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ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

mark.waltz There is no King Kong, just a bunch of apes/gorillas/simians (whatever you want to call them) running around with what appears to be a magic bullet in their brain that puts them under the control of a mad scientist. Been there done that with all the Bela Lugosi/John Carradine/Boris Karloff (etc) mad scientist thrillers of the 1940's and 50's. This makes "Bride of the Gorilla" look like "King Kong" the original in comparison. There aren't even occasional unintentional laughs in this violent jungle thriller where obvious location footage (a la Ed Wood) is thrown in to pad out the running time to extra-ordinary length. Even on a drive-in screen, this would look cheap (especially when compared to the usual cheap crap audiences who did go to the movies to watch a feature) and certainly not at all romantic for those who went on dates. The men are rather abusive to the women here, treating them like the orangutans and gorillas of "Planet of the Apes" treated humans. This isn't even good/bad enough to warrant a mention or inclusion in the documentary about bad movies, "It Came From Hollywood". Call this one, "It came from someone's back yard" or "It came from someone's vacation footage", but don't call this one "worth repeating". Once was more than enough.

Chase_Witherspoon While there's something for everyone (almost) in this action sci-fi, it's unlikely to be your most memorable movie experience. Amiable he-man Brad Harris stars as a mercenary soldier who's double crossed by his medic companion (Lawrence) in a bungled heist, but survives to seek revenge upon the mad doctor now experimenting on gorillas with mind control programming.Aside from the shirtless Harris, flexing his body-built physique as he cavorts in a jungle pool, Tarzan style, there's also the scantily clad trio Esmerelda Barros (as a fabled native girl accompanied by the ubiquitous cheeky chimp), Adriana Alben (as Harris' sultry, former flame) and Ursula Davis as the short-shorts wearing pawn in Lawrence's diabolical plan to lure Harris to his lair for the purposes of programming him for mind control. There's a great dancing scene to showcase Harris' moves, a couple of violent ape attacks, some safari wildlife-spotting, and the promise of much more that never really eventuates. Like an early James Bond film meets "King Kong" or "Planet of the Apes", it has camp moments, but is mostly just clichéd and boring with an anti climax that's disappointing and uninspired.

vitaleralphlouis This 40 year old B-movie has absolutely nothing to do with either King Kong (1933) the greatest adventure movie ever made, or with the Skull Mountain featured therein. It DOES have two or three guys in gorilla costumes causing mucho trouble under the influence of a mad scientist.Besides that, it offers a halfway decent plot, lots of African wildlife shots, and three very pretty young women for us guys to gawk at. For the girls, both the hero and the bad guy are handsome and will show off enough bare chest to keep the females happy. What it DOES NOT have is anything to irritate the audience......... which brings me to compare it to Peter Jackson's $150 million 2006 gorilla movie, wherein Jackson spent tons of money to make the most stupid adventure movie ever in history, and thus irritated this moviegoer to the boiling point.In 1968, filmmakers knew that it did not take $ millions to make a good movie. In the post-2000 era, filmmakers have forgotten that fact, and we the audience suffer their mistakes. Kong Island is offered as a bonus second feature with the 1932 classic The Most Dangerous Game on DVD. The DVD is available with or without Kong Island. Take it with.

Michael_Elliott King of Kong Island (1968) BOMB (out of 4) A mad scientist puts the brains of humans into the body of apes. On another part of the island a girl might be the long lost gorilla woman. This is an incredibly bad Italian production, which has to be one of the worst that country ever sent over to America. The title sticks out on a video store shelf but that's about the only thing going for this movie. The performances are all terrible and the dubbing is even worse. The film doesn't contain any of those "so bad it's good" laughs, which means you just have a lifeless film where suicide might be better than actually watching.