Bride of the Gorilla

1951 "A Blonde Beauty and a Savage Beast... alone in the Jungle!"
4.4| 1h10m| en
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The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?

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ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Leofwine_draca BRIDE OF THE GORILLA is a middling voodoo horror flick from director Curt Siodmak, best known as the screenwriter for a number of 1940s-er Universal horrors including SON OF DRACULA and THE WOLFMAN. This one's a jungle romp shot on a studio backlot in Hollywood somewhere, and it's quite a lot of fun, although cheap. For a B-movie it has a lot better cast than you might expect. Raymond Burr is the bad guy lead, torn apart by lust and driven to murder to get his hands on pretty blonde Barbara Payton. Unfortunately for him, a voodoo priestess witnesses his misdeeds and curses him into transforming into a gorilla (an underused plot device). There's a little suspense but not much else, although fans of the era will doubtless get a kick out of it. The great cast includes Lon Chaney Jr. and Woody Strode as policemen and Tom Conway as a local doctor.
O2D This movie is weird.The whole time you are expecting it to get really good any second, but it never does.It has the look and feel of a good movie but it falls flat.We only see the gorilla as a reflection in the water.Everyone who sees it describes it as a monster that is a mixture of several animals, no one ever even mentions that it's ape-like.Like in many other movies, everyone who lives in the jungle is white,even the local police.That's almost as annoying as pretending it's dark out when it's clearly daylight, which this movie also does.While not actually a good movie, this film has a rare quality for the genre, it's not boring.If you were interested enough to find this review, you won't hate this movie.
Bezenby Great title, eh? Kind of conjures up rampaging Gorrilas protecting blonde dames from nasty explorers, thinly veiled bestiality, and a great jungle adventure for all, eh? Eh? Well, prepare to be disappointed.Perry Mason plays a guy called Bonny Chevez, manager of a warehouse at a plantation in some jungle, and Bonny's a bit of a fanny rat. He's already dumped the servant girl after sweet talking her into the sack, and now he's set his sights on seemingly brain dead and despondent plantation owner wife Dinah. Now, Dinah's much older husband isn't daft. He's got an old lady (who's a witch and mother of the servant girl) keeping an eye on things, and once he gets wind of Bonny putting the moves on his wife, he fires him during dinner.However, Bonny's done enough ground work to woo Dinah, so she's all prepared to run off with him. That night, Bonny gets a hold of the plantation owner and manages to get him killed by snake bite (He punches the guy in the stomach and the guy just lies there until the snake bites him). Soon enough, Bonny's now running the plantation and married to Dinah. Bonny doesn't realise it, but the witch is just about to put a curse on Bonny that's cause him to think (or turn into, I'm not really sure) a gorilla and run off into the jungle.Here's where the film throws an torrent of missed opportunities at you. We've got Bonny either turning into or thinking he's a gorilla, which includes his hands turning from white to black before getting all hairy (what are they implying?), but no real gorilla action at all! I mean, you've got Lon Chaney Jr in here as a cop after Bonny for the murder of the old guy, but nothing really happens until the last couple of minutes, and even then you don't get to see much. Put it this way, Bonny kills more people when he's not a gorilla, and that's one person.Woody Strode's only in this for about three minutes, then completely disappears.If you really have to see all these gorilla/ape based films, which is a bit of a minefield to be honest to begin with, I'd put this one at the bottom of your list. For a good (hilarious) ape film, watch Bela Lugosi's The Ape Man. That's a good un.
arfdawg-1 Absolutely dismal movie.It will bore the pants off you. Raymond Burr might have liked that, tho.The Plot Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime.She puts a curse on Barney.He finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?