The Serpent Tower
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(Redirected from Q - The Winged Serpent)QDirected byLarry CohenProduced byLarry CohenWritten byLarry CohenStarringMusic byRobert O. RaglandCinematographyEdited byArmond LebowitzDistributed byUnited Film Distribution CompanyRelease dateOctober 29, 1982 (United States)93 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$1.1 million[1]Box office$255,000[2]
Q (also known as The Winged Serpent and Q – The Winged Serpent) is a 1982 American monsterhorror film written, produced and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, and Richard Roundtree.Plot[edit]
The Tower of the Serpent is a religous structure in Zamora under the use of Thulsa Doom ’s snake cult. The temple is dedicated to the worship of Set, the primary deity of Stygians. The tower houses a giant serpent in its sacrificial pit, as well as a large ruby named the Eye of the Serpent.
The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, a winged, dragon-like, female lizard, takes up residence in the art-deco spire of the Chrysler Building, with frequent jaunts in the midday sun to devour various helpless New Yorkers on the rooftops. The resulting bloody mess confounds detectives, Shepard and Powell, who are already occupied with a case involving a series of bizarre ritual murders linked to a secret neo-Aztec cult.
*The Serpent (BBC One) iPlayer Black Narcissus. A scary, abandoned temple reeking of ancient carnality and suicide; a hugely tempting fall-to-death bell tower.
*Serpent Mound is the world’s largest surviving effigy mound—a mound in the shape of an animal—from the prehistoric era. Located in southern Ohio, the 411-meter-long (1348-feet-long) Native American.
*Ahead of BBC drama The Serpent airing on BBC One on New Year’s Day, Nige Tassell reveals the story of the brazen career criminal who graduated from petty theft to cold-blooded murder. Charles Sobhraj was once asked what makes someone a murderer.
*The Serpent Tower. Chapter One “What happened to the bloody dancing girls, Halfbreed?” Toadface whispered, gazing out of the thick undergrowth into the surrounding trees. Rik raised a finger to his lips. If the ugly, bulging-eyed little man did not shut up he might get both their throats cut. There could be enemies twenty yards away.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Quinn, a cheap, paranoid crook who wishes to be a jazz pianist, takes part in a botched diamond heist. Attempting to hide from police after the heist, he stumbles upon the creature’s lair atop the Chrysler building. Quinn abandons his attempts to settle down and leave his life of crime, deciding to extort from the city an enormous amount of money in exchange for directions to the creature’s nest, which houses a colossal egg.
Quinn makes a deal with the city--$1 million for the location of the nest. He leads Shepard and a paramilitary assault team to the top of the Chrysler Building where they shoot the egg, killing the baby inside. However, because the creature itself was not present in the nest, the city reneges on its offer to Quinn, taking back the $1 million and leaving him broke once again. Later, after killing Powell, the creature comes to the tower. After the showdown, the creature, riddled with bullets, falls onto the streets of Manhattan. Finally, Shepard shoots the Plumed Serpent’s crazed priest (who had been committing the ritual murders) as he tries to kill Quinn to resurrect his ’god’.
Ultimately, a second large egg hatches in a different location in the city.Cast[edit]
*Michael Moriarty as Jimmy Quinn
*Candy Clark as Joan
*David Carradine as Detective Shepard
*Richard Roundtree as Sgt Powell
*James Dixon as Lt Murray
*Malachy McCourt as Commissioner Nick McConnell
*Fred J. Scollay as Captain Fletcher
*Peter Hock as Detective Harold Kipps
*Ron Cey as Detective Hoberman
*Mary Louise Weller as Mrs. Pauley
*John Capodice as Doyle
*Tony Page as Webb
*Shelly Desai as Kahea
*Lee Louis as Officer BanyonProduction[edit]
Q was shot on location in and around New York City’s Chrysler Building and uses the interior of the building’s tower crown as a primary location.[3] The special effects for the flying serpent were done using stop-motion animation by Randall William Cook and David Allen.Release[edit]
The film was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by United Film Distribution Company in October 1982. It grossed approximately $255,000 at the box office.[2]Critical response[edit]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Q holds a 70% approval rating based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The consensus reads: ’Q’s campy charms may be lost on audiences who want their monsters frightening, but a game cast and lovingly retrograde visual effects give this kaiju romp some majesty.’[4]
Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars in his original review, commending Moriarty’s performance. Ebert relates the anecdote that, when movie reviewer Rex Reed met Q’s producer, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Reed told him: ’What a surprise! All that dreck—and right in the middle of it, a great Method performance by Michael Moriarty!’, while Arkoff replied: ’The dreck was my idea.’[5]
Colin Greenland reviewed Q – The Winged Serpent for Imagine magazine, and stated that ’It is not often that a film is enjoyable as a monster movie, a character study and a satire, but Q – The Winged Serpent scores on every one. As well as taking a few swipes at the police, the mass media, and big city politics, Larry Cohen cannot resist poking fun at the innumerable monsters that have gone chomping and stomping among the skyscrapers over the years.’[6]Home media[edit]
The film was later released on VHS by MCA/Universal Home Video. It was released on DVD by Blue Underground in 2003.[7]Shout! Factory released the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc August 27, 2013, through their Scream Factory sublabel.See also[edit]The Serpent Tower StatueReferences[edit]
*^McGilligan, Patrick (2006). Larry Cohen: Manic Energy, Backstory 4: Interviews with Hollywood Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s. Uni of California. p. 64.
