WWX World Title - Warlock vs Gila!

 

No lizard is big enough to stand up to the champion. Ray Garton retains the belt.

Warlock by Ray Garton

Warlock
by Ray Garton
1989 Avon

A 17th century warlock is propelled through time and space, followed by a witch-hunter, both landing in late 80s LA. The warlock seeks to put together three hidden pieces of a grimoire which reveals the true name of God, in order that he may read it backwards and undo creation. The witch-hunter teams up with a young woman on a road trip to stop him.

Goes way harder than the movie. The warlock is endowed with "Satan's member" which is his main murder weapon. Haven't seen the movie in a while, but I don't remember the yawning anuses and sagging vaginas of his victims. And I doubt there's a deleted scene of Julian Sands sucking eyeballs out of Mary Woronov's nipples.

Weakest with the banter in the dialogue, which I'm guessing comes straight from the script. Came out two years before the movie was released in America.

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Gila! by Les Simons

Gila!
by Les Simons (Kathryn Ptacek)
Signet, 1981

Nuclear tests in New Mexico have mutated gila monsters to monstrous size and they're on a human eating rampage. Similar to 1959's The Giant Gila Monster, only with multiple reptiles and not as good. The violence fell flat for me, with more pages devoted to a herpetologist's romance with an old flame.

In places it fell into a broad, MAD Magazine level satire of government, military, and environmentalists, though the giant monster attacks were played straight.

The 2012 Jim Wynorski film Gila! appears to be a remake of the film rather than based on the book, going by the character's names.

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WWX World Title - Warlock vs Gila!

 

Can a Ray Garton novelization stand up to the power of Gila!

World War X - Ring 2, Round 1

 

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