There is something about seeing a giant monster rampaging through city streets that stirs the imagination, from as far back as 1925’s The Lost World, where dinosaurs were let loose in the streets of London, to Warner Brother’s latest take on Japan’s biggest export Godzilla in 2014, that shows that we as a culture have…
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Kong: Skull Island (2017) – Review
For those of you who wanted to know what a mash-up of King Kong and Apocalypse Now would look like Legendary Pictures has done their best to answer that question with this second installment in their “MonsterVerse” series, which started back in 2014 with their American reboot of Godzilla, and pits Kong against Samuel L….
King Kong and Friends: A History of Giant Apes in Film
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…
The Mighty Peking Man (1977) – Review
With the amount of hype being generated by the production of Dino DeLaurentiis’s 1976 King Kong remake it wasn’t at all surprising that such films as A*P*E weren’t the only ones trying to cash in on the publicity, so a year later we got Shaw Brothers -the makers of the awesome Infra-Man – and their…
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.