Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

O2D This movie is truly awful in so many ways that it will be hard to mention them all, but I will try.This is another very short movie with very little dialog or action.It's lots of people walking and not talking.The entire first half doesn't even have anything to do with the story.Then there's an old woman wearing a Stevie Ray Vaughn hat and she's angry at life.You will never suspect she isn't white until her brother shows up and he's clearly black.She mentions having gone to Africa decades ago many, many times.I guess we are supposed to assume that she somehow brought an ape man back with her because they never explain any of it.She's some kind of doctor and she has just discovered the most important thing in science since Louis Pasteur.And you know she keeps the ape man locked up in her basement lab, because that makes sense, and he immediately drinks it and goes nutzoid.So he kills some people and innocent people get blamed but not arrested.Instead the cop decides to just stay at the house overnight.The cop tells his chief the dead guy "had a broken neck, two collapsed ribs and a twisted back.I thought he had committed suicide until I noticed he had two broken arms".WTF?He thought the guy broke his own neck and twisted his own back?Dumb.Did I mention the old lady use to summon the ape man from the basement by banging a gong but when a guy empties his revolver into the ape man, no one up stairs can hear it?And when a woman screams from the basement everyone hears it?Dumb.When the third guy gets killed the cop jumps up and screams "Help!Murder!Police!" three times.Dumb.The most interesting thing about this movie is seeing how blacks were 75 years ago.Apparently they were all well mannered, dressed nice, spoke English, had jobs and they all had normal names.Yet today they can't do any of that.I didn't even come close to pointing out all the bad stuff about this horrible movie but I'm done.Don't waste your time with this.

gavin6942 A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father."Son of Ingagi" is allegedly the first science fiction-horror film to feature an all-black cast. Even if the film had no merit (which it does), this alone would make it worthwhile as a historic film.This is really the brainchild of Spencer Williams (1893-1969), who wrote, acted and helped behind the camera. While today perhaps best remembered as the latter half of Amos and Andy, he was a true talent and a pioneer in the category of "race films".I would love to see this film properly released. Maybe it has been, but the public domain copy I saw was pretty unbearable and ruined what should have been a lost classic.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Son of Ingagi, 1940. A young couple invites a town recluse to their wedding and the rich women recluse is greatly touched and gives the woman a locket from her deceased father as a wedding present. The plot reveals that rich women recluse is a scientist that has been to Africa and returned with secret golden treasure. Her dark past catches up with her and several crooks try to steal her gold. And she is aided by her basement dwelling 'man monster' who politely disposes of the doctor's trouble makers. The doctor dies and leaves her home to the young couple in her will with the monster in residence. More mysterious happenings occur. The attention of the police is called.*Special Stars- Laura Bowman, Alfred Grant, Daisy Bufford, Spencer Williams, The Four Toppers.*Theme- Good deeds often follow good people. *Trivia/location/goofs- B & W. All black cast. The title is a tribute to a previously made film 'Ingagai' made in 1930 with a all black cast. Look for the 'SACK' seal of excellence at the beginning and ending of the film.*Emotion- An interesting and usual horror film due to it's subject matter, date of production, and ensemble cast members. The story is very simple with simple production values of the war period and low budget. The monster is very elementary and some 'Amos and Andy talking to himself in times of fear' dialog of the police detective is surprisingly, but very dated. Not a bad film, just a represented film of the black segment of film production for exhibition in black theaters.

Red-Barracuda This old flick is about a murderous half-man half-ape who lives in a secret basement unbeknownst to a young married couple who have just taken ownership of the property. This leads to a number of murders which casts all manner of aspersions on the husband.Son of Ingagi is, along with Devils Daughter and Chloe, Love is Calling You, one of the earliest all-black horror films. Like the others it's strictly a poverty row affair which only really stands out as an example of early black cinema. While it does have a reasonably intimidating monster, it suffers from being very creaky, as many of the low-budget films from the period are. It combines elements of horror and comedy, which was something that was increasingly popular at the time. Although, even up to the present day, this approach has proved never to be easy to pull off successfully as the comedy deflates the horror and vice-versa.Without doubt this is a movie primarily recommended for those interested in the development of black cinema. It also should be of interest to fans of old 30's and 40's low budget horror films. Others should approach with caution, as despite its significance as an early example of a minority race film, it might just be a little too unoriginal and antiquated.