*^ ab’Q (1982)’. The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Archived from the original on September 22, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
*^Hunter, Rob (March 30, 2015). ’20 Things we Learned from Larry Cohen’s Commentary for Q The Winged Serpent’. Film School Rejects. Reject Media, LLC. Archived from the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
*^’Q (1982)’. Rotten Tomatoes.com. Fandango. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
*^Ebert, Roger (January 1, 1982). ’Q Movie Review & Film Summary (1982) - Roger Ebert’. rogerebert.com. suntimes.com. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
*^Greenland, Colin (July 1983). ’Film Review’. Imagine (review). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. (4): 37.
*^’Q (DVD)’. DVDEmpire.com. Right Ascension, Inc. Archived from the original on November 8, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2011.External links[edit]
*Q on IMDb
*Q at AllMovie
*Q at Rotten Tomatoes
*Q at the TCM Movie Database
*An oral history of the cult classic Q: The Winged Serpent by Will HarrisRetrieved from ’https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Q_(1982_film)&oldid=1000523722’
A thousand years ago the world of Gaeia fell to the Terrarchs, cruel and beautiful alien invaders with a deadly secret. Masters of sorcery and intrigue they have ruled humanity with a fist of steel inside a glove of velvet. For a thousand years, ancient demons have slept, waiting for the moment of their return. Now the stars are right. Old and evil gods are wakening. New revolutions are being born. A genocidal war that will destroy civilization sweeps ever closer.
In this world of magic and gunpowder, the half-breed Rik must rise from simple soldier to the deadliest assassin the world has ever known as he seeks his birthright.
The Serpent Tower is an impregnable fortress built by an ancient, pre-human race, bristling with terrifying, magical weapons, watched over by unsleeping, sorcerous sentinels. It has never fallen to siege. Now it is the lair of the sinister sorcerer Lord Ilmarec who holds Princess Kathea, rightful heir to the throne of Kharadrea in his clutches. In order to save his own life, Rik must penetrate the ancient secrets of the Tower and rescue the Princess from her lustful uncle. And all the while he is pursued by an undead horror born from the vilest necromancy, created by a deadly conspiracy that plans to rule the world.
The Serpent Tower continues the thrilling saga of muskets and magic begun in Death’s Angels. In it, the bestselling creator of Gotrek and Felix blends Lovecraftian horror with high adventure in the tradition of Sharpe.
“The King of High Adventure,” Starlog.
Yes, it’s that old, old story, rescuing a princess from an evil wizard’s tower. The Serpent Tower holds a funhouse mirror to that particular fairy tale just as the amoral former thief Rik is a twisted reflection of all those innocent young farm-boys with secret god-like powers and hidden destinies that overrun fantasy to this very day.
Of course, since this is a world of sinister realpolitik, there are very practical reasons for Rik to perform his feats of derring-do. Kathea is a claimant to the throne of the kingdom Rik’s Terrarch masters have attacked. Without her as figurehead to lend legitimacy to their invasion, they can expect the locals to turn against them. In addition, the Serpent Tower sits directly astride the major lines of supply of the Terrarch army. Leaving it untaken is strategic suicide. And thus Rik is blackmailed into breaking into the tower on a desperate mission of rescue and assassination by his beautiful, scheming patroness, the Lady Asea.
In the Terrarch Chronicles, everyone has a reason for doing what they do. Everyone has their own motives and I hope they are plausible ones. They are certainly the usual ones in our world: ambition and honour, greed and idealism, love and sex and glory. There are patriots as well as scoundrels; the book’s villain, Lord Ilmarec, claims to be motivated by a desire to see his nation free of outside interference. There is every chance he is speaking the truth too.
