The punks get chased off, and the movie diverts to that chase for a bit. Mercer and Diana head back to the farm with the cops to investigate, and they find a group of punks on motorbikes when they get there. You're not as talkative as Bob the Skull. There's a convenient motel next door, and some brief attempts at humour with the lonely owner of the hotel flirting with Mercer, but it's another plot that goes nowhere, so the morning comes quickly with a plan to return to the university and report the death of Willie. ![]() But not without the car seeing better days, so they make a stop at the nearest gas station.īecause when something attacks you, always make sure to stop as soon as possible so they can catch up. I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter.Īs they drive off into the sunset, the creature pounces on their car like a new hood ornament, but doesn't stay there long as they manage to shake it off. Mercer doesn't make much of an attempt to save Willie though, and chooses intead to grab the strange skull as they run. One of the lanterns gets knocked over, and a fire immediately starts. Something tries to break through, and Willie tries to grab his prized skeleton, but the roof collapses before he can get very far. His condition isn't helped any by the sounds of flapping wings and things on the roof of the shed. Willie gets pretty spooked by the night, and when they time cut to later, he's already pretty drunk and stumbling through the stories and Native words. Which is pretty much the start to many a good horror story. Still, the doctor agrees to hear the Native legends of the demons in the rocks, and Willie locks them in. Mercer isn't terribly impressed by it, having heard of hoaxes before, and assumes it's just a collection of bones from various creatures pieced together.Īnd that's what happened to Herschel from Blood Freak! What Willie has hanging out there though, is nothing less than a skeleton of a man with wings, and a beaked head. It looks wrong, but it makes my old theatre loving heart proud. You can so very clearly see the spots coming up in the area slowly. When Willie lights up a lantern to get some illumination in there, it is obvious that it's not the object casting light. I gotta say, I love the old-school theatrical lighting they go for in the shed. Willie begs him to stay, and convinces him to check out what he really called him out for, something he's hiding in the shack. Mercer is about as unimpressed as I am, and quickly decides to leave the waste of time. Mercer and Diana finally come across Uncle Willie's Desert Museum, and it looks more like some guy's kitchen filled with junk. So THAT is where the guy from Sssssss ended up! Most of society considers that as getting lost, but whatever.įortunately, the movie doesn't waste any time holding back the weird, and has some winged shadows lurking nearby and spooking our heroes. Or as Mercer defends, he's not lost, he just took a wrong turn. They head off to meet with a guy for Mercer's research, but soon get lost. You would think this would go somewhere, what with demons and gargoyles. I think we got this.Īfter the setup, we join our story already in progress where Mercer is picking up his daughter at the airport, and she has brought him a small stone statue of a demon. They've been defeated so far, but now man has forgotten about its adversaries after so long a time.įunny, I don't remember that lesson in the bible.Īnd on a similar note, why would we forget about them more in THIS 600 years, than the previous 600, or the 600 before that? Okay, we think they're only myths now, but we thought they were myths before, right? And besides, now we have guns. They set up that gargoyles are the children of Satan, and they rise every 600 years to wreak havoc upon the Earth to try and take it over. THE GUTS: We kick off with a brief history lesson of that whole thing going down in heaven, with Lucifer being kicked out for leaving the kitchen light on all night or something, but then it veers off into strange territory. For a demon, he is surprising smart, expectedly cunning, and becoming well-read in his short time on Earth. The Gargoyle - Our nameless leader of the entire gargoyle clan, and yes, for ease of identification, I am going to call him Goliath more often than not. She's helpful, but as is common, she gets captured a bit. He's become a bit jaded in his quest, and is more debunker than researcher, but his luck is about to change.ĭiana Boley - Mercer's daughter, and she's pretty much just along for the ride. ![]() Mercer Boley - An archaeology professor, or some such, who is currently doing research into things that are off the beaten path. QUICK CUT: When demons arise for the first time in over 500 years, it falls to a scientist who just happened to stumble upon them to stop their return before it is too late for humanity.
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