Q: The Winged Serpent

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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.