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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305472537
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 630547253X
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: July 13, 1999
Running Time: 58 minutes
Sales Rank: 55792
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: February 01, 1946
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Description:
George Zucco (The Cat and the Canary) stars in this campy, supernatural horror story. Zucco plays a crazed archeologist intent on protecting the fabulous Aztec treasure he has discovered. The professor invokes the Aztec god Quetzlcoatl, an ancient serpent, to guard his bounty. Soon, however, his paranoia leads him to turning the beast on anyone he thinks is a threat to his fortune.
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The 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Low Budget Monster Movie, so what its good :) & only 58 minutes
This is fun little movie about a killer bird lizard. The monster for its time is ok, a little on the small side. This doesn't have a complex story or anything to really confuse you in its 1 hour run. Goerge Zucco summons Quetzalcoatl, Q the Flying Serpent (an Aztec Bird) to do its murdering for his own selfish reasons - to protect a treasure he found. George plants the monsters feathers on his victims. I think its a good way to spend an hour if you want to watch a fun/cheesy old movie. Dont expect Earth shattering SPFX :) If you liked the Devil Bat, and The Human Monster, this should also be something you might want to see The remake called Q the Winged Serpent is also worth seeing, a bit gorier.
Rating:  - the flying serpent
I ALWAYS LIKED GEORGE ZUCCO,IN THESE QUICKIE LOW BUDGET B FLIXS. HE WAS A VERY GOOD ACTOR, BUT SOMEWHAT UNDERRATED BY THE STUDIOS, I WILL BE PURCHASING MORE TITLES WITHH HIM.
Rating: - Interesting Poverty Row Horror Story Starring The Always Excellent George Zucco
George Zucco was one of Hollywood's favourite bad guys through most of the 1930's and 40's and is still best known today for his skillful playing of mad scientists, demented high priests, or murderous conmen. "The Flying Serpent", came quite late in his starring career and was a product of the "poverty row", company called the Producers Releasing Corporation. Making all their films on shoe string budgets they actually produced some very interesting films with their most famous probably being the eerie "The Devil Bat", starring the legendary Bela Lugosi. "The Flying Serpent", is basically a remake of that earlier film with the title creature being changed from a deadly Vampire Bat into the more exotic flying serpent of the title, ie the Aztec serpent God Quetzalcoati which guards a precious Aztec treasure trove and kills any intruders on George Zucco's command. "The Flying Serpent", really illustrates what great fun "B" films can be and is enlived considerably by a surprisingly ok lead monster which is light years better in appearance than many of the flying monsters of the 1950's such as the infamous bird from outer space in "The Giant Claw".
As the story opens we find gifted but decidely unhinged archeologist Prof. Andrew Forbes (George Zucco)coming across the long hidden treasure of the Aztec king Montezuma in a secluded cave near his diggings in New Mexico. Lured by the riches which he intends to keep for himself Prof. Forbes also discovers a large serpent creature, part bird and ... Read More
Rating: - You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter".
This is really not a bad movie, it has several things going for it. It is short, like 58 minutes, which is a relief in this day of three and a half hour bore-a-thons. It has a good monster, the mindless killing machine Quetzalcoatl, who does nothing but kill, kill, kill and kill. And it has a sinister scientist as the bad guy who, of course, gets hoisted by his own pitard in the end. Oh yeah, it was shot in one of the most historic spots in the western hemisphere, San Juan county, New Mexico, home of the Anasazi culture and both Aztec Ruins National Monument and Chaco Canyon National Historic Site.
The 40's vintage special effect of the monster flying is much better than I expected, better than lots of the stuff from the 50's and even later, although it is obviously a puppet "flying" along on a string. And it's attack technique is suprisingly realistic and believable. And it's thirst for blood saved the producers from having to splash fake blood all over the place.
It falls down on a couple of points, the transfer ain't great and there never is any explaination as to why if "Q" is supposed to be guarding Montezuma's treasure why he is locked in a steel cage. And where did the cage come from in the first place. And how did he become so easily enlisted by Zucco's character and turned into a cut-rate hit man. Quetzalcoatl was, after all, supposed to be a God.
Don't forget to look at George Zucco's filmography, which is also on the DVD. This guy made lots of movies, ... Read More
Rating: - Decent Devil-Bat imitation With Zucco.
George Zucco is back in yet another PRC poverty row cheapie. Zucco Stars as a nutty professor (no pun intended) Forbes who discovers a hidden Aztec treasure as well as a prehistoric giant Bird.
Forbes then uses the feathers of the bird to kill those he thinks intends to steal his find. The feathers are used as bait similar to what Lugosi did in another classic B film, The Devil Bat.
Zucco, of course, is quite wonderful, playing the wacked out professor with over the top zeal but no one else in the cast is worth mentioning. The special effects our as bad as you could ever expect from a PRC film with the strings being quite visible when controlling the prehistoric bird. On top of that the sets are cheap making this really one of the worst PRC movies which is quite an accomplishement
Still, being a Zucco fan I really enjoy him and the movie is worth watching to see him hamming it up. Just don't go into it with any high expectations.
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