The 1908 children's book Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz featured a Land of the Gargoyles, wooden creatures with hinged wings. Gargoyles may also appear as vessels for formerly human souls, such as the Marvel Comics hero Gargoyle, who later is able to transform back into a human. Gargoyles appear as horned canine statues in the movie Ghostbusters (1984), where they are possessed by the demonic spirits of Zuul and Vinz Klortho. The notion of gargoyles as demonic vessels was introduced in The Horn of Vapula ( Lewis Spence, 1932), in which a demon familiar is bound into a horned and goatlike gargoyle. Such gargoyles also entered science fiction, such as in the Doctor Who episode The Daemons (1971). In the novelette Conjure Wife (1943) by Fritz Lieber, a dragon sculpture is animated by a witch and sent to kill an archaeology professor. The notion of gargoyles as supernatural constructs brought to life by evil was introduced in Maker of Gargoyles (1932), a short pulp fiction story by Clark Ashton Smith where Reynard, a medieval stonemason, unconsciously infuses his hate and lust into two gargoyles that attack the town of Vyones and later kill him when he attempts to destroy them. They can also be depicted as vessels for demonic possession or as a living species resembling statues. Like golems, they are usually made of magically animated or transformed stone, but have animal or chimera traits and are often guardians of a place such as a cathedral or castle. While they were believed in mythology to frighten away evil spirits, the idea of such statues physically coming to life is a more recent notion. The gargoyle is a fantasy and horror monster inspired by the gargoyle architectural element. That along with The Bad Seed are my favorite atypical psychotic killer films from that era.A gargoyle monster as depicted in the tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons. Got a bit preachy after awhile but started of pretty interestingly.įor Tony Perkins non Psycho roles I highly recommend Pretty Poison with him and Tuesday Weld and another great overlooked film from the 60’s. Very good tv film and still one of my favorites (aside from the Kolchack movies, which are also awesome)įor Doug, you might enjoy British series In the Flesh which ran two seasons and was also about cured zombies and the prejudice against them being accepted back in society.
On the topic of made for tv horror I will skip the obvious scarecrows and Stephen King and once again recommend A Cold Nights Death starting Robert Culp and Eli Wallach as two researchers in the Arctic doing studies on chimpanzees. Since I took brief notes while driving I will be a bit all over the place ( although that goes well with your format anyway).
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