Rise of the Gargoyles

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Rise of the Gargoyles
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Genre
  • Horror
  • Action
Written by Andy Briggs
Directed by Bill Corcoran
Starring
Theme music composerNed Bouhalassa
Country of origin
  • United States
  • France
  • Canada
  • Romania
Original languageEnglish
Production
Producers
  • François Sylvestre
  • Andreea Stanculeanu
CinematographyPierre Jodoin
EditorSimon Webb
Running time94 minutes
Production companies
Budget$2,000,000
Original release
NetworkSyfy
ReleaseJune 21, 2009 (2009-06-21)

Rise of the Gargoyles (La fureur des gargouilles in France) is a 2009 television film directed by Bill Corcoran and produced for the Syfy channel. It is the 18th film in the Maneater series.

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Plot

In Paris, France, two workers find a hidden chamber while digging beneath the Saint Jean André Church. They collect the valuable objects in the area, but they are attacked by a creature. Meanwhile, the discredited Professor Jack Randall, who wrote a book about gargoyles rejected by the experts, is encouraged by his friend Carol Beckham to check the place out. They sneak into the site during the night and while Carol is collecting some artifacts, Jack is recording with his camera. Out of the blue, Jack sees a winged monster coming towards him and he flees from the location with Carol but breaks his camera. They go to a bar and a huge stone falls over onto his car. Jack takes a cab to his boarding house and Carol is attacked and beheaded by a gargoyle at her apartment.

The next morning, Jack identifies Carol's body and becomes the prime suspect of Inspector Gibert in several murders. Jack decides to seek out the reporter of a sensationalist newspaper, Nicole Ricard, and gives his tape to her cameraman Walsh. When Walsh recovers the badly shaped footage, he shows Nicole and they realize that Jack is not crazy, and he had indeed seen a gargoyle beneath the church. They decide to return to the church to investigate.

Cast

Home media

Rise of the Gargoyles was released on DVD on September 8, 2009, in North America. In Japan, it was titled as: U.M.A 2010 and released on January 8, 2010 on direct-to-DVD.

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