That was an excellent one.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Barney Chavez (Burr) is in-love with Mrs. Dina Van Gelder (Payton) but she is married to his employer. Chavez ends up killing the employer but is seen by a voodoo priestess who casts a spell, a curse, on him that turns him into a murderous Gorilla. Barney and Dina end up married but with lots of problems. Police Commissioner Taro (Chaney) is on the trail to find out the answers. The question is: Is Chavez' transformation into a Gorilla real or all in his mind.Raymond Burr is good in this role - convincing, Barbra Payton does well as a woman tormented, Lon Chaney Jr makes a good police commissioner - so the film is overall fun to watch.This film is not nearly as bad as the critics say it is - it's actually interesting. There are some intense moments and it's a good ending. If you like movies where one of the characters is transformed into a creature and film concerning voodoo then you might like 'Bride of the Gorilla'.6.5/10

Absolutely dismal movie.It will bore the pants off you. Raymond Burr might have liked that, tho.The Plot Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime.She puts a curse on Barney.He finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?

Barbara Payton never smiles in this movie. She seems out of it. Raymond Burr doesn't really cut it as the hunky stud...more like chunky dud. Lon Chaney Jr. recites his lines like Dan Akroyd would on a Saturday Nite Live skit. All the dialog seems like it was from "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra", which was a hilarious spoof of this type of movie. The part where Barbara Payton is facing Raymond Burr in an extended conversation is too funny. She is wearing a white blouse, but her stuffed bra makes her boobs look like highway safety cones...they could easily put your eye out if you're not careful. The movie was generally cheesy and nothing really happened. Raymond Burr seemed to be turning into a gorilla and wanted to heed the Call of the Wild by hanging out in the jungle all the time.

The most interesting thing about Bride Of The Gorilla is that Lon Chaney, Jr. and Raymond Burr seemed to switch roles. As the film bore more than a passing resemblance to one of Chaney's wolf man features at Universal it seemed like both were in each other's roles. Would that Bride Of The Gorilla were as good as one of those Universal Gothic horror films.Chaney is a police inspector and Burr is the foreman on a rubber plantation in one of those northern South American colonies, my guess would be Dutch Guiana as Tom Conway as Dr. Viet says he's there under a government contract. Burr's got eyes for the plantation mistress Barbara Payton who is married to the much older Paul Cavanaugh. After Cavanaugh is killed by a poisonous snake after Burr knocks him down in a fight he gets Payton and weds her.Unfortunately he left a witness in old Gisela Werbisek who is a Maria Ouspenskaya wannabe. She puts a curse on Burr and after that some strange killings of animals start happening in the jungle. Like a werewolf on a prowl. And Burr starts behaving real strange as well.This very talented group of players deserved a whole lot better than this wolf man ripoff.