The film has barely began when you catch your first glimpse of a shadow lingering over the road.
This means the first five or ten minutes are almost nothing but exposition, but the reasoning behind that seems to be "The sooner we know who everyone is, the sooner we can have the gargoyles attack them!" Boley is, who his daughter is, why they're together and where they're going. Since the gargoyles are determined to recover the bodies of their dead (though out of respect or secrecy is never fully explained) they follow the two of them back to the small desert town where they're staying and begin the process of attack and recovery all over again leading to assorted attacks, a kidnapping, a failed rescue mission, and a climactic final stand of man vs. Uncle Willy croaks pretty quick, but the Boyle's escape with the skeleton's skull. Various gargoyles descend upon Uncle Willy's store to recover the body of their fallen ancestor.
It takes their eggs several hundred years to incubate and hatch, and wouldn't you know it, the new batch is fresh out of the oven just in time to shake things up for Uncle Willy and the Boleys. See, it turns out that all those statues and images of gargoyles we find in art the world over were made to commemorate various invasions from those pesky critters.
Along the way they're sidetracked by Uncle Willy the operator of a curiosity shop who has just uncovered an inhuman, winged skeleton out in the desert and as fate would have it that skeleton is a remnant from the last Gargoyle hatching. and his wife) for a research trip down to Mexico. Mercer Boley (Wilde) and his daughter Diana (Salt) who reunite (in the aftermath of a barely mentioned separation between the good Dr. One of the best creature features from the decade of disco, Gargoyles tells the story of archeologist Dr.
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