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List Price: $29.98 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 29 October, 1982 DVD Release : 28 July, 1998 |
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Q: The Winged Serpent description OK, who's Q, anyway? "Q" is short for Quetzacoatl, an enormous winged serpent and Aztec deity who's called back to life after a series of ritual human sacrifices in Manhattan. It takes a lot to keep a critter like Q satisfied, so he flies around and lops the heads off sunbathers, window washers and swimmers as handily as popping grapes off the vine. The police are confounded by the murders, decapitated bodies (blood rains from the skies on NYC denizens) and Q-sightings. The solution comes in the unlikely form of Jimmy (Michael Moriarty), a petty thief. After a heist goes bad, he hides from his cronies in the uppermost spires of the Chrysler Building and stumbles on the giant bird's nest and egg. He leads the NYPD up to the lair for a big showdown with Q, but it's not quite as easy as anybody thought, of course. Director/screenwriter Larry Cohen was one of the more inventive, original voices of Seventies B-movies, with credits that include God Told Me To, Black Caesar, It's Alive!, Hell Up in Harlem and The Stuff. With Q, Cohen put together an interesting, entertaining mix of Fifties sci-fi homage (complete with great stop-motion special effects for the terrifying beast), action movie, and crime drama. It also touches on the metaphysical question of how exactly one goes about killing off a god. It'd be difficult to think of a more compelling performance from Moriarty; as the piano-playing, scat-singing small-time crook Jimmy, he's repellent and sleazy. However, he's struck on something that will give him 15 minutes to bask in the spotlight ("I'm the most important man in New York!", he gloats) and give him a chance to redeem himself and save thousands of lives. Moriarty brings a depth to the character that makes him absorbing, if not quite sympathetic, and gets to come across with the choice line, "Stick it up your…brain! Your small little brain!". With plenty of humor, suspense, a gallon or two of gore, and great performances from Moriarty and David Carradine and Richard Roundtree as his cop nemeses, this is great, original, entertaining sci-fi fare. --Jerry Renshaw |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Great B movie |
| Why do todays film makers think they have to show almost pornographic Gore And Splater to make a good horror film. The old B movies made you imagine the monster or horror that your own mind would make up. These "R" rated Graffic movies are easily seen at home, on video, by young inpressionable minds. Some of it is so real that after a few of these movies, the viewer has to go a step higher to more gory and more graffic, until it seems this kind of movie, is acceptable especially to young viewers. Our rate of what is acceptable in society gets warped. Look at todays Youth Violence. Q Winged serpent isnt by any means the best B type movie made, but Jaws Got its idea from this movie, showing the shark proweling the ocean from the Sharks eye View, Q does the same but in the air. I think this is missed by many viewers. Yes the dialog was simple, but remember this is a B movie. An old "popcorn movie" with lots of twists and turns to intertain and make this movie fun instead of horrific. What you expose your self to constantly, becomes your norm. | |
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