Monster of the Day #1911

Updated on April 23, 2019 By Ken Begg 15 Comments

That’s some good ballyhoo right there.

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  • Gamera977

    Gotta love the poster even if it’s a little ‘busy’ for my taste.

  • Those Killa Gorillas aren’t… ah, skip it.

    Interesting the number of people who worked in earlier “Were” pictures in this. We’ve got the obvious duo of Chaney and Sidomak, Then we have Shere Khan’s older brother classing up the joint. I think I started this one up once and never finished it. Might wanna go look it up again.

  • Gamera977

    It’s not a bad movie at all. As I assume you know from watching part of it it’s a werewolf film with the wolfman replaced by a gorilla. Chaney plays a lawman trapped between two cultures this time with Burr though listed under Chaney the real star. Burr’s descent into madness was the main plot-line which I thought was pretty interesting.

  • Eric Hinkle

    One of these days I hope to see some art that isn’t a gorilla dragging away a screaming blonde. I hope it’s a blonde dragging away a screaming gorilla. What, it’s be something different.

  • Gamera977

    I’ve been reading a lot of old magazines from around the ’30s. I’m so sick of seeing some crazy looking Asian guy with a knife looming over a beautiful blonde tied up on an alter. I am tempted to ask Rock or someone to draw me up a picture of a beautiful Asian woman tied up on an alter with a crazy looking blond guy standing over her with a knife…

  • bgbear_rnh

    Agree with Gamera on this one, much better than title would have you think.

  • Rock Baker

    You saw a lot of that on 60’s men’s adventure magazine covers.

  • Eric Hinkle

    You can probably find the hapless Asian beauty being menaced by the vile gwailo and his insatiable lusts in East Asian magazines and comics.

    And where are you getting these (I imagine) 30’s pulp mags?

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’ve seen only a few of the covers for those magazines. The listed articles usually sound gloriously demented. “I survived the island of the lust-crazed femme fatale Communist Cannibals!”

  • Ken_Begg

    The interesting thing is that this film’s general approach, where the transformation into the gorilla might be in the character’s head rather than real, was also in Sidomak’s original The Wolf Man script. Universal wanted a real monster, though, and made it clear Talbot was transforming. Smart play, there, but its interesting to see what Wolf Man would have been like had they stuck to Sidomak’s original intentions.

  • Gamera977

    Not physical copies, there’s a site with a massive library of scanned pulps. Most of what I’ve been reading is ‘Weird Tales’ from the ’30s- 1950. They recently posted more scans so I’ve went back to stuff from the ’20s. I’ll see about posting a link in the forum or without the www and com when I get home.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Okay, I need to know the name of this site.

  • Flangepart

    Me too. I can use those sources…hehe heh heh…

  • Gamera977

    I posted two direct links over on the forum.

    A web search for Luminist Archives should bring it up as well

  • Eric Hinkle

    Thank you!