Konga

Konga scared the hell out of me when I saw it on TV at age eight! I had nightmares for several weeks... I've seen Konga since then as an adult and Michael Gough's over-the-top performance makes the film. Plus there's a very attractive English "blonde in distress" who comes to a gruesome end. An "8."

Even though the story is fairly interesting, I can't help but look at this film as a cheap rip off of the classic King Kong. Michael Gough does a decent job playing the crazed Doctor Decker who wants to eliminate everyone who he feels has wronged him. He also is obsessed with one of his young, voluptuous students. His obsessions lead him to the breaking point and this helps to make this a fairly interesting story. Too bad it is undone by the horrible effects, especially the old "man in the cheap gorilla suit" gimmick. I guess the budget didn't allow for decent effects like stop motion animation. However, despite cheapness of it, this film will always remain a guilty pleasure of mine.

Herman Cohen has done a lot of good movies fir American international pictures like i was a teenage werewolf.teenage Frankenstein,the black museum.and konga is one of those campy movies thats pretty good.even if some of the special effects are below par.Micheal gough plays the professor who returns home from Uganda Africa with a chimp named konga and carnivorous plant bulbs,he uses the plant extract to turn his playful chimp into a ferocious gorilla to get revenge on those who crossed his path and upset him.he makes advances on a busty blonde college student,his jealous companion doesn't like how things are going and things turn ugly.the music on the soundtrack is very good and memorable.konga was filmed in great Britain and imported by American international pictures.yes i did hear that George barrows the Hollywood gorilla expert played konga.konga is no classic but its much better then the mighty gorga and a*p*e*.Micheal gough went on to play Alfred in the batman movies from 1989 to 1997.i give konga 8 out of 10.

I love this underrated little gem starring a Michael Gough in great shape, as good as he was in HORROR IN BLACK MUSEUM or even THE BLACK ZOO, another Herman Cohen production. Some kind of a poor man's Peter Cushing or even Christopher Lee, I nevertheless love this actor in such lousy but so good looking psychotronic stuff from the early sixties. The inspiration from KING KONG is so obvious that I won't insist on it. It is fun, amazingly entertaining, the perfect non intellectual time waster that you can wait for; but of course the new generation of movie buffs will hardly appreciate. Me, on the contrary, am always a bit attached to this poor chimp, this innocent little animal who will become some kind of evil beast.... The contrast between both of those images move me, it is so sad, despite the quality of this assumed B movie.

I very much enjoyed Konga when I first saw it in a theatre at about the age of nine, and surprisingly enjoyed it almost as much on television. The plot is the standard issue mad scientist who comes up with a growth serum that makes a creature large which then goes on a rampage formula, set in England this time. The creature here is an ape who just happens to be called Konga (hint..hint), which gives one a sense of the degree of subtlety in the film.

If one can call scenery chewing magisterial I think it's fair to say that Michael Gough, as the mad scientist in this one, does it with an authority worthy of at the very least a knighthood, if not a lordship. The special effects are, alas, dreadful even for a modestly budgeted film such as this, but no matter. Gough is the whole show, and his performance is of such profligacy as to bring a round of applause from Messrs. Zucco and Atwill, were they still with us.