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Overview

User Rating:
6.1/10   1,716 votes
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Director:
Larry Cohen
Writer:
Larry Cohen (writer)
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Release Date:
29 October 1982 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
You'll just have time to scream... before it tears you apart! more
Plot:
New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Cohen does Corman more (70 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Michael Moriarty ... Jimmy Quinn
Candy Clark ... Joan

David Carradine ... Shepard

Richard Roundtree ... Powell
James Dixon ... Lt. Murray
Malachy McCourt ... Commissioner
Fred J. Scollay ... Capt. Fletcher
Peter Hock ... Det. Clifford
Ron Cey ... Det. Hoberman
Mary Louise Weller ... Mrs. Pauley
Bruce Carradine ... The Victim
John Capodice ... Doyle
Tony Page ... Webb
Larkin Ford ... Curator
Larry Pine ... The Professor
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Q: The Winged Serpent
Serpent
The Winged Serpent
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Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Australia:M | France:-12 | Norway:18 | UK:15 (re-rating) (1982) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R

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Trivia:
The title 'Q' is short for Quetzlcoatl, the Aztec god who was half reptile and half bird. more
Quotes:
Jimmy Quinn: Eat 'em! Eat 'em! Crunch crunch! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Simpsons: Marge in Chains (#4.21)" (1993) more
Soundtrack:
Dancing Too Close to the Flame more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Cohen does Corman, 11 October 2007
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Author: jonathan-577 from Canada

Cohen is pretty goddamned erratic for an auteur. I mean, I don't think I've ever seen a movie with worse continuity; I don't think the constant lapses in screen direction are an homage to Godard; the character motivation is a mess. The newspaper headlines even have spelling mistakes for crying out loud. And every gruesome effort is made to avoid showing the titular winged serpent on screen. So why is this movie so cool? First of all, because it doesn't give a sh*t; second of all, because its subject matter takes us on an unprecedented and mesmerizing tour of the rooftops of NYC. And third of all because of that cast! I can't fling my stock epithet of 'stupid detectives' at Richard freakin' Roundtree and David by-the-Jesus Carradine, now can I? And I've never seen anything like Michael Moriarty's lead performance as a born-to-lose ex-junkie loudmouth opportunist with ego to burn. He's so mesmerizing you don't care about all the nervous cutting away from the sub-Harryhausen goings-on upstairs. In fact when you realize that Moriarty in Q equals Haze in Little Shop equals Miller in Bucket of Blood, the accretion of glaring imperfections starts to look like another form of loving tribute.

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