Help, I'm Sure This Is Not The Same Movie I Remember! - Gargoyles (1972) Discussion

[–] lordsantiago 19 years ago

This one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409999/

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[–] shamasaki-1 19 years ago

This is the original movie [i]I[i/] remember; it was filmed in New Mexico. I actually stayed at that same motel which is near Carlsbad Caverns where they also may have filmed some of the scenes. (Later I recognized the dump in the movie). The motel is now gone I hope. About all I remember is Grayson Hall (from the 60's "Dark Shadows") running the motel and Cornel Wilde with horns I believe.
Likely there is at least one other movie with this title though. Did you check this site?

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[–] kajun2112 19 years ago

shamasaki-1... that's the one I was looking for as well. I remember seeing it after we had visited Carlsbad Caverns and my dad was pointing out sites in the movie.

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[–] scotbpens 16 years ago

Cornel Wilde didn't have horns. He was the HERO. Bernie Casey played the chief gargoyle (with his voice dubbed by Vic Perrin), and HE had horns.

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[–] reggie13chip 16 years ago

Just got the movie on eBay for $20!!! I can't wait to see it!!!!! :-D!!!!!

"I'm not used to being happy. It's funny, it hurts." Janet Gaynor as Diane, 7th Heaven, 1927.

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[–] belugagirl 18 years ago

(SPOILER?) I, too, am wondering if this is the movie I vaguely remember from my childhood. Is there a scene in it where someone is driving thorough the woods and a gargoyle jumps out and lands on the hood of the car?

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[–] thataceman 16 years ago

(MORE SPOILER) The coolest thing about the scene you're talking about is that the car is driving at speed and you can here the gargoyle actually chase the car down on foot, jump on top of it, and proceed to beat the hell out of it -- a very cool memory from my childhood.

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[–] andresterrada 18 years ago

I'm not sure either if this is the movie I remember. In this Gargoyles 1972) movie is there an opening voice in off saying something like "Every 500 (or 600) years the gargoyles came back to life again to renew their war on man..."

Also in the movie I vaguely remember there was a man driving in a dusty desertical road and you could see the shadow of a gargoyle flying over him, stalking hi. After that the gargoyle dives down landing over the car roof or hood.

Is this that movie or I should keep looking?

Thanks

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[–] Poisoned_Dragon1964 16 years ago

I'm not sure either if this is the movie I remember. In this Gargoyles 1972) movie is there an opening voice in off saying something like "Every 500 (or 600) years the gargoyles came back to life again to renew their war on man..."

Also in the movie I vaguely remember there was a man driving in a dusty desertical road and you could see the shadow of a gargoyle flying over him, stalking hi. After that the gargoyle dives down landing over the car roof or hood.

Is this that movie or I should keep looking?

This is that movie.

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[–] too_hats 11 years ago

Yes, this is that movie!

You can watch it on FightPIX for free with add online or on your Xbox 360 with an app.

I really liked it. Something about it just works.

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[–] Rickinator69 18 years ago

Well ya knowww...Dinosaurs were reptilian or bird-like creatures and THEY came from eggs. Besides, who's to say they were demons? Maybe WE were the demons to them. Anyway, if you figure out the title to this other Gargoyle movie, please let me know. I'd like to see the the winged gargoyles that are so much creepier. Thanks,

Rick
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[–] Smile_U_SOB 18 years ago

"maybe we're demons to them"

a politically correct gargoyle historian

if you're the salt of the earth, then the earth is a slug

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[–] grameightball 18 years ago

OK, I guess I'm not alone in trying to find a different gargoyle movie from when I was a kid (on TV in the late 60's very early 70's)....The movie I remember had scenes of stone gargoyles atop city buildings becoming fully animated (alive, through animation) and flying all around wreaking havoc on all humanity. When I purchased the dvd of the movie listed here, I was quite disappointed, because this one is beyond lame. So, the search continues...log in and reply anyone with info on the film I describe.

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[–] soblessed 17 years ago

Exactly,the scenes you remember are what my son and I also remember! Can't believe more folks don't remember that version,of which this one is nothing like!
Also remember the scene that two others recall, of the gargoyle flying over the car!
It is just so weird that this other/better version does not seem to be available nor better known! The gargoyles also did not look like they were wearing laughable rubber suits in this other version. Much more creepy!

Waaah,I want the movie I remember!

