AboutBarbara L. Baker Expertise I am a professor of communication at a midwest university, with expertise in film. I can answer most questions on the original "Star Wars" trilogy, and some on the newer trilogy. I also have expertise in general science-fiction film (both history and theory), especially in the United States. I can probably answer questions related to genres, mythic implications of science-fiction films, as well as questions on hybrids (especially comic science fiction) and cult science fiction films (such as "Repo Man" and "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai," etc.). For movie titles, noting significant plot details and characters are better than minor plot events, and it is even better if you can recall the time period when the film was made, an actor or director's name, and if it is a film or TV movie. I am less able to answer the following, although I will do my best to track down an answer for you--recent SF films, episodes of TV shows, and horror/SF hybrids. I cannot answer questions about anime/manga or about film collectables. Nor will I answer obvious homework (although I will point you to resources to help answer the question, if asked). I also can't help you find movie stars, movie memorabilia, or tell you how to break into the business.
Experience
Past/Present clients My students at UCM, I suppose.
Question In the late 70s I watched a movie on TV, while living in N.Y city area.It was about human-like men with lizard faces and claw like hands that were seen in some midwest small forgotten place and an investigator was working on the case
I remember two episodes, one was when he was driving in some isolated area and one of these men came down from a tree brach hanging over the road and landed on the roof of the car. With his claw hand he ripped open the roof. A very scary scene as I rember. Another scene was when one of the lizard men which was hit by a car and brought in to a petrol station or a similar place to be investigated and a group of his companions came and took the body back.
The film was like a documentary and I remeber it as very scary, maybe a little like the Blair Witch. The whole plot of the movie reminds a litte of the Loveland frog or lizard case. The humanoids were of ordinary men size with frog or lizard faces.
Iw was a colour movie as I remeber and it looked like a 50s or 60s age movie. At least showing hat time.
Please help me find the movie as I would really want to see it again. It made an unforgettable impression on me.
Yours
Sture Petersson from Sweden
Answer Sture, this sounds like the low-budget 1972 TV movie "Gargoyles." That film contains the plot events that you list in your question, including the dead gargoyle being carried off by other gargoyles. The gargoyles were human-like in their bodies (men in costumes, actually), but the king creature had wings. User comments on the Internet Movie Data Base (imdb.com) suggest that it was very scary, and left a big impression on viewers when first seen (although the impact may be less on subsequent viewing, because we are so used to CGI effects now).
An all-regions DVD is available through individual sellers off Amazon.com (it is currently out of print). You might also check the used DVD market or e-bay, if you can't get it through Amazon. Good luck on tracking it down.
