The Flying Serpent
by Sam Newfield
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Actor: Eddie Acuff, George Zucco, Hope Kramer, Ralph Lewis, Wheaton ChambersDirector: Sam Newfield
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Jack Greenhalgh
Editor: Holbrook N. Todd
Producer: Sigmund Neufeld
Writer: John T. Neville
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 59 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-07-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Flying Serpent
Movie Review: great horror film from poverty row's best studio
Summary: 5 Stars
George Zucco is excellent(again) as a mad scientist is this adapation of PRC's earlier effort Killer Bat (starring an aged Bela Lugosi). By leaving a beautiful feather from an ancient Mayan prehistoric bird by any intended victim, the angry bird kills that person in order to retrieve it's coveted feather. Great atmosphere shots with Zucco in cave with caged bird, and cool but clumsy shots of the serpent flying and attacking. This is not a B picture, but a Z picture (my favorites)and it's tops in that catagory. The wonderfully ill finaced PRC studio(Producers Releasing Corp)also gave us the Z horror classics: Black Raven, Man made monster, the Monster maker and the above mentioned Killer Bats. If you think Blair Witch Project was done on the cheap, you ain't seen nothing yet!
Summary of The Flying Serpent
FLYING SERPENT - DVD MovieThe beast in The Flying Serpent is Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god of the Aztecs. Evil archaeologist George Zucco keeps this half-bird, half-reptile creature caged in a secret chamber within some New Mexico ruins, the better to guard a cache of Montezuma's hidden gold. The professor has obviously cracked under the strain of his studies, leading his stepdaughter to deliver the immortal line, "I wish there was never any such thing as Aztec Indians." (They probably feel the same way about you, honey.) The Q-monster's killings are investigated by a radio sleuth, adding a weird wrinkle to the scenario; important revelations in the story have a funny way of happening while the sleuth's show is live on the air. Two reasons for seeing this 58-minute cheapie from rock-bottom PRC studio: George Zucco, the tireless, beetle-browed villain of countless '40s B movies (with the occasional goodie, such as Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, thrown in), and the campy Quetzalcoatl, a forerunner of Japanese horror-movie monsters. In this film, the Aztec deity generally resembles a poorly crafted piñata flung across a wire--he flaps his wings with that weird, aerodynamically suspect motion familiar to Rodan-watchers. For more on the adventures of Quetzalcoatl, see Larry Cohen's 1983 thriller Q: The Winged Serpent, a nutty variation on the same creature. --Robert Horton
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