King Kong has a weak heart and for ten years has been kept alive by Dr. Amy Franklin. An enormous female gorilla is discovered in the jungle and is given to Amy, who now has the right blood to attempt the impossible: to give King Kong an artificial heart. Awaking from the operation, King Kong is aware of the female gorilla. He sets then both free, overcoming Colonel Nevitt and his guards and they flee to the mountains; but they are pursued by Nevitt who is bent on King Kong’s destruction. 1986. Starring Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton, and Peter Elliott. Yow! Will Bigfoot get a new heart one day?
Lost deep in the forest of the Pacific Northwest, Ashley and Max Carr are stalked by a terrifying creature that might be Bigfoot. Soon they find themselves embroiled in a strange land of Native American myth and legend turned real. Hopelessly trying to survive, with a handful of unsavory locals, they must fight back against this monster in a desperate battle of life or death. You Will Believe. Starring Casey Gagliardi, Andrew Joseph Montgomery, Jameson Pazak. Latest in the great movies out of Canada.
Based on the BBC teleplay by Nigel Kneale (creator of the “Quatermass” series), this Hammer tale of adventurers in the Himalayas finds our intrepid explorers (Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker) at odds both with one another and the unforgiving harshness at “the top of the world.” After they shoot and kill a Yeti, things get pretty hairy!
Enraged by the murder of its offspring, a Bigfoot rampages through the countryside of Southeast Ohio. Detective Benson (Zach Galligan), Ranger Thomas (Johnny Lechner), and Bigfoot researcher Hank (Dave Sherrill) scramble to locate the legendary creature before it attacks a group of teenagers on a camping trip in an isolated place called Kampout. One of those Made-in-Ohio Bigfoot movies, if you know what I mean.
An ex-soldier ventures into the Pacific Northwest to uncover the truth behind his fiancés disappearance. Starring Kevin Makely, Todd A. Robinson, Summer Spiro, and Lance Henriksen. Henriksen is back in another bigfoot movie filmed in the Lewis River Falls-Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington State. Shouldn’t go hunting for bigfoot—he doesn’t like it!
A man, crippled in a climbing accident, returns to his cabin in the woods as part of his rehabilitation, but he wasn’t prepared for the immanent onslaught of an Abominable Snowman. Trapped in a remote cabin in the woods, he sees the legendary beast, and must convince someone to believe him, before the monster goes on a bloody rampage. Starring Matt McCoy, Lance Henriksen, Haley Joel and Christien Tinsley. One of the great bigfoot movies of all time.
Professor Groves, an expert in prehistoric life, proves his theories with an extract that’ll regress a cat to a saber-tooth tiger and man to a Neanderthal. Starring Robert Shayne, Joyce Terry, and Richard Crane. It has been speculated that bigfoot and yetis are leftover Neanderthals living on the fringes of society. Best not to drink that saber-toothed tiger juice!
A wealthy old recluse wills her fortune and exceedingly-gloomy house to a pair of newlyweds, Robert and Eleanor Lindsay. Years before, Dr. Jackson had been in love with Eleanor’s father, who was younger than her and did not return her love. N’Gina, an ape-man, Dr. Jackson brought back from Africa drinks a potion she had concocted in her laboratory, for a specific reason, but N’Gina turns on her and kills her, which is not what she had planned. Then he murders her attorney, Bradshaw, who is hunting for $20,000 in gold she had hidden in her gloomy house. Her brother, Zeno, an ex-convict, finds the gold but N’Gina isn’t bothered by the bullets Zeno fires at him and kills him also. Detective Nelson then goes looking for it. Starring Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, and Alfred Grant. Can people get turned into Bigfoot?
A government space experiment into the effects of cosmic rays on animal life goes horribly wrong, creating a mutant monster that terrorizes a rural community. This monster is essentially bigfoot. When government experiments go wrong and bigfoot is created, things can get pretty screwed up. Starring John Agar, Carol Gilley, and Ralph Baker Jr. You know it’s a bad movie if John Agar is in it. An early bigfoot movie in all of its glory!