In this book, we learn more of the secret history of the Terrarchs. We learn of their hidden conflicts, shadowy factions and the ancient conspiracies that vie for control of their world. In tandem with this, hero Rik uncovers part of his own sinister heritage, including the fact that he is descended from the Shadowblood, a line of genetically engineered assassins created to serve of a long-gone Dark Lord, invisible to magical detection and possessed of strange powers that he can only hope he lives long enough to acquire and master.
We find out that Gaeia was once a battleground for a number of warring Lovecraftian Elder Races caught up in a gigantic cosmic conflict at this cross-roads in time and space. The focus in this book is on the Sathur, the Serpent Men, who built the titular Tower but once again we catch glimpses out of the corner of our eye of the scuttling spider-warriors of the Ultari and the horrific aquatic Quan. The Sathur are a decadent Elder Race, sorcerer-scientists who once ruled huge areas of the world and made war with the other Elder World titans using a magic sufficiently advanced as to be indistinguishable from technology.The Serpent Power Band
The Serpent Men are, of course, descended from the denizens of Atlantis created by Robert E Howard in his classic Kull story The Shadow Kingdom, possibly my favourite of all Howard’s works. They come to this book via the Elder Races of Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane stories, which were a huge influence on me. I have always loved the feel of Wagner’s stories where human civilisation has grown up in the shadow of elder world colossi, and this was my tribute to him. There is also a small nod to Robert E Howard’s The Tower of the Elephant as well, in that Rik has to break into this seemingly impregnable wizard’s fortress in order to rescue Princess Kathea.The Serpent Trailer
As you’ve probably gathered we are in a world closely related to classic sword and sorcery of my youth here. Back in the 70s, there was a dearth of the Tolkien and D&D influenced fantasy so common now. Instead you had realistic stories of thieves and barbarians adventuring in worlds that often owed as much to pulp SF as Norse myth, to H P Lovecraft as much as Howard and Tolkien. The Terrarch Chronicles are my tribute to those stories and the breakneck, breathless thrillers by the likes of Alistair McLean that I consumed on an almost daily basis back then. I am really pleased to finally have it available in English.
Download here: http://gg.gg/o8ht2
https://diarynote-jp.indered.space
(Redirected from Q - The Winged Serpent)QDirected byLarry CohenProduced byLarry CohenWritten byLarry CohenStarringMusic byRobert O. RaglandCinematographyEdited byArmond LebowitzDistributed byUnited Film Distribution CompanyRelease dateOctober 29, 1982 (United States)93 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$1.1 million[1]Box office$255,000[2]
Q (also known as The Winged Serpent and Q – The Winged Serpent) is a 1982 American monsterhorror film written, produced and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, and Richard Roundtree.Plot[edit]
The Tower of the Serpent is a religous structure in Zamora under the use of Thulsa Doom ’s snake cult. The temple is dedicated to the worship of Set, the primary deity of Stygians. The tower houses a giant serpent in its sacrificial pit, as well as a large ruby named the Eye of the Serpent.
The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, a winged, dragon-like, female lizard, takes up residence in the art-deco spire of the Chrysler Building, with frequent jaunts in the midday sun to devour various helpless New Yorkers on the rooftops. The resulting bloody mess confounds detectives, Shepard and Powell, who are already occupied with a case involving a series of bizarre ritual murders linked to a secret neo-Aztec cult.
*The Serpent (BBC One) iPlayer Black Narcissus. A scary, abandoned temple reeking of ancient carnality and suicide; a hugely tempting fall-to-death bell tower.
*Serpent Mound is the world’s largest surviving effigy mound—a mound in the shape of an animal—from the prehistoric era. Located in southern Ohio, the 411-meter-long (1348-feet-long) Native American.
*Ahead of BBC drama The Serpent airing on BBC One on New Year’s Day, Nige Tassell reveals the story of the brazen career criminal who graduated from petty theft to cold-blooded murder. Charles Sobhraj was once asked what makes someone a murderer.
*The Serpent Tower. Chapter One “What happened to the bloody dancing girls, Halfbreed?” Toadface whispered, gazing out of the thick undergrowth into the surrounding trees. Rik raised a finger to his lips. If the ugly, bulging-eyed little man did not shut up he might get both their throats cut. There could be enemies twenty yards away.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Quinn, a cheap, paranoid crook who wishes to be a jazz pianist, takes part in a botched diamond heist. Attempting to hide from police after the heist, he stumbles upon the creature’s lair atop the Chrysler building. Quinn abandons his attempts to settle down and leave his life of crime, deciding to extort from the city an enormous amount of money in exchange for directions to the creature’s nest, which houses a colossal egg.
