Monster of the Day #3009

Updated on April 10, 2020 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

Short on time? 1943’s Poverty Row feature The Ape Man, starring Bela Lugosi and directed by (of course) William Beaudine, runs a scant 63 minutes. It’s super cheap and silly, but endearing, and is bookended with a weird very meta joke. Every generation thinks they invented sophisticated humor like that, but it’s been around forever. Available for free viewing on YouTube, via the Cult Classics Cinema channel.

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  • Gamera977

    ‘Ape-man?’ He looks more Amish to me.

    ‘Yes, little lady! We’ll fatten you up! With some chicken, mashed potatoes, and the pie! Oh you’ll love the pie!!!’

    ‘Nooooooo, my diet!!!’

  • Gamera977

    Btw: I watched ‘Deathsport’ last night. Because Ken’s nugget review was fun and it has Richard Lynch in it.

    It was an hour and twenty minutes long. I swear an hour and fifteen minutes of that was motorcycles driving around the desert.

    Gosh I hate motorcycles now…..

  • No no no! He doesn’t just look like he could use a good shave! He’s horribly disfigured! Terribly! He simply has to go out murdering people to solve this problem! With his pet ape! Which totally won’t attack him in the final act! Totally!

    The only entertaining features of this flick for me are Zippo (the weird guy who keeps popping up all over the place through the film) and Wallace Ford getting hit over the head with a vase. Otherwise, I thought Karloff’s The Ape covered similar ground (Mad Doctor Searching for Cure Through Killing) much better.

    God, I hate Ford. He was probably an all right guy in real life, but his character in The Mysterious Mr. Wong ticked me off so bad that every time I see him I get a twitch in the eye…

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I see that the guy who directed that weird Japanese “House” movie has passed away.

  • bgbear_rnh

    He is a good fit in westerns.

  • He’s not really that bad here. It’s just a lingering effect of his character in The Mysterious Mr Wong that gets me. It’s not fair and I know it’s not. But it is what it is.

  • bgbear_rnh

    There is a cute little mystery with him and Barbara Pepper that I liked “The Rogues’ Tavern” (1936) they paired up well.

  • Eric Hinkle

    A real Amish ape-man would offer her schnitz un knepp, scrapple, chicken corn soup, und some shoofly pie. When you have a lot of PA Dutch relations you learn about these things. ;)