Monster of the Day #3489

Updated on March 29, 2024 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

“A gorilla who is not a gorilla but a man? Is that…wait. Jamie? No, Jamie! Bad! Put that woman back where you found her. Don’t make me tattle on you to Jane!”

You can buy a paperback of Whispering Gorilla and Return of the Whispering Gorilla on Amazon. They are novelettes, though, so you only get 200 pages for $13 which seems a little pricey to me personally. However, a reviewer there does all them  “Perhaps the best gorilla with a human brain vs the Nazis book you’ll ever read,” so that does sound promising.

If you really love this stuff (as I’m sure many of us do) you can buy 12 volumes of the Armchair Fiction collection–which includes the above–at Sinister Cinema for $98 postpaid, which is a pretty good deal. And you can mix and match movies and movie double bills and sets in there too.

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  • And she’s a blonde to boot. Bad Jamie!

  • Jamie B.

    Just remember Ken, you have to face me come Thursday….

  • Jamie B.

    You know you are the girella of my dreams! ;)

  • Beckoning Chasm

    “The Whispering Gorilla” sounds like a country singer who had several big hits in the 1940’s.

  • Well at least he lost his monkey suit.

  • Gamera977

    From my recent reading of old ‘Weird Tales’ magazines there was a strange trend back in the ’30 about Chinese doctors implanting human brains into gorillas, orangutans, and various other great apes. No idea what brought it on but there were about a half dozen stories all with the same theme. Then the whole weird fad seemed to end.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I wonder if it had something to do with the Stalinist scheme to create a race of super-warriors/disprove Christianity by crossbreeding humans and apes? When word of that leaked out to the international press it made the Soviets laughingstocks for a brief time.

  • Eric Hinkle

    And I remember one Golden Age comic that was at least a little original. Instead of the mad scientist plonking the brain of a condemned to death killer into a gorilla, he put it into a wolf instead.

    Unfortunately for him, his first command to his new pet was, “Hunt down my enemies! I want you to kill! And kill! And kill!”

    The wolf started with him.

  • Gamera977

    Could be. I was thinking there was a theme back then that the Chinese and to a lesser extent other Asians were super-geniuses unfettered by Judeo-Christian ethics and morals. For example Fu-Manchu.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I do recall quite a few Western mad scientists in movies who had pet gorillas. They didn’t all want to stick a human brain* in them, but most did. Maybe it was just the fashion of the time.

    * — Typically that of the biggest idiot of the cast in whatever movie they were in.

  • Gamera977

    Yesterday I went to “Godzilla and Kong: A Buddy Cop Movie”. And it was absolute batguano insane, even for a Monarch movie but a sheer boatload of fun!

    They’ve boiled the human cast down to four main characters (five if you include the native priestess). Which was a big improvement from the bloated cast of the last one. They’re pretty much furniture but no one was really openly annoying to me. Though Bernie the conspiracy guy is back, seems a lot of people found him hard to take but I kinda like the guy. The main male lead is new, Trapper, who’s a watered down version of Bernie. Didn’t like him at first but he grew on me. I did like Jia, the mute girl from Skull Island, but it’s hard not to feel bad for a little girl who lost her home and family.

    Most of the running time the film focuses on Kong. Which I don’t like as much as Big-G but I really warmed to the big ape too. There’s several shots of KK and Big-G running toward the camera in slow-mo. I expected in the end the two monsters were going to fist-bump and slap each other on the back. And I’m disappointed Kong never turned to G and muttered “I’m getting too old for this shit…’

    The plot, the plot was absolutely bonkers. As I said insane for even a Monarch movie. But I loved it. Apparently the critics are already complaining about about the movies lack of meaning and themes. But frankly that’s what I wanted to see, a crazy, goofy, silly movie about giant monsters fighting and destroying stuff. Which this movie has in spades.

  • Ken_Begg

    It’s with love, my friend.

  • Ken_Begg

    Thank you! You have certainly increased my interest in seeing it, although it will have to wait until I”m back from Texas.

  • It’s worth seeing in the theaters. The monster stuff is top notch, but the humans bring it down a lot.

  • Jamie B.

    Why can’t we watch it in Texas?

    GJ isn’t interested, but I am.

  • Ken_Begg

    Also, I plan to distract you with a banana.

  • Ken_Begg

    If we have time, we probably could. Although the Petersens don’t do commercials activities on Sundays, I can’t imagine they’d be cheesed if we did.