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Synopsis: New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, which they assume to be bogus until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work, ex-con piano player is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest and is determined to turn the knowledge to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as lizard food?
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Director(s): Larry Cohen
Production: Blue Underground
 
IMDB:
6.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
R
Year:
1982
93 min
Website
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in a Popsicle would you?

Come on, let's go downstairs.

We got one hour to eat.

Let's go, fellas, come on.

That's the third one this month!

Cut the sh*t!

You son's of b*tches.

If anyone ate that sandwich, I'm gonna shove

the thermos up your asses one at a time.

Sh*t.

She's says not

to let them see me blow.

What am I supposed to say?

Thank you?

And they make an a**hole of me.

You know, his wife makes

a damn good tuna sandwich.

I'm gonna stop by and see her and

tell her about it one of these days.

The Aztecs identified flayed

skin with the new garments.

Young vegetation.

Let me get this straight.

You're talking about

human sacrifice now?

Willing sacrifice.

They give themselves

to the God willingly.

A ritual was performed

using various objects

to indicate cosmic events.

Collimating in blood sacrifice to

strengthen the forces of nature.

Performed by the high priest.

And the victims,

you might call them a skin--

after they're skinned,

the high priest puts the skin

upon himself,

wearing it as like a garment.

Of course, we're talking about

the ancient Aztecs civilization,

not this north American culture

we see here.

I understand, Mexico.

The gods they prayed to.

One God, Quetzalcoatl,

the feathered flying serpent.

I can give you some interesting

books on that subject.

Well, good, I need something

to put me to sleep at night.

Now, if you think

that's what happened here,

then this case wasn't murder.

What do you call it?

Suicide possibly.

Oh, your Mr. Polly might've been

coerced in one way or another.

But you must remember blood

must be giving willingly

for the God to appreciate it.

He must giveth himself otherwise

the ritual is meaningless.

Well, they came to this museum.

I think that's very certain.

He met someone.

He was engaged in conversation.

Maybe they had

a couple of drinks.

And they went back to his hotel

room, and they did the deed.

I find it difficult to phantom why

a guy with a wife and two kids

and tenure at a university

would suddenly decide

to give up his life

without even a chance

to think about it.

You see, gave himself a chance.

Why else did he

come to the city?

Was there any other reason

he should be here?

Well, that's what we're trying

to determine.

You know,

that's an interesting angle.

No vacation.

No research.

Just some guy flies thousand

of Miles to New York City

to give his life

on a sacrificial alter.

Maybe I should take

those books of yours.

I'm not going to be able

to sleep either

if you keep looking at those

horrible pictures.

You don't think anything like that

serpent ever really existed do you?

Sure it did.

And the Aztecs killed for it.

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Larry Cohen

Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen (born July 15, 1941) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as a B-Movie auteur of horror and science fiction films – often containing a police procedural element – during the 1970s and 1980s. He has since concentrated mainly on screenwriting including the Joel Schumacher thriller Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). In 2006 Cohen returned to the directing chair for Mick Garris' Masters of Horror TV series (2006); he directed the episode "Pick Me Up". more…

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