Quinn makes a deal with the city--$1 million for the location of the nest. He leads Shepard and a paramilitary assault team to the top of the Chrysler Building where they shoot the egg, killing the baby inside. However, because the creature itself was not present in the nest, the city reneges on its offer to Quinn, taking back the $1 million and leaving him broke once again. Later, after killing Powell, the creature comes to the tower. After the showdown, the creature, riddled with bullets, falls onto the streets of Manhattan. Finally, Shepard shoots the Plumed Serpent’s crazed priest (who had been committing the ritual murders) as he tries to kill Quinn to resurrect his ’god’.
Ultimately, a second large egg hatches in a different location in the city.Cast[edit]
*Michael Moriarty as Jimmy Quinn
*Candy Clark as Joan
*David Carradine as Detective Shepard
*Richard Roundtree as Sgt Powell
*James Dixon as Lt Murray
*Malachy McCourt as Commissioner Nick McConnell
*Fred J. Scollay as Captain Fletcher
*Peter Hock as Detective Harold Kipps
*Ron Cey as Detective Hoberman
*Mary Louise Weller as Mrs. Pauley
*John Capodice as Doyle
*Tony Page as Webb
*Shelly Desai as Kahea
*Lee Louis as Officer BanyonProduction[edit]
Q was shot on location in and around New York City’s Chrysler Building and uses the interior of the building’s tower crown as a primary location.[3] The special effects for the flying serpent were done using stop-motion animation by Randall William Cook and David Allen.Release[edit]
The film was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by United Film Distribution Company in October 1982. It grossed approximately $255,000 at the box office.[2]Critical response[edit]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Q holds a 70% approval rating based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The consensus reads: ’Q’s campy charms may be lost on audiences who want their monsters frightening, but a game cast and lovingly retrograde visual effects give this kaiju romp some majesty.’[4]
Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars in his original review, commending Moriarty’s performance. Ebert relates the anecdote that, when movie reviewer Rex Reed met Q’s producer, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Reed told him: ’What a surprise! All that dreck—and right in the middle of it, a great Method performance by Michael Moriarty!’, while Arkoff replied: ’The dreck was my idea.’[5]
Colin Greenland reviewed Q – The Winged Serpent for Imagine magazine, and stated that ’It is not often that a film is enjoyable as a monster movie, a character study and a satire, but Q – The Winged Serpent scores on every one. As well as taking a few swipes at the police, the mass media, and big city politics, Larry Cohen cannot resist poking fun at the innumerable monsters that have gone chomping and stomping among the skyscrapers over the years.’[6]Home media[edit]
The film was later released on VHS by MCA/Universal Home Video. It was released on DVD by Blue Underground in 2003.[7]Shout! Factory released the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc August 27, 2013, through their Scream Factory sublabel.See also[edit]The Serpent Tower StatueReferences[edit]
*^McGilligan, Patrick (2006). Larry Cohen: Manic Energy, Backstory 4: Interviews with Hollywood Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s. Uni of California. p. 64.
*^ ab’Q (1982)’. The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Archived from the original on September 22, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
*^Hunter, Rob (March 30, 2015). ’20 Things we Learned from Larry Cohen’s Commentary for Q The Winged Serpent’. Film School Rejects. Reject Media, LLC. Archived from the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
*^’Q (1982)’. Rotten Tomatoes.com. Fandango. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
*^Ebert, Roger (January 1, 1982). ’Q Movie Review & Film Summary (1982) - Roger Ebert’. rogerebert.com. suntimes.com. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
*^Greenland, Colin (July 1983). ’Film Review’. Imagine (review). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. (4): 37.
*^’Q (DVD)’. DVDEmpire.com. Right Ascension, Inc. Archived from the original on November 8, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2011.External links[edit]
*Q on IMDb
*Q at AllMovie
*Q at Rotten Tomatoes
*Q at the TCM Movie Database
*An oral history of the cult classic Q: The Winged Serpent by Will HarrisRetrieved from ’https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Q_(1982_film)&oldid=1000523722’
A thousand years ago the world of Gaeia fell to the Terrarchs, cruel and beautiful alien invaders with a deadly secret. Masters of sorcery and intrigue they have ruled humanity with a fist of steel inside a glove of velvet. For a thousand years, ancient demons have slept, waiting for the moment of their return. Now the stars are right. Old and evil gods are wakening. New revolutions are being born. A genocidal war that will destroy civilization sweeps ever closer.
