Michael_Elliott Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)** 1/2 (out of 4) Dr. Krallman (Jose Elias Moreno) has a son who is dying and as a last resort he tries to transplant the heart of a gorilla into him. At first it seems like it might have worked but before long the son turns into a disfigured monster and goes on a killing rampage.NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES was a huge box office hit back in the day and if you watch the trailer it's easy to see why. It did a terrific job at promising various thrills and gory action and I must say that this is a rare example of where the trailer didn't lie and the film delivers on the promises. I say that because this here is a pretty gory and pretty violent little film that's certainly worth watching if you enjoy these Mexican horror films.This here was a remake of DOCTOR OF DOOM but this one here takes the subject a lot further. For starters, this one here is in color, which allows the gore to just jump off the screen. The most famous thing about this is that they took an actual heart surgery and placed it in the film at a couple different spots. I can only imagine how many kids watched this back in the day and were traumatized from it. There's other gory action and the film even delivers some wrestling as well as nudity. The film certainly went far beyond what most films were doing during this era.The American dubbed version adds a few laughs as the track is pretty silly. The highlight of this version is the woman screaming when she finds a dead man in the street. The film's monster is pretty good looking for what it is and for the most part this is an entertaining and fun movie. Obviously this isn't Oscar-material but it's a fun drive-in picture.

christopher-underwood After all these years and I find I never did get to see this 'video nasty' before. Now I have, I rather wish I hadn't! First, the title and hardly any of this takes place at night, indeed the sharp colourful cinematography is probably the highlight. Also, there are no apes. Well, there is one at the zoo but what we are really talking here is 'ape man', ish! Have to confess, though, there is blood. Many inserts of extreme gory action and a little nudity but all so badly added that they have little affect. having said that, I dread to think how you could endure the flat dullness of this movie without those startling gory bits every now and again. Oh yes, and, this being Mexican there is some wrestling, fairly colourful and its girls wrestling too but what with the all over costumes and mask they might as well be guys. So to summarise, if you like disjointed sequences of fake operations and various limbs being detached with the odd sprinkling of nudity and lots and lots of silly dubbed dialogue, this is for you.

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.

Michael O'Keefe Acclaimed Argentine horror director Emilio Vierya directs a script from Jack Curtis and Antonio Ross. Cheesy and ridiculous are in the mix for the method to the madness. A doctor's son is nearing his early death, until his desperate father transplants an ape's heart into his chest. As expected, things are going to get weird; when this young man turns into a mask wearing monster and roams the beaches scouting out nice looking party girls to make his slaves. When heroin is injected, his beauties become zombies. The monster summons his dazed minions with strange organ music. So bad...well...it's just bad. In the cast: Jose E. Moreno, Alberto Caneau, Mauricio De Ferraris, Gloria Prat and Gina Moret.