![]() ![]() And they’re no more dangerous than a high school drop-out on a motorcycle.” After kidnapping Diana, the gargoyles are tracked to their lair in a cave where they have been hibernating for almost 600 years, waking to renew their ongoing war with the human race. A group of bikers is implicated in the killing oof Uncle Willie and Diana, despite all evidence to the contrary, maintains that “Gargoyles are a scientific fact. Fleeing with the creature’s skull, the Boleys are attacked by gargoyles who have emerged from a nearby cave and who are trying to retrieve the skull. Boley is quick to dismiss it as a hoax but when something unseen attacks the building, setting it ablaze and killing Uncle Willie, he has cause to change his mind. It still has much to enjoy but through older, more cynical eyes, its failings are all too cruelly exposed.Īrchaeologist Dr Mercer Boley (Cornel Wilde) and his daughter Diana (Jennifer Salt) are on a research trip to New Mexico when they meet the eccentric Uncle Willie (Woody Chambliss) who claims to have the skeleton of a large, humanoid winged creature in his desert museum. Such is the case with Gargoyles, an enjoyable enough made for television chiller, directed by Bill Norton, fresh from the drama Cisco Pike (1971), and first broadcast on 21 November 1972. ![]() Many’s the time an expectant evening of wallowing in nostalgia has been transformed into a session of watching through gritted teeth trying desperately to convince oneself that this really is as good as one remembered it. The phenomenon of returning to a film or television programme seen once many years ago and enjoyed only to find that it doesn’t quite live up to those memories is a not uncommon one around these parts.
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