Q: The Winged Serpent
Day three of #Junesploitation and today it had to be a film that had David Carradine in it, again I could have gone with a couple of the obvious ones including Death Race 2000, but went with this one instead as it had Richard Roundtree in it as well.
The winged terror over New York turns out to be Quetzalcōātl as imagined by Victorian palaeontologists stopping by Jim Henson for some advice, it was terrible rather than terrifying.
Carradine had a small and disjointed role in this and never seemed comfortable or in a flow until he was all dressed in black with a gun in his hand.
This really wasn’t helped by an awful script that was totally unsure of where it wanted to go and was so stilted it felt like a school production.
Richard Roundtree got to play an asshole cop with a massive attitude and a story arc that was appropriate for the role.
The end section with the beast was very reminiscent of the King Kong Empire State ending though with the viewer having very little sympathy for the beast.
Got to say that I’m enjoying this ‘challenge’ as it’s letting me watch films I would never have thought to put on without it, tonight’s film is going to be ‘Bamboo Gods and Iron Men’ blacksploitation and kung fu all in one package!
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