Kong Island (1968)

king_island-titleOK, there is a problem with this film, actually two problems, no Kong and no Island. Besides that, the title is 100% accurate. What is amazing about this film is its skillful use of stock footage and we crafted padding. If you don’t know what padding is, it’s a scene of like people walking or a car driving that last fifteen minutes which has no purpose other than take time up in the film. In this one, you cut out all the padding and the film would be about 20 minutes long.

What we have here is a world dominating hopeful mad scientist implanting mind control is apes, hunters hunting the “white Monkey” who turns out to be a dark-skinned native women, a double crossed soldier of fortune, a beautiful women kidnapped by apes and a father and step mother who have marital problems. Sounds like enough, right? Sounds like it might be entertaining, you’d think.

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This was originally titled Eva, la Venere selvaggia in Italy, which, according to an on-line translation, means, Eva, Wild Savage. In fact the film was released under the titles, Eve, the Wild Woman and King of Kong Island. One of these two titles makes sense to some extent,

I can’t even recommend this film as an entertaining bit a cheese theater. It’s bad, and not even in a fun way. Long scene of men walking through the jungle, a car ride in which the landscape of the stock footage doesn’t match the other footage (see 5 clips) and a plot that doesn’t make a bit a sense. The only good parts are the dance scene, which are fun just to watch the lead actor attempt to look cool (very funny) and the horrible overdubbing.

This move only gets 1 piece of cheese!

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