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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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.