Beasts and Beauties: Cinema's Golden Age of Gorilla Men, Killer Apes & Missing Links Janus G. H.
A major horror and fantasy sub-genre of cinema's first decades was that dealing with rampaging gorillas - either jungle-wild, circus-tamed or trained to serve wicked masters - killer apes, and a range…
Specifikacia Beasts and Beauties: Cinema's Golden Age of Gorilla Men, Killer Apes & Missing Links Janus G. H.
A major horror and fantasy sub-genre of cinema's first decades was that dealing with rampaging gorillas - either jungle-wild, circus-tamed or trained to serve wicked masters - killer apes, and a range of ape-human hybrids, either evolutionary "missing links" or creatures spawned by medical experimentation and radical surgeries. Inspirations for this genre came from both fantasy-horror literature and the populist cultural trope of gorillas as abductors and ravishers of human females, a fear which arose from early European expeditions into Africa. This idea found its apex expression in RKO's "King Kong" (1932) - with Fay Wray as the blonde snatched away by a giant ape - while its unspoken logical conclusion, a grotesque miscegenation of species, was shown in the infamous "Ingagi" (1931).Charles Gemora, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Emil Van Horn and Hollywood's other delinquent