Night of the Bloody Apes

1972 "Half man, half beast, all horror"
4.8| 1h21m| R| en
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A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

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Cinematográfica Calderón S.A.

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Also starring Carlos López Moctezuma

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
preppy-3 Dr. Krellman wants to save his son Julio who's dying of heart disease. He decides a heart transplant with an ape will cure his son (no--I'm not kidding). He does the transplant and (somehow) his son changes from a frail guy into a muscle-bound man with a dime store mask that (sort of) resembles an ape! Naturally he gets out, kills men, tears the clothes of women and wreaks havoc. This is all inter cut with the boring romance of police lt. Arturo Martinez and lady wrestler Lucy Ossorio. We also get pointless female wrestling sequences that add nothing to the plot. It all ends by copying the end of "King Kong"! This is (obviously) a pretty stupid movie. The plot makes little sense, there's the gratuitous female nudity (a staple of any exploitation film) and VERY graphic gore that looks laughably fake (except for the open heart transplant). Still this does have merit. The whole cast takes everything dead serious and actually aren't too bad as actors. Also the dubbed in dialogue was (for a film like this) well done and interesting with surprisingly good dubbing. Also I saw an excellent DVD print with bright strong color (which helps). We're not talking a classic here but an OK exploitation movie.
lastliberal This was one of the infamous video nasties banned in Britain and released with approximately 1 minute of pre-cuts in 1999.The quality of the DVD was excellent and really made the film enjoyable. Even the dubbing was good.A doctor (José Elías Moreno) whose son had an incurable disease tries to save him by transplanting a gorilla heart. Of course, the son (Agustín Martínez Solares) turns into gorilla man. If he didn't have an ugly gorilla face, he could easily be in the top five for Cosmo's bachelor hunt.He searches out victims and manages to rip some flesh from one man's neck, pop out the eyeball of another and decapitate a third in his quest that left six or eight dead.I have absolutely no idea why the Luchadoras are in this movie. It switches from the doctor's operations to wrestling. The wrestling has nothing to do with the story, but it was fun to watch.Eight boobies, three boobies, and, of course, one dead gorilla.
Woodyanders A kindly surgeon performs a heart transplant on his dying son. Naturally, there's a major glitch: said ticker was taken from a gorilla, which somehow causes the once nice kid to mutate into a brutal, brawny, bloodthirsty and hideously ugly apeman who embarks on a repulsively graphic crime spree, raping and killing wriggling topless women with sickening sadistic abandon. (The apeman snuffs a few guys as well, so this flick can't be accused of being overly sexist.) Clumsily directed without a single iota of restraint or subtlety by veteran trashmeister Rene Cardona, who also co-wrote the senseless script with his chip off the old schlock son Rene Cardona, Jr., this sleazy, cheesy and remarkably vulgar gut-buster has more than enough gratuitous nudity (the homely, lumpy lady wrestler heroine's shower scenes are especially nasty), ratty poverty-row production values, flat acting, terrible dubbing, extremely disgusting gore (genuine heart surgery footage was used for the operation scenes, plus one poor guy has his scalp torn off!), sluggish pacing, flabby, meandering plotting, marvelously messed-up dialogue ("It's more probable that of late more and more you're watching on your television many of those pictures of terror"), and laughably amateurish make-up f/x to live up to its legendary status as a truly happening'n'horrendous hunk of scummy, low-rent, bottom of the barrel Grade Z south-of-the-border exploitation schlock junk.
insomniac_rod Now, this is a really obscure Mexican Horror flick. It's almost impossible to find it even in Mèxico. I don't know if it's banned but it's worth searching. This is a movie with many clichès from Mexican Horror: we get wrestlers (now that they are popular), boobs, and creepy settings.This movie has good cheesy gore. Don't expect a shocking exploitation movie. It's just an ultra low budgeter with guts.The beast is not that horrid as the title says, in fact, it's kind of cheesy (in the likes of "Night Of The Demon") , but it delivers for the movie's tone.I recommend this one for lovers of B-movies that can stand cheesiness through 90 minutes. There's some gore and violence but not enough to consider this one as exploitation.