Q

Q (1982)

Its name is Quetzalcoatl. Just call it Q. That's all you'll have time to say before it tears you apart!

A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent.

Date of release
1982-09-08
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (514)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Horror
Director
Larry Cohen

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $255K
  • Budget: $1.1M
  • Earned 0.2× its budget

Q – The Winged Serpent is a 1982 American monster horror crime movie written, co-produced and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine and Richard Roundtree. The film follows a petty swindler (Moriarty) who accidentally intrudes in a case involving a winged deity monster that poses a threat to New York City. He is the only person who has information that can help the police to stop the creature.

Production

Q – The Winged Serpent was shot on location in and around New York City's Chrysler Building and uses the interior of the building's tower crown as a primary location. Though the owners initially refused to secure the building to the movie's production, they finally relented and agreed after they were offered an $18,000 (equivalent to $60,000 in 2025) fee. The overall production budget was over $1.1 million.

According to writer-director Larry Cohen, Michael Moriarty's character Jimmy Quinn was not a failed piano player in the script, but when Cohen discovered Moriarty wrote and played music, he used it: "I wrote the extra scene where he auditions and fails to get the job. After that we just kept building on that".

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