Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) review

NYPD Detective Shepard (David Carradine) and Sgt. Powell (Richard Roundtree) are assigned to investigate ritual-like killings in the city (bodies are flayed, hearts are removed, etc.) and while that's happening, small-time criminal (and tweaker) Jimmy Quinn (Michael Moriarty) uncovers a large nest in the Chrysler Building which belongs to a ruthless dragon that's swooping around and chewing up heads.  The attempted melding together of a monster movie and police procedural makes it seem scatterbrained (it's as if the Quinn character, loaded up on cocaine, broke into the editing room) and the special effects are chintzy (it had a limited budget), but if this catches you in the right kind of mood it could be an amusing watch, since Cohen imbues it with a manic energy that most "blockbusters" wished they had:  Moriarty, in particular, is so unhinged he probably thought he should have been nominated for an Academy Award.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in the early 1980's, NYC had a population of over seven million people ... and yet only forty or so reported seeing this creature in the sky.  No wonder they had the "See Something, Say Something" campaign decades later: New Yorkers really do keep their traps shut.