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[–] thaneoh 17 years ago

I remember this one from the late '60's or early '70's. It was pretty good, if I remember it correctly. I remember scenes of them as statues on the sides of buildings and coming alive. They were fairly sympathetic characters, if I remember, kind of like Quasimodo in "the Hunchback of Notre Dame" (who, after Esmeralda left, asked a gargoyle in the last scene of the movie "why can I not be made of stone, like thee?" - that scene still chokes me up just thinking about it).

I also remember the scene described by Rekrul of the farmer finding the skeleton and the shed burning down and the gargoyle on the roof of the car trying to get the skull back. I can't remember if they were the same movie but I don't think either was the "Gargoyles" movie this board is for.

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[–] soblessed 17 years ago

Well, I still haven't been able to find the film that I recall.I'm thinking possibly it was not called Gargoyles.I am going to check out the Kolchak-Nightstalker series on DVD,and see if it might have been an episode. If I ever do find what I am looking for,I will post the info here. I so hope I can find it,because no way did those gargoyles appear to be wearing corny rubber suits!

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[–] Slim_Pickens_bastard_son 17 years ago

you should try the horror board, ask about your other gargoyle movie in that board, and i guarantee youll have the title in a matter of seconds.

and dont be so harsh on em' rubber suits, they scared the beejeezus out of me when i was a kid, theyre stan winston suits by the way.

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[–] Slim_Pickens_bastard_son 17 years ago

Wazzup granny?
Havent tried the Horror boards yet?

give em a go, i promise youll get your question dilucidated in a jiffy.

word!

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[–] ridgerunner72160 17 years ago

I remember a movie about gargoyles like that in around 1972 or 1973!!! It really was a terrific movie. I remember the gargoyles being on top of those buildings and coming alive as you say!!! I want to say it was 1973 because I was a big baseball fan and the movie was shown on TV around the same time as the major league all star game in Kansas City that year!!! If you find out where it's available let me know. Thanks.

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[–] eddiechristo 16 years ago

thaneoh,
Those scenes you mentioned(the farmer finding a skeleton,
the shed burning down,a gargoyle jumping on the top of a
car,etc.)ARE from the movie these boards are for! I have
this movie on DVD. These scenes ARE in this movie,but no
city scenes,as some are talking about!

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[–] eddiechristo 16 years ago

Most of the scenes everyone is talking about ARE
from THIS movie! I am guessing that maybe back
then,everyone thought the creatures in this movie
were creepy as hell! But over time,with the advances
in make-up and CGI,the creatures now seem lame to
them!
Or maybe peoples' imaginations ran wild back when
they first saw this classic and envisioned what
they thought was an even more exciting movie than
what was on screen!
I am assuming that many people on these boards
have not seen GARGOYLES in years(decades even!)and
have bits and pieces of this movie jumbled with
other scenes in this movie or maybe even another
movie that came out around the same time! The only
other movie that came out around the same time as
GARGOYLES that featured a stop-motion flying
creature was EQUINOX. That movie,however,did not
take place in a city,but in the woods!

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[–] rboykins-1 16 years ago

This is the movie you are all talking about. Just watched it. I dont remember any other Gargoyle movie besides this one.

What about "Q The winged serpent"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084556/

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[–] kewikle 16 years ago

No, there was another *much* better gargoyle movie than this comical trash. User "THANEOH" hit it right on the head within the first part of his post. However, the second paragraph of the post were in fact memories from this lame '72 movie.

I wish somebody could recall the title!

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[–] superman1 16 years ago

Well, I've posted it on 2 horrrorboards. One has zero replies, 35 views, while 10 other questions have many new replies above it now, lol. The other board has - zero replies (? views).
Yahoo Answers was answered right away by a resident fright film expert. Never heard of it, said it sounded like the 90's TV cartoon.
I've only ever heard of the 1972 film. I was growing up then.
Zippo on youtube but these two and Tales From the Darkside episode I knew of.
Nothing on IMDB, but 10 much newer with Gargoyles in the title.

So, could it have been an episode of an anthology series? It sure wasn't Kolchak, going by the episode list.
Or are at least three people mixed up, maybe thinking of the prologue in Gargoyles, where the pictures/drawings/paintings of their various forms are atop buildings while the narrator says they come alive?

I doubt that.
Or time-dilation common wish fulfilment false memory. AKA time and relative mass memory in space [TARMMIS] - where, over a long time, one's memory is embellished the way one wants it, in exactly the same way as others' memories? (I made that up) Very rare.
Even more doubtful, in tbis case: Is it a hoax? (As with The Centipede Horror, revealed in the IMDB board as one person making a multitude of too-good-to-be-true comments under different ID's.) That is real. I doubt that more.

