Q: The Winged Serpent
[DVD Info]

In New York, the police are getting reports of a giant winged serpent flying over the tri-state area. Detective Shepard (David Carradine) decides to investigate. He goes to a museum where he learns of a feathered flying serpent named Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec god that was half bird and half reptile. Along with the bird, there also is a priest from the Aztec religion, convincing people to give up their lives for Quetzalcoatl and having their skins pulled off. After botching a robbery and being hit by a cab, Jimmy Quinn (Michael Moriarty) runs to his attorney’s office for help. An alarm is set and he runs to the roof while being chased by a security guard. Although he’s completely useless…he isn’t afraid of heights…so up he goes to the very top of the building. There he sees an opening on the roof and a giant egg, along with bodies that have been stripped to the bone. After discovering Q’s lair, Jimmy goes to his girlfriend’s house to rest. The people involved with the messed up diamond robbery comes to his house to get the diamonds back. Jimmy lost them when the cab hit him but he tells the thugs that he stored them in a high-rise building. He takes them there and Q eats them. When Jimmy gets arrested for the robbery he tells the cops he knows something very important. He could save lives! He knows the whereabouts of Quetzalcoatl… But it’ll cost them…one million dollars.

If you wish someone would take a walk...you're signing their death warrant.
Construction workers are very protective of their sandwiches.
"Get me a drink and shut up" are the words that describe a perfect relationship. Don't let that one get away.
NYC is willing to pay one million dollars for the whereabouts of something they aren't sure exists.

"Maybe his head got loose and fell off. What do you want from me?" ~Detective Shepard.

Ugggh...it burns!!!

This movie breaks the record. This is the quickest I’ve ever gotten bored in my life. When I wasn’t struggling to stay awake or looking at the clock…I was dying of boredom…fifteen minutes into the movie. The movie doesn’t really seem to make much sense in the first place. No respectable detective would think a winged monster was really flying over New York, let alone research it the minute he heard about it. The Detective was also was unbelievably unprofessional. He threw pillows at a skinned body, rations that a man’s head became loose and fell off, and gets mad when someone asks him what happened at the scene of the crime. Both Detective Shepard and Jimmy Quinn were absolutely annoying. How I made it through the entire movie is amazing…every time they opened their mouth it killed to listen to them. I really wanted to like this movie. Seriously…it was super campy and fun…but everyone in the movie except Q were obnoxious. What was the point of the movie? Was it supposed to be scary? Funny? Thrilling? Well…it was none of those, for sure. I actually felt sorry for the monster in the end. I wanted her to eat every single one of those bad actors. I was, however, amused at the diamond shop’s name (“Neil Diamonds”). Anyway…if you want to know what it feels like to have your brain rot before your very eyes as you struggle to stay awake till the end…try this movie… Trust me, if I wasn’t all about giving movies a chance…I would have shut this one off after the 15 minutes. For people who do like this movie…more power to you…if you can stand this…you have a high tolerance for bad movies. Congrats. Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

(Temporarily Insane)

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