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A movie trope long favored by lonely nerds – forgive the redundancy — was the Lost Civilization of Women. I myself have previously reviewed such examples as Queen of Outer Space, Frankenstein Island and Gold of the Amazon Women. (See, [...]
My thanks to Jabootu’s Minister of Proofing, Mr. Carl Fink, for his efforts here. Due to time constraints — on my part, not his — Mr. Fink was only able to vet part of the review. Any remaining mistakes are, of course, my own. I’d also like to tip the proofing hat to correspondent Bill [...]
Spoiler Warning:
For the purpose of comparing and contrasting, I will be making references to the excellent Clint Eastwood movie Unforgiven throughout this review. This means I will be giving away plot and scene details best discovered by yourself. If you haven’t seen Unforgiven, please, don’t read any further. Go and rent it, and then come [...]
Ken gets antsy with the latest B-Masters’ Cabal roundtable.
Editorial Note: For those reading the entire series of Mammoth Monkey Mondays reviews, the five pieces should be read in this order:
Konga
The Mighty Peking Man
A*P*E
King Kong Lives
The Mighty Gorga
PLOT: Krappy kounterfeit Kong kills Koreans.
It says something about A*P*E that the opening credits are perhaps the most thrilling part of the movie. (Well, actually, the most [...]
Plot: Ancient apeman attacks assorted Asian areas.
I first saw Mighty Peking Man three or four years ago under almost storybook conditions. The Music Box, Chicago’s premiere art house theater, featured the film with a midnight showing. Knowing almost nothing about it, other than it was a Chinese giant gorilla flick and therefore probably pretty nutty, [...]
Plot: Prodigious primate pursues paramour, precipitates panic.
We open with the climax of the ‘76 King Kong. Kong is climbing one of the World Trade Towers. (Not a happy reminder.) Jessica Lange is slung over his shoulder, while Jeff Bridges’ hippie-haired visage looks on anxiously. As is they weren’t embarrassed enough with appearing in De Laurentiis’ [...]
