Review of Gargoyles

This made for TV horror film which stars Cornel Wilde battling the children of Satan arising from the earth again will give you a few chills as we think about Gargoyles taking over the earth as they keep trying to do. Although the film was shot on spare change in the Arizona desert it did get an Emmy Nomination for the Gargoyle makeup which was pretty good.

Cornel Wilde is an archaeologist who with daughter Jennifer Salt is on a mission to an old desert rat, played by Woody Chambliss who runs a strange museum as a tourist trap. But he's got a skeleton that Wilde is sure is a fake. But a visit from some real Gargoyles convince him otherwise, especially after Chambliss is killed.

Sheriff William Stevens is convinced that a bunch of dirt bikers did the deed, he's not ready to believe in Gargoyles. But when they kidnap Salt and kill motel manager Grayson Hall, Stevens is a believer and he and Wilde and the dirt bikers go into the desert searching for the Gargoyle lair and Salt.

As I said the film is done on the cheap, but it definitely has some gruesome and horrifying moments. Bernie Casey as the head Gargoyle is eloquent in his defense of Gargoyle right to life.

This one is pretty good for a made for TV film.