''Rise of the Gargoyles'' ( in France) is a 2009 television film directed by

Bill Corcoran William J. Corcoran is a Canadian film and television director.''Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors: Volume 1'' - Page 102 As a television director his credits include ''Friday the 13th'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', ''21 Jump Street' ...

and produced for the Syfy channel. It is the 18th film in the ''Maneater'' series.

Plot

Paris, France Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

, 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

gargoyle In architecture, and specifically Gothic architecture, a gargoyle () is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing it from running down masonry walls ...

s 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

Eric Balfour Eric Salter Balfour (born April 24, 1977) is an American actor and singer. He is the lead singer of Born as Ghosts, formerly known as Fredalba. He made his film debut in the drama ''Shattered Image'' (1998), followed by roles in ''What Women Want' ...

as Professor Jack Randall * Caroline Néron as Nicole Ricard * Justin Salinger as Walsh * Ifan Huw Dafydd as Inspector Gibert *

Nick Mancuso Nicodemo Antonio Massimo Mancuso (born May 29, 1948) is an Italian-Canadian actor, artist, playwright, and director. Beginning his career as a stage actor, he had his breakthrough role in the 1981 drama ''Ticket to Heaven'', for which he won the ...

as Father Gable * Tanya Clarke as Carol Beckham * Constantin Barbulescu as Workman #1 *

Gabriel Spahiu Gabriel Spahiu (; born 21 March 1968) is a Romanian actor. He appeared in more than eighty films since 1998. Spahiu was also chosen by Sony Pictures Animation to dub Wayne in the animated movies ''Hotel Transylvania'', ''Hotel Transylvania 2 ...

as Workman #2 * Lucian Ciurariu as Bum * Alexandra Buza as Rock Chick * Flaviu Crisan as CSI Officer * Paul Niculita as Gibert's Assistant * Florin Busuioc as Cop * Mihai Diaconu as Pizza Man * Benoît Rousseau as Inspector Gibert (voice)

Home media

''Rise of the Gargoyles'' was released on

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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.

External links

* {{Bill Corcoran Syfy original films 2009 television films 2009 films English-language Canadian films 2000s English-language films English-language French films English-language Romanian films American science fiction television films Canadian science fiction television films French science fiction films Romanian science fiction films Maneater (film series) Gargoyles in popular culture Films directed by Bill Corcoran Films set in Paris 2000s American films 2000s Canadian films 2000s French films