Q, THE WINGED SERPENT (1982)
Starring David Carradine and Richard Roundtree
Hilarious stop-motion animation effects and lots of severed heads make for a pretty entertaining, tongue-in-cheek horror film from the great Larry Cohen, the man who brought us "It's Alive," "God Told Me To" and "The Stuff."
A window washer is the first to be killed by a strange creature, that bites his head off some 75 stories above the ground. When a body turns up in completely skinned in a hotel room, two police detectives (Carradine and Roundtree) are left puzzled. It just so happens a winged monster, an Aztec god to be exact, is on the loose in New York City. The creature has made a nest atop the Chrysler Building.
Despite the film's ambitions, it was made on a low budget, and the stop-motion effects don't add up to much, particularly when viewed today. Michael Moriarty plays a small-time hood who knows about the monster before the cops do. He also starred in "The Stuff," another great Cohen film.