NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES

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RELEASED BY IFS

CATORGRY NUMBER : FF30 NO.218

RUNTIME : 79 MINUTES 19 SECONDS

AKA : LA HORRIPLANTE BESTIA HUMANA, HORRROR Y SEXO AND GOMAR , THE HUMAN GORILLA!

DIRECTOR : RENE CARDONA

COUNTRY : MEXICO

YEAR : 1968

STARRING : JOSE ELIAS MORENO, CARLOS LOPEZ MOCTEZUMA, NORMA LAZERENO AND JAVIER RIZO

REVIEW

As you can tell from its very imaginative title, this is a very bizarre nasty from Mexico, which was released way back in 1972 on the IFS label.

The “story” involves a skilled surgeon, whose son has a serious heart ailment. He ends up replacing the boy’s heart with that of a gorilla, causing him to mutate into a strange man-beast, and go around ripping women’s clothes off and the faces off men.

We kick off as Lucy, the catwoman-type wrestler in a red-devil suit, kicks the shit out of an opponent and knocks her out. Her boyfriend, a rozzer, tells her its OK – but she cannot hack it any more. Meanwhile, Krellman, a surgeon, attempts to cure his son’s illness by giving him an “ape-to-human” heart transplant.

Here we are treated to a session of some real open-heart surgery, before the boy ends up turning into a rampaging man-ape, complete with shite special effects and make up. From this point, the rest of the film is a manic display of malicious killings as the man-ape goes on a bloody rampage.

WRITTEN BY TONY FRIZZELL

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