Gargoyle (2004) (V)

Director:

Jim Wynorski

Writers:

Ion Ionescu (written by)
A.G. Lawrence (screenplay)

Release Date:

26 October 2004 (Russia)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Once thought banished forever, winged, fire-spitting creatures are resurrected and immediately begin wreaking havoc on a port city.

Plot:

Two CIA agents are sent to Bucharest, Romania to solve a high profile kidnapping. But what they discover is something inexplicable. An evil gargoyle, once thought dead and banished forever, has returned with a vengeance. |

Plot Keywords:

CIA | Gargoyle | Romania | Bucharest Romania | Kidnapping

Cast

Michael Paré	...	Ty "Griff" Griffin
Sandra Hess	...	Jennifer Wells
Fintan McKeown	...	Father Nikolai Soren
Kate Orsini	...	Dr. Christina Durant
Tim Abell	...	Lex
William Langlois	...	Inspector Zev Aslan
Petri Roega	...	Father Adrian Bodesti
Rene Rivera	...	Gogol
Arthur Roberts	...	Bishop
Jason Rohrer	...	Richard Barrier
Mihai Bisericanu	...	Gregor
Bogdan Uritescu	...	Zero
Claudiu Trandafir	...	Boris
Cristi Groza	...	Ionut
Lewis Cojocar	...	Yuri

Also Known As:

Gargoyle's Revenge (International: English title)
Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness (USA) (TV title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence and language.

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA | Romania | Canada

Language:

English | Romanian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | USA:R | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Italy:T

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Avrio Filmworks

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene where Fr. Bodesti is about to give a plane ticket to Fr. Soren, Soren is drinking from a glass liquor bottle. As Bodesti approaches, the bottle is uncorked, but when the camera cuts away and returns, the bottle is mysteriously corked again.

Quotes:

Ty "Griff" Griffin: [to Wells] I wounded it. But, I want that thing dead. Now
[turns and points to someone off camera]
Ty "Griff" Griffin: get me the goddamned flame thrower!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Popatopolis (2009)

Hilarious childish attempt of a SF thriller

This movie is interesting maybe for 10 year old children, between 2 Pokemon cartoons series… It's so stupid that defies a logical explanation why was it even produced.

Oh, the initiative of an American-Romanian movie is welcome, as Hollywood can generate an improvement in the quality of our local productions, but NOT LIKE THIS! This joke of a movie has so many goofs in it that I've considered it as a comedy rather than a thriller after I've seen the first 5 minutes of it.

For instance, the gargoyles weren't even hared of in Romania before the last 15 years, when we got access to western literature and movies; there are no Romanian legends mentioning them or anything like them. About Vlad Tepes (a.k.a. Dracula) there are many legends, but none related to vampires or gargoyles, these are all western fantasies. And I don't have room here to describe all the mistakes and errors that are all too obvious in the movie and cannot be excused, regardless of the story or artistic interpretation.

The only white balls for this movie would be some nice special effects (but nothing impressive) and a few beautiful ladies that will catch the bored eyes of any male viewer…

I've rated this movie with 5 points: 3 points for the movie and the other 2 for the beautiful actresses that kept me watching the whole hour and a half of this bad SF joke called "Gargoyles"…