Perfect cast and a good story

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Girls, gore, and a gorilla mix in this deliciously demented schlock flick from two legends of Mexican exploitation: Rene Cardona and Rene Cardona Jr., who co-wrote the script as a remake of Cardona Srs' "Doctor of Doom". Cardona directs the nasty nonsense with flair, giving us a scenario in which lady wrestlers, real life open heart surgery footage, in your face gruesomeness, and the requisite T & A all combine.Jose Elias Moreno gives his all to the role of doctor & mad scientist Dr. Krallman. Krallmans' son Julio (Agustin Martinez Solares) is very sick with leukemia and the foolish doc will do ANYTHING to save the life of his son. In the tradition of Dr. Frankenstein characters everywhere, Krallman hits upon what he thinks is a genius idea. Give his son a gorilla heart! Yes, you read that correctly. Unfortunately, the surgery regularly turns Julio into a raving beast (Gerardo Zepeda), who goes about molesting women and murdering both males and females with amusing regularity.Krallman hits upon an even *more* genius idea in the later parts of the film, but I'll leave you to discover that on your own."Night of the Bloody Apes" truly lives up to that time honoured phrase of being "so bad it's good". It adds to its engagingly ridiculous premise with a fair amount of energy and a decent forward pace. The makeup is passable and does serve its purpose. The film is so damn exploitative that it's likely to keep schlock addicts smiling.The acting is perfectly serviceable for this sort of thing, with Armando Silvestre as our dashing, intrepid detective on the case, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma as the scarred, loyal assistant to our antagonist, and Norma Lazareno as the luchador dating the hero.Even in light of how silly the movie is, it does manage to be absurdly touching in its final moments.Seven out of 10.

This was one of the infamous video nasties banned in Britain and released with approximately 1 minute of pre-cuts in 1999.The quality of the DVD was excellent and really made the film enjoyable. Even the dubbing was good.A doctor (José Elías Moreno) whose son had an incurable disease tries to save him by transplanting a gorilla heart. Of course, the son (Agustín Martínez Solares) turns into gorilla man. If he didn't have an ugly gorilla face, he could easily be in the top five for Cosmo's bachelor hunt.He searches out victims and manages to rip some flesh from one man's neck, pop out the eyeball of another and decapitate a third in his quest that left six or eight dead.I have absolutely no idea why the Luchadoras are in this movie. It switches from the doctor's operations to wrestling. The wrestling has nothing to do with the story, but it was fun to watch.Eight boobies, three boobies, and, of course, one dead gorilla.