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman’s polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people. Strange things get even stranger. Starring Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, and Gene O’Donnell. Is it a gorilla, bigfoot or a mad scientist? A great retro-bigfoot-gorilla film!
Conducting weird scientific experiments, mad scientist Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors. Starring Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, and Wallace Ford. Is it a gorilla, bigfoot or a mad scientist? A great retro-bigfoot-ape-man film!
Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry Mason leaves for the jungle with his servant, Jeff and a safari. Nona escapes the café into the jungle but is followed by the agents as, unknowing to her, she is carrying a report of the agent’s activities. She joins the safari just as all hands are captured by a tribe of natives. Starring Arline Judge, John ‘Dusty’ King, and Mantan Moreland. A great safari-gorilla film of the 40s!
In a story-line very similar to Raiders of the Lost Ark, American agent Secret Service Agent Rex Bennett (Rod Cameron), along with British reporter Janet Blake (Joan Marsh) and Chief of Police Captain Pierre LaSalle (Duncan Renaldo) attempt to thwart the Nazis from obtaining a sacred Arab religious artifact that will unite all the Arabs and they will serve the Third Reich. In order to do this Nazi agent Baron von Rommler (Lionel Royce) captures and impersonates Sultan Abou Ben Ali (also Lionel Royce), leader of all the Arabs. One of the most action-packed of all the serials and the inspiration for the most-watched film of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Nabonga-1944. Starring Buster Crabbe with Julie London in her first film role, is the story of young Ray Gorman who travels to Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father’s bank years earlier. After a long trek through the jungle Gorman finds the money in the care of beautiful ‘white witch’ Doreen, daughter of the now long-dead embezzler. Gorman finds his goal difficult to accomplish as not only does Doreen, guarded by a huge, ferocious gorilla, not want to give up the money, but greedy guide Carl Hurst has followed Gorman’s trail, intent on getting the money himself by any means necessary. A great jungle-girl-lost city-gorilla movie!
Diamond mine owner Mark Harper hires pilot Steve Blake (Leif Erickson) and his pal Hoppy Owens (Frank Jenks)to search for a hidden jungle village from which the natives have made trouble for his mine operations. They crash near the village and discover that Meelah (Gale Sherwood), a white girl brought up by the natives after her parents had been killed for their property by Harper, is the head of the village. Returning to the mine, Harper, already suspicious of what they may have learned and jealous of the attention his wife, Connie Harper (Veda Ann Borg), is paying to Steve, has them jailed, while he leads an expedition against the village and Meelah. A lost retro-jungle girl movie from the 30s!
Some fishermen are attacked in the Louisiana swamps. When the word gets out of a mysterious bigfoot-type creature, two college researchers come to the small town to study and hopefully discover what the beast is. Their research from some farmers help the two men to learn that the creature may be a very angry and murderous swamp ape—or bigfoot. Starring Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, and Dennis Fimple. One of the great bigfoot/swamp ape movies of the 70s! Boggy Creek look out!
Entertainers Mitchell and Petrillo (Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief’s sarong-clad daughter Nona, and a mad scientist named Dr. Zabor who is conducting experiments in evolution. Seeing Duke as a threat, a jealous Dr. Zabor plans to literally make a monkey out of Duke, for he too loves Nona. Sammy tries to help his pal, with unexpected results. Starring Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo and Charlita. A goofy gorilla-bigfoot movie from the 50s!
Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a bigfoot in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love that bubble machine! Starring George Nader, Gregory Moffett, and Claudia Barretta. The ultimate in the Bigfoot is a Space Alien theory. Get out your ray-guns—here comes bigfoot in a space helmet!
A serial in 12 chapters based on the popular 1930s comic strip by Alex Raymond. Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance. An exciting retro-serial full of pith helmets, gorillas, women in trouble and cliff-hanger action! Grant Withers stars as Jungle Jim, and Henry Brandon played the villainous Cobra. Betty Jane Rhodes is the gorgeous woman on safari.
Wild Kingdom Search For Yeti (1969) with Marlin Perkins for Mutual of Omaha. Join Carl Perkins and Sir Edmund Hillary on a search for the abominable snowman, the yeti, in the Rowaling Himalaya in Nepal.
