Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Leofwine_draca BRIDE OF THE GORILLA is a middling voodoo horror flick from director Curt Siodmak, best known as the screenwriter for a number of 1940s-er Universal horrors including SON OF DRACULA and THE WOLFMAN. This one's a jungle romp shot on a studio backlot in Hollywood somewhere, and it's quite a lot of fun, although cheap. For a B-movie it has a lot better cast than you might expect. Raymond Burr is the bad guy lead, torn apart by lust and driven to murder to get his hands on pretty blonde Barbara Payton. Unfortunately for him, a voodoo priestess witnesses his misdeeds and curses him into transforming into a gorilla (an underused plot device). There's a little suspense but not much else, although fans of the era will doubtless get a kick out of it. The great cast includes Lon Chaney Jr. and Woody Strode as policemen and Tom Conway as a local doctor.

poe-48833 I have to agree with fellow Carolinian "BaronBlood" about BRIDE OF THE GORILLA: this it is, as s/he(?) put it: "A simian soap opera." Of the highest order, I might add. It never fails to amaze me when a filmmaker has at his/her disposal everything that s/he needs to render a classic (or, at the very least, something boasting higher Entertainment Value than this) and DOESN'T. BRIDE OF THE GORILLA manages, by film's end, to look like the kind of movie that Ed Wood, Jr. would've made had he been capable. The shot of the gorilla's reflection (as the gorilla Raymond Burr reflects) is almost laugh-out-loud funny. I expected a LITTLE more from a movie that boasts so much.

arfdawg-1 Absolutely dismal movie.It will bore the pants off you. Raymond Burr might have liked that, tho.The Plot Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime.She puts a curse on Barney.He finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?

SanteeFats With such actors as Tom Conway, Lon Chaney, Jr., Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton, and, in a brief appearance, Woody Strode you would think this movie would be a lot better than I think it was. Hired hand kills owner, after a short while marries he the widow. He is cursed by an old witch woman who saw him kill the owner and her curse turns him into a jungle monster feared by all (a gorilla type monster, hence the title I guess). Lon is the police commissioner for the area and doesn't believe that the owner was killed by a snake, a good call since the snake they showed was a boa of some kind. There are some animals that Raymond kills but before he can go even more berserk and start on humans he is killed after he has kidnapped his wife and Lon and Tom follow him into the jungle where they fire randomly into the bush even though the wife is with him. He dies, the wife is recovered and thankfully this movie ends.