The gargoyles take Diana to their cave, where they have many eggs. The gargoyles rip the passenger door off and kidnap Diana, then overturn the car rendering Dr. Two slightly larger gargoyles return to recover the gargoyle body, but the Boleys escape with it through the window and stow it in their station wagon. She does not mention it to the police even though it would prove their innocence, apparently because her father wants it for study. She tells Reeger about the dead gargoyle but he mockingly suggests that she and her father are 'smoking' something. Parks, complains but Diana tries to assure her that it was only a family argument.ĭiana returns to the police station and pleads for the bikers' innocence but the deputy says only a judge can release them after charges have been filed. Boley chases them to the road where one is struck and killed by a truck and the other gets away with the skull. That night, two gargoyles, appearing much smaller than the skeleton and without horns or wings, invade the motel room to retrieve the skull. The police arrest them on suspicion of causing the fire, against the advice of the Boleys. There they find a group of young men, James Reeger and four others, riding motorcycles around the ruins. The next morning they report to the police and return to the site of the fire. Boley and Diana escape with the horned skull and take it to a motel. While Uncle Willie tells them tales of demons from American Indian folklore, an unseen force attacks the building, causing a rafter to collapse and kill the proprietor, and starting a fire that consumes the building. Boley dismisses it as a hoax assembled from unrelated bones, but Uncle Willie insists that he found the bones together as a whole skeleton. They are shown a skeleton of a large creature with wings and horns at a place called Uncle Willie's Desert Museum. Mercer Boley and his daughter Diana are traveling in New Mexico for his scientific research.

It was the first film to feature the make-up work of special effects artist Stan Winston, for which he shared the 1973 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup.

Norton, and originally broadcast Tuesday, November 21, 1972, for CBS' The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies. Gargoyles is an American made-for-television fantasy horror film, directed by B.

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