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| Year: | 1982 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Larry Cohen |
| Genre: | Monster |
| Starring: | Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084556/ |
| Tagline: | You'll just have time to scream... before it tears you apart! |
| Favourite line: | " It wouldn't be the first time in history a monster was mistaken for a god." |
This is great fun.
New Yorkers are astonished and frightened by reports of a huge lizard flying around their cities skies.
A bank robber attempts a robbery, and ends up hiding out at the top of the Chrysler building, one of the tallest skyscrapers in NYC, where he discovers a giant egg. Could this be the nest for the lizard being talked about?
And can he somehow make a buck out of it?
Apparently this movie came about from a simple idea that the director, Larry Cohen ('The Stuff,' 'Phone Booth') had when he saw the Chrysler building. He always thought that it looked like a nest on top of the building, so thought it would just be a great one line pitch for a movie.
And indeed it is.
The effects are stop motion, very much in the Ray Harryhausen mould, and the script not too hot, but this is just about kicking back with a beer or a joint, and enjoying this in all its hokey splendour.
Great.
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