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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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Until my side hurt so much

I couldn't run anymore.

Then I go to sleep. I go to sleep

under a God damn stair case.

I don't sleep, you know, because

try to sleep. I can't sleep.

Come here.

- Feel better?

- I stink. And I just want to cry.

You know, I haven't cried

since I was a little kid.

- I just want to cry.

- Go ahead, it's okay.

No, but I'm supposed

to be a man.

Christ. I don't know what

I'm supposed to be.

You know, everything I touch

on the outside turns to sh*t!

Maybe I am

an institutionalized person.

Maybe I can't make

it outside the slammer.

That I belong inside there

like an animal in a cage.

Right, we can have those conjugal

visits once every four months

if we got married.

Why do I stay

with a dumb ex-junkie.

I don't know. Why?

Well, I think there's a lot

of good in you somewhere.

Yeah, where?

I'm looking.

I'm looking.

I get all this evil dreams,

you know?

Evil dream!

Go up way!

And I walk upside up top

of this building.

And I see dead things

and a nest, you know?

A rat's nest.

No, well-- no, it couldn't have

been a rat's nest.

It was bigger than that.

It was big.

And there was something in it

that looked like an egg.

But it couldn't have been

an egg, I mean,

there aren't any eggs-- I mean,

there's no eggs that big.

Jesus. And there's a hole

in the roof

so it can get in and get out.

So it can get in and out?

Yeah.

I just want to sleep.

When you wake up, we'll have

some nice bacon and eggs.

No eggs. I don't want to

ever see another egg ever.

Quetzalcoatl,

I am the plume serpent.

I fly and I crawl.

Earth and air.

Mud and sky.

I have fallen,

but I will rise again.

All right, what did you

bring me down here for?

I hope it's something good.

I thought you might want

to look at this one.

What is it?

Another skinning job?

Almost as crazy.

Doctor said the heart

was removed quite carefully

and quite precisely.

Number two.

The human sacrifice theory, huh?

Well, listen.

The donor's heart

is ritually removed,

be presented to the gods.

Sure sounds like it doesn't it?

Luckily all we have to do nowadays is

take the wafer and drink the wine.

That's what I call

being civilized.

Personally I trust that curator or

anybody else we talked to over there.

I think they're all

a bunch of freaks.

And one of those freaks is probably

the person running around,

slicing people up.

Well, then what we need

is to have a run down on all

of the employees of the museum.

Everybody from the night Porter

to the security guard, the works.

Well, what I'm

particularly interested in

is anyone who has

any medical background.

You know, someone with some

expertise with surgical tools.

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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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