Just perfect...

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

So what can I say about this film. Well I will say it's a well written story and the acting is great. It takes itself very seriously and plays well as a psychotic dramatic thriller. CHARACTERS - Michael Gough is great in the role of Doctor Decker. You can see allot of his mind playing around. You're really interested in him at first with his ideas and plans. But as the film progresses and obstacles start to bump him around, you start to miss judge him and he ultimately becomes a villain and a complete creep. He's married and hits on his college students. EW! Margret is a great character too and you see her struggles with what she has to deal with. The Rest of the cast, bland, aside from Bob and Sandra. Sandra is very innocent, not taking a hint that Decker is putting the moves on her. Kind of dumb. Bob, though bland has his struggles and is not dumb. He sees what Decker is up to and does what a boyfriend would do, get jealous AND COMPLETELY OBSESSIVE. There's a scene where he confronts Decker and he goes all Gollum on him. KONGA - Even though the film is good in its characters and plot, what kills it is Konga itself. First of all, the fact that he becomes a giant Kong figure at the end, though a cool idea, does become out of place. 2nd and most of all, the suit. It's very standard issue for the time and looks awful, but I have seen worse. It looks nothing like a gorilla nor a chimp from the neck down. Plus the animatronic head is really creepy at times, like something out of chuck e cheese. Then there is the actor in the suit, he doesn't act for noting. In his rampage the actor just walks extremely lazy, it's like he doesn't care. Then in close up its like they dragged him off the street, put the suit on him and he looks left and right like "What is going on?" This is what killed the movie for me.EFFECTS - The effects aren't really that good either. As I said, the suit is bad, but it's also other effects as well, especially with green screen and composting. You can tell that they filmed scenes on green screen and sometimes they don't even bother putting in the background. Like these shots, they couldn't afford a giant hand, but instead wrap the ape suit around the actors. It's even obvious that they could not afford a green screen, but instead, paint a bright green brick wall and use it as a green screen. This is probably why the composting shots look really bad. TRIVIA - Apparently, C-Movie Exploitation film producer Herman Cohen had long admired the original King Kong he thought of the idea of a remake shot in color would bring big bucks. But RKO refused a remake so Cohen paid $25,000 for the rights to the name of Kong for exploitation purposes as long as he re framed from the source material. Also the special effects for the film that was one of the first giant monster movies shot in color took 18 months to complete. But who cares, the effects sucked.VERDICT - To sum it up, it is a B-Movie that takes itself way too seriously, maybe too well that were invested in the characters in my opinion. But then the effects come in a kill it. So I will say it's a watch once movie.

Michael Gough plays Dr. Charles Decker, who returns to England from Africa after being presumed dead. He brings with him a baby chimpanzee named Konga and a new technique to grow plants much bigger(and in some cases deadlier). Dr. Decker will use this growth formula on Konga, who does start to grow at a rapid rate. Sadly, Dr. Decker has gone insane after his Africa trip, and decides to use Konga to murder his various enemies and rivals, until Konga grows too big, taking Decker hostage and rampaging through London. Michael Gough is quite amusing as a villain here; unfortunately this woefully inept, derivative, & tacky film is beneath his talents. Total junk.

The plot and special effects for this film are terrible--especially the special effects. However, despite being a completely terrible film, it isn't total garbage. Michael Gough's completely one-note and over the top performance actually makes the entire thing worth seeing, as this terrible over-acting is the only way they could have made this thing work at all.The film begins with Gough being discovered in the jingle a year after he was assumed to have died in a plane crash. He's in fine shape and excited about carrying on with botanical experiments based on what he learned while staying with Ugandans until his rescuers arrived. Apparently, a local witch doctor taught him a lot of cool things about genetic manipulation and mind control (little-known fact--most of the world's top geneticists are in fact witch doctors, with three recent Nobel Prize winners being witch doctors).It seems his research has to do with, get this, infusing plant DNA into animals in order to make them grow to huge proportions in a matter of minutes! My favorite experiment is one where he gave a cute little chimpanzee injections and it grew into a gorilla!! How the miracle drug caused the animal to not only grow but change species is beyond me!! And, for these scenes, there was of course the obligatory man in a gorilla suit! You'll love Michael Gough's performance as the doctor, as he manages to wonderfully create as mad a scientist as you can find on film. With such stock phrases like "you fools!" and "I'll show them!!", he's perfect for the part. And, like any self-respecting mad scientist, he's not above using his giant chimp/gorilla to settle some grudges. In fact, having the beast kill is sort of like eating potato chips--you can't stop with only one! By the end of the film, not only are several people dead, but Gough's jealous mistress decides to give the animal a HUGE injection--resulting in a 60 foot high creature. However, how big the animal is seems to change in each scene (the scale was NOT well established or maintained)! And eventually, when the "chorilla" takes Gough prisoner and while he's struggling in vain in the clutches of the animal, what does he repeatedly yell? Yep, "you fool, you fool"! The final scenes show the chorilla (with Gough) roaming the streets of London. Oddly, the beast does NOT go on a rampage but rather ambles about without causing any particular harm. In fact, much of the time he just stands there doing absolutely nothing! This made it easy for the military to attack it and in a less than thrilling finale, you see tracer bullets and bazooka shells consistently missing the creature--even though the folks are only about ten yards away!! These are supposedly trained soldiers and he's the size of a house...and yet they keep missing! It's actually pretty funny.Overall, the costumes and special effects are truly dreadful. The story is quite silly (but watchable in a cheesy sort of way) and Michael Gough does pretty much the same job acting as he did in most films he made during the 1960s and early 70s--an angry and superior sort of fella from start to finish. For bad movie fans who like laughing at inept films, this is a movie just for them. For anyone else, forget it--you can't help but do better picking another film.

As stated in the movie trivia section, they did not hire George Barrows, they just hired his suit. I'm not surprised that it was returned in poor condition after breaking through the roof etc!An actor was selected on the basis of being able to fit into George's suit. This actor was Paul Stockman, who also played the zombie in Dr Blood's Coffin. They left the name uncredited to try and convince the audience that it was in fact a real giant gorilla.I've been trying to update the details of the movie with the correct credit, but not having much joy at the moment, any admins reading this?