American Monster (1982)
64KAmerican Monster: Directed by Larry Cohen. With Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richard Roundtree. NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.
“When the Empire State Building was being constructed, another high-rise skyscraper, the Chrysler Building was its rival. As far as I know, this is the only film to pay homage to the Chrysler Building.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Q stands for Quetzacoatl, a winged serpent from Aztec mythology. Outside of that, the Aztec connection isnu0026#39;t that great. But the idea of a monster living in seclusion in New York, feeding on sunbathers and the like, is rather bemusing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is a rarity: a police-procedural monster film. The only other that comes to mind is Them!, with the giant ants. This one is truer to form, though not as taut.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEntertaining. A good rainy-day film.”