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Written, directed and produced by Larry Cohen, Q was a movie about the ancient Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl. You can read more about Quetzalcoatl in my blog post from the challenge last year. The winged serpent has been resurrected in New York City by a cult. Now it’s flying around the city, taking people from the roofs of skyscrapers and it must be stopped. It was filmed in the Chrysler Building. The movie performed poorly in the theatres.

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Queen of the Damned

Anne Rice has written The Vampire Chronicles series, and one of the books in the series is titled The Queen of the Damned. With Warner Bros. having acquired the rights to the first three books in The Vampire Chronicles series, and the rights scheduled to revert back to Anne Rice at the end of 2000, they wanted to produce another work following their movie Interview with the Vampire in 1994. Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni were hired to write the screenplay and Michael Rymer would direct the film. Petroni and Abbott made the script a very loose version of the book The Queen of the Damned with elements taken from Rice’s book The Vampire Lestat. Anne Rice was not consulted during the filming, and has expressed her dissatisfaction with the film after it released. Despite receiving negative reviews, the movie fared well at the box office. The film was released six months after the tragic death of its star Aaliyah and was dedicated to her memory.

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Q –QUANLIER, QUETZALCOATL

The quanlier is a Cherokee lengend. The creature has the head of a wolf, torso of a man, arms of a dog, and legs of a jackal. It’s diet consists of humans and small animals. There are not many of them, and it’s a close relation to the werewolf. Some differences are it is not able to become human, and will not change into human form when killed. It runs very fast, and at speeds of up to 300 mph.

The above information was found at the Mythical Creatures Guide.

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The Quetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity. It appears as a feathered serpent.  Symbolic of fertility and internal political structures, it was also believed to be part of a triad of agricultural deities including: Tialoc, god of rain, lightning and thunder, and the goddess of the cave symbolizing motherhood, reproduction, and life, leaving Quetzalcoatl as being the feathered serpent, the god of vegetational renewal. It was also connected to Venus because of its importance as a mark of the beginning of the rainy season. 

The above information and picture are from Wikipedia.