gargoyle start late one night in romania 1532 a a peasant girl ( daniela nane ) travel along in her horse and cart mind her own business when from the moonlit cloud above a living gargoyle swoop down and attack her and she manage to escape the gargoyle and happen upon a castle of some description where an angry mob of local villager and a priest be able to put an end to the gargoyle and or so they think . cut to present day bucharest where two cia agent ty griffin ( michael pare ) and jennifer well ( sandra hess ) be about to negotiate the safe return of the son of a rich american ambassador from his kidnapper . in pursuit of one of the kidnapper griffin lose him on the roof of a building but find a large pool of blood and no visible sign of what happen to him . meanwhile dr. christina durant ( kate orsini ) and her colleague richard barrier ( jason rohrer ) be renovate a church when the church labourer gregor ( mihai bisericanu ) inform richard that he have find some ancient relic and the two investigate and find a cave with lot of slimy cocoon and one very angry and very much alive gargoyle who waste no time in kill them both . griffin and well be on the case when they be report missing and soon realise that local legend of monstrous gargoyle be true with a local priest name father soren ( fintan mckeown ) planning to flood the world with them . co write and co produce and direct by jim wynorski under his usual pseudonym jay andrew gargoyle be yet another masterpiece wynorski can add to his credit and not . the script by wynorski and ion ionescu and a. g. lawrence and bill munroe be crap and be unexciting and dull and be as simplistic a you can get . for a start i would like to know if there be only one gargoyle leave who lay all those egg because i be pretty sure it couldn not have make itself pregnant . how do it survive in that hole for 500 year . what do it eat . how do the priest know it be there . why have no one else ever figure it out . why do the priest want to flood the world with them . to rule it . the gargoyle be hardly go to take over the world and then let some priest just rule it like a king and if they do what would be leave to rule . much like the guy who write gargoyle i do not think he think it through that well do he . whichever way i look at it and whichever way i approach it and from whichever angle i try to figure it out from and no matter how many time i try to square the circle gargoyles just doesn not make any sense and they story have huge plot hole and lapse in logic and isn not that great to start with anyway . the character be dull and clichéd and the action repetitive and unexciting while the film a a whole be a real bore to sit through . people do illogical thing and everything that happen be far to convenient like when the priest be try to convince griffin that gargoyle exist and one just suddenly show up and attack them . the cave full of cocoon be such a rip off of alien ( 1986 ) it embarrass and the end be lame . the bit on the large ferris wheel at the fair be funny though when the guy mock the boy fear of height and force him to get on it . director wynorski cut cost and steal footage from other film and in fact the best scene from gargoyle be a car chase through bucharest but it be take from the jean claude van damme action film maximum risk ( 1996 ) . there be no shock and scare or atmosphere . the special effect be terrible and the cgi gargoyle look like it belong in a computer game and have little interaction with any live cast member and there be lot of scene of people look up to the sky and try to appear scar . there isn not even any worthwhile gore to make the thing watchable and there be one awful decapitation and that it . technically the special effect be awful but otherwise it passable and the romanian location look suitably romanian . gargoyle go straight to video and it show with a pretty cheap look and feel to it . the act isn not up to much and personality bypass victim michael pare make for the dullest of dull hero . gargoyle be a crap film and it fail at everything a decent creature feature should strive to achieve . a total waste of 90 minute as far a i be concern and one to avoid .