LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Jayden-Lee Thomson One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Red-Barracuda I just don't get the full-on negativity that this film seems to attract. Sure it's shoddy and completely ridiculous. But it has a certain dumb charm and is a hell of a lot more entertaining than you would think given its terrible rating. I mean honestly a jungle adventure featuring robot gorillas and a white savage-girl can't be all bad. The story is basically about a muscle-bound knuckle-head who is sent into the wilderness to save his friends daughter from a mad scientist and his robot apes. He comes into contact with a savage girl who leads him to the baddies.This is certainly a cheap and trashy film. But there is enough action, laughs and general bewilderment to keep a bad movie aficionado happy. The title is meaningless – there is no Kong and they are not on an island. But I am guessing that 'Robot Ape Jungle' didn't cut the mustard. The African setting was convincing enough until the scene early in the film when the characters visit a bar and everyone starts dancing to some ultra cheesy 60's Euro-Pop. Incidentally, you will be doing extraordinarily well if you do not laugh at this point at our knuckle-headed hero's dance moves. You may also get some amusement when our heroes travel to the jungle down what can only be described as Stock Footage Road. Or what about later when our hero and an incidental character - who serves absolutely no purpose by the way - are captured by natives and then immediately set free to run away because, and I quote Mr Knucklehead, 'they're savages, they expect us to run for our lives!' Saves them the bother of actually trying to escape I guess. I have to also note that the score to this film is a very enjoyable combination of distorted guitars, Euro-cheese, African drums and easy listening organs.Basically I am happy to say that this film is not nearly as bad as it probably seems. I found it good fun and really can't see why it is ranked so atrociously lowly. It's quite an enjoyable slice of nonsense if you want to know the truth.

Michael_Elliott King of Kong Island (1968) BOMB (out of 4) A mad scientist puts the brains of humans into the body of apes. On another part of the island a girl might be the long lost gorilla woman. This is an incredibly bad Italian production, which has to be one of the worst that country ever sent over to America. The title sticks out on a video store shelf but that's about the only thing going for this movie. The performances are all terrible and the dubbing is even worse. The film doesn't contain any of those "so bad it's good" laughs, which means you just have a lifeless film where suicide might be better than actually watching.

mstomaso Kong Island, or Eva the Wild Woman is a little difficult to rate. From the point of view of campy b-movie fun, it's goofy and good, but basically, the film isn't really good. It does make more of an effort than a lot of similar films, and is, at times, actually interesting.Burt (Brad Harris) is double-crossed by Albert (Marc Lawrence, who gives a career-low performance) after a payroll heist in Africa (not an island). After an undisclosed time, Burt returns to Africa to reap revenge. But, as it turns out, Albert is waiting for him, with a small army of remote controlled gorillas. Add a few subplots and season with a generally attractive cast then half-bake for a few hours.Let's start with the worst aspects: With the exception of Esmeralda Barros and Mark Farran, the acting is abominable. Of course, the script didn't give any of the actors much to work with, and Ms. Barros (Eva AKA the Sacred Monkey) has a non-speaking role). Brad Harris is ripped, that's about all. I am sure he could have carried the production equipment, but he didn't carry the film. Marc Lawrence has done some interesting work, but his performance here is remarkably bad.The gorilla costumes are hilarious, and the actors in them are not particularly good at aping apes. The stock footage of African animals is not very well integrated into the action (especially the animals that are obviously living in captivity).And now, the OK: The story line is a bit better thought out than most b-grade mad scientist movies, and some of the characters actually seem to have personalities (though not necessarily consistent ones).The directing is OK. There are some pacing problems - with a few lengthy and unnecessary scenes of people walking through the jungle and safari trucks driving about. The camera work and editing are both pretty good, but there are a couple of rather glaring errors.And the good: I liked Esmeralda Barros' character, and felt that she should have been introduced into the film earlier than she was.Generally, the film keeps moving, and, with the exception of the ridiculous Brad Harris swimming scene (which happens just after one of his companions is murdered - always take a dip immediately after watching somebody get eviscerated, that's what I say), stays focused on the main story.Ursula Davis has very nice eyes.Campy B movie buffs WILL LIKE THIS. Can't recommend it for anybody else.

Jonathon Dabell Eva, La Venere Selvaggia goes by various titles – English-speaking audiences probably know it best as either Kong Island or King Of Kong Island. Regardless of what title you know it by, the film is awful. It is a masterpiece of ineptitude to rank alongside Plan 9 From Outer Space, Robot Monster, Astro Zombies and the Bo Derek version of Tarzan The Ape-Man. Truly one of the worst movies ever made.Mercenary Burt Dawson (Brad Harris) is involved in a payroll robbery in the African bush, but during the operation he is shot and left for dead by a supposed partner-in-crime named Albert Muller (Marc Lawrence). Months later, Muller has retreated to a secret cave where he is using the stolen fortune to finance scientific research into brain control. But Dawson – who somehow survived the earlier double-cross – turns up once again in Africa seeking revenge. Dawson's vengeance trail begins in a night-club, where he visits an old acquaintance called Theodore (Aldo Cecconi) and asks for information about Muller's whereabouts. Later, Dawson meets up with Theodore's kids – adventurous son Robert (Mark Farran) and sexy daughter Diana (Ursula Davis), both of whom are about to set off on a hunting expedition to track down the legendary Sacred Monkey. Whilst out in the bush searching for this fabled creature, Diana is kidnapped by a pair of robotic gorillas. Only later does it become clear that the gorillas are actually acting under the influence of mind control, having had microchips implanted in their brain by Albert Muller. When Dawson learns of Diana's abduction – and hears that Muller is responsible for it – he jumps at the chance to track down his treacherous ex-pal. He joins an expedition into the jungle, but along the way they stumble across Eva (Esmerelda Barros), a female savage who has grown up in the wild (think "lady-Tarzan" who likes nothing better than to cavort around topless). Eventually, Dawson and Eva join forces to track down Muller, leading to a final confrontation in his underground laboratory.There are some films that are so bad they become enjoyable in a twisted sort of way. Sadly Eva, La Venere Selvaggia is NOT one of them. This one is just plain bad, to such an extent that watching it becomes a test of willpower and writing a review of it merely reminds you what a painful experience it was to endure. Everything about the film fails – the acting, the music, the story, the photography, the directing. Lawrence hams it up embarrassingly as the mad villain, while Harris is impossibly wooden as the hero. Barros simply jogs around naked with her hair combed strategically over her breasts, smiling her way through perhaps the lamest role ever asked of any actress in a motion picture. Robert Pregadio provides the music, but rather than trying to perk up the proceedings with a bit of dramatic scoring, he settles for something that makes you think you're strolling through a 1960s department store. The story itself would be funny were it not so tedious, with interminable shots of people trekking through the jungle interspersed with wildlife footage clearly dug up from other sources. Eva, La Venere Selvaggia is essential viewing if you're trying to pick a candidate for "The Worst Film Of All-Time" competition. Apart from that - or should that be because of it? - it is utterly worthless grade-Z garbage.