Review of Reign of the Gargoyles

Directed by Ayton Davis (Boa vs. Python) Thanks to Tivo, I watched this Sci Fi Horror film one April afternoon and I was reminded of a much earlier movie entitled Memphis Belle. I really liked the Memphis Belle so I wanted to like this movie too. It had lots of great aircraft combat, but that was about it. This story centered on a crew of a B52 Bomber who are sent to carry out missions over Germany during World War II. They are the most successful crew, lead by the most successful commander, played by Joe Penney of Jake and the Fat Man.

Things go terribly wrong when the Nazi’s, who love to dabble in the occult, awaken a sleeping demon that has the power to turn stone gargoyles into living winged demons. These newly created flying demons, that were modeled after an older Edward Furlong, begin to prey on everyone and everything in their way. They kill Nazis, British, Romania, Americans, and can knock a plane out of the sky with one claw.

Our heroes crash behind enemy lines and meet up with the towns folk that are being oppressed by the family of Gargoyles that inhabit the nearby castle. Of course the Americans and British soldiers act as if nothing is out of the ordinary about this situation. Winged demons are apparently commonplace in Nazi Germany…

Thank goodness for the local villager girl who just so happens to know the ancient history about when this happened in old times. She remembers in detail how the knight slain the original gargoyle with a magic spear. Better yet, she knows that it was buried with him in a cemetery not to far away from her desolated village.

So after more casualties by Nazi’s and gargoyles, and little grave robbing, the flight crew possesses the magic spear, which can slay the master gargoyle and also repels them. Things are looking up for our heroes.

SPOILER ALERT – The fact that this movie climaxes with the rookie pilot ramming the master gargoyle with a German airplane and then stabbing him with the magic spear, makes this movie worth watching. He literally flies this German bomber aircraft into the rear end of this creature in mid flight and stabs it!

With all the action happening in the last 7 minutes of the film, the movie ends with little wrap up. Apparently once the master gargoyle is killed, the rest of the creatures automatically die, and then the rest of the US/ British army convienently come in and secure the area. ROLL CREDITS.


Best quote in the movie “Gargoyles? You mean like statues made of stone?”