The following "review" is one from the wrong side of the tracks, meaning two things: You will hear nothing but praises coming from me and don't be fooled by my rating. I also could tell you that this review contains no spoilers, but technically... that's a lie.Well,... Screw the review. I'm just going to ramble a bit. It has been a while since I had so much fun with such a bad film. And if you cannot enjoy this piece of utter drivel, then you simply have no sense of humor. First off, this movie was meant to be taken seriously, and that's the main aspect were the fun is coming from. The story? A doctor's son is terminally ill. Daddy-Doctor decides that a hart-transplant must be the only way of saving his son. So, in true mad-doctor-style, he decides that the heart of a gorilla will do the trick. Of course, the gorilla-heart is "much too potent for a human", so sonny-boy transforms into this hideous Ape-Man that immediately breaks free and goes on a killing and raping spree (because that's simply what any horny beast would do, isn't it?). The make-up of our Ape-Man is hilarious. There's simply no other way of putting it: The guys' face looks like a turd! I'm talking human excrement here, the solid brown kind! Beautiful! The gore in this flick is wonderful too: Aside from real footage of an open-heart surgery, we also have incredibly fake (but quite nasty) looking blood & gore effects: a decapitation, an eye-gouging, a throat-ripping, the scalping of someone's skull,... It's hilarious, and indeed it's quite incomprehensible why NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES ever made it to the notorious UK Video-Nasties list, because all of the nasty things portrayed in this film are simply too ridiculous to be taken seriously. Oh, and there's only one bloody ape running around in it too, by the way. So, needless to say that LA HORRIPILANTE BESTIA HUMANA is a much more accurate title for this terrifying and convincing tale of science gone horribly wrong.When not trying to shock with poorly staged acts of bloody violence or random portrayals of female nudity, this movie manages to be highly entertaining with ingredients like nonsensical dialogues, cheap cardboard sets, plot stupidity and incredibly bad acting. Just a few random examples, maybe? About the sets: One can clearly see that the set-designers just used the same walls, doors, windows (etc.) over and over again to be build various different interior sets (e.g.: One side of the hospital room - the window side - where the unconscious wrestling girl lies, looks suspiciously similar like the window side of the basement-laboratory from where Ape-Man escapes; The set-designers also took one of the side-windows from the laboratory, made it a bit larger and just placed it in the conference-room of the hospital; All the walls in any building are the same grey-ones;...). Then there's the setting of the park. Clearly shot in a studio, you can see (on several occasions) that the grass is loose. Whenever there's some struggling/fighting/raping going on, the grass just shifts and shuffles and you can see the grey concrete from the studio-floor beneath it.Just a few random lines that come out the actors' mouths: -- In the conference-room where all the doctors are debating the disappearance of Unconscious Wrestling Girl (a disappearance that would of course mean bad publicity for the hospital), Daddy-Doctor intelligently utters "We find ourselves in a situation that is difficult".-- During that same debate a colleague-doctor cleverly remarks "A sleepwalker! Any sleepwalker gets up.", hereby providing a solid excuse for the disappearance of Unconscious Wrestling Girl.-- After our investigating detective, through the amazing process of his own logical deduction, concludes and tells his superior that the murderer must be a half man/half beast, his superior answers that it's absurd, adding the line "It's more probable that of late, more and more, you're watching on your television many of those pictures of terror"... Truly one of the best lines of the movie.Other sources of laughter: -- The two scenes were Daddy-Doctor and his Igor-like assistant kidnap the gorilla from the zoo and Unconscious Wrestling Girl from the hospital - these well thought-out acts of abduction are like taking candy from a baby.-- Daddy-Doctor speaks to God a lot, doesn't he?-- Sonny-boy calling Daddy-Doctor "Papa" on more than one occasion.-- An old lady screaming "Aaargh!!! A dead man! A dead Man! A Dead Man!! A DEAD MAN!!!".-- The plot periodically stops to wallow in scenes of women wrestling, only to go on again and do nothing with that concept. Sure, Daddy-Doctor replaces Sonny-Boy's gorilla-heart a second time with that of Unconscious Wrestling Girl, but do you think something spectacular happens after that? Like Ape-Turd-Man growing breasts or something, trying to rape men this time? Our leading living wrestling beauty (Norma Lazareno) doesn't even go into a climactic wrestling contest with Ape-Turd-Man near the movie's finale... But Ape-Turd-Man does start to show some motherly love near the end... almost (and I say "almost") in true KING KONG-style (i.e. the top of a building and people on the ground pointing and screaming).Okay, I think that's enough now. I chipped in more than my two cents here. Vomitron's Rational Rating for this sleazy piece of hilarious dreck: 2/10. Vomitron's rating From the Wrong Side of the Tracks: 8/10. Go see this film, people. It is well worth it!

Night of the Bloody Apes can be described as a Video Nasty version of Hammer Horror's Frankenstein films, only instead of camp performances and a fun tone; we've got inept acting and a load of poorly done gore scenes. The film is something of a lesson in bad film-making, but in spite of that; it does what few Video Nasties manage to do, in that the film's lack of talent does manage to translate into a fun time. The plot is based on an amazingly stupid idea, and as such puts its plot together by way of a load of obscure plot details; including women's wrestling and the transplant of a monkey's heart into a human. The title is somewhat misleading, as the film isn't about a bunch of monkeys that wreak havoc; and the film puts its focus on the aforementioned unlucky beneficiary of a primate's heart. First we are introduced to a woman wrestler who has a moral crisis when she beats up her opponent. We then switch to a doctor whose son is suffering from leukaemia. He seeks to cure his lad by giving him a monkey's heart...what could possibly go wrong? The heart ends up turning the boy into a disgusting (and rather silly) half-man, half-ape, who takes it upon himself to go round savaging people. This leads to a lot of blood and gore, but it's all rather monotonous and hard to take seriously. Fellow Video Nasty 'Snuff' professed that life is cheap in South America, and it would seem that film-making is also; as the effects here are as terrible and the monkey man at the centre looks more like he's been digging holes with his face than someone with monkey genes. The film was banned for the actual transplant footage that sees the monkey heart being transplanted…but unfortunately I saw a version with that part cut out. I'm sure I didn't miss anything. The plot hardly develops at all, and the way you'll see the film playing out is exactly the way it does play out. There's some attempt to add some emotion to the plot line, by way of a scene involving a child; but as the characters are so terrible, it's impossible not to laugh. The acting is as bad as you'd expect, but actor José Elías Moreno manages to stand out in the role of the silly doctor; while lady wrestler Norma Lazareno makes an impression in the rather dull grappling scenes. On the whole, this is not a good film; but there's something appealing about it, and it certainly isn't the worst film on the British censors' list of recommendations.