices sounded sandpapery.And to think,the cops blamed the local bikers,not the Gar-things!Who was the old man with the skeleton,who gets burned up in the beginning? Finally,are any of these on dvd?

Not to change the subject,but what was the tv movie from around around that era where the little demonic gnomes tormented the woman in a house,and the chimney was a gateway to hell? Still creepy.
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DONT BE AFRAID OF THE DARK – another movie that scared the crap out of me as a kid

I remember "Gargoyles"; I thought it was pretty scary when I was a kid.

One of my friends in 3rd grade loved this movie and talked about it all the time, but my parents didn't let me watch scary movies. I saw part of it years ago, but it didn't have much of the "forbidden fruit" appeal once I was an adult and could watch whatever I wanted.

skink_master
I remember that one, there were tiny little "shrunken applehead" monsters in this hole in the bottom of the fireplace,they drove her insane and dragged her down the hole. "Your body we need, your body we want", they were giggling evily at the end. I loved that, it was terrifying for me.

There was one more in this series- it had a Disney kid actor in it, and they kept hearing a baby crying in the barn, and they found it was a mason jar with some twisting vile meat in it. Really wierd.

These films were on late at night on Friday or Saturday and there were more. I remember one about a dog that goes missing down a hole, they hear it in pain and the father goes down a rope and makes it outr alive, but insane.
Those were fun days.

That movie is so bad it is good! I too was scared of it when I was a lad. I'm sure they will get around to remaking it.

I saw it as a teen on TBS one night… I enjoyed it, but I haven't seen it again since.

-Alex

I loved Gargoyles. Used to catch it on Saturday afternoons, usually while at Grandma's. It creeped me out, but I always watched it when I came across it.

I really should see it again, all the way through.

Tim

Woodbinedrinker,

"There was one more in this series- it had a Disney kid actor in it, and they kept hearing a baby crying in the barn, and they found it was a mason jar with some twisting vile meat in it."

What was that one? It sounds pretty interesting…
to me…

I'm drawing a blank here. During this time, I guess in the mid 70's, I was just a kid and if I could stay up late Saturday night, there were 2 horror films on a local station. I'm assuming that these movies were made by the same company, they certainly had me scared consistently. Also there were films by some company that made docu-dramas about UFO's bigfoot, mysteries, witches etc.

The film about the barn was shown on my TV as a double feature with "Don't be Afraid of the dark".

Yup, as a kid this movie scared me right good…lol.

:)
BME

Is this available on DVD?

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Wow, I didn't know they made 'The Death of Grass' into a movie…… it was rather a good sub-wyndeham novel in fact.

Pat

I saw this one in my 20's and I wasn't scared by it at all. I thought it was an intersting premise which once again had potential which it did not live up to.

I thought that the sub-plot of feminine jealousy was intersting and one that would have made a better movie.

Still, for a no-budget thriller it did very well indeeed.

Ahhh, Gargoyles… I recall catching that on (IIRC) "Monster Movie Matinee." (Boy, do I miss seeing all the old horror/sci-fi movies every Staurday afternoon – of course, some of the infomercials that have replaced them have similarities: bad acting, funny-looking gadgets, etc.)

Gargoyles was very cool, and it crept me out – but Don't Be Afraid of the Dark fueled my nightmares for a decade. I grew up in an old farmhouse, and I don't think I made it through a single night's sleep without myself and/or my family members getting dragged into the hole in the wall in my closet…

*shiver*

I'd echo mrwrigglesworth's 1st comment.

/na-ka-tih-ka-chin-ko/ was what the movie claimed the american aboriginals called them (got NO idea on that spelling)

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REIGN OF GARGOYLES?

(SOUNDS OF PROJECTILE VOMITING AND INTESIVE DRY HEAVING IN THE BACKGROUND)

this was screwed from the beginning: one of the worst sci fi channel offering ever!

among other things, i was particularly taken with the USAAF enisted aircrew wearing uniforms with officer insignia (especially the infantry arm crossed rifle!) and the BRIT para wearing the insignia of rank of a US major!

add to that the plot line USAAF policy of staging rescue missions behind enemy lines to recover downed bomber crews, and the natural pilot ability right out of the worst of the comic books/graphic novels . . .

MASSIVE luftwaffe air searches for the down air crew was also a wiener. . .

and the death ride of the HE-111 with nose gunner trying to spear the BBMIC, followed by CQC in the cockpit, and divine intervention recovery that saw the HE-111 flying happily into the sunset left me heaving . . .

man, at least the war comics of my youth portrayed accurate uniforms/equipment, and had a story line that generally made sense . . .

i rate this epic as an "infinite barf bagger" !

DAWGIE

Would you believe the prices on the DVD?

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