Night of the Bloody Apes
Night of the Bloody Apes
R | 01 April 1972 (USA)
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A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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PiraBit

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Robert Joyner

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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Skyler

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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BA_Harrison

With a bag full of hokey horror clichés, some messy gore, an eye for the healthy female form, and a flagrant disregard for scientific logic, Mexican director René Cardona gives us Night of the Bloody Apes, a heavy handed slice of South American madness, full of blood and gratuitous female nudity, that is good for a laugh if nothing else.The film opens with that staple ingredient of many a Mexican movie—the masked wrestling match—and sees diminutive, curvaceous grappler Lucy Ossorio (Norma Lazareno), resplendent in her bright red cat outfit, accidentally sending her opponent to intensive care with a sliver of bone embedded in her brain (Lucy is obviously a lot tougher than she looks).At the hospital, surgeon Dr. Krallman (José Elías Moreno) is unable to help the injured wrestler, but SHE may be able to help HIM: after giving his terminally ill son Julio the heart of a gorilla in an effort to cure him of leukaemia (I did say that the science was somewhat flaky), and accidentally turning him into an ugly, hulking brute with a penchant for attacking nubile young women (a common side effect of gorilla-to-human transplants?), Krallman now needs a human heart for a further life-saving operation—and hers is just the ticket!Some fun can be gleaned from the inept direction, unsubtle score, bad acting, and general shoddiness of production (watch out for the doctor's Ygor-like assistant, who clearly cannot be trusted when it comes to tying people up or boarding up windows—and the fake grass that slides around when stepped on), but it is definitely the nudity and gore that guarantees a good time: there are frequent shower scenes, dresses are shredded with ease, an eye gets gouged out, a head is removed, a scalp is torn off, and teeth are knocked out (none of which looks very convincing, thanks to a the use of ketchup and red paint as blood); the surgery scenes, on the other hand, are very convincing, because they are the 'Real McCoy'—Cardona used footage from actual operations to give his film a high yuck factor (and helped it find a place on the Official DPP UK Video Nasty list during the 80s).

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MovieGuy01

I enjoyed watching Night Of The Blody Apes,I found it to be quite a funny sort of horror film. This was a cheap Mexican horror film. Female masked wrestler Lucy beats an opponent a wrestling lady with a red costume like Catwoman. she hurls her opponent from the ring. A mad scientist (Dr. Krellman) attempts to cure his son's leukaemia by doing the first 'ape-to-human' heart transplant. He decides to put a gorilla's heart into the lad There is footage of a graphic open heart surgery inserted in the ape operation scenes. this causes the boy to turn into a big ape. He becomes deformed and mutated, as he grows facial hair and immediately goes on a bloody rampage, tearing clothes off women and faces off men. I found this to be quite a funny horror to watch at time

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haildevilman

An incredibly successful combo of the Mexican 'Lucha Libre' genre with 70's style horror. And a dash of 'Mad Scientist' cliché's tossed in for spice.The original Mexican title was 'Horror y Sexo.' Tell me it doesn't fit perfectly.Great chase scenes.The gorillaman's make-up was horrible in both senses of the word. It ended at the neck. But it WAS ugly. And like a lot of classic horror films, it did make you nervous during the night scenes.The Mondo style heart surgery footage was a tinge gross. It didn't hurt the film, it didn't help either.Graphic (and I do mean GRAPHIC) violence will put some of you off. But I still liked it.

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The_Void

Night of the Bloody Apes can be described as a Video Nasty version of Hammer Horror's Frankenstein films, only instead of camp performances and a fun tone; we've got inept acting and a load of poorly done gore scenes. The film is something of a lesson in bad film-making, but in spite of that; it does what few Video Nasties manage to do, in that the film's lack of talent does manage to translate into a fun time. The plot is based on an amazingly stupid idea, and as such puts its plot together by way of a load of obscure plot details; including women's wrestling and the transplant of a monkey's heart into a human. The title is somewhat misleading, as the film isn't about a bunch of monkeys that wreak havoc; and the film puts its focus on the aforementioned unlucky beneficiary of a primate's heart. First we are introduced to a woman wrestler who has a moral crisis when she beats up her opponent. We then switch to a doctor whose son is suffering from leukaemia. He seeks to cure his lad by giving him a monkey's heart...what could possibly go wrong? The heart ends up turning the boy into a disgusting (and rather silly) half-man, half-ape, who takes it upon himself to go round savaging people. This leads to a lot of blood and gore, but it's all rather monotonous and hard to take seriously. Fellow Video Nasty 'Snuff' professed that life is cheap in South America, and it would seem that film-making is also; as the effects here are as terrible and the monkey man at the centre looks more like he's been digging holes with his face than someone with monkey genes. The film was banned for the actual transplant footage that sees the monkey heart being transplanted…but unfortunately I saw a version with that part cut out. I'm sure I didn't miss anything. The plot hardly develops at all, and the way you'll see the film playing out is exactly the way it does play out. There's some attempt to add some emotion to the plot line, by way of a scene involving a child; but as the characters are so terrible, it's impossible not to laugh. The acting is as bad as you'd expect, but actor José Elías Moreno manages to stand out in the role of the silly doctor; while lady wrestler Norma Lazareno makes an impression in the rather dull grappling scenes. On the whole, this is not a good film; but there's something appealing about it, and it certainly isn't the worst film on the British censors' list of recommendations.

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