Monster of the Day #3239

Updated on August 1, 2022 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

Warning: Movie may not completely cash the check written by the poster.

Glad I got this one in before it fell off Prime. For last Friday’s Watch Party we watched Konga, with the wonderful Michael Gough totally selling it. It was the perfect kind of flick for a watch party and it would be great if Amazon added more genre films from the ’50s and ’60s.

Next Watch Party a week from Friday.

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  • This would be a far better movie if you cared about anybody in it. Five minutes of Gough crying “Put me down Konga!” was probably much. Outside those carps, it was a decent flick.

    Gorgo is still champion of the London destroying set, though. Or London set destroying. Whatever.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    My cats want to know how I can watch such garbage. I wonder what content triggered them? ;-)

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Well, Decker, the Lear jets got him.

  • Killer Meteor

    This will always remain a fave for its wonderfully purple dialogue “If there’s one thing I can’t abide, it’s hysterics…especially in the morning”/”What are you having with your poached egg, murder?”

  • Eric Hinkle

    What I always remember from this is that poor girl getting turned into plant food.

  • Gamera977

    Well I guess Margret was a pretty decent person. Too bad she fell for the mad bad doctor.

    And Sandra, though a bit naïve and dense seemed to be pretty nice.

    But yeah I didn’t really care about any of them that much.

    I liked watching Gough crew his way though the scenery. Somehow him being a total dick and getting what he deserved at the end made the movie for me.

  • Ken_Begg

    I love when the police detective is alerted of Konga’s rampage and says something about “I’ve just been informed a gorilla of outlandish size is tearing through London.” Outlandish size! That’s some good Brit understatement right there.

  • Ken_Begg

    Yeah, never liked that part.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Weird thing is that even as a boy I was able to watch films like War of the Gargantuas, The H-man, and The Creeping Terror and not be weirded out by seeing people get devoured by this or that monster. But for some reason the Konga scene left me shuddering. Possibly because it came right after Sondra gets mauled by a horny Decker and loses her boyfriend.

  • Killer Meteor

    “You fool! We’re not ready for a kitten the size of a leopard loose in the streets!”

  • Rodford Smith

    Anybody else remember the comic book adaptation, which ran several issues and departed majorly from the movie? At one point Konga is playing in the snow in mountains (The Alps?) and winds up getting buried up to his neck in snow. Konga’s disposition in this series was more like that of the gorilla in _Rampage_.

    IRC art and story were by Steve Ditko.