Can those who remember it give any more info? Were the creatures stop-motion? Stars? More scenes? Title? lol.

"When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth." - Sir No Shi+ Sherlock Holmes

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[–] kewikle 16 years ago

Hey thanks for helping Superman. I assure you that this quest for "the mystery gargoyle flick" is no hoax. Viewed the movie in question when I was about seven years old (back in the mid eighties). Sure that's pretty young, and it's simple for one to speculate that childhood imagination plus time has distorted my memory...quite the contrary. I have recently begun to review several movies and cartoons watched from my childhood. You know what? : 99.99% of them are -exactly- how my childhood recollections remember them.

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[–] wingman883-1 14 years ago

Hey kewikle you suck this film is fantastic ................

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[–] yoyodyne123 16 years ago

Just guessing like the rest of you, but I too would love to see this movie again.
Any chance, Tales From The Darkside (the anthology with Debbie Harry), that this is the one we are looking for (c/p from IMDB):

Third story is gem of anthology. Concerns a young man who witnesses a gargoyle savagely kill a man in a dark alley. Man makes vow to never speak of gargoyle to anyone in exchange for his life. Romantic tale ends in shock and horror. Likely to give nightmares.

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[–] ShadowUndying 16 years ago

Third story is gem of anthology. Concerns a young man who witnesses a gargoyle savagely kill a man in a dark alley. Man makes vow to never speak of gargoyle to anyone in exchange for his life. Romantic tale ends in shock and horror. Likely to give nightmares.

That movie was "Lover's Vow" from the Tales from the Darkside movie. I saw that movie as a child and feel in love with that story right away. But for the longest time could only remember it was a short story in a movie of several short stories. Searched and searched till finally I found the above info out. Definitely worth a watch if you're the sympathetic for the gargoyles type.

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[–] reggie13chip 16 years ago

All I remember about the movie I saw was the ending -- a doctor (maybe anthropologist) and his daughter are in a cave with the winged creatures and there are giant eggs that hatch. There's some kind of dialogue between the doctor and the gargoyle and the doctor and his daughter leave. Is this the same film you all are talking about???

"I'm not used to being happy. It's funny, it hurts." Janet Gaynor as Diane, 7th Heaven, 1927.

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[–] scotbpens 16 years ago

That's the film this board is about! The 1972 TV-movie with Cornel Wilde and Jennifer Salt. And those rubber-suited gargoyles. Which, by the way, were pretty effective costumes, considering this picture was made 37 years ago on a television budget.

As for that mysterious "other" gargoyle flick, I have no idea what it could be.

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[–] kewikle 16 years ago

Well thanks for your efforts guys, but it is definitely not the one from the "Tales from the Darkside" movie. This flick is older than that. Weird that only two other guys and I recall the "mystery movie". .....Getting more irritating than a deeply embedded splinter! :-/

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[–] Squonkamatic 16 years ago

Suspiria?

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[–] El_Guapo_Caballo 16 years ago

fascinating mistery; the forgotten gargoyle film! . try the horror board, those guys know pretty much everything.

P.S. Soylent Green is people.

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[–] Fatbrando 16 years ago

I thought I'd include it as well, "Salem's Lot" was another scary one from around that time frame.

I'll definitely be checking back to see what you come up with.

Keep searching!

CA

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[–] jontonian 16 years ago

Is this dude thinking of Ghost Busters guard dog gargoyle creatures??? maybe???

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[–] kewikle 15 years ago

No, definitely not gozer's zuul dogs. I've just about given up.

Not a real loss...don't recall it being that great of a movie anyway, just kinda cool in a weird way.

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[–] rsmith26524 15 years ago

One of the Johnny Quest episodes had a character that played a gargoyle on the top of a building.

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[–] Flick_Slick 15 years ago

A TV show from that era that definitely had creepier monsters was an episode of Night Gallery called "Pickman's Model" or something like that, though they weren't gargoyles. The monsters were living in underground sewers or caves, & were certainly more convincing as the bad boys of the story. I don't remember any other movie w/anything that resembles a gargoyle on top of a building that comes to life other than the Ghostbusters one that was already pointed out, or maybe Gremlins

II (the New Batch).

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[–] daffy72 14 years ago

you guys arent thinking of the animated demons from the Conan movie are you?
i would love to see another gargoyle movie from the 70s. hope we can find out what it is

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[–] impact-4 13 years ago

Okay, I am only on this because I just found out that there was a film called Gargoyles filmed down the street from where I live. But its not this one, I live in New Mexico, but not Carlsbad, and this one was from the 1960s. Yet I can't find the version I found out about....

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