(Contains spoilers)
Night Of The Bloody Apes is a very special film. Special in a way that a mother could love. I can't really express my feelings for this film - I feel protective about it, as if watching over a child who is unable to look after itself. Excuse me for being inconsistent, therefore, in my appraisal of the film (below). Sometimes I feel paternal, others nauseous, when I think about what I have seen.
The film is a very cheap Mexican 'horror' with real life heart transplant footage edited into it during the operation scenes. This is pretty grim. Although, they can't possibly have done this operation for the film itself, so I don't really consider that to be too tasteless. And really, the rest of most of the film is so comic book and likeable, dammit, that you can forgive the rather shoddy idea of using said footage as a main point of sale. Far more interesting are the scenes where a woman wrestles another woman in what initially seems to be a pointless subplot. Have faith viewers, it is NOT a pointless subplot, but a cunning and subtle plot development. Even when the film appears to be going nowhere it IS. God bless writer/director Rene Cardona. I love the actress who plays the wrestler, too - especially when she looks straight into the camera and smiles to us, her loyal viewers.
The other section of the plot sees a man has leukaemia and his (doctor) father transplanting a gorilla heart into him. Well, the gorilla could be a man in a gorilla suit from the way he moves about in the cage prior to his tranquilisation. And hang on, how can the doctor shoot the gorilla through the wire mesh that fences him in? Anyway, the son then turns into a gorilla. Actually, he wears a gorilla mask and then terrorises the neighbourhood. Periodically, as he keeps fading (literally) between 'man state' and 'gorilla state'.
There are many, many amusing lines in the dubbed version. My personal favourites are "Prepare the gorilla" (before the first operation) and "I prepared for everything, but I didn't prepare for this" (after the doctor's son dons the simian mask and begins his terrifying rampage).
People say that really bad films are funny to watch _because_ they are so bad. I have only found this to be the case with one film before now, and that was Death Wish 3, but now Night Of The Bloody Apes has become one of my pet films. A desert island treasure.
For entertainment value, this gets 10/10. Recently I have been unable to watch films all the way through, due to my deteriorating attention span, but this kept my attention for its duration, even to the extent that I couldn't look away from the TV. Take my advice and watch this masterpiece.
Night Of The Bloody Apes is a very special film. Special in a way that a mother could love. I can't really express my feelings for this film - I feel protective about it, as if watching over a child who is unable to look after itself. Excuse me for being inconsistent, therefore, in my appraisal of the film (below). Sometimes I feel paternal, others nauseous, when I think about what I have seen.
The film is a very cheap Mexican 'horror' with real life heart transplant footage edited into it during the operation scenes. This is pretty grim. Although, they can't possibly have done this operation for the film itself, so I don't really consider that to be too tasteless. And really, the rest of most of the film is so comic book and likeable, dammit, that you can forgive the rather shoddy idea of using said footage as a main point of sale. Far more interesting are the scenes where a woman wrestles another woman in what initially seems to be a pointless subplot. Have faith viewers, it is NOT a pointless subplot, but a cunning and subtle plot development. Even when the film appears to be going nowhere it IS. God bless writer/director Rene Cardona. I love the actress who plays the wrestler, too - especially when she looks straight into the camera and smiles to us, her loyal viewers.
The other section of the plot sees a man has leukaemia and his (doctor) father transplanting a gorilla heart into him. Well, the gorilla could be a man in a gorilla suit from the way he moves about in the cage prior to his tranquilisation. And hang on, how can the doctor shoot the gorilla through the wire mesh that fences him in? Anyway, the son then turns into a gorilla. Actually, he wears a gorilla mask and then terrorises the neighbourhood. Periodically, as he keeps fading (literally) between 'man state' and 'gorilla state'.
There are many, many amusing lines in the dubbed version. My personal favourites are "Prepare the gorilla" (before the first operation) and "I prepared for everything, but I didn't prepare for this" (after the doctor's son dons the simian mask and begins his terrifying rampage).
People say that really bad films are funny to watch _because_ they are so bad. I have only found this to be the case with one film before now, and that was Death Wish 3, but now Night Of The Bloody Apes has become one of my pet films. A desert island treasure.
For entertainment value, this gets 10/10. Recently I have been unable to watch films all the way through, due to my deteriorating attention span, but this kept my attention for its duration, even to the extent that I couldn't look away from the TV. Take my advice and watch this masterpiece.