In 1925, the first giant monster rampaged across the silver screen, stunning audiences with amazing prehistoric creations. The film was Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, and it heralded a new age in cinema. Close on its heels was the 1933 classic King Kong, a film that still stands today as one of the best…
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A*P*E (1976) – Review
APE practically defines the term “quickie rip-off” as the South Korean film industry, teaming up with an American production company, rushed their Kong rip-off to the screen just ahead of Dino DeLaurentiis’s multi-million dollar King Kong remake.
Konga (1961) – Review
“Not since King Kong has the screen exploded with such mighty fury and spectacle!” that was what the 1961 British/American international co-production of Konga proclaimed in their ad campaign, but they may have been overstating their case just a tad.