In this world of magic and gunpowder, the half-breed Rik must rise from simple soldier to the deadliest assassin the world has ever known as he seeks his birthright.
The Serpent Tower is an impregnable fortress built by an ancient, pre-human race, bristling with terrifying, magical weapons, watched over by unsleeping, sorcerous sentinels. It has never fallen to siege. Now it is the lair of the sinister sorcerer Lord Ilmarec who holds Princess Kathea, rightful heir to the throne of Kharadrea in his clutches. In order to save his own life, Rik must penetrate the ancient secrets of the Tower and rescue the Princess from her lustful uncle. And all the while he is pursued by an undead horror born from the vilest necromancy, created by a deadly conspiracy that plans to rule the world.
The Serpent Tower continues the thrilling saga of muskets and magic begun in Death’s Angels. In it, the bestselling creator of Gotrek and Felix blends Lovecraftian horror with high adventure in the tradition of Sharpe.
“The King of High Adventure,” Starlog.
Yes, it’s that old, old story, rescuing a princess from an evil wizard’s tower. The Serpent Tower holds a funhouse mirror to that particular fairy tale just as the amoral former thief Rik is a twisted reflection of all those innocent young farm-boys with secret god-like powers and hidden destinies that overrun fantasy to this very day.
Of course, since this is a world of sinister realpolitik, there are very practical reasons for Rik to perform his feats of derring-do. Kathea is a claimant to the throne of the kingdom Rik’s Terrarch masters have attacked. Without her as figurehead to lend legitimacy to their invasion, they can expect the locals to turn against them. In addition, the Serpent Tower sits directly astride the major lines of supply of the Terrarch army. Leaving it untaken is strategic suicide. And thus Rik is blackmailed into breaking into the tower on a desperate mission of rescue and assassination by his beautiful, scheming patroness, the Lady Asea.
In the Terrarch Chronicles, everyone has a reason for doing what they do. Everyone has their own motives and I hope they are plausible ones. They are certainly the usual ones in our world: ambition and honour, greed and idealism, love and sex and glory. There are patriots as well as scoundrels; the book’s villain, Lord Ilmarec, claims to be motivated by a desire to see his nation free of outside interference. There is every chance he is speaking the truth too.
In this book, we learn more of the secret history of the Terrarchs. We learn of their hidden conflicts, shadowy factions and the ancient conspiracies that vie for control of their world. In tandem with this, hero Rik uncovers part of his own sinister heritage, including the fact that he is descended from the Shadowblood, a line of genetically engineered assassins created to serve of a long-gone Dark Lord, invisible to magical detection and possessed of strange powers that he can only hope he lives long enough to acquire and master.
We find out that Gaeia was once a battleground for a number of warring Lovecraftian Elder Races caught up in a gigantic cosmic conflict at this cross-roads in time and space. The focus in this book is on the Sathur, the Serpent Men, who built the titular Tower but once again we catch glimpses out of the corner of our eye of the scuttling spider-warriors of the Ultari and the horrific aquatic Quan. The Sathur are a decadent Elder Race, sorcerer-scientists who once ruled huge areas of the world and made war with the other Elder World titans using a magic sufficiently advanced as to be indistinguishable from technology.The Serpent Power Band
The Serpent Men are, of course, descended from the denizens of Atlantis created by Robert E Howard in his classic Kull story The Shadow Kingdom, possibly my favourite of all Howard’s works. They come to this book via the Elder Races of Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane stories, which were a huge influence on me. I have always loved the feel of Wagner’s stories where human civilisation has grown up in the shadow of elder world colossi, and this was my tribute to him. There is also a small nod to Robert E Howard’s The Tower of the Elephant as well, in that Rik has to break into this seemingly impregnable wizard’s fortress in order to rescue Princess Kathea.The Serpent Trailer
As you’ve probably gathered we are in a world closely related to classic sword and sorcery of my youth here. Back in the 70s, there was a dearth of the Tolkien and D&D influenced fantasy so common now. Instead you had realistic stories of thieves and barbarians adventuring in worlds that often owed as much to pulp SF as Norse myth, to H P Lovecraft as much as Howard and Tolkien. The Terrarch Chronicles are my tribute to those stories and the breakneck, breathless thrillers by the likes of Alistair McLean that I consumed on an almost daily basis back then. I am really pleased to finally have it available in English.
Download here: http://gg.gg/o8ht2
https://diarynote-jp.indered.space
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