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Release Date: 10 December, 2002 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Bride of the Gorilla Reviews
Well, Barbara Payton's a hooker...I mean a looker
Yet another film from the Tree Line Sci-Fi package. Being from 1951, it's too early to fit into my cinematic quest to see every weird film made in the twenty years before my birth, but I gave it a shot anyway. Here, your honor, is Perry Mason, transmogrified by a jungle witch into a gorilla as punishment for pushing the plantation owner they work for into the path of a posionous snake of some variety. Now I'll state for the record that the sequences of transformation are not very convincing, but the deceased's wife is stunningly beautiful, so much so that I stayed awake for the entire movie. Sorry to hear she ended up a toothless hooker. I'm going to make it a point to read her book, not for any intellectual purpose, but rather so I can bring it up in conversation to make me seem more cultured in Hollywood kitsch that I truly am. Beats wearing a scarf and a pink beret, holding a Cruella DeVille style cigarette holder and pretending to be a [...] Frenchman doesn't it? Oui Oui
Yawn Of The Gorilla
I have seen worse films than "Bride of the Gorilla," but few that seem to drag on longer. Raymond Burr actually does a decent job as Barney Chavez, a plantation manager who decides he wants the wife of the plantation owner for himself. In fact the acting is fairly decent all the way around (especially for this era and genre) but the plot bogs down in a very slow romance subplot for the majority of the middle thirty minutes of the film.
In essence Barney commits murder with a giant poisonous snake, and is subsequently cursed by a witch for his unsavory behavior. The practical upshot of this is that we get to see Raymond Burr transmogrify into a gorilla, though it is mostly seen in reflection shots (mirrors, lakes, etc.) Ultimately everyone gets their just rewards, and after what seems like 66 very long minutes, you can try to forget you wasted an hour of your life on this bore.
Bottom line: it really isn't that bad, it's just boring.
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