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DVD : Q - The Winged SerpentIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richard Roundtree, James Dixon directed by: Larry Cohen  List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.96 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0827058101899 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Blue Underground Manufacturer: Blue Underground Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Blue Underground Release Date: August 26, 2003 Running Time: 92 minutes Studio: Blue Underground Theatrical Release Date: October 29, 1982 Sales Rank: 55741 MPN: 581018 Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com: OK, who's Q, anyway? "Q" is short for Quetzacoatl, an enormous winged serpent and Aztec deity who's called back to life after a series of ritual human sacrifices in Manhattan. It takes a lot to keep a critter like Q satisfied, so he flies around and lops the heads off sunbathers, window washers and swimmers as handily as popping grapes off the vine. The police are confounded by the murders, decapitated bodies (blood rains from the skies on NYC denizens) and Q-sightings. The solution comes in the unlikely form of Jimmy (Michael Moriarty), a petty thief. After a heist goes bad, he hides from his cronies in the uppermost spires of the Chrysler Building and stumbles on the giant bird's nest and egg. He leads the NYPD up to the lair for a big showdown with Q, but it's not quite as easy as anybody thought, of course. Director/screenwriter Larry Cohen was one of the more inventive, original voices of Seventies B-movies, with credits that include God Told Me To, Black Caesar, It's Alive!, Hell Up in Harlem and The Stuff. With Q, Cohen put together an interesting, entertaining mix of Fifties sci-fi homage (complete with great stop-motion special effects for the terrifying beast), action movie, and crime drama. It also touches on the metaphysical question of how exactly one goes about killing off a god. It'd be difficult to think of a more compelling performance from Moriarty; as the piano-playing, scat-singing small-time crook Jimmy, he's repellent and sleazy. However, he's struck on something that will give him 15 minutes to bask in the spotlight ("I'm the most important man in New York!", he gloats) and give him a chance to redeem himself and save thousands of lives. Moriarty brings a depth to the character that makes him absorbing, if not quite sympathetic, and gets to come across with the choice line, "Stick it up your…brain! Your small little brain!". With plenty of humor, suspense, a gallon or two of gore, and great performances from Moriarty and David Carradine and Richard Roundtree as his cop nemeses, this is great, original, entertaining sci-fi fare. --Jerry Renshaw Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Direct Hit from a King of the Cult Directors"Q" is one of my favorite films. Helmed by one of the great cult writer/directors, Larry Cohen, this movie is an outrageous blast! Michael Moriarty is PERFECT as the much put-upon Jimmy Quinn, a small-time hood/loser who stumbles upon the hidden nest of an ancient creature that's decapitating roof-top sun-bathers and window-washers! Awesome! Of course, being a cynical, world-weary type of fella, Quinn decides to keep the location of the murderous monster a secret until the city coughs up some ... Read More Rating: - Great B movieWhy do todays film makers think they have to show almost pornographic Gore And Splater to make a good horror film. The old B movies made you imagine the monster or horror that your own mind would make up. These "R" rated Graffic movies are easily seen at home, on video, by young inpressionable minds. Some of it is so real that after a few of these movies, the viewer has to go a step higher to more gory and more graffic, until it seems this kind of movie, is acceptable especially to young viewers. ... Read More Rating: - Larry Cohen's best movie!In the city of New York, a monstrous dragon creature abducts sunbathers and some workers off the rooftops of buildings leaving gory body parts and some blood on the streets. NYPD detective Shepard (David Carradine) tries to investigate what is behind these bizarre incidents and of course mysterious ritual murders while a Ex-con piano player named Jimmy (Michael Moriarty) discovers a giantic nest with dead corpses and large eggs on the Chrysler building. Only Jimmy and Spepard are the only ones that ... Read More Rating:  - Serpent was the only good thing about this flickBased on the reviews I've read about this film, I thought it would be better. The bird, Quetzalcoatl, was a bit on the cheesy side in terms of effect. But that's not the thing that bothered my about this little-known movie, at least little-known to me, it was how Carradine reached conclusions and suspended disbelief so easily. The flow of logic or lack thereof really annoyed the hell out of me. Moriarty has a face that also annoys me. But I didn't give this movie two stars because of that. ... Read More Rating:  - B Movie HeavenI saw this at the cinema in 1982 and enjoyed it then. Now I get the DVD to see it again after 25 years and its still good. The script is pretty good, witty and OK occasionally a bit clunky. The cast are excellent. Carradine is cool, Richard Roundtree is believeable and best of all Michael Moriarty is nuts! You wouldn't believe this was the same actor who co-starred in Eastwoods 'Pale Rider' four years later. In that film he was a dignified decent man, here he is an odious small time time crook ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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