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Los detectives de la policía de Nueva York Shepard y Powell trabajan en un extraño caso de asesinato ritual azteca. Mientras tanto, algo grande está atacando a la gente de Nueva York.Los detectives de la policía de Nueva York Shepard y Powell trabajan en un extraño caso de asesinato ritual azteca. Mientras tanto, algo grande está atacando a la gente de Nueva York.Los detectives de la policía de Nueva York Shepard y Powell trabajan en un extraño caso de asesinato ritual azteca. Mientras tanto, algo grande está atacando a la gente de Nueva York.
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- TriviaWriter-director Larry Cohen, according to interviews, once looked at the Chrysler Building and said: "That'd be the coolest place to have a nest." This single thought was the idea which began the creation of this movie.
- ErroresWhen Shepard visits the museum to ask about human sacrifices, the curator explains Aztec practices while gesturing and referring to the displays around them. These are however not Aztec, but North-Western Native American costumes and artifacts made at least 400 years later by a different culture thousands of miles to the North. However, the curator explains that the displayed artifacts are not from the Aztec culture under discussion.
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Jimmy Quinn: Eat 'em! Eat 'em! Crunch crunch!
- Versiones alternativasBoth the VHS releases in Norway, SAV (18 year limit) and Mayco (16 year limit) were cut for all bloody details. Several of the victims were even cut almost out, including the monster itself. Which left both versions with little scenes of the flying monster.
- ConexionesFeatured in At the Movies: Dueling Critics (1983)
- Bandas sonorasLet's Fall Apart Together Tonight
Music by Andy Goldmark
Lyrics by Andy Goldmark and Janelle Webb (as Janelle Webb Cohen)
Opinión destacada
Writer/Director Larry Cohen is the genius that brought the world such classics as Hell Up in Harlem, Original Gangstas, Special Effects, and the It's Alive series. Nearly all of his movies are examples of low budget filmmaking at its best. Q (standing for Quetzecoatl, the flying Aztec god) is his giant monster movie in the tradition of King Kong and Godzilla. It's an excellent movie and succeeds best because of it's quirky qualities.
An excellent B-movie cast combined with Cohen's wonderfully realistic dialogue makes for some excellent characters. Micheal Moriarty (from "Law and Order" and Cohen's The Stuff) plays a loser who finds the nest of the beast, and Richard Roundtree (Shaft) and David Carradine (Death Race 2000 and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues) have excellent roles as two detectives trying to locate it before it devours more construction workers.
The plot has some great twists and turns and there's some great obligatory B -movie gore in this one, too. The monster plucks heads off of window washers and snatches sunbathers off of rooftops. Blood and body parts rain down on the unsuspecting citizens beneath. Meanwhile, some lunatic is busy skinning people alive. Is there a connection? The special effects are limited and not too spectacular, but effects don't make a movie (as is apparent in the 1998 remake of Godzilla), and everything else about this movie makes it a winner. The uneven effects actually add to the fun of this movie if you can appreciate low budget horror. Q constantly amazes me with its quirky attitude, great sense of humor (maybe the window washer's head "just fell off" says one of the detectives), creative characters, camp value, and energetic cast. This 1982 cult classic is further proof that Larry Cohen is nothing less than a god.
Final Review 98/100 (A+)
An excellent B-movie cast combined with Cohen's wonderfully realistic dialogue makes for some excellent characters. Micheal Moriarty (from "Law and Order" and Cohen's The Stuff) plays a loser who finds the nest of the beast, and Richard Roundtree (Shaft) and David Carradine (Death Race 2000 and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues) have excellent roles as two detectives trying to locate it before it devours more construction workers.
The plot has some great twists and turns and there's some great obligatory B -movie gore in this one, too. The monster plucks heads off of window washers and snatches sunbathers off of rooftops. Blood and body parts rain down on the unsuspecting citizens beneath. Meanwhile, some lunatic is busy skinning people alive. Is there a connection? The special effects are limited and not too spectacular, but effects don't make a movie (as is apparent in the 1998 remake of Godzilla), and everything else about this movie makes it a winner. The uneven effects actually add to the fun of this movie if you can appreciate low budget horror. Q constantly amazes me with its quirky attitude, great sense of humor (maybe the window washer's head "just fell off" says one of the detectives), creative characters, camp value, and energetic cast. This 1982 cult classic is further proof that Larry Cohen is nothing less than a god.
Final Review 98/100 (A+)
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